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Slip Ring USA

Fully customized slip rings

Custom slip rings engineered around your rotating interface

A custom slip ring is appropriate when a standard configuration cannot meet the required transfer paths, envelope, bore, mounting, speed, duty cycle, environment, or validation plan. Slip Ring USA helps define the requirements and coordinate an application-specific configuration through global engineering and manufacturing.

When to specify a custom design

Start with the requirement that makes a standard unit unsuitable

Common triggers include mixed power and high-speed data, an unusual center opening or package, high current, multiple transfer media, special mounting, or an operating environment that requires configuration-specific review. The technical review considers the entire rotating interface rather than one headline specification.

Integrated rotary interfaces Through-bore slip rings Ethernet and 10G slip rings

Transfer media that can be integrated into one rotating assembly

Electrical

Power, control signals, Ethernet, and high-speed data

  • Electrical functions
  • Channels / circuits required
  • Rated current by circuit
  • Peak or inrush current
  • Voltage and power system
  • Signals / protocols
  • Shielding requirements

Fiber optic

Single or multimode optical paths

  • Optical channels
  • Fiber type
  • Wavelength
  • Maximum insertion loss
  • Maximum loss variation through rotation
  • Minimum return loss
  • Optical power and receiver sensitivity
  • Cable construction and length

Radio frequency

Coaxial rotary paths

  • RF channels
  • Frequency range
  • Characteristic impedance
  • Max VSWR
  • Maximum average or CW power
  • Maximum peak power
  • Maximum insertion loss
  • Minimum channel isolation

Gas / liquid

Pneumatic, hydraulic, coolant

  • Passages
  • Port / thread specification
  • Media
  • Normal and maximum pressure or vacuum
  • Flow rate or minimum passage diameter
  • Medium and ambient temperature
  • Permitted internal and external leakage

Configuration process

From incomplete requirements to a reviewable configuration

  1. 01

    Capture the application

    Document each transfer path, rated and peak loads, motion, mounting, environment, quantity, and program timing.

  2. 02

    Resolve technical dependencies

    Review signal integrity, thermal load, sealing, materials, service life, connectors, and cross-domain integration.

  3. 03

    Confirm the commercial path

    Finalize the configuration, validation needs, pricing, and production and delivery schedule before order.