A Revolution in Thermal Insulation(2016)

What Is an Insulon Thermal Barrier?

It's a new kind of thermal insulation. An Insulon Shaped-Vacuum Thermal Barrier uses a

vacuum layer to form a virtually impenetrable barrier to the conductive transfer of thermal energy.

What Thickness of Thermal Insulation Do I Need?

That question almost doesn't apply here. Look how effective an Insulon barrier is compared to

conventional thermal insulation:

An Insulon barrier allows 40 times less thermal conduction than fiberglass insulation.

30 times less conduction than expanded polystyrene.

 25 times less conduction than a completely empty air gap.

Insulon barriers have already been designed and manufactured down to the width of a human

hair with no loss of their extraordinary insulating power and even thinner applications are

possible.

How An Insulon Thermal Barrier Works

Vacuum: The Ideal Thermal Insulator

The most effective insulation isn't achieved by putting insulating

material in; it's actually achieved by taking material out.

Thermal engineers have long known that the ideal thermal insulator is the barrier created
by a vacuum. Measures of thermal conductivity clearly show a vacuum's superiority.

Why is a vacuum so much better? Put simply, thermal energy passed from molecule to
molecule cannot pass through an area devoid of molecules; a vacuum
barrier halts conduction.

Even the Thinnest Insulon Barriers Are Fully Effective

Even an extraordinarily thin Insulon shaped-vacuum layer is fully effective at stopping the
conduction of thermal energy. We have already produced barriers with vacuum gaps as
narrow as 0.1mm, and the theoretical limit of this technology is even narrower still.
 Insulon Technology Brings Vacuum Insulation to Small Applications
Until now, it was impossible to use deep-vacuum thermal insulation in many of today's
advanced applications; the space was too small, or the shape presented problems. But
things have changed. Concept Group's proprietary technology has overcome the main
barriers to vacuum insulation at such small, miniature scales: cost, manufacturability, and
vacuum stability.
The result? The Insulon Shaped-Vacuum Thermal Barrier gives you the power of
vacuum insulation for a whole new world of amazingly small applications. It traps a
profoundly deep vacuum, a vacuum as deep as that being used in the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC), in spaces as small as four-thousandths of an inch or smaller.

Small Is Good, in Just About Any Shape You Want

The shape and size of the Insulon barrier are determined by your application, and there
are virtually no a priori limitations. An Insulon barrier can likely be designed as small as
you want it, and its shape is whatever shape you need.

How An Insulon Shaped-Vacuum Thermal Barrier Is made

Insulon Manufacture
The two rigid sides of an Insulon thermal barrier are typically stamped from metal (though certain
other materials can also be used), with one side slightly smaller than the other. They are then
placed inside a deep-vacuum furnace where they are brazed together at approximately 2,000F
to make a permanent bond, trapping the vacuum inside.

Stealth Technology Produces a

Hyper-Deep Vacuum
Amazingly, the vacuum inside an Insulon barrier is even deeper than that of the vacuum furnace
in which it is created.
The internal design of the Insulon barrier uses a concept not unlike that of the surface geometry

of a stealth aircraft, which causes radar pulses to bounce off the aircraft at a high angle rather

than returning to the adversary's radar receiver. In a similar way, the Insulon barrier's internal

shape helps direct the net movement of molecules out of the Insulon barrier before

brazing traps this deepened vacuum inside.

Extraordinary Insulating Power for Your Application

Insulon Shaped-Vacuum Technology is new. It can improve a huge range of devices and

products that we haven't yet dreamed of.

That's where you come in.

We've developed a technology, but only you can envision the ways in which it might actually be

used. Can it enhance the project you're working on now?

Imagine What You Can Do with Insulon Technology

Imagine what thermal insulation this powerful, this small, this thin, could do in your application.
Size and shape are remarkably unconstrained, so an Insulon barrier can be created for almost
any design you're working on.Here are just a few of the possibilities.
Shape It to Your Need
Are you thermally insulating a surgical probe? An engine part? A spherical container? A thin tube?
A heat pipe? An oddly shaped section of a circuit? A sensor? Whatever your application and
no matter how small it is an amazingly thin Insulon barrier can probably be incorporated into
your design, improving thermal performance and saving you space.

Medical Devices
Transport Containers
Thermally Insulated Probes

Electronics
Fluid Transport
Detectors
Thermal Isolation
Insulating Barriers
Military
Component Isolation
Cryogenic Storage
Thermally Sensitive Transport

Aerospace
Sensors
Spacecraft
Temperature Stability

Process Control
Sensor Assemblies
Transport Tubes
Capillary Tubes
Nuclear
Sensors
Thermal Isolation

good understanding of all the physical and performance parameters we need to begin the design.
We'll then work closely with you to create a prototype barrier to demonstrate performance,

durability, and manufacturability at your target cost.

The prototype design is then rigorously tested to ensure that it reliably meets all your objectives.

When the design has proven itself to your satisfaction, manufacturing can begin.