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Heason unveils positioning actuator system
Heason Technology has launched a modular actuator range for pick and place and sample dispensing in life science and other analytical equipment applications.
News from Engineeringtalk, 3 September 2009
Heason to supply nanopositioning manipulators
Heason Technology has been awarded a contract by Synchrotron Soleil to design a system for a soft X-ray scanning photo-emission microscope project called Antares.
News from Engineeringtalk, 17 August 2009
Heason develops torque motors for Qinetiq's TAHS
Heason has worked with Allied Motion to deliver 700mm-diameter brushless and frameless torque motors for Qinetiq's Towed Array Handling System (TAHS).
News from Engineeringtalk, 27 May 2009
Heason introduces gearboxes and servo actuators
Heason Technology has launched a range of ultra-compact high-torque gearboxes and servomotor driven rotary positioning actuators, based upon Spinea's Twinspin bearing reducer technology.
News from Engineeringtalk, 9 April 2009
Heason helps determine wind farm sites
Heason Technology has developed a precision positioning solution with ceramic motor technology for a wind resource measurement system used to determine optimal sites for wind farms.
News from Engineeringtalk, 26 March 2009
Heason launches open frame X-Y tables
Heason Technology has launched its OFXY range of open frame X-Y tables, which bring together high resolution ceramic motors from Nanomotion and compact Tonic encoders from Renishaw.
News from Engineeringtalk, 16 March 2009
Heason has ZF Industrial planetary gearboxes
ZF Industrial's Servoplan PG precision grade planetary gearboxes are available in the UK from Heason Technology.
News from Engineeringtalk, 17 November 2008
Nanomotion launches dedicated motion controller
The FlexDC motion controller is a dedicated single or dual-axis control and drive unit for use with Nanomotion's range of ceramic servo motors and positioning stages.
News from Engineeringtalk, 3 September 2008
Ceramic servomotor suits miniaturised applications
The Edge motor can deliver a dynamic stall force of 300mN at speeds of up to 120mm/s, sufficient to position apertures, shutters, focussing mechanisms and other small optical devices
News from Engineeringtalk, 28 July 2008
Motorised blades fine tune neutron beams
Motorised blades modify the face area of the neutron beam perpendicular to the target, to tune its resolution and divergence to the optimal frequency required for the materials under test.
News from Engineeringtalk, 5 June 2008
Servomotors handle high torques
The motor can be directly integrated on the driven shaft, eliminating the resonance associated with flexible couplings.
News from Engineeringtalk, 30 April 2008
Motion system cuts installation costs
Heason Technology positioning stages combine Danaher Motion-Dover's XY range of precision positioning tables with Baldor's DSMS high-torque stepper motors with integrated micro-stepping drives.
News from Engineeringtalk, 28 March 2008
Three-way joints are rigid alternative
Providing backlash-free axial rigidity but allowing radial and angular freedom of movement, the SRJ range offers a very compact alternative to combining traditional roller bearings.
News from Engineeringtalk, 3 March 2008
Motorised stage brings z-axis into focus
Assembly combines novel standing wave, inverse piezoelectric ceramic motor technology and a high resolution encoder in a miniature but robust translation stage.
News from Engineeringtalk, 21 February 2008
Gear actuator facilities precise vehicle testing
Heason had to develop a compact, zero backlash, precision gear actuator which would allow ABD to offer higher rotation speeds while providing exceptionally smooth motion.
News from Engineeringtalk, 7 February 2008
Servomotors offer compact design
AST brushed DC servomotors offer acceleration performance over 10x that of conventional iron-cored DC motors.
News from Engineeringtalk, 20 June 2007
Robotic manipulators offer high precision
Alio's AI series tripods and hexapods combine parallel kinematics principles with ceramic servomotors and high-resolution encoder feedback systems.
News from Engineeringtalk, 4 June 2007
Motors autofocus cameras
The NanoLens module provides autofocus accuracy down to 5um with cycle times of under 100ms in a package size of less than 10 x 10 x 8mm.
News from Engineeringtalk, 25 May 2007
Gearbox provides space-saving solution
Heason Technologies new TwinSpin gearbox offers a zero-backlash precision positioning solution in a compact and sealed housing
News from Engineeringtalk, 22 March 2007
Servo motors offer durable positioning
Nanomotion's DuraMotor ceramic servomotors provide durability for applications in high vacuum, clean room and non magnetic environments.
News from Engineeringtalk, 5 March 2007
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