Aviation has come a long way since the Wright Brothers’ first flight December 17, 1903 with the Wright Flyer. Only 73 years later, the British-French Concorde was conducting commercial services but civil aviation in the 20th century has seen few industry changing innovations except for the jet engine. Concorde’s last passenger flight took place on October 24th, 2003 signaling an end to commercialized supersonic transportation and with it the sonic boom and excessive fuel used by the aircraft. Evolving technology, restrictions, and increased safety regulations influence design characteristics that ultimately dictate how aircraft will look and perform in the modern transportation ecosystem.
Electricity has become the source of innovation that will power disruptive change in the aerospace market enabled by light weight composites, hydrogen fuel cells, and a host of other technologies. Aircraft electrification provides an environmentally responsible solution by freeing the engineering and design constraints of aircraft design through the use of distributed electric propulsion (DEP), busbars vice drive shafts, and connectors able to deliver high voltage and current requirements at altitude. Amphenol has been and continues to be at the forefront of this aviation revolution by leading and pioneering projects to develop new products and materials enabling aircraft electrification. Our innovation through joint and collaborative efforts with academia and our customers supports the rebirth of a dynamic aerospace environment as supersonic, vertical, electric, and autonomous systems become real.
Join us as we enable this aerospace revolution and select from our wide range of products with unique capabilities and applications. Our products support the diverse range of aircraft in development with technologies to deliver the highest power density in a form factor with size and weight as main consideration.
Electric Motor and Inverter
Power. It’s the ability to act or do something in a particular way, especially as a faculty or quality. Battery power density is steadily increasing through chemical innovation toward the game changing 500Wh/kg that could unlock electricity’s true potential in the skies. Harnessing the extreme amount of energy found in the next generation of flight propulsion systems demands attention to detail and complete understanding of the electric environment. We’ve immersed ourselves in the revolution of flight as partners to provide solutions for a new era of aircraft through countless design iterations, material studies, and relentless testing. Success, credibility, certainty, and safety are the results.
Amphenol engineers and manufactures the highest performing connectors on the market. Couple that with our heavy copper PCB and we become the end-to-end solution for your electric motor and inverter requirements. Our deep understanding and experience with power expanded as the primary manufacturer of connectors in military hardware during WWII, transitioned with the turbine engine, and advances today with hybrid electric propulsion systems. We didn’t survive COVID, we thrived among challenges the market presented by staying at the forefront of our customer’s needs, Amphenol product availability and customer support.
We have the expertise to optimize Size Weight and Power Performance (SWaPP) in products outfitted for simplicity and reliability with minimal weight penalty. Complex distributed propulsor arrangements might utilize a layered busbar approach or standard cables we specialize in. Every product we provide is meticulously engineered and tested to flat out work in the environment it was made for. At Amphenol, we put power to work for you.
The Greeks defined power as “Authority”
We put power to work for you.
Modern distributed electric propulsion systems
Future DEP systems
We are the trusted name in aerospace and continue to build on our expertise through internal RDT&E.
Amphenol provides design, development, testing, validation, manufacturing, and certification.
