Two awards at the New Ideas New Business competition

On 9 November 2013 Inventra’s founding team won two awards with a magnetorheological semi-active damper project at the final of New Ideas New Business (Yeni Fikirler Yeni İşler) 2013, held at the METU Culture and Convention Center.

Competing as team Orion, the founders received the OSTİM Special Award (OSTİM Özel Ödülü) and the Undersecretariat for Defence Industries Second Prize (Savunma Sanayii Müsteşarlığı İkincilik Ödülü). According to the published results, the awards were worth 25,000 TL and 10,000 TL respectively.

The Undersecretariat for Defence Industries (SSM) operates today as the Presidency of Defence Industries (SSB). New Ideas New Business is an early-stage accelerator program that METU and METU Technopolis have run jointly since 2005. In 2013, 11 projects reached the final from 1,071 business idea applications.

A damper controlled in real time

The project was a damper that controlled vibration and shock in real time by changing the viscosity of a smart fluid hundreds of times a second. A passive damper is designed for one environmental condition and keeps its settings outside it, whereas this system measured the instantaneous vibration and shock characteristic and produced its response from that. Magnetorheological dampers are used in armored vehicle suspension and in controlling vibration in helicopter airframes.

The patent history of the same project is set out in Positive search report for the magnetorheological damper patent application.

About Inventra

Inventra Mühendislik A.Ş., founded in 2015, designs, manufactures, integrates and qualifies reconnaissance and surveillance systems at its R&D Center and its Integration and Test Center in Ankara. Its product line covers multi-channel stabilized thermal imaging gimbals, single and dual axis positioners, masts, tripods and portable climatic rack cabins.

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