Air Bearings

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Can be readily used to create custom air stages
The gimbled mount allows for great flexibility in tolerance and the threaded ball studs make alignment easy
are appropriate for highly loaded applications and are the easiest type of air bearings to integrate into prototype designs as they can be readily replaced or changed
Standard and custom bearings are available including replacement bearings for many CMM's

designed to make air bearing technology readily available to engineers who have pre-existing designs based on round shaft guides
The bushings run on standard precision steel shafting and are directly interchangeable with most rolling element bushings
New Way air bushings are perfect bearings for voice coil linear motor driven stages but any motion application that requires very low friction, very smooth motion or oiless operation are potential candidates for New Way air bushings

Vacuum preloaded bearings hold themselves down and lift themselves off the guide surface at the same time
By adjusting the vacuum and pressure, the flying height and stiffness can be exactly optimized. Adjustability of film thickness can be used for focusing, squaring and sub-microinch vertical positioning over a range of several thousandths of an inch
The cost advantage is that only one flat guide surface is necessary whereas opposed bearing preloading requires two flat guide surfaces that are parallel

In either concave or convex configurations, New Way Radial Air Bearings are made-to-order and ideal for rotary applications, giving you all the differential advantages of air bearings that you require: high speed, high precision, no friction, no wear, no need for lubrication, excellent velocity control, and no noise
These porous media air bearings ideal for a wide range of high-performance applications including inspection, imaging, wind power, turbo machinery, powder processing, centrifuge and many others

combine an accurate guide with an air slide ready-fit for installation
This provides the user with the convenience of integrated guide and bearing systems
These slides have a straightness of motion and dynamic response often an order of magnitude better than conventional rolling element bearings
New Way end supported air slides provide a local straightness (in X and Z) of 250 nanometers (0.25 microns) per 25mm travel (10 micro inches per inch), maximum error (global) 2 microns per 1000mm travel (80 micro inches per yard)

combine an accurate guide with an air slide ready-fit for installation
This provides the user with the convenience of integrated guide and bearing systems
These slides have a straightness of motion and dynamic response an order of magnitude better than conventional rolling element bearings
New Way dovetail air slides provide a local straightness (in X and Z) of 250 nanometers (0.25 microns) per 25mm travel (10 micro inches per inch), maximum error (global) 2 microns per 1000mm travel (80 micro inches per yard)

Air Conveyor air bearings and Precision Air Bearing Vacuum Chucks for flat panel display FPD glass handling and inspection