Carlisle Interconnect Technologies to bring its high-voltage products to the advanced air mobility market

Carlisle Inter­con­nect Tech­nolo­gies (CIT) is offer­ing its inter­con­nect tech­nolo­gies for a host of next-gen­er­a­tion air mobil­i­ty appli­ca­tions, includ­ing all-elec­tric air­craft for Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty.

The com­pa­ny designs and man­u­fac­tur­ers high-per­for­mance wire and cable, includ­ing opti­cal fiber, and has grown its prod­uct port­fo­lio to include spe­cial­ty and fil­tered con­nec­tors, con­tacts, inte­grat­ed sys­tems and cable assem­blies, com­plex har­ness­es, racks, avion­ics trays and instal­la­tion kits.

In a press release, CIT says key con­sid­er­a­tions for eVTOL air­craft OEMs enter­ing this mar­ket include inter­con­nect solu­tions that con­duct or use a high lev­el of elec­tri­cal pow­er, design opti­mised for air­craft size, weight, and pow­er, and air­wor­thi­ness require­ments and cer­ti­fi­ca­tions.

Tom Turn­er, Prod­uct Man­ag­er at CIT, said: “As we con­tin­ue to see an increase in air­craft elec­tri­fi­ca­tion demands, the more we under­stand how impor­tant our expe­ri­ence is to this mar­ket. Elec­tri­fi­ca­tion stands to trans­form aer­i­al trans­porta­tion as we know it, so sup­port­ing our customer’s needs for imme­di­ate solu­tions is just as impor­tant as being able to design their future needs.”

As well as its prod­uct breadth, CIT also offers engi­neer­ing and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion ser­vices for the demand­ing envi­ron­ments of the com­mer­cial aero­space, mil­i­tary and defense elec­tron­ics, indus­tri­al, test and mea­sure­ment, and med­ical device indus­tries. 

The com­pa­ny says it is well-posi­tioned to meet the unique needs of elec­tric air­craft devel­op­ers to build an elec­tri­cal sys­tem that can gen­er­ate, main­tain, dis­trib­ute, and insu­late the high volt­ages required elec­tric air trav­el.

Its port­fo­lio of cus­tom solu­tions includes air and ground sys­tems, test and mea­sure­ment devices, data and pow­er ecosys­tems, and more to help devel­op­ers build the high-volt­age elec­tri­cal sys­tems need­ed for these air­craft.

Turn­er added: “For decades, CIT has pro­vid­ed lead­ing inter­con­nect solu­tions that meet the demand­ing con­di­tions of aero­space, avion­ics and space trav­el. We have the expe­ri­ence and exper­tise to help our cus­tomers enter this mar­ket suc­cess­ful­ly and our engi­neers are already devel­op­ing solu­tions for Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty that will help make this inno­v­a­tive form of trans­porta­tion a real­i­ty.” 

With 18 man­u­fac­tur­ing facil­i­ties world­wide, CIT says it can quick­ly ramp up pro­duc­tion for new inter­con­nect solu­tions, help­ing to reduce lead times and increase speed-to-mar­ket for elec­tric air­craft devel­op­ers.

It is a mem­ber of var­i­ous Soci­ety of Auto­mo­tive Engi­neers (SAE) and Aero­space and Defense Indus­tries Asso­ci­a­tion (ASD) com­mit­tees, also enabling the com­pa­ny to par­tic­i­pate in glob­al stan­dards devel­op­ment for elec­tric aer­i­al vehi­cle appli­ca­tions.

Addi­tion­al­ly, its in-house cer­ti­fi­ca­tion team can gen­er­ate the appro­pri­ate reports and doc­u­men­ta­tion required to ensure com­pli­ance with FAA and aero­space indus­try air­wor­thi­ness stan­dards.

For more infor­ma­tion, vis­it https://www.carlisleit.com/highvoltage.