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Category Archives: rotary viscous damping
Rotary Viscous Dampers Made in The USA
Made in the USA. We have all heard it and here at Mechanical Motion Technologies LLC we live it. Having our production parts and prototypes molded, machined and assembled in the US gives us many advantages, quick access to vendors … Continue reading
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Rotary Viscous Dampers and Material Considerations
We find that during our product design process that customer requirements have us design with certain specific materials. General requirements for our specific brand of damper usually needs materials with low coefficient of thermal expansion. For most environments engineering materials … Continue reading
Dampers and Economics
We often come across problems that are natural to product design.Specifically features verses cost.If a customer is willing to pay the higher price to add a high end feature like a damping hinge then it usually is a good idea … Continue reading
Rotary Viscous Dampers And Temperature
As a mechanical engineer reading this blog you should be aware of ambient temperature and it’s effect on the motion of a MMT rotary damper. We usually test the designs in a chamber setup to simulate the customers application. Even … Continue reading
Rotary Viscous Damper with a One-Way Clutch
One on the popular techniques for controlling damping direction in our Rotary Viscous Damper is using a one way wrap spring clutch. This mechanism has 4 major advantages : zero back-lash, slimline, low cost and high strength. We implement a … Continue reading
Engineering Speed of Execution
3D printing has helped me get projects to the final stages of development quicker. I hope all my readers can say the same thing. My products: rotary viscous dampers and friction hinges are small devices that need to integrate into … Continue reading
Rotary Viscous Damper Options
Since a rotary viscous damper works to smooth out movements of panels, arms, monitor screens, safety doors & similar components, sometimes special movement is required which needs a force applied which can be controlled. A spring is one of the … Continue reading
Product Integration and Rotary Viscous Dampers
In general one of the most difficult steps in designing a system or product is integrating components together especially for small footprint products like laptop computers or low profile items where unobtrusiveness is required. Nobody wants a portable product with … Continue reading
Damping hinges and Aerospace Industry
We currently provide damping hinges, specifically rotary viscous dampers for in cabin use in the Aerospace industry. The reason we are successful in this area is that our proprietary design is highly resistant to vibrations. This means no noise during … Continue reading
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Friction hinge or rotary viscous damper in machine safety
I was working on a heavy duty piece of rotary equipment recently and realized it could benefit from a friction hinge or a rotary viscous damper. The safety guards for this machine are 1″ thick aluminum and swing like a … Continue reading
