Hydraulics & Pneumatics articles from January 2007

Hydraulics & Pneumatics archives from January 2007

Lift, but don't touch.(AUTOMATE WITH AIR)
January 1, 2007... When grippers, vacuum cups, and other end effectors wouldn't work in a particular packaging application, noncontact transfer units presented a practical solution in an situation made even more difficult by lots of dust. When heavy, rugged...

Accumulators.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Accumulators Fluid Piston Maximum working ...

Actuators, rotary.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Actuators, rotary Service Hydraulic Petroleum Pneumatic base...

Clutches & brakes.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Clutches & brakes Engaging element Clutch Brake Combination Mechanical Auburn Gear Inc. ...

Couplings, quick connect, hydraulic.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Couplings, quick connect, hydraulic Fluid Type Petroleum Single base Synthetic Water...

Couplings, quick connect, pneumatic.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Couplings, quick connect, pneumatic Type Single Double Straight Vented shut-off shut-off through (safety)...

Cylinders.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Cylinders Service Hydraulic Petroleum Pneumatic base...

Dryers.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Dryers Deliquescent Regenerative desiccant desiccant Drying ...

Filters, air line.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Filters, air line Type Element Bowl Canister Coalescing Porous metal Adsens Technology, Inc. * * Airtec...

Filters, hydraulic.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Filters, hydraulic Fluid Petroleum High water base Synthetic content Argo Hytos (#) ...

Fittings, tube & port, hydraulic.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Fittings, tube & port, hydraulic Use Material Industrial Aerospace Brass Steel A&R Hydraulics * * ...

Fittings, tube & port pneumatic.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Fittings, tube & port, pneumatic Use Material Industrial Aerospace Brass Steel Adaptall Inc. * * Adsens...

Gauges, pressure & flow, hydraulic.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Gauges, pressure & flow, hydraulic Fluid Type Petroleum base Synthetic Water Pressure A&R Hydraulics ...

Low-tech solutions in high-tech manufacturing.(Editor's Page)
January 1, 2007... If you have a Nokia, Motorola, or other popular brand of cell phone, chances are, its earpiece speaker was made by NXP, an independent semiconductor company founded by Philips. I had the privilege of touring NXP's plant, near Vienna, Austria,...

Recent Fluid Power Expo attendees win iPods.(Industry News)
January 1, 2007... Two attendees of the 2006 Fluid Power Expo, sponsored by Hydraulics & Pneumatics, were randomly selected to win an iPod for filling out seminar surveys. Special congratulations go out to John Dekarski and Tom McGuire. Dekarski is a...

Eaton Corp. appoints fluid power group VP.(Industry News)
January 1, 2007... Eaton Corp., Cleveland, named Albert Esser vice president--technology for its Fluid Power Group. He will report to Craig Arnold, senior vice president and president--Fluid Power Group and replaces Sohan Uppal, who retired earlier this year. ...

New books available from H&P.(Industry News)
January 1, 2007... Several new titles are available at H&P's bookstore, thanks to a relationship with a popular fluid power publishing house. The Bookstore section of www.hydraulicspneumatics.com includes links to special pricing on a series of popular fluid...

Bosch Rexroth taps new U.S. CEO.(Industry News)
January 1, 2007... Bosch Rexroth Corp., Hoffman Estates, Ill., appointed Berend Bracht, former CEO of Bosch Rexroth China and former head of the company's U.S. industrial hydraulics operation, as president and CEO. He replaces Wolfgang Dangel, who led the U.S....

Technical, TAG meetings slated for February.(Industry News)
January 1, 2007... The next cluster of NFPA Technical and U.S. TAG meetings will be held Tuesday to Thursday, February 13 to 15 at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in Milwaukee. These meetings give participants the opportunity to interact with peers in the...

Correction.(Industry News)(Correction notice)
January 1, 2007... An article in the December 2006 issue of H&P incorrectly listed the website for the Scandinavian International Conference on Fluid Power. The correct address is www.sicfp07.fi.

Schedule released for CANopen seminars.(Industry News)
January 1, 2007... CAN in Automation GmbH has scheduled a CANopen seminar series to provide an overview of the higher layer protocol for embedded networks. The seminars are scheduled for the following dates and cities: * March 19, Houston * March 21,...

Hydraulic fuses add safety and control to circuits.(Ideas & Applications)
January 1, 2007... A hydraulic fuse serves the same function as a fuse or circuit breaker in electrical circuits. When an electrical circuit is overloaded, the excessive current either burns the fuse element or trips the circuit breaker. This feature saves lives...

Bi-rotational power unit simplifies circuits.(Ideas & Applications)
January 1, 2007... The SPX Smiths Series SMR low-pressure power unit--from SPX Fluid Power, Rockford, Ill.--drives its gear pump with a bi-rotational 12-V DC electric motor. By reversing the polarity of the signal to the motor, flow through the pump also...

