Excellence in design
Great care has been taken in the design of our products to ensure they achieve the highest levels of performance while being easy to use and to clean thoroughly. With isolation design optimized for use in microscopy and surface design optimized for easy cleaning, our tables are ideal solutions for use in general purpose microscopy to cleanrooms and Biohazard areas.
n Excellent working environment n Comfortable ergonomic design n 240grade silicon stainless steel surface available
A better working environment
Platforms and workstations improve the environment for microscopes with all the features necessary to make your work easier. Workstations provide a tailored working environment as well as featuring an isolation platform built into the work surface, making working with a microscope both faster and easier, leading to more reliable measurements in your laboratory. Platforms can also be used stand alone beneath microscopes to isolate them from external disturbances and speed up measurement.
Vibration control
The AMF and AMP platforms offer the ultimate performance, incorporating four 2Hz damped rolling diaphragm air isolators, efficiently isolating frequencies from 6Hz and upwards. The AMS tables incorporate Sorbothane isolators, giving excellent isolation with a natural frequency of less than Hz. Our isolators considerably outperform both simple air cushion and rubber isolators, shortening stabilization times and speeding up measurements.
Flexible solutions
We offer a range of workstations and platforms to suit different environments and microscope performance levels. Workstations feature a platform mounted on a study steel frame with height adjustable leveling feet and guards to protect the table from accidental knocks during use.
Ergonomic design
The ergonomic workstation design minimizes user stress. With the active area option microscope platforms sit flush with the work surface and the surrounding area is useable for general work without disturbing measurements. Frames have height adjustable leveling feet, for excellent stability and user comfort with retractable castor feet, frame shelf and monitor support optional.
Construction of Air Platforms
Our platforms combine a highly rigid damped table with an excellent vibration isolation system in one unique package.
It has long been accepted that the best isolation is achieved using pneumatic isolation chambers, which utilize high performance rolling diaphragms. All our air isolators contain such a specially designed diaphragms.
Our air isolators are also connected to a damping volume via a tuned restrictor. The restrictor absorbs system energy by converting air movements into heat as it is forced through the restrictor. This removes the overshoot and oscillations, which occur in isolators without dampening chambers and highly specialized restrictors such as ours.
We use a low isolation volume to damping volume ratio, which means that the working surface appears stiff to the touch (as all large low frequency disturbances are rapidly damped away). Small higher frequency disturbances are removed by the isolator chamber, these have a resonant frequency (dependant on version and load) typically in the range 1.5 to 2Hz. and whose characteristics are given in the transmissibility curves.
Our platforms feature a seamless steel top finished in either a white epoxy powder coat or pharma grade stainless steel. Both finishes meet the Class 10 requirements. The stainless finish may be required in certain environments and we would be pleased to advise on this. The tops are formed by laminating a highly damping core between two steel plates using high strength aerospace grade adhesives, a technique we developed in producing our range of high performance optical tables and breadboards.
Four isolators, airflow restrictors and damping volumes are integrated into the platforms, which allow the working surface to float freely away from its base during operation. The natural frequency is typically 2Hz both vertically and horizontally and is suitable for all but the most sensitive instruments, where our low frequency option should be selected. We offer a choice of active and passive platform versions.
In active platforms, each isolator is connected to a self-levelling arm, which can be externally adjusted to set the height of the platform and level it. They should be chosen when the load on a table is expected to vary frequently. These platforms require a continuous supply of air. This can be provided by a compressor or using a gas bottle (suitable for months of normal operation and ideal for clean room uses).
Passive platforms are designed for applications where load does not
vary.This includes balance tables, which are designed for light loads where the platform is weighted to give good performance.
Platforms are manufactured in one location using state-of-the-art automated machinery to guarantee high tolerances and consistency while keeping costs low. Our products are assembled by a highly skilled workforce and rigorous quality control is applied throughout the manufacturing process.
Isolation Dampening Chamber
Surface Dampening
Stainless Steel Case
Air Isolators AMB 30 x 45 included in AMD-AS 3
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