Product Announcements: Air Bearings

Rotation Precision exceeding Sub-Microns,High rigidity,High endurance-Canon' s Air bearings have them all. (read more)

Offered in a variety of sizes, Nelson Air's RAB series of standard rectangular air bearing slides are the workhorse of the air bearing industry and have been delivering trouble-free performance to our customers for many years. They can be found in a wide array of applications ranging from tensile testing to precision positioning. (read more)

These single structures are the versatile answer to all sorts of moves, from once a year to once an hour; from simple moves to really tough jobs. Standard units are available with capacities ranging from 1,000 to 36,000 pounds each (read more)

At Nelson Air, custom does not mean expensive! We regularly work with a variety of OEM's and R&D labs to provide designs that are integrated into a product, used for custom fixturing or used in special laboratory apparatus. (read more)

Offered in a variety of sizes, Nelson Air's standard rectangular air bearing slides are the workhorse of the air bearing industry and have been delivering trouble-free performance to our customers for many years. (read more)

For the highest precision applications, Nelson Air has developed a number of Planar XY air bearing stages. These systems use air bearings, which ride directly on a granite or aluminum base. By eliminating the height stackup and overhung loads typical of stacked stage designs, planar air bearings achieve flatness of travel equal to or better than the actual flatness of the base. (read more)

Nelson Air's air bearing bushings can be used for both linear and rotary applications. The LB series of bearings utilize porous bronze air bearing surfaces, which provide excellent bearing stiffness and crash resistance. (read more)

Nelson Air has developed an extensive catalog of rotary air bearings for diverse applications such as optical grinding, roundness checking, disk drive inspection, semiconductor processing, torque testing, and many others. Because of this, in addition to offering a line of standard air bearing tables, they can provide individually customized bearings for each application. (read more)

Nelson Air's flat pad air bearings are offered in a variety of sizes, shapes and load capacities, which can easily be used to create custom air bearing systems. Flat pad air bearings operate on flat, nonporous surfaces such as granite, aluminum, glass, and ceramics. (read more)

Nelson Air has supplied a number of spherical air bearings for both research and industrial use. These bearings provide excellent load capacity and stiffness while allowing three axes of inherently frictionless rotational motion. (read more)