Vincent Associates® Commemorates 40 Years of Quality Shutter Solutions

Sept. 21, 2009 - PRLog -- Rochester, New York –- Vincent Associates®, the manufacturers of UNIBLITZ® shutters, announces that this year they have achieved 40 years in business.  This milestone has been made possible by continuing to provide quality state-of-the-art electronic shutter products within the Photonics industry.  Founded by Andrew W. Vincent in 1969, the company continues the tradition of focusing on their core competency, shutters and shutter drive systems.

The UNIBLITZ® shutter is based on an electro-magnetic actuator.  The actuator is the basis of the shutter design, whether it is our constant force linear actuator, developed by Andrew Vincent or the newly patented NS series (Non-Contact Actuation System, N-CAS®) recently developed by the Vincent Associates® design engineering team.  All of these designs provide shutter devices that are powered open and return closed without power (uni-stable type) or pulse to open and pulse to close (bi-stable type), providing solutions to the most demanding applications.

The company continued to develop further innovations after Mr. Vincent’s retirement in 1984 with the purchase of the company by Kevin Farrell and Stephen Pasquarella.  The company has grown to be internationally recognized as “the source” for precise, well-engineered shutter systems.  Over time, UNIBLITZ® has been able to create three distinct product lines with a wide variety of models to suit the following applications: I/C manufacturing, motion picture, television, camera system products (including visible and infrared applications), microscope systems, laser systems, telescope systems and a host of specialty and custom manufactured devices for the Photonics industry.

UNIBLITZ® shutters have always been known for its quality and reliability. It’s no surprise that in 1986 the European Space Agency and the Soviet Union selected Vincent Associates® to supply UNIBLITZ® shutters for the on-board cameras in the Vega probes that visited Haley’s Comet.

Over the past 40 years Vincent Associates has provided numerous custom shutter solutions to different companies and industries.  “One project that was particularly interesting was in 2000,” notes Stephen Pasquarella, Sr. Vice President of Vincent Associates. “We helped a company called TC2 by supplying a number of VS35 shutters and shutter drivers for a 3D scanning system built for a noted clothing manufacturer. This system scanned the customer’s body from 200,000 individual data points. The data was used to provide measurements that were supplied to the manufacturer to produce clothing that fit in a more exacting manner.”

With the experience that 40 years in business provides and the numerous products manufactured, Vincent Associates® continues to innovate and meet customer needs with the continual refinement and ability to modify “flagship” products (i.e. the VS and LS devices) for exacting customer applications.  In addition, the new N-CAS® NS shutter series and the soon to be released N-CAS® DSS series, Vincent Associates can integrate low cost and high reliability for a new era in Photonics applications.



Vincent Associates® is a manufacturer of UNIBLITZ®  electronic shutters and shutter systems based in Rochester, NY, with distribution centers worldwide. Vincent Associates® provides shutter solutions to a wide variety of consumers after rigorous testing to ensure application with confidence. Visit their site at: http://www.uniblitz.com or call (585) 385-5930 to learn more about products offered by UNIBLITZ® and how they may help.

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Vincent Associates, the manufacture of UNIBLITZ, prides itself on the integrity and operational life of our shutters. Our staff of engineers continue to test shutters so that you can apply them to your application with confidence.