Low-end excavator boasts high-end hydraulics.(Ideas & Applications)
January 1, 2007... A new entry-level compact excavator from Bobcat Co., West Fargo, N.D,. offers hydraulics normally found only in high-end machines. Bobcat's model 329 features a dual-outlet piston pump with load sensing and torque limiting for constant digging...

Rolling diaphragm reservoir.(Ideas & Application)
January 1, 2007... The rolling diaphragm reservoir is a design that has proven to be reliable and cost-effective. The reservoir consists of a cup-shaped, fiber-reinforced rubber diaphragm, which is held between a plunger and housing. As the plunger cycles in and...

Gauges, pressure & flow, pneumatic.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Gauges, pressure & flow, pneumatic Type Sensing element Pressure Flow Diaphragm Bellows Accuaire Instruments * * * Inc. Ametek, U.S....

Heat exchangers.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Heat exchanges Fluid Heat Petroleum Synthetic exchangers Air base Water fluid Airtek * * *...

Hose fittings & assemblies, hydraulic.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Hose fittings & assemblies, hydraulic Hose end fittings Male Permanent Re-usable flare Female A&R Hydraulics ...

Hose fittings & assemblies, pneumatic.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Hose fittings & assemblies, pneumatic Hose end fittings Male Permanent Re-usable flare Female Accuflex...

Intensifiers, hand pumps & air-powered pumps.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Intensifiers, hand pumps & air-powered pumps Fluid Petroleum base Synthetic Water Air Systems...

Joints, rotating & swivel.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Joints, rotating & swivel Design Ball Barrrel- bearing- Ball & shaft pipe socket ...

Lubricators, air line.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Lubricators, air line Type Drop Wick Siphon Mist or fog Airtec Pneumatics, Inc. * Arrow Pneumatics, Inc. ...

Motors, air.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Motors, air Type Axial Radial piston piston Vane Turbine Atlas Copco Tools & Assembly * * ...

Manifolds.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Manifolds Type Single Service piece ...

Motors, hydraulic.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Motors, hydraulic Design Fluid Rotary Petroleum Gear Vane Piston abutment base A&R...

Pumps.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Pumps Fluid Pertoleum Water-oil Water base emulsion glycol A&R Hydraulics ...

Related products and reconditioning services.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Related products and reconditioning services Description Advanced Machine & Engineering Co. Rod clamp to lock piston rod on NFPA and ISO 6431 cylinders....

Reservoirs & accessories.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Reservoirs & accessories Reservoirs Capacity Minimum Maximum --gal --gal ...

Seals, scrapers, back-up rings & boots.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Seals, scrapers, back-up rings & boots Type Gasket O-ring Piston ring Cartridge 3P/EGC * * A and A Mfg. Co.,...

Shock absorbers & dampers.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Shock absorbers & dampers Type Mounting Self- Front Fixed Adjustable compensating...

Support hardware.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Support hardware Line clamps Material Stainless Steel steel Plastic Other ...

Switches, flow.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Switches, flow Type Custom Paddle Shuttle Diaphragm Advanced Control * * Technology, Inc. Burkert * * Dwyer Instruments,...

Switches, pressure & temperature, hydraulic.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Switches, pressure & temperature, hydraulic Pressure Sensing element ...

Switches, pressure & temperature, pneumatic.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Switches, pressure & temperature, pneumatic Pressure Sensing element ...

Transducers.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Transducers Gage Absolute Differential Vacuum Advanced Control Technology, * * * * Inc. Ametek Automation & Process Technologies Ametek, US Gauge PMT ...

Tubing and rod.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Tubing and rod Service Type Pneumatic Hydraulic Line Piston Rod Accuflex Industrial Hose, * Ltd. Amalga Composites, Inc. *...

Valves, directional control.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Valves, directional control Service Type Pneumatic Hydraulic Proportional AAA Products International * * Air-Mite Devices,...

Valves, electrohydraulic servo.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Valves, electrohydraulic servo Fluid Stages Petroleum Synthetic base fluid Air One Two Argo Hytos...

Valves, flow control.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Valves, flow control Service Hydraulic Petroleum Synthetic ...

Valves, pressure control.(51st Annual Designer's Guide to Fluid Power Products)
January 1, 2007... Valves, pressure control Service Hydraulic Petroleum Synthetic ...

Manufacturers Index.
January 1, 2007... 3P/EGC, (281) 774-6100, www.3pusa.com A A and A Mfg. Co., Inc., (262) 786-1500, www.gortite.com A&R Hydraulics, (586) 756-2810, www.arhyd.com A.W. Chesterton Co., (781) 481-2377, www.chesterton.com AAA Products...