One Powerful Decade Update: Inductors Provide Important Functions in Power Electronic Systems

Jul 1, 2010 12:00 PM
Walter Wike Engineering Manager, API Delevan, East Aurora, NY

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TESTING

API Delevan's inductors are tested in accordance with MIL-PRF-27, MIL-PRF-39010, MIL-PRF-15305, MIL-PRF-83446, and MIL-STD-981 and MIL-STD-202. These MIL specs are used as reference guidelines for the type of test, method, and requirement. These guidelines can be adjusted, based on design, application, or market need. All testing and methods for characterizing the inductive components are as performed by API Delevan. Test fixtures are available on special order. The factory recommends test equipment correlation sampling on applications requiring low inductance (≤0.10µH) and tight tolerance (≤2%) values.

API DELEVAN

API DELEVAN provides custom products designed to meet the highest quality standards as evidenced by the accreditation of its MIL-PRF-39010, “R” failure rate. The company focuses on the four pillars required by the engineering community:

Prototype Services — Solutions offered in hours or days, not weeks or months.
Smallest Size — Today's solutions, whether components or vertically integrated designs, must meet the needs of miniaturization.
Highest Performance — Better electrical & mechanical performance than other manufacturers.
Lowest Cost — Highest quality and lowest cost by adhering to daily Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing activities, producing one piece flow while simultaneously eliminating waste.

Engineer-to-engineer solutions for custom designs, and insistence on listening to, and working with,customers for the on-going success of this very important element of our business. The relationships have been long-standing and mutually rewarding ones.

An Established Reliability Program has accumulated over 250 million hours of life testing. In addition to making available an engineering staff with over six decades of accrued experience, API maintains a modern environmental lab, testing capabilities and a R&D department. API Delevan believes value comes not just with quality, but also with resourcefulness.