Products/Services for Epicyclic Ball Screws
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Ball Screws - (238 companies)Ball screws convert rotary motion to linear motion, or torque to thrust, and vice versa. They are primarily a power screw with a train of ball bearings riding between the screw and the nut in a recirculating track. Ball screws convert rotary motion...Component TypeManufacturing ProcessDesign Features -
Ball Screw Support Bearings - (72 companies)Ball screw support bearings are designed for use in ball or lead screw applications. Ball screw support bearings are specially designed for use in ball screw or lead screw applications. Most ball screw support bearings are angular contact bearings... -
Ball Screw Repair Services - (39 companies)Ball screw repair services refurbish worn or damaged ball screws to their original condition. Ball screws are used to convert rotary motion or torque into thrust or linear motion. They have a nut that contains balls which roll along formed threads... -
Ball Bearings - (766 companies)...applications made of phenolic materials (270 F), PTFE (450 F), or polyimide (500 F) are available. Applications. Special applications for bearings include airframe or aircraft control, aerospace, agriculture, automotive, ball screw support, instrument... -
Screws - (1403 companies)A screw is a wide-encompassing type of hardware fastener that attributes its mechanical capabilities to the helical groove that extends around the circumference of the device's shank. These threads provide the friction and traction that serves... -
Ball Valves - (2115 companies)Ball valves are quarter-turn, straight-through valves that have a round closure element with matching rounded seats that permit uniform sealing stress. The valve gets its name from the ball that rotates to open and close the valve. Ball valves...
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Lead Screws and ACME Screws - (68 companies)...one revolution. Twin leads are useful in opposing dual motion using a single-drive system. This design features both left-hand and right-hand threads. With left-hand threads, the ball nut travels away from the end that is viewed when the screw...
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Ball Slides - (100 companies)Ball slides are simple linear motion devices that provide smooth linear motion, accurately controlled by the rotation of the drive mechanism. Ball slides are sometimes referred to as ball and rod bearing assemblies, or ball bearing slides. Ball...
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Ball Splines - (37 companies)...minimum life of travel. Features. Common mounting options for ball splines include: pin or set screw. key and pin. square spline nut. geared flange spline nut. A pin or set screw is suitable for applications with low torque requirements. A key...
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Roller Screws - (27 companies)Roller screws convert rotary to precise linear motion in a similar manner to ball screws or lead screws. Due to the greater number of contact points of the rollers compared to balls or thread on thread contact, a roller screw provides higher...
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Rockford Ball Screw
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Development of a portable scratch test device for probing strength, ductility and structural distress in metal materials
After a review of available methods, a linear actuator utilizing a 0.222 in. diameter Epicyclic Ball Screw powered by a 12 volt DC motor with a 19:1 gear ratio was obtained.
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Electrical machines for aircraft
It works in conjunction with an electrically operated brake and a slipping clutch and drives a ball -bearing screw jack through a train of epicyclic gears.
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The Automotive Chassis
We can see: 1: disc, 2: linings, 3: caliper, 4: actuator cylinder, 5: ball recirculating screw , 6: electric motor, 7: epicyclic reduction gear, 8: brake to hold the actuator in position.
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Precision mechanisms for optical alignments at cryogenic temperatures
A 200 step/revolution stepper motor drives a proprietary 69:1 epicyclic speed reducer (zero backlash) through a small 3:1 planetary reducer to rotate a precision recirculating ball nut around a matched .125 inch pitch ball screw .
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M001-STR04-W234ald summary report CY 1970. For period ending 30 September 1970
The visor concept requires an optimiza- tion with regards to overall epicyclic speed reduction. .... The sleeve concept requires a proper ball - screw configuration.
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Electricity in large aircraft
Moreover, the efficiencies have recently been improved, particularly in the larger- size actuators, by the use of re-circulating ball - operated rams, having efficiencies as high as 94% compared with the 20% efficiency of the straight screw -jack. .... 10 000 r.p.m., and driving through straight spur or high-efficiency epicyclic gear trains on…
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Electromechanical actuation
At higher speeds, say 4000mdmin or where the duty cycle is high then a ball screw and nut may be combined with the worm gear box to give a worm gear ball screwjack. .... For a more efficient drive then a spur, bevel, epicyclic or a combinationbox is specified.
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Review and Development of Electromechanical Actuators for Improved Transmission Control and Efficiency
The main types of screw can be divided into sliding (square or Acme thread type) and rolling contact ( ball and roller screw type) variations. .... A simple gear set or epicyclic may also be needed between the machine and power screw, determined…
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Performance Investigations of a Novel Rolling Traction CVT
…that, due to its epicyclic type layout, the MCVT variator combines well with epicyclic gearsets to match .... Static torque capacity is a function of the design loads on the inner ball screw thread.
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Principles and techniques for designing precision machines
In addition, the friction drive acts as a slip clutch to protect the ball screw from overload if it drives against a hard stop. .... The differential friction drive functions exactly like the epicyclic drive described in Section 8.4.3 except…
