The proliferation of new applications for power-off brakes demands fresh design approaches leveraging leading brake manufacturers’ accumulated design experience. Key to optimizing designs for life, cost, and performance is early collaboration with the brake manufacturer. By Brian Mather • Ogura Industrial Corp. Machine designers in the motion-control industry recognize power-off brakes by the following terms: […]
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Balancing power, weight, and efficiency objectives with low-power braking
Engineers who want the smallest, lightest, lowest power brake available should talk to their brake supplier in the earliest stages of the design project. Waiting until later in the process will trigger a compromise on one or all three of these important design considerations. By Brian Mather | Industrial product manager • Ogura Industrial Corp. […]
Miniature brakes: Examples of where electromagnetic spring-applied versions excel
Many industries have come to employ the compact cameras, sensors, batteries, processors, and communications technologies made ubiquitous by consumer products. Electromagnetic brakes complement such designs with miniature formats. By Brian Mather | Industrial product manager • Ogura Industrial Corp. Oh, how times are changing. Zoom meetings are the norm. Children all over the world […]
New high performance clutch brake for outdoor power equipment
Ogura has developed a new model, GT2.75, clutch brake for the outdoor power equipment market. This new clutch brake is patented both in and outside of the United States and offers engineers advantages in both design and cost over older designs currently on the market. The clutch incorporates a six hard rivet design in the […]
Ogura explains how permanent-magnet brake work with new animation
Ogura Industrial Corp. has created a new animation showing how permanent magnet brakes work. The animation shows an exploded view of the component parts and how they interact with each other. In permanent magnet brakes, holding force is created by permanent magnets and released by energizing the magnetic field. Permanent magnet brakes are higher torque […]
Ogura’s new product line addition – mechanical clutches
Ogura Industrial has announced a new addition to its product line. Although this product is not new to Ogura, it is new to North America. The mechanical clutch series is finding new opportunities for machinery manufacturers in North America because of some of its unique features. The mechanical clutches are a multiple disc design that […]
New electromagnetic clutch and brake troubleshooting video
Ogura has created a comprehensive troubleshooting video for electromagnetic clutches and brakes. This new video covers the most common failures that can occur with electromagnetic clutches and brakes and shows the possible causes and potential solutions. The new video covers industrial and mobile products. It is segmented into the three main issues that customers may […]
Trends in clutches and brakes leverage software and customization
Clutches and brakes hold, stop or index loads in motion designs. Especially over the last five years, a trend toward application-specific components has quickened as several industries push the performance envelope of stock parts. So, we asked industry experts about this and other trends spurring clutch and brake innovation. The biggest growth in industrial clutch and […]
