Overview
Quick Release One Touch Fasteners for Quick Changeover Reduce setup times with quick and easy tool-less clamping One Touch Fasteners provide fast, secure locking and unlocking for fixture plates, panels, covers, machine components, and more. Simply turn the knob or push the button to lock, eliminating the need for tightening screws. These quick and easy tool-less clamping fasteners reduce setup times and boost productivity. IMAO's quick release fasteners are available in a variety of clamping styles to suit your specific needs, including quarter turn fasteners, ball locking fasteners and pin holding fasteners. Quarter Turn Turn to lock or release. Button Push Press the button to release. Push Pull Push or pull to lock and unlock. Locate & Fasten Position and fasten in one step. Quick & Easy Locking with No Tool! Just turning a knob or pushing a button completes the clamping and unclamping. Tool-less locking with One Touch Fasteners eliminate the time required to tighten screws and nuts as with conventional methods. Secure Clamping with Cam Locking / Ball Locking Mechanism! The mechanical design securely clamps and holds the plates, providing more than just a locking function. Constant spring clamping force provides error-free locking without over- or under-tightening. Cam locking fastener has high clamping force generated by the compressed spring. Ball locking fastener holds the plates with balls pushed out by the wedge to resist tensile forces. Quarter-turn fasteners have ON and OFF marks, and clamping / unclamping is easily identified by the position of the knob. Ball-lock fasteners clamp the part when the button is released, preventing accidental release. IMAO's quick release fasteners provide a changeover solution for inspection, packaging and printing processes in many industries, including food & beverage, pharmaceutical, electronics and automotive. Tool-less Quarter Turn fasteners facilitate frequent assembly and disassembly of fixtures for electronic components. Fixture replacement operations on automated production machines were simplified with Button-Locking Pins. Knob Locking Pins provide quick and secure locking of the top plate, resulting in a safe and operator-friendly assembly line. Pipeline Design & Engineering in the United States posted a review on our Quarter Turn Fasteners. "Our mission statement here at Pipeline is to build equipment that R&D and manufacturing teams LOVE to use. One of the ways we do that is by using hardware that operators enjoy interacting with, like these quarter turn fasteners. We’ve used them for years and continue to do so not just because we like them, but because our customers love using them." Visit the Pipeline Design & Engineering website for test fixture design CASE 1 Quarter Turn Fastener reduced fixture changeover time by half! Toyokawa Engineering manufactures testing equipment for automotive parts and they use IMAO's Quarter Turn Fasteners on the fixtures in their equipment. They designed the fixture to be able to hold several workpieces at a time to fit the user's needs. Setups for changing fixture parts come out every changeover depending on workpieces. The user required Toyokawa the swift changeovers of fixtures they do over 2 times a day. That's why Toyokawa decided to use IMAO's Quarter Turn Fasteners that shorten the setup time by clamping with just a 90 degrees turn of the knob. In the previous testing equipment, the user fixed the parts with screws and knobs and it took more than 1 minute for changeover. With Quarter Turn Fasteners, changeover of fixture takes only 30 seconds. Toyokawa highly esteems the quick & easy operation of IMAO's tool-less clamps, wide variation of line ups and their ready availability of IMAO's standard products as a manufacturer of standard machine elements. Toyokawa will keep using Quarter Turn Fasteners for their equipment in the future. CASE 2 Quick & easy changeover in injection molding machine! Panasonic Eco Solutions Electrical Construction Materials Mie Co., Ltd. manufactures intercom and fire alarm for home and they use IMAO's Quarter Turn Fasteners on injection molding line for the resin products. They cut the resin burr on back of the post-molded products by a nipper. Setups for changing the nipper and its position come out every mold change because the position of the burr is different product by product. In the previous line, they used the general-purpose nipper units for all products and it took more than 15 minutes to loosen screws, change nippers and adjust positions. They needed to change the mold more than 50 times per month for some machines. They decided to use dedicated nipper units for each product and clamp the units with Quarter Turn Fasteners to reduce machine downtime and set-up time. As a result, the changeover of units takes only 1 minute with One-touch fasteners, Quarter Turn Fasteners. Furthermore, the visible clamping and unclamping states by the position of the knob increased safety on their plant. They will continue to improve production system by shortening the time for operation and changeover. CASE 3 Quick release fasteners simplified assembly machine set ups! Iwata Mfg, Co., Ltd. manufactures machine components such as set collars and sensor brackets and they use IMAO's Ball-Lock Clamps and Button-Locking Pins to replace fixtures of automated production machines to assemble screws to the machinery parts body (hereinafter called "workpiece"). Previously, this work was done by a person but because of the high labor costs and the worker's mental burden for continuing simple tasks, they designed their own automated machine for purpose of reducing costs and mechanization of the simple work. This application requires "changeovers" which replace various fixtures depending on the workpiece around 10 times a day since this machine produces many products with different shapes and sizes, so they decided to use IMAO's One-Touch Fasteners to reduce the workloads. In the process