Pneumatic technology is based on air compressor as the power source, compressed air as the working medium, energy transfer or signal transmission engineering technology, is one of the important means to achieve a variety of production control and automatic control.
Beginning around 1776, Johnwilkimson invented an air compressor that could produce a pressure of about 1 atmosphere. In 1880, people made the first pneumatic brake device using the cylinder, and it was successfully used on the brake of the train. In the early 1930s, pneumatic technology was successfully applied to the opening and closing of automatic doors and various mechanical auxiliary actions. By the early 1950s, most of the air pressure elements were modified or evolved from hydraulic components and had a large volume. In the 1960s, it began to form an industrial control system, its own system, no longer compared with wind technology. In the 1970s, due to the combination of pneumatic technology and electronic technology, it has been widely promoted in the field of automatic control. The 1980s ushered in the era of pneumatic integration and miniaturization. Since the 1990s, pneumatic technology has broken through the traditional dead zone, experiencing pentium development, people have overcome the physical size limitations of the valve, vacuum technology is becoming more and more perfect, high-precision modular pneumatic manipulator came out, the concept of intelligent pneumatic, pneumatic servo positioning technology to achieve arbitrary point automatic positioning at high speed of negative cylinder, The intelligent valve island is ideal to solve the problem of decentralized and centralized control of the entire automatic production line.
Pneumatic manipulator as a kind of manipulator, it has the advantages of simple structure, light weight, rapid action, stable, reliable, energy saving and no pollution to the environment and is widely used.
