Linear Stages

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Product catalog summary
Introduction
The document provides a comprehensive overview of the SG, SE, and SC series ballscrew actuators by KURODA, highlighting their compact, high-precision, and high-rigidity design for efficient space utilization and robust performance.
Features of SG/SE Series
  • No Adjustment Required: Integrated ball screw and slide guide eliminate complex adjustments.
  • High Rigidity: U-guide rail enhances rigidity for structures supported at one end.
  • High Accuracy: 4-point contact structure ensures precise positioning.
  • Space-Saving Design: Compact shape reduces space requirements.
Key Components and Materials
The SG and SE series use materials like aluminum alloy, stainless steel, and chromium-molybdenum steel for components such as motor brackets, guide rails, and ball screw shafts, ensuring durability and performance.
Features of SC Series (Full-Cover Type)
  • Improved Dust Prevention: Enhanced design minimizes dust entry.
  • Space-Saving: Maintains the same width as SE series for easy replacement.
  • Easy Maintenance: Central grease filler hole simplifies lubrication.
  • High Rigidity: Steel U-guide rails provide robust support.
Variations of Slide Block
Different configurations, including long and short blocks, are available to suit various applications.
Accuracy Indicators
  • Repeated Positioning Accuracy: Measures consistency in positioning.
  • Positioning Accuracy: Assesses deviation from intended travel.
  • Traveling Parallelism: Evaluates alignment during movement.
  • Backlash and Lost Motion: Measures mechanical play and precision.
Rigidity
The SG, SE, and SC series feature gothic-arched grooves and a 4-point contact structure, providing high rigidity and minimal displacement under radial loads.
Conclusion
The SG, SE, and SC series ballscrew actuators offer a blend of high accuracy, rigidity, and space efficiency, making them suitable for various industrial applications.
Specifications
The document outlines technical specifications for various models, including sectional secondary moments, load configurations, and safety precautions. Specific values are provided for models such as SG20, SG26, SG33, SG46, SG55, SE15, SE23, SC23, SE30, SC30, SE45, and SC45.
Procedures and Configurations
Instructions for interpreting model numbers include details on lead, slide block variations, guide rail length, performance grade, motor bracket configuration, type of cover, sensor, surface treatment, grease, and dowel pin holes. The document also describes permissible speeds for different models.
Safety Precautions
Safety precautions are categorized into 'DANGER', 'WARNING', and 'CAUTION', emphasizing proper handling and operation to prevent injury or damage. It advises on the selection and handling of ballscrew actuators, including the need for protective covers and proper mounting.
Recommendations
Users are advised to consult KURODA for specific configurations, especially for non-standard applications or environments. Regular maintenance, such as checking and supplying lubricants, is highlighted, along with guidelines for operating environments and mounting procedures.
Additional Notes
The document includes a section on options and manufacturing by order, indicating which configurations are available as standard, optional, or require custom manufacturing. It also provides a detailed list of motor bracket configurations and sensor options.
Specifications
The document outlines specifications for various sensors and actuators, including photo-microsensors and proximity sensors. Key parameters include sensing range, supply voltage, current consumption, and output types (NPN/PNP). The sensors are designed to operate under specific environmental conditions.
Procedures
A selection guide for ballscrew actuators details considerations such as mass, feed speed, external load, and mounting conditions, emphasizing the importance of calculating life expectancy based on load and motion conditions.
Standards and Recommendations
Recommendations include using appropriate grease and considering environmental factors like dust prevention. The document advises on calculating load per block for different motion types and provides formulas for life expectancy calculations.
Technical Data
Technical data includes detailed specifications for various models, wiring diagrams, and I/O circuit diagrams. Tables for contact and load factors are essential for calculating life expectancy and ensuring proper actuator selection.
Key Tables and Diagrams
Tables provide contact factors, load factors, and moment equivalent factors, crucial for calculating life expectancy. Wiring diagrams illustrate connections for NPN and PNP output types, ensuring correct installation and operation.
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Catalog excerpts

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HIGH ACCURACY AND HIGH RIGIDITY BALLSCREW ACTUATOR

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BALLSCREW ACTUATORS A ballscrew actuator of KURODA is a compact single-axis unit consisting of a ball screw and a slide guide. With its slide block set in U-guide rail, the actuator has achieved low-profile design and compact shape, making it possible to considerably reduce necessary space as compared with the usual table type structure. Despite of its compact structure, the actuator with U-guide rail shows high rigidity against bending moment and deflection, and it can be applied to a structure supported by one end. The linear motion unit, which is gothic arched and in 4 points-contact structure,...

