Development of Portable Energy-Saving Type Air Supply System – 1st Report: Effect of Variable Volume Tank –

Tatsuyuki Iwawaki; Daisuke Sasaki; Toshiro Noritsugu; Masahiro Takaiwa

doi:10.20965/jrm.2012.p0464

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JRM Vol.24 No.3 pp. 464-471

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2012.p0464

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Development of Portable Energy-Saving Type Air Supply System – 1st Report: Effect of Variable Volume Tank –

Tatsuyuki Iwawaki, Daisuke Sasaki, Toshiro Noritsugu,
and Masahiro Takaiwa

Graduate School of Natural Science of Technology, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Kita-ku, Okayama 700-8530, Japan

Received:

September 30, 2011

Accepted:

March 13, 2012

Published:

June 20, 2012

Keywords:

pneumatic, portable air supply system, variable tank

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop a portable energy-saving type air supply system. A variable volume tank is developed in order to drive a pneumatic actuator with a low discharge pressure in a tank. The developed tank composed of flexible materials can store pneumatic energy by converting it to elastic energy. In this paper, the composition of the system, the structure and characteristic of a variable volume tank and experiment of driving actuator with constant and variable volume tanks are discussed. As a result, the variable volume tank can drive the actuator at a lower supply pressure than with the constant volume tank.

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T. Iwawaki, D. Sasaki, T. Noritsugu, and M. Takaiwa, “Development of Portable Energy-Saving Type Air Supply System – 1st Report: Effect of Variable Volume Tank –,” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.24 No.3, pp. 464-471, 2012.

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Development of Portable Energy-Saving Type Air Supply System – 1st Report: Effect of Variable Volume Tank –

Tatsuyuki Iwawaki, Daisuke Sasaki, Toshiro Noritsugu, and Masahiro Takaiwa

Tatsuyuki Iwawaki, Daisuke Sasaki, Toshiro Noritsugu,
and Masahiro Takaiwa