Elastic actuators for innovative product concepts
The novel elastic actuators from Danfoss PolyPower A/S provide exciting opportunities for proportional actuation, innovating both industrial and medical applications.
Imagine an elastic actuator with direct linear actuation enabling fast response and simple robust structure. Exploiting its unique properties, the opportunities for new combinations of design parameters to optimise performance are vast.
Robust design
With the InLastor actuators, you get an elastic actuator that is lightweight, flexible and completely silent in operation. The soft elastic DEAP base material ensures that the actuators are very tolerant to overload, and also facilitates design with no moving parts, promoting long product life. Furthermore, an InLastor element can act as an actuator-sensor combination, which is fast-acting and compact.
Key features for the elastic actuators:
- Efficient with no steady state power consumption
- Fast and proportional actuation
- Versatile and scalable design principle
All basic actuator properties are detailed in the engineering sheet for the film kit. Specifications and characteristics of two standard configurations (push/pull actuator) are available in the respective engineering sheets for the elastic actuator: InLastor push actuator and InLastor pull actuator.
Myriad of opportunities
The potential for applying the elastic actuators is large, ranging from valves, pumps, sensitive grippers and active compression bandages to direct actuation of adaptive airfoils. Order your own evaluation sample of the elastic actuator now, or contact us to discuss the possibilities for your application. |
