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News Release from: Abssac | Subject: Abssac helical beam flexure
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 06 April 2007
Helical beam flexure provides
flexibility
Using the Helical beam flexure technology, Abssac was able to take a customer's pre-machined part and generate a helical flexure within it and solve a flexibility problem.
Sometimes an application can benefit from a little flexibility Take for example a laser control adjustment shaft which was exerting high radial loads within the system and was deforming over time
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 22 Feb 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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At the post-design stage, the customer required a precision adjustment as well as a smooth method to accommodate for misalignments within the system.
However, the flexibility needed at this post-design stage could not be placed within the system without major changes to the original design.
Using the Helical beam flexure technology, Abssac was able to take the customer's pre-machined part and generate a helical flexure, with a high torsional stiffness coil configuration within it and solve the required flexibility problem.
The specialist flexure beam product is manufactured from one piece of material.
There are no moving parts as the shaft misalignments are simultaneously absorbed.
The flexure, by the nature of its design, is constant in its torque delivery and has low rail loads during rotation.
It does not require lubrication and is silent during operation.
The performance capability of each flexure is determined by six major characteristics: flexure outside diameter, inside diameter, coil thickness, material, number of coils, and number of starts.
By altering these characteristics, torque capacity, angular and parallel misalignment capabilities and torsional stiffness rates can be modified to suit specific specifications. Request a free brochure from Abssac ...
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