Combined Compression and Extension spring wire wound spring

5th August 2013
Posted By : Nat Bowers
Combined Compression and Extension spring wire wound spring

Whilst recently providing a product demonstration of the unique capabilities of the machined spring product, a question was asked, “Would Abssac be able to retro-fit a spring now being used as a buffer spring in a fuel control system”?

The spring unit should compress and extend 2mm but deliver an accurate spring rate over a set life time. The current wire wound spring was not providing an accurate spring rate over time and each spring had to be rate tested and certified before fitting. Normal rate accuracies were ranging from +/-15% and were not linear in rate.

As the name suggests, the machined spring is machined from a single piece of material. This not only allows one, two, three or more spring elements to be machined into the single part but due to the geometry of the coil, the spring rate is totally linear. In fact spring rate tolerance can be as good as +/- 1% if required with the machined spring.

After the preliminary discussion between the customer and our application engineer, a drawing of the concept spring was forwarded to be reviewed. A few minor changes were then needed, as the customer engineer looked into incorporating attachment designs into the single piece stainless steel spring. All other dynamic parameters could be improved on over the wire wound spring being used and a final configuration was then proposed.

Two test samples were sent to verify the installation and complete life testing. The machined spring supplied improved efficiency of the application, reduced parts inventory and each spring supplied was certified on rate so could be fitted straight into the application.

Solving this project has led to several other spring applications of the same physical configurations, but with varying spring rates and materials.


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