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Image - What is the C-Flex Pivot Bearing?
What is the C-Flex Pivot Bearing?
It's a flexure-based bearing utilizing internal flat crossed springs, capsuled in a cylindrical housing, to provide precise rotation with low hysteresis and no frictional losses. The C-Flex bearing will offer infinite life when used within its rated load and rotation values. Applications include Medical, Industrial, Aerospace, Semiconductor, and Optical.

Advantages include: Frictionless, Backlash-free, Self-centering, Simple installation, Low hysteresis, Vacuum applications, Stock items, No lubrication, No maintenance, and Infinite life.
Learn more from C-Flex, The Leader in Flexing Metal Technology.
View the C-Flex Pivot Bearing training page.


In this issue of Designfax

  • How Blackbirds helped NASA push supersonic flight tech
  • Elastocaloric cooling: 10x efficiency of AC systems
  • Top Product: E-Z LOK threaded inserts for metal
  • Toyota 4Runner: Totally retooled for modern adventures
  • Unprecedented yet effective seal: Laminar rings
  • Transformer robot flies, rolls, walks, and more
  • Webinar: Stepper motors and drives tips
  • Bi-color LEDs to light up your designs
  • Why choose electric for linear actuators?
  • Overhung load adaptors provide load support
  • hyperMILL 2024 CAD/CAM software suite
  • Videos+: Technologies and inspiration in action
    • Intro to reed switches, magnets, magnetic fields
  • Most Popular Last Issue
    • 2024 Lincoln Nautilus: Super nice for the price
    • Largest digital camera ever: 3.2 billion pixels
    • Data sent 4.5 million times faster than broadband
  • New Products
    • Electrical, Mechanical, Motion
    Cover Image: All-new 6th-gen Toyota 4Runner

News

Innovative composite accelerometer is built for extreme environments

3D images reveal link between crack complexity and material toughness

Remote robotic assisted surgery system tested aboard International Space Station: maxon motors inside

Breakthrough may enable secure quantum computing at home



Image - Turn any hose or tube into a powerful conveyor!
Turn any hose or tube into a powerful conveyor!
EXAIR's Line Vac connects to standard hose or tube to create a powerful conveyor. The design features large throat diameters for maximum throughput capability. A small amount of compressed air is injected through directed nozzles to produce a vacuum on one end and high output flows on the other.
See video online.

Feature articles
How Blackbirds helped NASA push supersonic flight tech

Learn how engineers at NASA in the 1970s solved problems that weren't found during design-phase testing of supersonic aircraft like Lockheed Martin's family of Blackbirds. Their work made longer supersonic flights possible by advancing crucial technology such as the supersonic mixed-compression inlet.
Read the full article.
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JW Winco's selection of industrial knobs for clamping provides every possible option to suit any application: Clamping Knobs, Star Knobs, Wing Nuts & Screws, Thumb Screws, and more.
See your options.


Image - Elastocaloric cooling: 10x efficiency of today's AC or refrigeration systems
Elastocaloric cooling: 10x efficiency of today's AC or refrigeration systems
The world's first refrigerator that is cooled with artificial muscles only has room for one bottle, but it's an impressive working demonstrator of climate-friendly cooling and heating tech that is far more energy efficient than current methods. It does not use any traditional refrigerants.
Read the full article.

Image - Top Product: E-Z LOK threaded inserts and kits for metal
Top Product: E-Z LOK threaded inserts and kits for metal
E-Z LOK™ inserts are ideal for repairing or reinforcing threaded holes in soft metals such as aluminum, magnesium, and cast iron. They will not back out or vibrate loose. Their pre-applied, microencapsulated adhesive begins to set immediately upon installation. Despite their firm hold while in use, these threaded inserts can also be removed with heat or a tool.
Read the full article.

Image - Toyota 4Runner: Totally retooled for modern adventures
Toyota 4Runner: Totally retooled for modern adventures
After 15 years without a major design change, the all-new 2025 Toyota 4Runner has been redesigned top to bottom with futuristic lines, a longer wheelbase, and powertrain options with more punch. It raises the bar in terms of go-anywhere capability and high-end refinement, but it keeps its signature power roll-down rear window.
Read the full article.

Image - Unprecedented yet effective seal: Laminar rings
Unprecedented yet effective seal: Laminar rings
Smalley's Laminar Seal Ring comprises metallic rings arranged in a groove, forming a labyrinth seal. Its metal composition enables it to function effectively as a seal within an assembly, protecting against contamination even in high temperatures and corrosive surroundings. Compared to rubber, neoprene, and other non-metallic substances, laminar seals demonstrate superior resilience. Laminar rings are often used in connectors, where they act as a safeguard for both ends, preventing contaminants from entering.
Learn more.

