IRWIN, PA, January 23, 2008 – Parker’s Electromechanical Automation added MPP motor options to the HPLA and HLE configurables. Designed for the demanding applications found in today’s high-performance servo systems, MPP motors offer lower inertia and higher power, all in a smaller package than conventional motors.
The addition of these motors to the HPLA and HLE belt-driven product configurables makes creating a complete system – from actuator to gearhead to motor – easier than ever. The configurable option includes mounting flanges and pinions for the MPP motors to be easily mounted in the field, or customers can save time and have the motors mounted directly at Parker. Parker still provides mounting hardware for thousands of different motor models and manufacturers.
Along with this change in the motor-mounting options, Parker is proud to announce a new feature of the HLE60 to match the HPLA product line feature set. Customers who have ever had trouble tensioning a belt in a belt-driven actuator will be pleased to learn that the HPLA and the entire HLE family offer easy belt tensioning implemented at the idler end of the actuator. This allows belt tensioning to be done without removing the load.
Maintenance time is reduced, and the machine will be up and running in no time with this easy-to-tension design style. This feature, coupled with the direct-mount gearbox design on the HPLA and the complete HLE family, reduce overall cost of ownership by as much as 20%.
HPLA/HLE features include:
Up to 50m for rack-and-pinion drive (HPLA180)
Up to 20m for timing belt drive
High speeds in practical applications of up to 5m/s
High load-bearing capacity up to 1600kg
Nominal drive torque up to 244Nm
Nominal thrust force up to 5500N
Repeatability up to ± 0.05mm
High degree of mechanical efficiency
Independent multiple carriages can be used on one linear actuator for rack-and-pinion drive
“The new HLE60 design is just like the HPLA family with a belt tension station at the idler end of the actuator instead of the carriage,” says Ben Furnish, product manager. “The pulley on the motor end can now be mounted directly to the gearbox shaft instead of using couplings -- again like the HPLA -- and we have implemented standard configurables for the MPP motors on the HPLA/HLE family.” Furnish adds that Parker has mounted countless motors in many varieties. “Spec often drives the motor selection, and it’s very easy to put any manufacturer’s motor on the HPLA or HLE,” he says.
About Parker Electromechanical Automation
A division of Parker Hannifin Corporation's Automation Group since 1987, Electromechanical Automation is a pioneer, developer and manufacturer of full-spectrum computer-based motion controllers, servo/step motor drives, servo motors and human-machine interfaces, positioning systems, gear heads and gear motors. These products automate the manufacturing of a significant fraction of the world’s goods and services. Electromechanical Automation products are sold via independent authorized Automation Technology Centers - a group of nearly 100 professional, highly trained organizations with more than 135 points- of-presence throughout the world—or buy directly from Electromechanical Automation by logging on to buy.compumotor.com.
About Parker Hannifin
With annual sales exceeding $10 billion, Parker Hannifin is the world's leading diversified manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, providing precision-engineered solutions for a wide variety of commercial, mobile, industrial and aerospace markets. The company employs more than 57,000 people in 43 countries around the world. Parker has increased its annual dividends paid to shareholders for 51 consecutive years, among the top five longest-running dividend-increase records in the S&P 500 index.
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