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PRESENTATION

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About us

The new Standard for Excellence

Advanced Thermal Batteries, Inc. (ATB) is the new standard for excellence in the field of Thermal Battery technology.

ATB was incorporated in the State of Delaware in 2006 with the objective to be the US thermal battery center of excellence thus, becoming the Preferred Supplier of US Defense Organizations. ATB started its operations in Cockeysville, MD in the same facility as SAFT America SDD. Due to ATB extensive success and growth, ATB has moved its entire operation into a new larger manufacturing facility in Westminster, Maryland.

ATB benefits from SAFT and from its parent, ASB Group through their historical knowledge, transfer of technology, and "R&D" support. ATB’s key personnel are the leaders in research and development and are involved with many of the advances utilized today throughout the industry.

ATB’s relentless pursuit of excellence will continue to benefit its customers, the Government and our warfighters with products providing unsurpassed quality, performance and reliability at an affordable price.

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Capability

ATB Product excellence

ATB product excellence starts with our employees. Training, experience and dedication are key to the quality of our processes and bring added value to our products and services.

ATB product excellence is the result of our quality methodology and inspection redundancy: full traceability, statistical process control, 100% non-destructive final inspection and actual battery test.

ATB product excellence is also due to our design practices and extensive use of modeling tools resulting in robust designs and good performance margins.

ATB’s commitment to product excellence is shown through our transparency, on time delivery, 100% requirement compliance and customer service.

ATB is building the future by investing in advanced manufacturing, inspection and test equipment to maintain and improve our standard for excellence.

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Technologie

Technologie excellence

ATB is the only US Company offering a full range of Li based and metal disulfide electrochemical options. ATB can provide the best trade-off between performance and cost because of its wide range of options.

As shown in the table, the general distinction of thermal battery technologies is related to the type of anode and cathode used in the design. From an electrochemical point of view, lithium is the most valuable element due to its high reducing potential and its high specific coulombic capacity.

The melting point of lithium is lower than the battery’s internal operating temperature. Consequently ATB used various lithium alloy, such as LiAl (Lithium Aluminum) or LiSi (Lithium Silicon). We also offer our patented lithium-iron mixture, named LAN (Lithium Anode), an exclusive ASB-Group technology, which results in higher cell voltage, higher power, and improved safety.

None of these technologies would pretend being the universal solution. ATB has gained technical and manufacturing expertise with all of them and will provide you with the optimum combination to meet your specific requirements. Combined with the extensive use of our predictive thermal battery modeling tools, our technology range is your guarantee for an optimal custom design.

Type Advantage Disadvantage Application

LiAI anodes

Low cost

None specific
(good compromise)

"Smart" batteries

LiSi anodes

Highest capacity
(if wide voltage range)

Volume

High energy

LAN

Highest power &
robustness

Cost & mass

High power

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Performance range

Wherever power needs to be combined with reliability

Because of their reliability, their steadily improving performance, and their very long shelf life with no maintenance, thermal batteries are the ideal solution for reserve power and energy in all air, space and defense applications.

Although most thermal battery designs are made to last from a few seconds to only a few minutes, new technologies now enable thermal batteries to provide power for over one hour.

These new technologies are being used on very long duration flight systems that could travel significant distances before hitting its target.

ATB’s packaging capability enables us to provide the customer with a complete plug and play power system solution that can be easily integrated into the final assembly.

We provide the customer ease of installation, making it safe during the final assembly process.

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Artillery

Thermal batteries are becoming an ideal solution for artillery applications (mortar ammunition, artillery shell, power supply for munitions, etc.): thanks to built-in striker mechanism, the thermal battery self activates under launch. Research programs on thin film technology provide significant advantage on the miniaturization.

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Missiles

Thermal batteries can be designed with more than one power output, thus giving the design engineer the ability to power several different systems with the same single battery. This innovation allows for the multi-purpose use of the battery, reducing weight and saving space, while enhancing the performance of the weapon and its mission.

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Space

Thermal batteries can be connected in parallel and series in order to constitute full battery systems. Examples of applications are Thrust Vector Control and Divert and Attitude actuators for space applications. The high power performance combined with the simplicity of use make our thermal batteries the cutting edge solution for a new actuator generation.

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Energy

Specific interface solutions can be implemented over the full range of battery power, mass, & volume requirements; brackets and flanges are available, as well as standard connectors which can be directly integrated to the battery header. Contact ATB for special system integration needs.

ITAR

ATB Inc.

ATB Inc. is an American company incorporated in the State of Delaware since 2006.
ATB design, develop and manufacture Thermal Batteries.
ATB operate independently from the rest of the ASB Group.
ATB strictly comply to the International Traffic of Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR)

ITAR

International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) is a United States regulatory regime to restrict and control the export of defense and military related technologies to safeguard U.S. national security and further U.S. foreign policy objectives.

Thermal batteries are ITAR USML Category XIII(h)(3).