Huco Tools Assist Coupling Selection for Design Engineers
January 28, 2009 by R. Nelson Parrish
Filed under Bellows, Disk, Flexible, Industry News, Jaw, Miniature, Oldham, Servo
Huco Dynatork, an Altra Industrial Motion company, offers the worlds most comprehensive range of small precision couplings from a single manufacturer. Huco’s precision couplings are ideal for use in high-end servo drives, pulse generators, scanners, X-Y positioning slides, high speed dynamometers, measuring instruments, robotics, machine tools and in many other applications where specific dimensional or performance criteria is required.
Because there is such a wide range of different motion control couplings from which the design engineer can choose, Huco offers a complete Design Guide to coupling performance characteristics on the company’s website.
The website also contains a unique Coupling Selector designers can use as a tool to identify the coupling types that meet their design criteria for angular, radial or axial misalignment, or a combination of all three. The interactive tool helps designers understand whether they need a bellows, membrane, sliding disc or helical beam, or another design.
The Coupling Selector takes the key information provided about the application and presents all the couplings that fit the criteria, with a link to the detailed specification of each coupling. Selection is based upon coupling type (mechanism), dimensions, shaft connections, performance, displacement and other conditions.
