Limp expertise for command post

ABEILLON company , European leader in adjustable flexible solutions for industry, has several areas of expertise. Discover its products, including the LED desk lamp solution for control table. These meet the requirements of users in terms of robustness and quality. Two factors that are essential for optimal operation in constraints.

The LED technology that ABEILLON uses has the latest innovations in terms of light qualities (color and color temperature). They combine performance, sustainability and ergonomics.

Indeed, the reliability of this type of equipment is crucial in the emergency situations encountered on the battlefields by the armed forces, whether:

• inside vehicles (aircraft, land vehicles or ships),
• of decisions such as staffs or shelters (Shelters).

In addition, they are specially designed to optimize user comfort. Conceptualized for places that operate night and day, seven days a week and 24 hours a day, our LED bulb card reading lamps were subjected to quality tests. A single objective: meet all the expectations of ABEILLON customers in their respective countries.

What is a control desk lamp?

To answer this question, you have to understand the framework for using a reading lamp in a piloting desk for a military machine in alert. Light is essentially essential to access printed information, or taking up notes during a situation. The LED lamps for ABEILLON desk are designed and manufactured to serve in all vehicle cockpits, ship's command posts, aircraft, etc.

Vehicle cockpits, ship's command posts ...

The cockpit or command post is the place of which the external view is as wide as possible (virtual or real), which allows the pilot and possibly other crew members to participate in the driving of the machine, in navigation or in combat in progress.

It is in the cockpit that all the visual and order display equipment provides the information necessary for the vehicle control, whatever it is, are installed. The decisions are taken immediately for the pilot or the combatants, are anticipated during the forecast management of navigation by interacting - if necessary - with external installations by the telecommunications system, by surveillance and obviously by acting on the mechanical elements of the machine.

Seeing the steering desk well represents part of the success of operations in the field. For each machine, standardized constraints are respected during the manufacture of desk lamps. Reading card in the marine or submarine environment requires perfect resistance to wet and corrosive areas.

The context posed, you have to imagine yourself stressors for external reasons for immediate or future dangers. People who need to rest on ultra-by equipment to be able to read, at night, in the dark, data essential to their security. This is where ABEILLON intervenes as a manufacturer of military or civilian equipment.

The desk lamp

This product is a security element in a decision -making or clarity is essential for reading sea or terrestrial cards, plans, technical sheets, GPS data, instructions, search for orders, comfort or mechanical objects, etc.

To meet the requirements of its customers, ABEILLON complies with recommendations and recommendations related to the context of using the table reading lamp. There are a number of standards to be respected and ABEILLON takes them into account to meet the specifications of our orders.

Regarding the lamps for a desk, LED technology benefits from the latest innovations in terms of light qualities such as power, temperature emission, compliance with colors). Some of our lamps are equipped 3 power LEDs, with an adapter cable in the sector to ensure secure operation on all connections to an energy source.

As Abeillon ABEILLON the European leader in adjustable flexible solutions for industry, the ergonomics of the lens for a desk has been particularly careful so that it adapts to all work configurations. They have been equipped with semi-rigid flexibles to resistance recognized by all military and civilian users for over forty years.

In addition to the normative qualities, the lamps of the ABEILLON company offer optimal lighting quality without loss of light. This faculty optimizes the reading of the data present in the cockpit by perfectly targeting the areas to be illuminated. The lifespan of ABEILLON lamps is more than 50,000 hours.

The use of desk lamps in a military framework

In a confined environment such as the interior of an armored vehicle or in a refuge ("Shelter"), the control desk must help the military staff in their daily work thanks to:

• The accuracy of the color rendering when reading cards, plans, the visual of the machine controls,
• Ergonomics and light targeting on the places to light is perfectly ensured by gooseneck ,
• Indeed the flexible semi-rigid facilitates their maneuverability and their 360 ° orientation,
• Lamps do not issue any heat or UV emissions.

The quality of white light emitted by the lamps lies in the proximity of its daylight spectrum. They do not emit heat or UV, which gives these desk lamps a perfect cockpit adaptability while saving energy.

For the sake of performance and quality, all of our LED lighting systems are designed and manufactured in our workshops in France and are subject to constant improvement research.

