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Actuator enables first rolling-swing valve

A Camcon Technology product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Jul 2, 2003

The world's first rolling-swing valve is set to revolutionise the fluid control industries.

The world's first rolling-swing valve is set to revolutionise the fluid control industries.

The Camcon rolling-swing valve has been specifically developed for applications in the unfiltered fluids environment, in which its unique hardened roller attachment can be used to crush small solid particles.

The rolling-swing valve, based on the principles of ground-breaking Camcon binary actuating technology, utilises a catapult-like technology based on high power permanent magnets and a spring-loaded armature.

A very short electrical pulse (around 2ms) disrupts the magnetic field and causes the sprung armature to switch from one position to another, thereby opening or closing the valve.

During changeover action the whole armature rolls from one stable position to the opposite position.

No power is required to hold the valve in either an open or closed position.

"Our rolling-swing valve is further proof that principles of Camcon binary actuating technology can be implemented in an almost limitless variety of physical forms", said Wladyslaw Wygnanski, inventor of the Camcon binary actuator and Managing Director, Camcon Technology.

"Camcon's binary actuator is being used by customers for designs in which they need to overcome existing product constraints".

The high speed, low energy consumption and long life characteristics of the Camcon binary actuating technology mean that it has applications in a whole new range of applications that includes: agriculture; automotive industry (internal combustion engines); aviation (noise and pollution reduction); highly accurate medical dosing; numerous applications in the control of accurate gas and liquid flow control systems; oil drilling and production (remote location on land and sub-sea); and precision control of robotic machines (pneumatics and hydraulics).

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