| In actuator valve engineering and design, it is essential | | | | Electricity or hydraulics can be a source of power for |
| for engineers, designers, and manufacturers to fully | | | | actuators. Much like there are air cylinders, there are |
| understand the aspects and processes of using this | | | | also electric cylinders and hydraulic cylinders where the |
| particular product that would eventually help build | | | | cylinder converts electricity or hydraulics into motion, |
| effective engineering designs in a safe and efficient | | | | and hydraulic cylinders are often used in several types |
| manner. | | | | of automobiles. Most of the actuators available have |
| One of the most significant products of the company | | | | more than one type of power source. For example, |
| would be the actuators. To make this technical term | | | | solenoid valves can have the ability to be powered by |
| simpler, an actuator is a device that transforms or | | | | both electricity and air. Electricity powers the solenoid, |
| converts energy into motion. Also applied as a force, | | | | and the solenoid, powered by air, actuates the valve. |
| an actuator usually is a mechanical apparatus that | | | | Another option for this would be that the solenoid can |
| takes energy, normally constructed by liquid, air, or | | | | be powered by both electricity and the hydraulics. |
| electricity, and converts that into a specific kind of | | | | Whether in a linear motion, a rotary motion, or in an |
| motion. This motion can relate to anything from | | | | oscillatory motion, actuators can still be used, that is if |
| clamping, blocking, to ejecting. These actuators are | | | | they can create the motion with only one direction, in a |
| normally used in industrial applications or in | | | | circular motion, or in an opposite direction at normal |
| manufacturing, and may also be used in different | | | | intervals. Hydraulic and air cylinders can also be |
| objects such as motors, switches, valves, and pumps. | | | | classified as single acting, which means that the |
| From all the actuators available in the market, the most | | | | energy source that justifies the movement in one |
| common type would be the ones that are powered | | | | direction, and that a certain spring is used for the other |
| by the air, also known as the air cylinder or the | | | | direction. Having these interchanged, these cylinders |
| pneumatic cylinder. These air cylinders are air tight, | | | | can act as double as an acting cylinder, which means |
| usually made out of metal, which uses the energy of | | | | that the energy is used in two different directions. |
| compressed air in order to move a piston. In addition, | | | | Even if actuators are usually explained in terms of |
| air cylinders are usually used in assembly processes | | | | mechanical implements, muscles are often given as an |
| and in manufacturing. On the other hand, grippers, | | | | example of an actuator. Energy, which is created by |
| normally used in robotics, use actuators powered by | | | | eating carbohydrates, is converted by the muscle, |
| compressed air in order to work similar to the human | | | | which in this case would be the actuator, and |
| touch. | | | | transform it into motion, such as playing basketball. |