Some examples of LED lamps for a desk

The reading lamp on a ABEILLON was designed to meet the following standards:

• MIL-STD-810F: This standard gives the levels of requirements in terms of mechanical outfit and sealing with rainwater,
• MIL-STD-461 E V 1999: This standard defines levels of requirements in terms of emission and operating under radio waves,
• MIL-STD-1275: Responding to this standard ensures the compatibility of the lamp with the electrical energy distribution system on the military platforms of land vehicles

Compliance of table reading lamps

Here we cite the course of compliance assessments in waterproofing to rainwater and the mechanical reliability of the reading lamps on the table:

• They have undergone projections of water according to speed of flow, distance, dimensioning of ejection nozzle, water temperature and predefined watering duration.
• The lamp was placed on a vibrant table with accelerometer for 40 minutes and resisted shocks in the 3 directions of the plane.

The following tests make it possible to check the quality of all the electrical components and their connection between them and the parts that make up the lamp, always under normal operation:

• Conduction of radio waves emitted by power cables and current and voltage measurements linked to the conduction of radio waves.
• Radio radiations from the lamp with magnetic field measurements emitted in several positions and areas of the lamp.
• Radio waves radiation from the lamp, here under the different operating modes with electric field measurements emitted, according to the vertical and horizontal axes of lamp polarization and according to an appropriate frequency range.

Tests checking the compatibility of the lamp with the electrical energy distribution system (on the military platforms of land vehicles) were carried out including:

• Permanent functioning: the table reading lamp must operate normally when it is subject to lower and upper limits of the electrical supply network.
• Voltage undulation: The desk lamp must operate normally when it is subject to a superimposed voltage ripple at the power source.

Transitional disturbances: tension peaks

• Voltage peaks exported in the equipment: The lamp must continue to operate normally without degradation or damage when it is subject to voltage peaks (described in the Mil-STD1275 §5.4.2.3) standard)
• Exported voltage peaks of the equipment: During the switching operation of the desk lamp (start or stop), the voltage must remain within the limits of the model defined in the standard.

Transitional disturbances: overvoltages

• Overvites imported into the equipment: the lamp must operate without normally when it is subject to overvoltages described in the standard.
• Overvites exported by the equipment: During the operation by switching the desk lamp (start or stop), the voltage must remain within the limits of the model defined in the standard.

Technological evolution of army equipment

If the future of technologies is not written so much research evolves quickly in many areas, (quantum mechanics, artificial intelligence, attack and surveillance drone, satellite, Internet network, etc.) will undoubtedly remain at the center of decisions.

In the cockpit of which we were talking about, the electronic systems for scanning and processing data is constantly getting better. The point raised by researchers and plane pilots joins that of the lighting problem: CRT cathodic tubes (Cathode-ray tube), must adapt to the needs of users, which in a cockpit need extremely diverse lighting with many variables.

The 21st century will see this revolution enter cockpits with LCD screen technology and touch screens creating innovative interaction with the components of the plane, or those of all other combat machines. The potential is immense, because on -board technologies will activate means of interaction similar to those of the general public and its smartphone. Tool today essential to increase the potential and ergonomics of cockpits.

Is a CAP? Innovation 2035

First of all, the imperatives that appear in the military strategies of tomorrow are the digitization of the armed forces by 2030. These plans are based on the physical reality and the operational capacities of the on -board and deported TV sensors allowing to provide position or trajectory data and speed data. Mass data (big data) are already at the heart of our defense system. Their treatment will be optimal, on -board simulation algorithms, all the devices useful in combat, and other on -board technologies.

But these IT resources prefigure the “cybernetization” of the armies beyond 2030. Robotics and self-learning algorithms, so-called artificial intelligence, nanotechnologies will develop in favor of increasingly independent equipment.

Abeillon : the European leader in flexible support solutions

ABEILLON has built its success by specializing in the manufacture of semi-rigid flexibles intended for the defense and industry sectors and also in the medical sector. For several decades, she developed her know-how in order to take advantage of this mono-produced specialty to open her market to other product ranges, including control pups and those intended for medical offices. Thousands of ABEILLON lamps are currently in service worldwide.

Opening the market for the Ministry of the Armed Forces requires many approvals. ABEILLON has provided NATO industries for many years. This gives it a step ahead of its competitors to respond to calls for tenders for the French army and other countries.

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