Planetary Screw Assemblies offer travel speeds up to 1.5 m/s.
Press Release Summary:
Available with screw diameters up to 75 mm and leads up to 20 mm, Planetary Screw Assemblies achieve dynamic load capacities of 544 kN and static load capacities of 1,496 kN. Planets rotate with defined contact profile in nut around screw in parallel to axis, ensuring smooth operation and minimized noise emission. Assemblies are suited for use in medium-sized and heavy-duty machinery such as presses, plastic injection molding machines, and machine tools.
Original Press Release:
Planetary Screw Assemblies: New Sizes Extend Application Spectrum with Increased Capacity Range
Rexroth now offers screws having diameters of up to 75 mm and leads up to 20 mm
Rexroth opens up new fields of applications with planetary screw assemblies with new sizes. The drive elements with screw diameters up to 75 mm and leads up to 20 mm achieve static load capacities up to 1,496 kN while featuring a compact design. They are ideal for use in medium sized and heavy-duty machinery such as presses, plastic injection molding machines and machine tools.
All electric presses and injection molding machines are reaching increasingly higher performance classes. This places more exacting demands on mechanical axis systems, which have to transmit exponentially higher forces. Rexroth now meets these requirements with planetary screw assemblies that feature diameters of 60 and 75 mm as well as leads of 10 and 20 mm each. Moreover, screw diameters of 20, 30, 39 and 48 mm with leads of 5 and 10 mm are available. The new sizes cover dynamic load capacities up to 544 kN and static load capacities up to 1,496 kN within a minimum of installation space. The drive units represent robust drive solutions for use in high force applications, such as process or plastic injection molding machines. The design principle of planetary screw assemblies allows a high load capacity in relation to the installation dimensions. The planets rotate with a defined contact profile in a nut around a screw in parallel to the axis. This ensures very smooth running and reduces noise emission. Numerous contact faces result in high axial stiffness and load capacities, thus allowing for a long service life. These screw assemblies feature a high positioning accuracy and repeatability, also with minimal travel movements. Planetary screw assemblies can reach travel speeds of up to 1.5 m/s (90 m/min), thereby meeting increased dynamic requirements for shorter machine cycles. When combined with a servomotor and drive controller, the user gets a mechatronic unit from a single source, which moves large forces within a minimum of installation space.
Compact cylindrical single nuts, flange single nuts and split flange single nuts for all tolerance classes offer the designer a high degree of freedom. For applications with more demanding precision requirements, all nut types are available preloaded. This allows backlash-free operation in tolerance classes T7 and T5.
Rexroth’s innovative sealing technology in planetary screw assemblies results in long lubrication intervals. This reduces maintenance costs and spares the environment due to a lower consumption of lubricants. In manufacturing the screws, Rexroth benefits from its experience in the efficient roll-forming process. This technology, which has proven successful in large series production, achieves the same accuracy levels as the more expensive grinding process. Rexroth supplies the planetary screw assemblies ready-to-install with machined ends.
About Bosch Rexroth:Â Â
Economical, precise, safe, and energy efficient: drive and control technology from Bosch Rexroth moves machines and systems of any size. The company bundles global application experience in the market segments of Mobile Applications, Machinery Applications and Engineering, Factory Automation, and Renewable Energies to develop innovative components as well as tailored system solutions and services. Bosch Rexroth offers its customers hydraulics, electric drives and controls, gear technology, and linear motion and assembly technology all from one source. With locations in over 80 countries, roughly 36,700 associates generated sales revenue of approximately 5.7 billion euros ($7.6 billion) in 2013. To learn more, please visit www.boschrexroth-us.com
About Bosch:
The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. In 2013, its roughly 281,000 associates generated sales of 46.1 billion euros ($61.2 billion.) (NB: Due to a change in accounting policies, the 2013 figures can only be compared to a limited extent with the 2012 figures). Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 360 subsidiaries and regional companies in some 50 countries. If its sales and service partners are included, then Bosch is represented in roughly 150 countries. This worldwide development, manufacturing, and sales network is the foundation for further growth. In 2013, the Bosch Group invested some 4.5 billion euros in research and development and applied for some 5,000 patents. This is an average of 20 patents per day. The Bosch Group’s products and services are designed to fascinate, and to improve the quality of life by providing solutions which are both innovative and beneficial. In this way, the company offers technology worldwide that is “Invented for life.” Additional information is available online at www.bosch.com, www.bosch-press.com and http://twitter.com/BoschPresse
In the U.S., Canada and Mexico, the Bosch Group manufactures and markets automotive original equipment and aftermarket products, industrial drives and control technology, power tools, security and communication systems, packaging technology, thermotechnology, household appliances, healthcare telemedicine and software solutions. For more information, please visit www.boschusa.com, www.bosch.com.mx and www.bosch.ca
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