Whenever you think about springs, you probably aren’t thinking about their effectiveness. Unless your device that runs on springs is having problems, or your bed starts to sink into the mattress, you might not even think about upgrading your springs. Sadly, manufacturers can think this way too, and they often won’t change the springs used in their materials and products until it is too late.
However, there is a new wave spring design that is much more effective than the compression springs that have been used in the past. And the wave springs have been shown to be much more effective than the standard compression springs. But how and why are these wave springs rapidly replacing the compression springs? That’s what this article is going to tell you about!
What Are Compression Springs?
You might know them as the springs that go underneath your bed or inside of your pogo stick or your trampoline. They are the large metal springs that are designed to compress under force and then resist whatever is pushing them down, storing energy until they are released. A pogo stick is a prime example, where your weight pushes down on the springs and the force propels you upwards whenever you make your jump.
Compression springs are one of the three types of springs that are used in various household items as well as other machines used in manufacturing. However, these springs have one major flaw and that flaw is their size. Compression springs are very big, and with the gadgets and machines of the world getting smaller and smaller, the springs are taking up more and more space that simply isn’t available.
That’s where the wave spring design comes in, and it is taking the worlds of springs and manufacturing by storm! Not too bad for a spring that does everything a larger compression spring can do at half the size!
What Is A Wave Spring?
A wave spring is a spring that is made with a unique flat wire that can hold multiple waves per turn, which gives the same force as a traditional spring while it operates at half the size. Wave springs are able to be half as small, while also being just as powerful, and that actually makes a massive difference.
The size allows manufacturers to save on costs both in the creation of the spring as well as in the creation of the items that are using the wave springs. Additionally, wave springs are very customizable and can save space, which is becoming more and more of a commodity at the moment in the manufacturing world.
Additionally, if the production of the item uses stacked dish springs or wave washers, then you will need to use a lot of those for your item… unless you use one wave spring. Compared to a stacked dish spring, one wave spring can have the power of 2 to 3 individual stacked dish springs, which certainly saves space!
The Customizability Of The Wave Springs Has People Talking
Additionally, due to the No-Tooling-Cost edge winding manufacturing process, which coils the flat wire on an edge to create the rings, every single wave spring can be fully customized for the customer. An unlimited range of forces can be created by changing the wire size, wire form, number of turns in the wire, turn configuration, the number of waves, and the wave form.
All of these can be changed and customized as the wire is built, and the wave wires can also be made from several exotic materials. Whether you want your wire to be conductive to electricity, magnetic, or able to survive use in the deep sea or in outer space, Smalley can customize your wires to do just that with no trouble.
The Wave Springs Are Making Waves With Big Companies
The reduced size and the increase in customizability are the two things that are getting the manufacturing companies of the world excited about the wave springs. If you want to keep up with your manufacturing and make sure you can produce the smaller and more compact technology that the world demands, then you can do so with the wave springs!
So save space, time, and money by switching out the old compression spring design with this new design, and you will see the benefits very quickly! Then you might wonder why your company spent so much time struggling with the bigger compression springs for so long!
