The winners of the 2022 LEAP Awards (Leadership in Engineering Achievement Program) were announced this week with products across multiple categories, including Mechanical. Here are the three medalists for this year’s extremely competitive Mechanical category. Gold System Seals, Inc. VORTEX Main Bearing Seal A wind turbine seal design that redefines rotary seals System Seals’ VORTEX…

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: […]

As automation continues to accelerate, the need to hold equipment in place in the case of a power failure, or for positioning, continues to grow. For these varied applications, Ogura Industrial would like to highlight six different styles of holding brakes. Representing around 120 standard models, some key features of these brake families are: brake…

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. […]

Several industries are creating new opportunities with enabling technologies such as cameras, sensors, batteries, processors, and communications made ubiquitous by consumer products. Where such designs take miniature formats, electromagnetic brakes excel. By Brian Mather | Industrial product manager • Ogura Industrial Corp.   Oh, how times are changing. Zoom meetings are the norm. Children all […]

Ogura has developed a new line of micro brakes for servo motor applications.  These small brakes and motors are primarily used in robotics and medical equipment.  Ogura micro holding brakes come in both square and round designs.  The newest round design is 10 mm in diameter.  Length is as short as 9mm.  Micro brakes can…

Ogura is continuing to broaden its line of hydrogen recirculation pumps used in fuel cells.  As the number of fuel cell requirements continue to grow, there is an ever increasing demand for efficient hydrogen pumps to recirculate the hydrogen throughout the fuel cell stack.  Because of the Ogura hydrogen pump’s extremely high efficiency, more and…

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 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 Industrial has created a new animation showing how electromagnetic particle clutches work. The animations shows an exploded view of the component parts and how magnetized powder can transfer torque from the input to the output in a clutch. Magnetic particle clutches are used on a variety of applications that require very fast response or…

Ogura Industrial is helping the industry by providing assistance for questions that arise on clutches and brakes on www.clutchbrakeforum.com.  Besides, electromagnetic clutches and brakes, the site also has categories for mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic and others.  If you have a question or interest regarding clutches and brakes, this site an outstanding location to both gain and share knowledge with…

Ogura Industrial is pleased to announce a new addition to our product line.  Although this product is not new to Ogura, it is new to North America.  The MS series is finding new opportunities for machinery manufacturers in North America because of some of its unique features. The MS series is a complete line of…

Ogura Industrial has created a new animation showing how electromagnetic tooth clutches work.  The animation shows an exploded view of the component parts and how they interact with each other.   In tooth clutches, torque is generated by locking the rotor teeth to the armature teeth.  The animation shows how this is accomplished. Tooth clutches are…

Ogura Industrial is pleased to announce a new addition to our product line.  Although the AMC and AMB series are not new, they have gone through significant design improvements.  Because of these improvements, the AMC/AMB-E series is finding new opportunities for machinery manufacturers in North America because of some of its unique features. The new E…

Ogura Industrial has created a new animation showing how PTO clutch brakes work. The animation shows an exploded view of the component parts and how they interact with each other. In PTO clutch brakes, torque is generated by attracting the armature and rotor to each other via a series of magnetic flux paths. The animation…

Ogura Industrial has created a new animation showing how mobile clutches work. The animation shows an exploded view of the component parts and how they interact with each other. In mobile clutches, torque is generated by attracting the armature and rotor to each other via a series of magnetic flux paths. The animation shows how…

Ogura has created an instructional video on spring applied brakes.  The first part of the video is an animation showing how a spring applied brake works and the second part of the video explains how to properly install a spring applied brake.  A troubleshooting section at the end of the video explains how to identify…

Ogura Industrial is pleased to announce a new addition to our product line. Although this product is not new to Ogura, it is new to North America. The ACSB series is finding new opportunities for machinery manufacturers in North America because of some of its unique features. ACSBs are both a clutch and a brake…

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…

Motion Control Tips

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…

Motion Control Tips

Ogura is now offering a Softstart control option for mobile applications for gas and diesel engines. The patented controller senses the exact point at which the friction surfaces contact, then rapidly reduces the current to a level that allows the clutch to safely slip, but not release. Using engine rpm feedback, the patented controller adjusts…

A new high torque permanent magnet brake, model PMB-06 is now available from Ogura. The new model has a smaller diameter than the size 07, but can achieve almost twice the torque of the size 7 by adding only 1/16th of an inch of overall length. The brake comes standard with an armature/hub and 24v…

The MIC-T series clutches from Ogura offer customers significant size, weight and cost savings over the previous series of MIC clutches. In some cases, depending upon volume, cost can be half of previous versions allowing significant savings for customers producing consumer and business printers and copy machines. The new clutches are available with either a…