Number 10, March
2012
What's Here for You:
Vibration Isolation News is designed to keep our customers and friends up to date on the latest products and applications designed to facilitate better measurements and improved nanomanufacturing. We are an OEM supplier to leading manufacturers of scanning probe microscopes, micro-hardness testers and other sensitive instruments, and we have users at more than 200 leading universities and private and government laboratories in 41 countries.
INDEX
1. Featured
Product: SM-1 Large Capacity Isolators
2. Vibration
Isolation Floor Platforms
3. Minus
K News: Better Images on SEM/TEM With Negative-Stiffness
Floor Platforms
4. Minus K is a Veteran Owned California
Certified Small Business
5. Upcoming Nanotechnology
Meetings and Webinars
6. We want to hear from YOU
Minus
K Technology currently builds
vibration
isolators to handle payloads from
3 lbs to 10,000 lbs (per isolator).
When you need the best isolation for your dollar.
Our
patented technology will provide you true 1/2 Hz performance.
Give
us your challenge.
Featured Product: Large Capacity SM-1 Isolators
Standardized.
We
have now standardized our SM-1 negative-stiffness isolators.
This allows
us to have them availale in three weeks like all our bench top
isolators. Another key benefit is the lowered cost from what
was previous a custom built product.This isolator has the same basic features of our all passive, negative-stiffness, manually-adjustable bench top isolators. It offers our very-low frequency isolation performance for payloads of many thousands of pounds.
The SM-1 negative-stiffness isolator is the basic building block of the FP-1 Floor Platform and other heavy multiple isolator systems. They require no air or electricity.
The
SM-1 isolator can be used alone or with any number of
additional units to achieve higher capacity systems. They
can be arranged in many geometrical configurations to
suit your application.
If there is a need, the isolators can be customized to
achieve user specific needs. Eg., different horizontal
and vertical frequencies, dampening, etc. They can also
be made cleanroom and vacuum capatible.
The SM-1 isolators can also be placed on pedestals to increase the height of the isolation system.
| Load Capacities (approximate): | ||
| Model | Payload Range* | Price** |
| 700SM-1 | 110 - 750 lb (50 - 340 kg) |
$10,600 |
| 1200SM-1 | 675 - 1330 lb (315 - 603 kg) | $10,800 |
| 1500SM-1 | 800 - 1550 lb (363 - 703 kg) |
$11,000 |
| 1900SM-1 | 1200 - 1950 lb (544 - 885 kg) | $11,200 |
| 2400SM-1 | 1800 - 2500 lb (817 - 1134 kg) | $11,400 |
| 2900SM-1 | 2400 - 3000 lb (1089 - 1361 kg) |
$11,600 |
| 3400SM-1 | 2800 - 3600 lb (1270 - 1633 kg) |
$11,800 |
| 4000SM-1 | 3400 - 4200 lb (1542 - 1905 kg) | $12,000 |
| *Contact Minus K for custom payload ranges. |
**For International Orders, A Handling Fee of 5%
is Added. |
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Specifications:
Weight:
Approximately 155 lb (70.3 kg)
Dimensions: 13" W x 13" D x 20.5" H (330mm
W x 330mm D x 521mm H)
Performance
- Horizontal
frequencies are weight dependent.
- Horizontal
natural frequency is load dependent. 1/2 Hz or less can
be achieved at or near the nominal load.
- Vertical
frequency is tunable to 0.5 Hz throughout the payload
range.
https://minusk.com/content/products/standard/sm-1_low_frequency_vibration_isolation_isolators.html
Vibration
Isolation Floor Platforms
Minus K's FP-1 Negative-Stiffness Vibration Isolation Platform
Supports SEMs, TEMs and Large Metrology Systems
By Jim McMahon
Excerpted from Photonics
Show Daily - January 2012
Specifically designed for SEMs (scanning electron microscopes), TEMs (transmission electron microscopes) and large metrology systems, the FP-1 Negative-Stiffness vibration isolation floor platform from Minus K Technology, Inc. enables low frequency vibration isolation for weight loads from 500 lbs. to over 12,000 lbs. The FP-1 can achieve natural frequencies of 0.5 Hz or less, vertical and horizontal.
Negative-Stiffness
isolators provide a unique and completely mechanical concept
in low-frequency vibration isolation for the field of large
load systems. In particular, the transmissibility - the
vibrations that transmit through the isolator - is substantially
improved over other systems, providing better isolation
performance without the need for air or electric power.
Also, substantial isolation can be provided for vibrations
as low as 1 and 2 Hz. Minus K has just announced the standardization
of their Negative-Stiffness SM-1 isolators, thus lowering
the cost of the FP-1 platforms making them more accessible
to universities and laboratories on tight budgets.
Minus K has had very good success with their FP-1 platforms
and SM-1 isolators. One installation of a Negative-Stiffness
FP-1 platform enabled a SEM on a badly vibrating second
floor to go from 100,000 magnification to 500,000 magnification
and revealed components of cotton fibers that could not
be seen previously.
A national laboratory replaced its air isolators with Negative-Stiffness
SM-1 isolators using its existing platform for an electron
microscope. Researchers marveled over being able to get
a high-resolution image and have it remain until the next
day. With actual results like these being reported, Minus
K has seen a dramatic increase in their SEM and TEM inquires.
The full
article can be found at: https://minusk.com/content/in-the-news/PhotonicsShowDaily3_0112.html
Featured Product: FP-1 Floor Platforms for
SEMS/TEMS
The above images where captured by a Hitachi S-4800 SEM without and with a Minus K FP-1 Floor Platform.
With Minus K's standardization of the SM-1 large capacity isolators, the cost for a low frequency floor platform has been drastically reduced to less than one half the previous custom price.
For our international customers that are looking to save even more, the platform can be made locally with a design from Minus K purchased along with the necessary SM-1 isolators(this eliminates the shipping of the heavy platform).
Minus K FP-1 Floor Platforms for various SEMs
For
more information on Floor Platforms and a picture of a FP-1
for a JEOL JEM 1400 TEM click the link below:
https://minusk.com/content/products/standard/fp-1_floor_vibration_control_platform_sem_tem_isolation.html
News: Minus K Technology Is Veteran Owned and Certified California
Small Business
Minus K is a Veteran Owned Small Business.and
a certified State of California Small Business. All our products
are proudly made in the USA.
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