About Douglas Electrical Components

Hermetic Solutions for Your Sealing Challenges

For over 75 years, Douglas Electrical Components has provided fiber optic, signal and power interconnect solutions designed to meet the challenging demands of gloveboxes, medical equipment, semiconductor manufacturing, space simulation, military, vacuum systems, electrical distribution, hazardous locations and more. From sealed connectors and hermetic wires feedthroughs to pin headers and electronics encapsulation, we look forward to new opportunities where we can push our boundaries even further to meet your unique application needs.

Douglas Electrical can help you reduce your total installed cost for point-to-point sealed electrical solutions while saving you time. Choose the exact connector, cable, wire or fiber you need and partner with Douglas Electrical Components to hermetically seal it within the bulkhead or fitting you require. Our products are designed to provide an optimal balance of performance and price, while exceeding expectations for delivery, quality, and reliability.

Through the acquisition of Electronic Products, Douglas offers a complete line of microelectronic hermetic packages to compliment our hermetic sealing capabilities. These HTCC and glass-to-metal seals are used in RF/microwave packages, power discrete packages, TO-headers, and optoelectronic packages for a variety of industries and applications. Choose standard configurations or design to spec with the EPI engineering team.

Operational Advantages

Work with a partner that understands hermetics, customization, and critical quality
LEAN manufacturing business model
In-house rapid prototyping and design qualification
Expedites down to 1 week lead times, even for custom designed products, are typically available
Just in Time (JIT) purchase order management with strong supply chain and business partners
Designed and manufactured in the USA
Tooling designed and built in-house

US Manufacturer

founded in 1944

ISO 9001/14001

Certified

Designer & manufacturer

of custom solutions

In 1975, Douglas pioneered the development and practical application of electrical wire feedthroughs using epoxy technology, which had been utilized in manufacturing field coils for magnetic flow meters.

Driving Hermetic Feedthrough Technology

In 1944, the company was founded as Douglas Engineering Company in Newark, NJ by Edward B. Douglas. In addition to working as a consulting engineer, initial manufactured products were electro-mechanical assemblies used in propeller driven aircraft. Douglas Electrical Components developed the industry’s first epoxy-based wire feedthroughs in 1975. Since then, we have continuously improved our epoxy-based sealing technologies. And today, our hermetically sealed feedthroughs and connectors thrive in the most demanding application environments—from oil fields to battlefields to outer space.

Extremely reliable and robust hermetically sealed solutions for applications where physical space is limited (increased signal density, eliminated connections)
Lower cost “end-to-end” solutions with Design for Manufacturing (DFM) focus
Improved design flexibility on new systems – plan on saving space and improving reliability
Specify exactly what you need rather than having to compromise on your solutions

Design Capabilities

Vacuum to 1×10^-9 Torr
Pressures as high as 15,000 psi
Temperatures from -200°F to +350ºF
Wire gauges from 38 AWG to 500 MCM
Conductor counts from single wire to 3,200 in a single feedthrough
Cable lengths from stubs to 2,000 meters
Chemical/Fuel/Gas/Radiation compatibility is proven

Operations

ISO 9001:2015 | ISO 14001:2015
ITAR-DDTC Registered
AS9102 First Article Inspections available upon request; contact factory.
IPC/WHMA-A-620 Certified Trainers and Application Specialists
UL 984 | UL 1203 | UL 674 Certified Products
LEAN Manufacturing
Hermetically and electrically tested assemblies

Technology Categories

Designing with Douglas' Hermetic Epoxy

Reduce number of connections by providing complete end-to-end connectivity
Dramatically increase density of conductors passing thru a bulkhead
Specify exactly the connector/wire/cable you require
High conductor count cables including:
- Twisted shielded pairs, coaxial wire, fixed impedance, flex circuits and other
All insulations types including:
- FEP, PTFE, PVC, PE, XLPE, TPR, Neoprene and others
Standard and custom bulkhead mounting options
Seal virtually any connector including:
- Military specs, plastics, plated metals and custom designs

Fully connectorized harness and basic wire feedthrough solutions
Seal rigid circuits, flex circuits, hybrid circuits, and FFC cable with active and passive components
Extremely robust – resistant to physical and thermal impact with reliable use 30+ years
Virtually any housing/fitting material can be used including:
Molded plastics/polymers, common metals (brass, copper, aluminum & stainless steel), exotic metals (titanium, AlBeMet) and customer furnished housings
Ability to utilize customer furnished connectors, housings, cables, and sub-assemblies

Ready to connect?

Are you ready to start designing? We’re here to help. Share as much detail on how we can assist you and our technical sales engineers will follow up to partner on any new or existing design.