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Founded in 1955, Taylor Devices, Inc.'s primary mission is to provide state of the art, compact, hydraulic components for aircraft and missiles. The company designs, develops, and manufactures energy absorption devices to reduce mechanical shock. The company's wide-ranging product lines are used throughout the defense, construction, and heavy industrial markets. Products include weapons-grade shock isolation systems, shock absorbers, dampers, vibration isolators, crane bumpers, liquid springs, and deployment actuators. Many of the advanced civil engineering applications of the Company's energy absorbing systems-such as its Fluid Viscous Dampers which provide protection for buildings, bridges, towers, elevated freeways and virtually any structure that is subject to earthquake damage-were developed under the DoD SBIR program. Taylor Devices has grown from a single employee in 1955 to more than 100 employees today.
The Navy, Air Force, BMDO, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Taylor Devices five SBIR contracts between 1985 and 1996. Funded SBIR research ranged from controllable suspension systems for Marine Corps' troop vehicles to isolation and pointing of sensitive space-based payloads. Two SBIR contracts funded development of "Quick Look" PC-based software codes to assess the survivability of alternative means for basing MX missiles. As part of this SBIR research, various new types of shock isolation components were developed and tested by the company to insure accuracy of the software code.
The SBIR-developed software code and isolation components have been used widely in major DoD systems, including the Seawolf Submarine, Tomahawk Missile, THAAD Missile, and surface ships of the AEGIS Program. Recent uses include shock protection of low cost commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) electronic systems, so that the DoD no longer has to develop special ruggedized equipment. This technology has also significantly improved the capacity of large buildings and bridges across the United States to withstand earthquakes. Currently, more than 40 structures, including the Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Southern California (built near the San Andreas fault] and the San Francisco Civic Center, are using damping devices developed under this SBIR research. Sales to date of SBIR-related products exceed $29 million, with sales in the coming year expected to total more than $6 million.
Douglas Taylor
Tel. 716/694-0800
Fax. 716/695-6015
Website. http://www.taylordevices.com/tayd.htm
