Air foot

Abstract

The invention discloses an air foot. The air foot comprises an air foot body, the air foot body is in a rectangular plate shape, and chamfered faces are arranged at the four corners of a rectangular plate; a first annular air leakage groove and a second annular air leakage groove are formed at the bottom face of the air foot body, the first annular air leakage groove and the second annular air leakage groove are coaxially formed and are spaced inwards in the radial direction relative to the second annular air leakage groove, and an air floating area is formed between the first annular air leakage groove and the second annular air leakage groove; the bottom surface of the rectangular air foot body is further provided with a vacuum preloading area located in the second annular air leakage groove; each side face and/or each chamfered face of the air foot body are/is provided with an air leakage port; a plurality of air leakage channels communicated with the first annular air leakage groove and the second annular air leakage groove are formed in the air foot body; the plurality of air leakage channels are respectively communicated with the air leakage ports; and compared with the priorart, the air foot is stable in performance, simple in structure, convenient to install and use and low in machining cost.

Description

technical field [0001] Embodiments of the present invention relate to the technical field of precision equipment, in particular to air feet. Background technique [0002] The air foot is a key component that provides air bearing support for the precision motion table to ensure the frictionless movement of the motion table on the platform (usually a marble platform), which includes an air flotation structure and a vacuum preload structure. [0003] figure 1 Shown is a square air foot in the prior art. The four corners of the bottom surface of the air foot plate 103 of the square air foot are air flotation structures 101a, 101b, 101c, 101d, and the center is a vacuum preload structure 102. The structures 101 a , 101 b , 101 c , 101 d and the vacuum pretensioning force structure 102 are processed into one body by the air foot plate 103 . As shown in Fig. 2, when the air foot is working, the air flotation structures 101a, 101b, 101c, and 101d are injected with positive pressur...

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Problems solved by technology

[0004] The characteristic of the above-mentioned square air foot structure in the prior art is that to increase the air flotation stiffness of the air foot, it is necessary to increase the air buoyancy force N and the vacuum preload force F at the same time, and increasing the vacuum preload force F will cause the air foot plate 103 to collapse. bending in the middle (eg figure 2 shown by the dotted line in ), as in image 3 As shown, the deformation of the air bearing structure 101 arranged at the four corners of the square air foot structure is uneven, resulting in unstable performance of the entire air foot, prone to air vibration or howling, thus affecting the performance of the precision transport platform

[0005] In the patent CN201110053278, aiming at the problem of uneven deformation of the square air foot, another air foot solution in this field is proposed

The invention provides a split-type air foot, the air flotation structure is separated from the vacuum preload structure, so as to avoid the bending deformation of the air foot plate when it is subjected to the vacuum preload force, and the impact on the air flotation area, but the air foot scheme The structure is very complicated, the processing cost is high, and the assembly and adjustment are difficult

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