Mechanical help for steppers and servos

Total Motion Systems can supply a range of mechanical equipment to complement its stepper and servomotor systems. A series of high precision planetary gearboxes with ratios from 3:1 to 400:1 gives torque outputs up to 3500Nm from input speeds of up to 6000rev/min. Backlash options range from 30 down to 1arc-min, and the gearboxes can be fitted with flanges to suit almost any motor.

Linear actuators and tables are available with ballscrew and belt driven variants.

These can be fitted with stepper or servomotors to give accurate linear positioning.

The ballscrew electric cylinder range is available in ISO frames 32, 50, 80, 100 and 125 and can produce thrusts of up to 44.5kN and variable speeds up to 2m/s.

Positioning tables are available with strokes up to 2m, and can move payloads up to 1000kg at up to 0.5m/s.

Higher loads and longer strokes are available in a range of high payload linear actuators.

All these linear products can be used as single-axis systems, or can be linked together to produce multi-axis gantries.

The TMS mechanical range is further enhanced by a series of stepper-motor-driven rotary tables.

Among their features are indexing repeatability to 12arc-sec, load capacities to 90kg and 360-degree continuous travel.

Table diameters up to 305mm are available.

Also available are linear and rotary manually driven tables and slides.

The linear slides range in size from 11 to 150mm wide with travels up to 305mm and have load capacities from 25g to 100kg.

Rotary tables have load capacities up to 90kg and diameters up to 305mm.