THK Journal
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Seismic Isolation: An Inside Look at the Development, Structure, and Applications
Seismic isolation structures hinder the transmission of ground movement to buildings. They have become an increasingly common feature of earthquake-resistant office buildings and high-rise apartments, and they are gradually becoming a part of daily life. Let's take a look at how THK's linear motion guide technology, which uses a rolling guide mechanism, came to be adopted in seismic isolation technology and how it is being used to provide seismic isolation for buildings and equipment.
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Exclusive Look at the Internal Structure of the Pick and Place Robot (PPR)
We're now in an age where every single thing you own—from smartphones and computers to household appliances and cars—contains electronic components. Everyone is probably familiar with the image of electronic components as circuits that move machinery, which are made by soldering components onto a green circuit board. But do you know just how small those components have become? Looking at typical components as an example, the smallest resistors and capacitors are 0201 size (0.2 mm × 0.1 mm). At this granular size, it's becoming difficult to pick them up even with tweezers. The smaller and thinner they get, the more difficult it becomes for production equipment to handle them, which causes a bottleneck in transfer processes. In this article, we’ll take a look at how the Pick and Place Robot is optimized for assembling and transferring these kinds of tiny electronic components, which will include a rare peek inside the structure of this product.
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The Indispensable Ball Joint for Vehicle Suspension Systems
What is known by car enthusiasts as the suspension is a collection of critical components around the tires that influence steering wheel control and the riding experience. The components that join the body of the vehicle with the tires serve a number of functions, such as accurately transmitting the movement of the steering wheel and determining the riding experience for those sitting in the driver’s, passenger’s, and rear seats. In this article, we’ll introduce the suspension component known as the ball joint.
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Tool Monitoring AI Solution Detects Cutting Tool Conditions and Prevents Defects!
If you install sensors and communication devices on various things connected to the internet, those things will be able to communicate with each other and exchange information through the IoT (Internet of Things). This can generate value for business and people's lives through automation and efficiency improvements. Let’s take a look at the IoT solutions that THK offers.
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Linear Motion Products That Determine Machine Tool Performance
Manufacturing generally refers to the entire process of creating a product, starting with design and including selection. Throughout the manufacturing industry's production processes, appropriate control of product quality is crucial to meeting customers’ needs. Let's take a look at linear motion products that have a large impact on machine tool performance.
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THK's Robot Hand: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Humanoid Robot Development
We are getting closer to achieving a world straight out of a movie scene, where people work side by side with humanlike robots as their colleagues. AI is already being employed in the digital realm, while humanoid robots are active in the physical. How did these robots come to exist in the real world? Let’s take a look behind the scenes of their development.
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Example Applications for THK Products (Industrial robots)
Robots are used in various industries to position workpieces very quickly and accurately. Some robots, not limited to orthagonal movements, have multi-joint assemblies letting them simulate the movements of human arms. These joint sections must have a high swing accuracy and high rigidity ensuring that sudden stops do not put them off-track, THK's unique products are powerful and small enough to meet those demands.
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Example Applications for THK Products (Electrical and Electronic Equipment)
An electronic device is a collection of small units and actuators. The manufacturing equipment for these units is also a collection of small actuators. THK supplies a wide variety of actuators to all market areas where space-saving and energy-saving actuators are continually in demand.
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Example Applications for THK Products (Precision Machinery)
As equipment becomes smaller and more accurate, the need for precision in the manufacturing of machine parts increases. Measuring instruments allowing higher accuracy to be maintained help to meet this need. THK products are making great contributions to the ability of precision instruments to detect very fine movements and changes.
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Example Applications for THK Products (General Industrial Machinery)
Various types of manufacturing machines are being used for automation and labor saving purposes in fields where production was previously carried out by manual labor. THK's products are being used in this context, from devices which simply repeat the same operation accurately and efficiently to those enabling craftsperson-like precision.
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Example Applications for THK Products (Machine Tools)
All the various parts used in machine tools are made by "mother machines" that produce machine parts themselves. Whether fine and complex or massive and heavy, the manufacturing precision of parts produced by machine tool is increasing at an accelerating pace. THK's linear motion systems help provide the guidance that makes this precision and speed possible.