2010-02-09
Tsubaki Zip Chain Lifter Receives METI Minister's Award in Energy Conservation Prize Awards Program
The Tsubaki Zip Chain Lifter, a high-speed lift table manufactured by Tsubakimoto Chain (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan. President: Isamu Osa), has received the METI Minister's Award, the highest honor in the 2009 Energy Conservation Prize awards program sponsored by the Japan Machinery Federation.
The award is presented to individuals or companies recognized as having contributed to the promotion of efficient energy use through the development and commercialization of energy-efficient equipment or systems. The Tsubaki Zip Chain Lifter received the METI Minister's Award for its remarkable energy savings, ingenuity, and economic efficiency.
Energy Conservation Prize awards: A program started in 1980 to promote energy efficiency. Under the program, awards are presented to individuals or companies recognized as having contributed to the promotion of efficient energy use through the development and commercialization of energy-efficient equipment or systems. Sponsor: Japan Machinery Federation.
- Official website of the Japan Machinery Federation: http://www.jmf.or.jp/english/e_index.html
What is the Tsubaki Zip Chain Lifter
The Zip Chain Lifter is a new lift table that utilizes a zip chain that can be pushed and pulled. This groundbreaking, electrically driven lifting mechanism delivers twice the energy efficiency of conventional hydraulic lifters. At the same time, it also reduces takt time and enables high-speed, high-frequency operation and high stopping precision--factors that directly lead to improved productivity on the factory floor. The Zip Chain Lifter thus provides a solution to the formerly problematic issue of how to ensure high-speed, high-frequency operation while maintaining energy efficiency.
Compared to conventional lifting devices that push pantograph arms diagonally upward, the Zip Chain Lifter is approximately 28 percent more energy efficient in terms of transmission efficiency. It is also notable for its ability to lift at speeds of between 1 and 50 m/min, and is capable of reducing operation cycle time without sacrificing the aforementioned transmission efficiency. (Hydraulic lifters lose efficiency as they are sometimes rendered inoperable by rising oil temperature.)
It also features a regeneration unit that returns energy produced by the descending platform to the primary power system, allowing the lifter to recover 30 percent of electricity consumption.
The Zip Chain Lifter is employed by major Japanese automakers, and is also used in LCD display and solar cell production equipment as well as food and metalworking machinery, and a growing variety of other applications.
Visit the official Tsubaki Group website for more information about the Zip Chain Lifter.
- Standard model http://tsubakimoto.com/press/20080630.html
- Compact series http://tsubakimoto.com/press/20081208.html
- Tsubaki Zip Lator http://tsubakimoto.com/press/20091014.html