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Semiconductor Ultra High Vacuum Bellows BellowsTech edge welded bellows act as a flexible seal when designed as a mechanical feedthrough, allowing movement of a tool within a sealed environment under vacuum or positive pressure. Bellows are also used within a bearing housing to translate rotation from an input shaft to a co-linear output shaft while sealing hermetically ... eliminating the need for a dynamic seal.
Learn more about the specs and benefits of edge welded bellows.
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Most popular news:[br] Future U.S. Navy force may sail with the strength of titanium |
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Recon Scout IR from ReconRobotics uses high-torque DC motors from MICROMO The Recon Scout may be small, but designing it was a tall order. The engineering team faced conflicting performance demands at every turn: The unit had to be powerful but small, high torque but with long lifetime on a single charge. It took tradeoffs, optimizing components, and prioritizing specifications, but the resultant robot can do nearly everything well. Click here to read the complete application case study.
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| One-hole wonder: Rifle-barrel maker takes hole-making to new level Fred Feddersen is a rifle-barrel maker on a mission to do something that's never been done before: create a production barrel that can shoot successive bullets through the same hole, using an inexpensive semiautomatic rifle, not a bolt-action Olympic race gun.
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Soldier-inspired Army ammo pack is ‘game-changer' on battlefield Like something right out of the movie "Predator," the Ironman backpack ammo-carriage system lets a machine-gunner run solo with plenty of rounds at the ready. The invention resulted from the innovative thinking of Iowa National Guardsmen serving in Afghanistan.
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Super car, super engine: McLaren MP4-12C Insider Look: How British engineering consultancy Ricardo helped McLaren design and develop the world's greenest supercar engine – and created a super-lean assembly facility to build it in the U.K.
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| Engineer's Toolbox: Hand grenade gets a redesign with a twist A former Marine is on a mission to modernize the hand grenade so that it is safer and easier to use and cheaper to produce.
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| Wheels: GM cooks up recipe for anti-rusting brake rotors A General Motors team of global brake experts is helping to make rusty brake rotors history by changing the chemical makeup of the components. The process can also double the life of rotors.
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Wheels: Running Formula One means running by the numbers Lotus F1 Team designers rely on Elysium CADdoctor for data transfer, software interoperability, reverse engineering, and, of course, speed. Take a behind-the-scenes look at the Lotus design process.
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| Wheels: Audi manufactures sounds for its electric lineup Audi's future e-tron models like the super-cool R8 will cover long distances powered by practically silent electric motors. To ensure that pedestrians in urban settings will hear them, the brand has developed a synthetic solution: Audi e-sound.
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Leaping lizards inspire robot designs University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers studied how lizards manage to leap successfully even when they slip and stumble. They found that lizards swing their tails upward to prevent them from pitching head-over-heels into a rock. But after the team added a tail to a robotic car named Tailbot, they discovered that counteracting the effect of a slip is not as simple as throwing your tail in the air.
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Engineer's Toolbox: Fasteners: Clever seam design makes coiled pin a perfect hinge Coiled spring pins are manufactured with a seam that is much better for hinges than spring pins. Find out why, and how this simple component can improve your designs.
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Quick Look: Direct-drive motors for EVs Applimotion's ULT, UTH, UTS, and UTO frameless motor kits cover a wide range of applications including; robots, inspection platforms, medical diagnostic machines, satellites, and imaging systems. Learn more about this product.
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Quick Look: Multi-axes Cartesian robotic automation platform IntelLiDrives' Cartesian Multi-Axes Robotic Automation Platforms are built with BSMA Series motorized ball screw linear actuators and are ideal for many automation applications, including pick and place, assembly, test and inspection, and dispensing stations. Standard configurations include left- or right-handed XY, XYZ, and XZ systems. Stages can be side or base mounted with elevation raisers and base platform. Working XY area is 400 x 400 mm. Z-axis stroke is 100 mm.
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| Impressive: Sand Flea robot jumps 30 ft up | |
| The Sand Flea is an unassuming, 11-lb rolling-platform robot with one exceptionally useful trick: Normally it drives like an RC car, but when it needs to it can jump 30 ft into the air. This creation from Big Dog robot maker Boston Dynamics features an onboard stabilization system that keeps it oriented during flight to improve the view from the video uplink and to control landings. Development of Sand Flea is funded by the US Army's Rapid Equipping Force. Gotta love the super-tough-plastic construction. It gets a workout.
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