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Motion Control – Linear-XYZ-Rotary Combination Stages from Intellidrives!
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Philadelphia, PA, — Motion Control Components and Systems – Intellidrives’ compact, high precision XYZ-Rotary stage is a combination of Intellidrives: LSMA XY lead-screw driven stages, an MLVT Lift stage, and an RTHM worm gear rotary table.
Features include:
– XY stroke 100×100 mm
– Lift 13 mm
– Unlimited rotation
XY Lead-Screw Driven Stages – The LSMA miniature linear actuators designed for the space confined applications while retaining the high reliability required in production environments. It is an ideal choice for measurement, testing, alignment and component assembly in any application on the factory floor or laboratory environments.
The precision ball screw or micrometer grade lead screw provide excellent accuracy and repeatability with ultra-fine positioning resolution capability of 0.1 micron or finer when driven by the stepper motor. The servomotor version is equipped with a rotary encoder and provides exceptionally smooth travel.
Lift Stage – The MLVT Vertical Lift Stages offers precise vertical translation for payload elevation. A unique wedge design or direct drive motorized screw converts motor rotation into true vertical elevation of the platform. Precision bearings provide platform stiffness and stability while the screw mechanism assures positioning accuracy.
Rotary Table – The RTHM series rotary stages provide arc-second resolution when driven from a micro-stepping or a brushless servo motor controller. The low profile design is made possible by the use of compact precision bearings. The rotating carriage of the stage provides continuous rotation of load up to 10 kg and has large clear aperture to allow the passage of the optical path or cables directly through the stage. The main body of the stages is made from lightweight anodized aluminum and can attach directly to an optical table or moving linear or XY actuators and can be mounted at any orientation. A precision worm gear assembly is used to transfer the rotary motion of the stepper motor into rotary motion of the carriage. The small size allows use in confined spaces, such as laser cavities, disk texturing machines, manufacturing areas for fiber optical components or semiconductor manufacturing.
Specifications –
XY stage
LSMA-200 |
Spec | Lift Stage
MLVT-70-13 |
Spec | Rotary Stage
RTHM-151 |
Spec |
Stroke (mm) | 100 x 100 | Lift (mm) | 13 | Rotation | unlimited |
Repeatability (µm) | 1 | Repeatability (µm) | 2 | Repeatability (arc-sec) | 20 |
Resolution (µm) | 0.3 | Resolution (arc-sec) | 1 | Resolution (arc-sec) | 0.5 |
Load capacity (kg) | 6 | Lift translation (mm/rev) | 1 | Torque (Nm) | 0.5 |
Velocity (mm/sec) | 20 (servo) | Max velocity (mm/sec) | 20 | Angular velocity (rpm) | 8 |
Mechanism,
screw lead (mm) |
lead-screw
0.5 |
Mechanism,
screw lead (mm) |
direct drive screw
1 |
Mechanism,
ratio |
worm gear
180:1 |
Motor | stepper servo | Motor | stepper | Motor | stepper
servo |
Options:
- Steppers
- Servos
- Stroke lengths
- Lift length
- Complete Plug-and-Play system
Prints:
IntelLiDrives, Inc. manufactures linear actuators, XY tables and rotary tables for the industry, government, science and research institutions around the world. Our precision rotary actuators, XY stages and linear actuators are used in the applications in medical devices, life sciences, semiconductor and electronic assembly manufacturing, data storage, laser processing, military/aerospace, photonics, automotive and test assembly, research and development and other industries requiring high precision and throughput motion control solutions.
For further information on this new product or others in our extensive product portfolio, call 1-215-728-6804 or e-mail Intellidrives at sales@intellidrives.com.com or go Intellidrive – Contact Us at: www.intellidrives.com/contact-us
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Motion Control Four Axis Robots Available from Moticont!
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Van Nuys, CA – Motion Control four-axis positioning systems are offered utilizing any of our two-axis systems like GXY-280-280-01 or GXY-280-280-02 along with our voice coil motor driven LMA series or lead screw driven LA Series linear and/or variety of rotary actuators. The Multi-Axis Positioning System is designed to allow direct coupling between the load and the drive motors. This feature eliminates backlash, allows for fast acceleration / deceleration, high speed operation while increasing the reliability.
Three-axis plus Rotary-axis Motion Control System
Zero Backlash
Long System Life
Continuous Force in X and Y Directions: up to 9.3lbs (41.4 N)
Peak Force: Up to 15 lbs (66 N)
Total Travel (typical): 11 inches (25 cm) by 11 inches (25 cm)
Working Area (typical): 8 inches (20 cm) by 8 inches (20 cm)
Optional Incremental Encoder for Closed Loop Operation
High Speed and Acceleration
High Accuracy
Cog Free
High Repeatability
Closed Loop Three Phase Brushless Motor Driven
Available with Control Electronics
For PDF Data Sheet of 4 Axis Robots from Moticont – Click Here!
For additional information contact Moticont, “A Motion Company” at 6901 Woodley Avenue, Van Nuys, CA 91406, USA; Tel: (888) 785-1804, Fax: (818) 785-5713, E-Mail: moticont@moticont.com or visit the website at http://www.moticont.com
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XY Gantry Robot with Theta-Control from Intellidrives!
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Philadelphia, PA, — Motion Control Components and Systems – Repeatability and accuracy are essential characteristics of any motion control system, and the objective of the design is to assure the desired trajectories can accurately follow through the working range of the system.
In traditional XY gantry designs upper gantry member (Y axis) is carried by two identical bottom axes (X1 and X2). Each X1 and X2 axes motor/screw/bearing systems are separated by finite distance orthogonal to the direction of the axes.
INTELLIGENT ACTUATORS can easily “talk over” USB 2.0, Ethenet, RS232, RS485 interfaces and come with powerful yet easy to use software packages. for system start-up and integration, like communication drivers, linkable DLL libraries, National Instruments Labview drivers and VI examples, GUI and easy-to-use DXF conversion software.
Due to the manufacturing precision of the components, such as linear guides deflections, ball screw lead errors, axes misalignment, the variation of the position errors in X1 and X2 axes controllers, XY gantries orthogonality is affected. As Y-axis with load traverses across XY plane, it also introduces X axes position errors that are Y axis position dependent.
The current approach to this design challenge is to implement 2-D position error mapping or suspend Y axis on the flexible members (flexures) and to independently control X1 and X2 axes to assure orthogonality. This approach reduces system bandwidth and provides small range of angle adjustment, usually within not more than 1 degree.
There are also many applications, where large THETA angle is an INTENTIONAL FEATURE of the system design (X-Y-THETA) to allow alignment of the work tool to the non-orthogonally located objects or to align patterns.
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About IntelLiDrives —
IntelLiDrives, Inc. manufactures linear actuators, XY tables and rotary tables for the industry, government, science and research institutions around the world. Our precision rotary actuators, XY stages and linear actuators are used in the applications in medical devices, life sciences, semiconductor and electronic assembly manufacturing, data storage, laser processing, military/aerospace, photonics, automotive and test assembly, research and development and other industries requiring high precision and throughput motion control solutions.
For further information on this new product or others in our extensive product portfolio, call 1-215-728-6804 or e-mail Intellidrives at sales@intellidrives.com.com or go Intellidrive – Contact Us at: www.intellidrives.com/contact-us
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