Number 13, November
2013
What's Here for You:
Vibration Isolation News is designed to keep our customers and friends up to date on the latest products and applications designed to facilitate better measurements and improved nanomanufacturing. We are an OEM supplier to leading manufacturers of scanning probe microscopes, micro-hardness testers and other sensitive instruments, and we have users at more than 200 leading universities and private and government laboratories in 43 countries.
INDEX
1. Future
Product: The Ultra Compact LC-4
2. Minus
K 20 Year Celebration Isolator Giveaway to U.S. Colleges
and Universities
3. Upcoming
Nanotechnology Meetings and Webinars
4. We want to hear from YOU
Minus
K Technology currently builds
vibration
isolators to handle payloads from
3 lbs to 10,000 lbs (per isolator).
When you need the best isolation for your dollar.
Our
patented technology will provide you true 1/2 Hz performance.
Give
us your challenge.
Future
Product: Minus K's is designing a new ultra
compact isolator
The
LC-4 is a very compact, low frequency, negative-stiffness
isolator. Nominal payload capacities for both models will be 25 lb (11 kg), 50 lb (23 kg), 100 lb (46 kg) and 150 lb (68 kg) for this ultra compact isolator.
Planned performance characteristics:
Vertical natural frequencies will be adjustable to 0.5 Hz throughout the payload ranges. Horizontal natural frequencies will be weight dependent with one option offering 0.5 Hz at the upper payload limit and another option offering 1.5 Hz at the upper payload limit.
As
with all Minus K isolators, the LC-4 will
be completely passive and use no air or
electricity. The isolators can be combined
into multi isolator systems to support heavy
payloads while taking up very little room
themselves.
If needed, the LC-4 isolators can be customized
to achieve user specific needs, E.g., different
horizontal and vertical frequencies, damping,
etc. They can also be made cleanroom or
vacuum compatible.
Specifications:
Dimensions
will be approximately:
1.5-Hz
horizontal models
4.8" W x 4.8" D x 7.0"
H (122mm W x 122mm D x 178mm H)
0.5-Hz horizontal models
4.8" W x 4.8" D x 8.5"
H (122mm W x 122mm D x 216mm H)
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https://minusk.com/content/products/standard/cm1-low-frequency-cubic-vibration-isolation-isolators.html
Minus
K 20 Year Celebration Vibration Isolator Giveaway
to U.S. Colleges and Universities
We
are celebrating 20 years of business by giving away
$20,000* worth of our patented vibration isolators
to colleges within the United States.
Any college/university within the United
States, that have an AFM, Electron Microscope, Interferometer,
Laser Optical System, Micro Hardness Tester, or any
other special equipment that would benefit from a
low-frequency vibration isolator and apply. No purchase necessary.
The submission
forms will be judged
by the 20 Year Giveaway Committee on multiple catagories.Limited
to one submission per college department. Submission deadline for applications is January 31,
2014.
The selected
college departments will be notified by February 28,
2014 and posted on Minus K's website.
A new FREE Minus K vibration isolator will be shipped
within one month of notification.
Minus K will conduct
a brief interview with the selected departments six
months after receiving their isolator. The interviews
will be used to learn how vibration isolator helped
with the application goals and interview may be used
for articles in industry publications.
Full information available on our website at www.minusk.com/20yrgiveaway.html
Comments/Suggestions: Applications in New Fields or Features of Interest to You in Our Next Newsletter:
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