Flexure

Phidrive is based on more than twenty years of experience in the design and production of flexures, in fact PhiDrive has all the knowledge to provide the best solutions especially when it comes to the most complex high precision motion systems.

Flexures should be the first, maybe easiest way, of generating a compliant mechanism from a conventional design. Flexures use the inherent compliance of a material to obtain a mechanisms with a compliance distributed throughout the device. This is possible with strong but flexible materials which means that the material needs to have a low young’s modulus to yield strength ratio.

Phi drive is specialized in Monolithical Flexural System

An entire Multi-Flexural system can be produced as a monolith, by machining the entire system from a single block of material, using  sophisticated computer controlled, wire E.D.M. machines and others.  PhiDrive is high skilled to build sophisticated flexures and monolithic systems to accomplish customer needs.

A Flexure can be used to reproduce linear or rotary motion or a combination of both. The length of travel of this very accurate motion is, however, quite limited. Flexures will produce these motions without any friction or hysteresis down to the micrometer level, and they never need lubrication.