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„That’s our way“: The new Kappa handbook shows you our way of working. We combine our competency in industrial production with the ability to understand specific application contexts, allowing us to work together with the client to develop a camera solution, and to produce it reliably, efficiently, and with quality assured – be it for 20 or 2000 at a time.

That’s our way.

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Rugged Camera Technology

Kappa is one of the few camera manufacturers with comprehensive knowhow in the development and manufacture of extremely rugged cameras. We develop, design and manufacture camera systems for applications in extreme environmental conditions. For
more than 15 years, Kappa cameras have been used in the aerospace industry, military vehicles and industrial machines. These environments require absolute resistance to mechanical, climatic and electromagnetic stress as well as to surrounding substances and environmental impacts.

In many cases, for reasons of availability and cost we have to use industrystandard components. This makes it difficult to meet the requirements on EMC, resistance to temperature, shock and vibration. Thus, from the beginning, the technical design has to focus on these specific requirements, for example by using heat sinks or shock absorbers. Standard circuits or modules may hardly ever be used. Proof of origin is required for all components. We prepare our special cameras to resist extreme stress such as:

Temperature range from –55°C to +85°C with rapid fluctuations, also under negative pressure (e.g., 11.6 kPa corresponding to a height of 50,000 ft according to DO-160D)
Simulated lightning strike with overvoltages and currents of up to 1600 V/107 A on all connection pins according to DO-160
Mechanical shocks of up to 20 g acceleration for 11ms according to DO-160
Foreign bodies and water/salt water (protection rating up to IP 68)
Micro organisms (sterilizable, autoclavable)
Constant acceleration according to ABD0100.1.2 §1.18 or ISO 2669:1995
Altitude test down to 116 mbar (50.000 ft)
Fungus resistance according to RTCA/DO-160D (No test required. Kappa guarantees no nutrient materials.)
Resistance to oil

All required technical characteristics are analytically defi ned and then metrologically verifi ed on the object. Specifi c knowledge and/or development environments are necessary,

e.g. for MTBF calculations, thermal analysis or mechanical stress analysis. The prototype tests for verifi cation of specifi c characteristics take place in specifi c installations. These are, for example, shock and vibration tests on shakers; temperature and climate tests

in climatic chambers; overvoltage, and EMC tests. We offer all these analytical methods and tests for our products and execute them either on our own or in cooperation with external partners.