Image - Transformer robot flies, rolls, walks, and more
Transformer robot flies, rolls, walks, and more
The M4 robot created at Caltech can roll on four wheels, transform its wheels into rotors and fly, stand on two wheels, walk on its wheels like feet, roll, tumble, and more. Pushing the boundaries of robot locomotion could be a real force multiplier for many applications.
Read the full article.

Image - Webinar: Tips for selecting stepper motors and drives
Webinar: Tips for selecting stepper motors and drives
Stepper systems offer performance and simplicity to suit a wide range of applications, but selecting the optimum stepper motor/drive combination can be daunting. Join Kollmorgen's online session to delve into the range of stepper technologies, their features and benefits, and the design tools available to help you make the right choice. Thursday, May 9, 2024, 11 a.m. ET. Presenter: Johnny Crumpler, Product Line Specialist, Kollmorgen.
Learn more.

Image - Bi-color LEDs to light up your designs
Bi-color LEDs to light up your designs
Created with engineers and OEMs in mind, SpectraBright Series SMD RGB and Bi-Color LEDs from Visual Communications Company (VCC) deliver efficiency, design flexibility, and control for devices in a range of industries, including mil-aero, automated guided vehicles, EV charging stations, industrial, telecom, IoT/smart home, and medical. These 50,000-hr bi-color and RGB options save money and space on the HMI, communicating two or three operating modes in a single component.
Learn more.

Image - Why choose electric for linear actuators? When precision, multiple positions, repeatability, or position feedback is important
Why choose electric for linear actuators? When precision, multiple positions, repeatability, or position feedback is important
Tolomatic has been delivering a new type of linear motion technology that is giving hydraulics a run for its money. Learn the benefits of electric linear motion systems, the iceberg principle showing total cost of ownership, critical parameters of sizing, and conversion tips.
Get this informative e-book. (No registration required)

Image - Overhung load adaptors provide load support and contamination protection
Overhung load adaptors provide load support and contamination protection
Overhung load adaptors (OHLA) provide both overhung radial and axial load support to protect electrified mobile equipment motors from heavy application loads, extending the lifetime of the motor and alleviating the cost of downtime both from maintenance costs and loss of production. They seal out dirt, grime, and other contaminants too. Zero-Max OHLAs are available in an extensive offering of standard models (including Extra-Duty options) for typical applications or customized designs.
Learn more.

Image - hyperMILL 2024 CAD/CAM software suite
hyperMILL 2024 CAD/CAM software suite
OPEN MIND Technologies has introduced its latest hyperMILL 2024 CAD/CAM software suite, which includes a range of powerful enhancements to its core toolpath capabilities, as well as new functionality for increased NC programming efficiency in applications ranging from 2.5D machining to 5-axis milling. New and enhanced capabilities include: Optimized Deep Hole Drilling, a new algorithm for 3- and 5-axis Rest Machining, an enhanced path layout for the 3D Plane Machining cycle, better error detection, and much more.
Learn more.

Most popular last issue

Image - 2024 Lincoln Nautilus: Super nice for the price and new inside and out
2024 Lincoln Nautilus: Super nice for the price and new inside and out
Lincoln has been trying to appeal to a younger, hipper crowd for years now, and the second-gen Nautilus midsize luxe SUV just might give the brand a little more street cred. It boasts turbo gasoline and hybrid powertrain options, standard AWD, more legroom, a massive 48-in. panoramic display, and some on-point, high-end trims.
Read the full article.

Image - Largest digital camera ever aims to unlock dark mysteries of the universe
Largest digital camera ever aims to unlock dark mysteries of the universe
After two decades of work, scientists and engineers at the DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Lab and their collaborators are celebrating the completion of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Camera -- the world's largest digital camera -- that boasts 3.2 billion pixels. Its resolution is so high that you could spot a golf ball from 15 miles away.
Read about this new astronomy instrument.

Image - Data sent 4.5 million times faster than average broadband using new fiber channels
Data sent 4.5 million times faster than average broadband using new fiber channels
Aston University researchers in the UK have sent data at a speed that is 4.5 million times faster than the average home broadband. The rate is the fastest ever sent by opening up specific new wavelength bands that are not yet used in fiber optic systems.
Read the full article.

Videos+: Technologies and inspiration in action
Intro to reed switches, magnets, magnetic fields
This brief introductory video on the DigiKey site offers tips for engineers designing with reed switches. Dr. Stephen Day, Ph.D. from Coto Technology gives a solid overview on reed switches -- complete with real-world application examples -- and a detailed explanation of how they react to magnetic fields.
View the video.

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