As speed and economy become more important in motion applications, air-bearing technologies are getting another look. Over 100 years ago Westinghouse applied for a patent that employed air bearings to ...

New micro brushless motors from Sanyo DC Micro Motor Division feature a ceramic air bearing design and frictionless, quiet, high-speed operation. The design eliminates the need to lubricate with oil, ...

AUBURN, Mass., Oct. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- PI, a global leader in precision motion control and air bearing motion systems, offers the A-688 rotary stage, a groundbreaking motorized, air-bearing ...

This video shows the principle and advantages of air bearing stages. Air bearing stages replace mechanical contact by a thin air film, avoiding wear, friction, vibration, and hysteresis effects. PI's ...

Conventional stages with rolling steel bearings exhibit friction and other mechanical nonlinearities; they are also dependent on servo-loop filters (including sluggish integrator terms) which all ...

Air-bearings have no rolling or sliding elements and deliver frictionless, non-contact motion, resulting in negligible reversal error, better flatness, and minimal wobble and eccentricity. All these ...

Seeing a heavy load slide around on nearly frictionless air bearings is pretty cool; it’s a little like how the puck levitates on an air hockey table. Commercial air bearings are available, of course, ...

Cleveland, OH. MB Dynamics Inc. has introduced the Model CAL25HF high-frequency electrodynamic air-bearing vibration exciter. It offers improved transverse performance over traditional flexural-based ...

Addressing semiconductor applications that include precision wafer processing and inspection, the ABS2000 high speed air-bearing spindles have low inherent inertia and high torque output, making them ...

PI, a global leader in precision motion control and air bearing motion systems, offers the A-688 rotary stage, an advanced motorized, air-bearing based rotation stage, engineered for nanometer-scale ...