Custom Gas Spring Dampers
Dampers provide speed and motion control using hydraulic oil damping in either extension, compression, or both directions. Dampers look identical to a gas spring, so care is to be taken when specifying a spring versus a damper. The types of applications that dampers are most commonly used in are lids, doors, covers, or any other object that is needed to move at a controlled speed at a given force.
For example, dampers can be deployed for slam prevention and speed control in the lowering of a hospital bed side rail system or to slow the opening of a maintenance cover on an ATM, electronic gaming machine, or other electronic consoles.
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Damper Design
- Industrial Gas Springs stocks several size dampers in light damping, heavy damping, extension and compression. We can also design and manufacture dampers to our customers’ specific application requirements. Our standard stock dampers:
- Stroke lengths from 2” to 8” of stroke
- Extended lengths from 7.5” to 20”
- Load capacity from 10 to 150 lbs.
- Extension or Compression
- Light damping (20lb force. Average 1.0 seconds per 1 inch of travel) or heavy damping (20lb force. Average 2.0 seconds per 1 inch of travel).
- A wide variety of speed characteristics to meet your application needs
