Harmonic Drive

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Harmonic Drive, LLC. offer's the machine and motion control design engineer the widest choice of harmonic drive gearing products. Multiple manufacturing facilities in The United States, Japan and Germany maintain the high quality, precision and reliability standards required by the industry.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Actuators
• ELECTRICAL-ELECTRONIC
• Electrical/Electronic
• Torque
• Harmonic
• Drive
• Tradeshow

[fornello123]

mad props to whoever invented harmonic drive. the hollow shaft gearhead + brushless DC motor gives me an engineer hard-on.

[Pilotgeek]

@Carsenator What ABOUT metal fatigue? If anything, I would think this design would be easier on materials than more conventional gears.

[Carsenator]

What about metal fatigue??

[sangear]

Nice component for Mechatronics Projects

[TheIndustrialphreak]

Its great that folks are being innovative to an extent, i cant wait till the cost come down to a point that the average garage tinkerer can afford these for their projects. What disturbs me to a point concerning that it may be in a effect over engineering. I can see that their will be some environmental applications that these will greatly benefit as a solution.

[oisiaa]

I just discovered the harmonic drive a few days ago after researching the lunar rover. The rover uses harmonic drives on each of its wheels with a 100:1 reduction ratio.