Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Highly Frictional / Non-Slip/ High Endurance; The Metal Friction Pad


Hi, I’m Yanagi in Overseas Department.

It's getting warmer and warmer in Yokohama, no doubt summer is in the air.


Well, recently in Overseas Department, I had the opportunity to present Dymco's Friction Pad, so I would like to introduce its features and uses of the friction pad.


Firstly, the stainless-steel base of a friction pad is coated by heated and molten super-hard metal particles, thereby roughening the surface and increasing the friction coefficient.

In a way, it’s a metal version of sandpaper. Moreover, it can be processed on both sides.

For these reasons, the friction pads are mainly used as parts for fastening or slip prevention, in which metal is in contact with each other and is required to have high surface pressure and high friction coefficient.                                                                                                                       

The figures below may help you easy to understand the principle.


1.       Non-slip on the surface to be chucked

                     


2.       High friction pulley

                     



By inserting a thin high-friction friction pad into the chucking section etc. in this way, the stability and fastening power increase.

As a result, it is possible to reduce the size of the fastening bolt diameter or the number of fastening bolts.

The thickness can be manufactured from 0.2 mm or more.
It can also be used as end portion of small robot arm. It is used to catch the object tightly.

And it is also possible to manufacture the shape for customer’s needs or process to customer supplied parts.

If you are considering using the friction pad and any questions of the shape of your highly frictional parts, or cost reduction of fastening parts, please don’t hesitate to contact us.