GAPS & HAPS
SERIES
000843
Issue 1
Aerospace Proximity Sensors
DESCRIPTION
Honeywell has over 30 years’ experience
designing and delivering accurate and
reliable proximity sensors that are
currently used in a variety of military and
commercial aircraft.
Honeywell has two new platforms of
proximity sensors: General Aerospace
Proximity Sensors (GAPS) and Harsh
Aerospace Proximity Sensors (HAPS),
formerly known as the IHM Series. Both
platforms incorporate Honeywell’s
patented Integrated Health Monitoring
functionality, however the products
have some technical differences
that allow them to be used in various
aerospace applications. GAPS can be
used in less harsh areas of application
with some differences of electrical and
environmental characteristics when
compared to HAPS. Whilst, HAPS
Aerospace Proximity Sensors are
configurable, non-contact, hermetically
sealed devices designed to sense the
presence or absence of a target in harshduty aircraft applications.
The GAPS and HAPS platforms provide
on/off outputs and can be configured with
an optional health monitoring output to
the host system. The sensing mechanism
is based on the familiar Eddy Current Killed
Oscillator (ECKO) principles; however,
Honeywell has designed and implemented
the patented FAVCO (Fixed Amplitude
Variable Current Oscillator) technology
which enables the Honeywell sensors to
have the health monitoring (IHM) features.
See Figure 5 to compare the ECKO and
FAVCO technologies. The GAPS and HAPS
Series helps to reduce downtime and
maintenance costs due to a unique circuit
that can detect any internal failures and
display a fault output instead of a false
positive or false negative. For the customer,
this delivers the best performance with
a lower overall cost over the life of the
aircraft.
FEATURES
• Industry-leading indirect lightning
and dielectric ruggedness: Meets
the increased requirements of
today’s composite aircraft and most
challenging applications including
landing gear, thrust reversers, and flight
controls
• Enhanced vibration ruggedness:
Capable of withstanding extremely high
vibration applications
• Environmentally rugged: Fully hermetic
packages provide long-term reliability in
very harsh environments by eliminating
the potential for contamination of
the sensor from the application
environment. In addition, Honeywell
has developed an innovative method to
environmentally seal wire-lead (pigtail)
configurations
• Integral Health Monitoring Capability:
Optional third output state to indicate
the health of the sensor (whether
it is healthy or failed). Reduces
maintenance time, reduces delayed
flights, and lowers overall maintenance
cost across the life of the aircraft
• Non-contact design: Utilizes noncontact technology to sense the
presence or absence of a target
regardless of the dirty, harsh
environment in which it is placed,
eliminating mechanical failure
mechanisms, reducing wear, minimizing
downtime, increasing durability, and
increasing reliability
VALUE TO CUSTOMERS
• Enhanced vibration and EMI
specifications help to increase revenue
(flight hours) and reduce cost to serve
(system maintenance)
• Hermetic sealing helps increase
revenue (flight hours), reduce cost to
serve (maintenance), & reduce cost of
goods (spares)
• Platform approach helps to increase
revenue and reduce cost to serve
• Health monitoring helps to increase
revenue, reduce cost to serve, and
reduce cost of goods
• Supplier stability helps to reduce cost
to serve (troubleshoot with original
supplier)
• Current install base helps to reduce
cost to serve (proven performance and
MTBF)
PORTFOLIO
Honeywell’s GAPS and
HAPS Series is part of a
comprehensive line of
aerospace sensors, switches,
and value-added solutions. To view
Honeywell’s complete product
offering, click here.
AEROSPACE PROXIMITY SENSORS, GAPS & HAPS SERIES
GAPS
Landing Gear
GAPS
Doors
GAPS
Ground Vehicles
HAPS
Airframe
GAPS
HAPS
GENERAL Aerospace
Proximity Sensor
Hydraulics
GAPS
Primary Surface Rear Stabilizer
GAPS
GAPS
Gen Actuators
GAPS
Rotary Actuators Evacuation Slides Cargo Storage Turbine Speed/ACM
GAPS
GAPS
GAPS
GAPS
GAPS
500,000
DIFFERENTIATORS
MTBF > FLIGHT HOURS
HARSH Application
Proximity Sensor
TRAS
HAPS
Valves
HAPS
Engine
HAPS
Actuators
HAPS
Nacelle
HAPS
Canopies
HAPS
HAPS
500,000
MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS
OPERATING TEMPERATURE
115°C
20 G
VIBRATION
20 G*
40 G
OPERATING SHOCK
20 G
115°C
ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS
150 mA Level W
RADIO FREQUENCY CONDUCTED
SUSCEPTIBILITY
300 mA Level Y
100 V/m CAT F
RADIO FREQUENCY RADIATED
SUSCEPTIBILITY
200 V/m CAT G
Level 3
ON/OFF 20 mA
1000 Vdc/750 Vac
2 sensing.honeywell.com
LIGHTNING INDUCED TRANSIENT
Level 3
SUSCEPTIBILITY
OUTPUT TYPE
DIELECTRIC/IR
IHM ON/OFF 250 mA
500 Vdc/500 Vac
* HAPS has a Q factor of 4. Contact Honeywell for more information.
AEROSPACE PROXIMITY SENSORS, GAPS & HAPS SERIES
TABLE 1. GAPS SERIES AND HAPS SERIES PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATIONS
CHARACTERISTIC
PARAMETER
Mechanical Characteristics
GAPS
HAPS
Weight
Less than 60 grams (inline variants);
85 grams (right-angle variants)
60 g to 150 g
Sealing
Hermetically sealed
Hermetically sealed,
pigtail versions environmentally sealed
Connector/leads
D38999/25YA98PN
D38999/25YA98PA
EN2997Y10803MN
• D38999/25YA98PN
• EN2997Y10803MN
• M83723/90Y10056
• M83723/90Y10058
Form factor
• Inline, cylindrical, threaded
• Right angle, cylindrical, threaded
• Inline, cylindrical, flanged
• Right angle, cylindrical, flanged
• Inline, cylindrical, threaded
• Right angle, cylindrical, threaded
• Inline, cylindrical, flanged
• Right angle, cylindrical, flanged
Sensing distance
3,5 mm max.
4 mm max.
Sensing face
Inconel
Inconel®
Outer body material
Stainless steel
Stainless steel
Sensor head diameter
13,5 mm [0.53 in]
13,5 mm [0.53 in]
Sensor length
55 mm [2.17 in] max.
various; 60 mm [2.36 in] max.
Target (typical)
SS 17-4PH rectangular target with dimensions
25 mm x 18 mm x 3 mm [0.98 in x 0.71 in x 0.12 in]
SS 17-4PH rectangular target with dimensions
25 mm x 18 mm x 3 mm [0.98 in x 0.71 in x 0.12 in]
MTBF
500,000 flight hours
500,000 flight hours
Electrical Characteristics
GAPS
HAPS
Supply voltage
12 Vdc to 32 Vdc (input)
12 Vdc to 28 Vdc
Supply current