Power Transmission

PerforMax improves the reliability and performance of the company’s roller chains.

EasyLock holding force can be manually adjusted. Shaft collars install quickly without special tools.

Designers at Animatics Corp., Santa Clara, Calif. (animatics.com), reengineered the concept of a belt-driven actuator and came up with the Harmonic Linear Drive (HLD).

Four types of ready-to-mount hydraulic integrated circuits (HICs) that fit seven low-speed, high-torque motors are said to speed production of off-highway mobile machinery.

Dodge MagnaGear XTR gear reducers from Baldor Electric Co., Fort Smith, Ark. (baldor.com), provide torque up to 920,000 lb-in. in parallel-shaft or right-angle configurations.

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.

EasyLock shaft collars from Amacoil Inc., Aston, Pa., (amacoil.com) can exert 90 to 1,124 lb of holding force on case-hardened shafts (Rockwell 55 or higher) using a flat metal ring canted at an angle along the shaft.

The HPLA and HLE belt-driven actuators from Parker Hannifin Corp.’s Electromechanical Automation Div., Irwin, Pa. (www.parker.com), can now have belt tension adjusted at the idler end.

The use and development of new mechanical circulatory support devices, which allow the improvement children suffering serious congenital heart conditions, undergo discussion and research at the 28th annual meeting of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transportation.

Engineers at Fenner Precision, Manheim, Pa., have a 60-mm circumference belt with a 1-mm pitch, the smallest belt they’ve ever made.

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 Super Drive feed-roller system puts replaceable throwaway tires on hubs fabricated using CNC technology.

Modular conveyors make sense when packagingline logistics change frequently.

Zero-Gap II Infeed uses electronic sensors to monitor and control product movement, thus eliminating jams.

The Intermediate Drive Conveyor in the Designer System conveyor line requires only a 26-in. straight section and lets users determine gearmotor placement.