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SMC Cylinder

The black plastic units at the top are manually controlled valves used to adjust the speed of piston movement.

SMC Linear Actuator

Black tubes at the top supply the pressure and vacuum. The orange-tipped white plastic units are manually controlled valves used to adjust the speed of piston movement. The narrow black units in the two horizontal slots are sensors used to detect the position of the piston inside.

SMC Linear Actuator

Black tubes at the bottom supply the pressure and vacuum. At the top are two D-C73 sensors that detect the position of the piston inside the actuator.

Bimba Flat Actuator

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Medical Analytical Device

AThis unit contains two miniature vacuum pumps, a variety of electronic valves and adjustable bleeds and several pneumatic actuators, all driven by a microcomputer.

Below left is a pump (green) supplying a vacuum to a manifold with individual adjustments for each actuator.

Below right electronic valves control the vacuum flow to several actuators.

Parts Handler

One pneumatic rotary head with a pneumatic gripper and pneumatic slide at the rear. The orange-tipped white units are manually adjustable input/output valves. Each pair of orante-tipped white units control one actuator.

Bohdan Pick-and-Place Robot

Shown is the back side of the robot. The other side houses a three-axis robot arm with a gripper. The unit m akes extensive use of stepper motors and pneumatics. The stepper motors are visible at the top: two to the left and one to the right, responsible for the X, Y and Z axes of movement. The stepper-motor controllers are the black and two green boards in the 2x2 square of circuit boards at right center. Power supplies line the right and bottom sides, each with a large black transformer and all but one with a bright blue capacitor. The two silver units at the lower left are timers. The controller board is the plain green board at the center.

Power relays (red) are located on three boards and shown at the left and lower left. There are 12 pneumatic valves (black) some of which are shown below.