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FEATURES OF SG/SE SERIES Ball screw and slide guide are integrated in ballscrew actuator, eliminating the need for complicated fine adjustment and reducing the number of working processes to a great extent. With U-guide rail, rigidity of ballscrew actuator has remarkably improved despite of its compact structure, making it possible to be applied even to a structure supported at only one end. Linear motion unit uses "4 or 2 Ballway of 4 points-contact" struc- ture to assure high rigidity. Guide rail, slide block and ball screw shaft are precisely worked, making accurate positioning possible. Gothic...

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(Note 1) Stainless steel is used for tension bolts and nuts. (Note 2) Anti corrosive black coating of pulley cover applies to SE and SC

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FEATURES OF SC SERIES (FULL-COVER TYPE) Full-cover type SC series, built on KURODA SE series, has remarkably improved its dust-preventive performance. Structure Coupling cover „. , Table Center sheet , Motor bracket Guide rail Remarkably improved dust prevention! Compared to SE series with dustproof cover, dust prevention has been remarkably improved through making clearance on side face of actuator as narrow as it can be and effectively applying new center sheet designed to straddle the tables, so as to prevent entry of dust. Center sheet is a flexible stainless sheet having a structure Sneet...

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KEY COMPONENTS AND MATERIALS OF SO SERIES (Note 1) Ball screws used for SC series have the same specifications as SE series. (Note 2) Stainless steel is used for bolts and screws to joint components of actuator.

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VARIATIONS OF SLIDE BLOCK Two types of actuator with long block and short block are available. Additional types with either 2 long blocks or 2 short blocks are also available. Appropriate type can be selected from the variations according to your purpose of use. • With 1 long block: A Mounting datum surface Grease nipple mounting position With 2 long blocks: B Applied to SG and SE series. (Not available for SC series.) This configuration may not be applicable depending on guide rail length For more information, refer to dimensions of each series. Mounting datum surface Grease nipple mounting...

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SUMMARY OF ACCURACY INDICATORS Performance of ballscrew actuators are shown using various accuracy indicators described below. For details in tolerance of the accuracy indicators, refer to table of performance (accuracy) information for each series. • Repeated positioning accuracy Repeat positioning of slide block in the same direction 7 times, measure stop position of slide block and halve maximum difference between obtained readings. Perform this measurement at the cen- ter and both ends of travel distance. Maximum value among obtained value is used as measured value. Repeated positioning accuracy...

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REFERENCE DATA ON ACCURACY ACCURACY OF UNIT PRODUCT • Lost Motion Perform positioning in a positive (or negative) direction and mea- sure the position (d). Move the slide block in the same direction and perform positioning in a negative (or positive) direction and measure the position (C). Move it further in the same direction and thereafter repeat the procedure in the positive and negative direc- tions seven times each. Obtain the differences of the average val- ues of the stop positions. Conduct this measurement for the entire moving range and use the obtained maximum value as a measured In...

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REFERENCE DATA ON ACCURACY ACCURACY OF UNIT PRODUCT In case squareness cannot be measured on the table top: Set a dial gauge on the table top. On surface plate close to the table travel range, fix a square gauge in parallel to X (or Y) travel Place a fix indicator against the side of square gauge parallel to Y (or X) travel direction. The maximum reading value of the dial gauge in the entire travel range is a measured value of squareness. Surface plate Square gauge In case squareness can be measured on the table top: Set a dial gauge on surface plate. On the table top, fix a square gauge in parallel...

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Linear motion units of SG, SE, and SC series, having gothic-arched grooves and 4 points-contact structure on guide rails and slide blocks, have attained high rigidity. Displacement by each radial load in each size with long block configuration is shown below as a ref- Gothic arch shape Osplacement of Slide block by Radial Load SE/SC series (Radial play Oyum)

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OPTION AND MANUFACTURING BY ORDER O: Option —: Not available •: Manufactured by order (Note 1) RO type bracket is applied to SG series and RN type is applied to SE and SC series. (Note 2) Full-cover type with wiper and with grease nipple is applied only to SC series. (Note 3) Anti corrosive black coating (film thickness 1 -2//m) is provided as surface treatment. For other types of surface treatment, consult KURODA. (Note 4) Grease filler hole for SG and SE series is applied to the configuration with sub-table. (Note 5) Any grease application other than standard or option grease applications will...

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• Asterisked (*) item in the above table applies only to performance grade H. • For long rail configurations, please consult KURODA. © Performance of ballscrew actuators, including various positioning accuracy indicators and traveling parallelism For more information on accuracy, refer to a table of accuracy information for each series. © Motor bracket configuration Intermediate flange may be used in combination with basic configuration. For more information, refer to a table of motor bracket configurations and motor option for each series. For more information, refer to dimensions of each series....

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*Prices are pre-tax. They exclude delivery charges and customs duties and do not include additional charges for installation or activation options. Prices are indicative only and may vary by country, with changes to the cost of raw materials and exchange rates.