Engineers at alpha gear drives Inc., Bartlett, Ill. (alphagear.com), have applied an old principle, feedback control, to a traditional piece of hardware, the gearbox, to come up with the alphaIQ gearbox.
Researchers at Purdue University working with the U.S. Air Force have developed wireless sensors strong enough to survive inside operating jet engines where temperatures can climb to 572°F.
A new gear tester from Promess Inc., Brighton, Mich. (promessinc.com), measures tooth-to-tooth contact variations in both directions at each degree of rotation, and can take 10,000 samples/sec.
The Laser Microgage dual-axis alignment kit includes a laser-squaring attachment called the 90-Line for checking machine beds, vertical cutting machinery, and roll parallelism, for squaring slides and gantries, and measuring geometric parameters.
A new test system from Sakor Technologies Inc., Okemos, Mich., targets small two and four-cycle engines in equipment such as small outboard motors, lawn-care tools, and generators.
A brass variable-area flowmeter performs as a flow-rate indicator by monitoring process applications under pressures to 3,500 psi, temperatures to 240°F, and other conditions.