Nsk Corporation

Sosuke Kawashima

Nobuhito Saji

Separating members are provided at both ends in a moving direction of each of workpiece mounting seats of a carriage. Each of the separating members separates an elastic seal blade, which seals an opening portion formed between a side wall portion of a casing body and a top plate, from an outer surface of a workpiece mounting seat.

Workpiece carrier

A dustproof linear actuator has: a housing with a slit extending axially; a linear guide device disposed in the housing; a carriage mounted in the housing and axially movable along the slit by the linear guide device, the carriage including a workpiece mounting table protruding from the housing through the slit; a linear drive device disposed in the housing for moving the carriage axially; a pair of pulleys disposed in an axial end of the housing; and a sealing band mounted around the pulleys within the housing movably for closing the slit, the sealing band including first and second ends which are fastened to first and second ends of the carriage, respectively, to form a circulative loop. Further, the dustproof linear actuator has an air venting device for venting air existing in the housing close to the axial end toward an outside of the housing so that the dustproof linear actuator can remarkably prevents the dust particles from leaking out of the housing by reducing the pressure inside the actuator.

Dustproof linear actuator with an air venting device

A linear movement table apparatus includes a cylinder tube having an axially extending slit in an upper surface, a screw shaft rotatably supported in the cylinder tube, a feed nut threadedly engaged about the screw shaft, and a table body having an integrally formed piston portion and a table portion. The feed nut is loosely fitted into a nut accommodating space of a half-cylindrical piston portion with minute gaps formed in the feed direction and in the rotational direction. The piston portion has expanding portions expanding outwardly and laterally from both lateral sides. The expanding portions are respectively guided by recessed guide surfaces formed in inner side surfaces of the cylinder tube. Axially extending sliding members are respectively attached to the expanding portions of the piston portion. Each sliding member is a leaf spring made from a synthetic resin. A sliding convex portion is formed on the upper surface of the sliding member and is downwardly flexible to apply spring preload to a sliding surface of the sliding convex portion.

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Gunma, Japan

Sosuke Kawashima