General
A technical branch that deals with the utilization of compressed air energy with the help of mechanical devices.
What is Pneumatics?
Valves that leak, close and direct the flow of air.
What are Distributors?
Devices that are used to start, stop, direct the flow of fluids and to regulate flow and pressure.
What are Valves?
A cylinder that only works in one direction.
What is a Single-acting cylinder?
A signal that prevents the activation of a pneumatic component, such as a valve or actuator.
What is a Blocking signal?
Pressure, temperature, specific density and air humidity.
What are The four basic state sizes?
A valve that has three connection points and two distribution positions.
What is a 3/2 distributor?
A valve that is used when a pressure-dependent signal is required for further activation in the pneumatic control system.
What is a Forward pressure valve?
A type of actuator that uses compressed air to create linear motion in both directions.
What is a Double-acting cylinder?
A standardized approach for determining and calculating the performance of pneumatic cylinders.
What is The VDMA Method?
Sodium silicate granules that have a very high ability to bond with water.
What is Silica Gel?
A valve that has four connection points and two distribution positions.
What is a 4/2 distributor?
A valve that dampens the air in one direction and reduces its speed, while in the opposite direction there is no damping and the air passes at maximum speed.
What is a One-way throttle valve?
A flexible actuator that mimics the contraction and expansion behavior of natural muscles when pressurized air is introduced.
What is a Pneumatic muscle?
A mechanical device used to detect the position of a moving part, such as a pneumatic cylinder, and to control the operation of a system based on that position.
What is a Limit switch?
The law according to which the volume of a closed ammount of gas, under a constant temperature, is inversely proportional to absulute pressure.
What is Boyle-Mariotte law?
A distributor activated on both ends, which remembers the last state even if the signal disappears.
What is a Bistabile distributor?
Valves with which we adjust the fluid flow, which indirectly affects other quantities that depend on the flow.
What are Flow valves?
A cylinder that converts compressed air energy into rotational motion.
What is a Rotary actuator?
The use of compressed air to control, regulate, and operate mechanical systems or processes.
What is Pneumatic control?
Flow in which air speed and pressure change depending on time.
What is Unsteady flow?
A distributor that returns to the inactive position after the signal has stopped working, it doesn´t remember the last state.
What is a Monostabile distributor?
A valve that delays signal transmission for a certain amount of time before activating or passing the command forward.
What is a Time delay valve?
A type of actuator that uses a flexible membrane to create linear motion when compressed air is applied.
What is a Membrane cylinder?
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What does VDMA stand for?