
Brandstrom Instruments has already fielded thousands of shutters for the Check 6 320 x 240 situational awareness thermal imaging camera in use on the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, and the DVE on the M1, Bradley, Stryker, Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) and tactical wheeled vehicles. The robustness of our thermal imaging shutter has been demonstrated in the dynamic and harsh battlefield operating environments of these vehicles.
All of our shutters for ground vehicles are designed to meet or exceed the performance parameters of Ground Vehicle Systems:
Our solenoid shutter assemblies are adaptable to any current space, weight and power requirement for thermal imaging systems on Ground Vehicles. The commonality feature between shutter models translates to proven performance, high reliability and streamlined logistics support across our customers' entire product line.
Brandstrom has ongoing engineering efforts to address the shutter requirements for future thermal imaging cameras equipped with Long Wave IR (LWIR) 17µ 640 x 480 uncooled sensor modules with a ±30˚ field of view. These new LWIR technologies are being considered for the Ground Combat Vehicle Program, Driver’s Vision Enhancer follow-on programs, 360˚ Situational Awareness Systems and Distributed Aperture Systems.
Our ground vehicle shutters address the sustainment of current forces, supporting programmed vehicle capability upgrades through the Army’s spiral development process as well as innovative new shutter solutions for emerging and future programs. Brandstrom Instruments can provide innovative solutions for your products, too. Please contact us to discuss your specific shutter application.
We design custom NUC (non-uniformity correction) shutters for uncooled and cooled IR (Infrared imaging) camera systems for FPA (focal plane array), Bolometer arrays, and Infrared image sensor calibration.
Brandstrom Instruments' NUC (nonuniformity correction) shutters are found in many high performance thermal imaging cameras, cooled and uncooled, providing internal focal uniformity references. We are currently designing products for next generation technologies, such as:
Our thermal imaging / NUC shutters block apertures from 1mm to several inches in diameter. We can customize power, travel, mountings, blade dimensions, hall effect magnets and many other features to your exact specifications.