ALPHA PROTO LLC
CASSELBERRY, FLORIDA

Multidisciplinary, common goal. The core of ALPHA PROTO: Our team has over 35 years combined experience dating back to the Robotics Club at the University of Central Florida. We bonded over hard work and shared passion during long nights and weekends in the lab. We worked on a variety of autonomous vehicles for entry in land, underwater, surface, and aerial competitions. All of us contributed to UCF’s entry to the DARPA Grand Challenge. After graduating, we gathered valuable experience in hands-on engineering, research methods, design for manufacture, and production. Much of this work was funded by various government agencies through BAA, SBIR and STTR programs, sometimes requiring clearance. In January of 2016, a long term plan came to fulfillment and Alpha Proto opened its doors! From restoring motorcycles to working at his family’s thermoforming business, Scott has always sought to improve all things mechanical. Segana, LLC is a medical technology company focused on a novel method to improve targeting of therapeutic radiation to lung tumors. Increased accuracy improves treatment outcome and reduces damage to surrounding healthy tissue. To do this, an exact replica, or phantom, of the patient’s lung is 3-D printed. Alpha Proto was called on to design and build a Lung Chamber to animate this phantom. The Lung Chamber is placed within the treatment apparatus, allowing physicians to exactly track the movement of the lung. Alpha Proto worked with the client and experts in the field at UCLA and UCF to establish requirements for the Lung Chamber. The chamber was designed, along with the pump required for inflation and deflation. Electronics, actuators, and sensors to allow precise control of the pump were designed. Mechanical parts were machined, and a circuit board assembled. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) was created to interface with the on-board electronics. The GUI allows loading patient spirometer data to animate the lung phantom. A balloon was used as lung phantom stand in for early testing. The Product The device has been featured in a televised news story. It is currently in use to aid in refining the lung phantom production method. Riot Squad Mods is a company serving the electronic cigarette, or vaping community. Their goal was to produce a best-in-class mechanical e-cigarette, or mod. These devices are handheld and deliver high current to the atomiser with a minimum of voltage drop. User experience and perception of feel of the device are of great importance in this market. Alpha Proto worked with the client to define the desired characteristics of the mod. The Product Several units were built with different surface coatings. These have been in continuous use for several months and have received very positive reviews. The customer is gearing up for a limited production run. Mutidisciplinary, common goal. The core of ALPHA PROTO Making ideas into reality.