Ultrasonic Drill And Corer

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Ultrasonic Drill And Corer
Small Business Innovation Research
Cybersonics, Inc.
Erie, PA

• INNOVATION
• Lightweight, power efficient ultrasonic rock
  drill and corer

• ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• ?Technology successfully demonstrated 1 inch
  deep hole in granite from 4 kilogram platform
• ? Drill requires low axial loading and pressure
• ? Capable of operating at cryogenic temperatures
• COMMERCIALIZATION
• ? Several medical applications currently under
  development
• ? Removing plaque and calcification from soft
  tissues
• ? Cleaning brain shunts in encephalitic patients

The Drill Can Core Even the hardest Rocks, Such
as Granite and Basalt, Without Application of
Significant Weight On the Drilling Bit.
? Technology under development for NASA small
bodies exploration and Mars sample return
missions
1997 Phase II NAS3-99122 Success Story 7-022
Jet Propulsion Laboratory