linear bearings
A linear-motion bearing or linear slide can be a bearing designed to provide
free motion within a dimension. There are many types of linear motion
bearings.
Motorized linear slides including machine slides, XY platforms,
roller tables and a few dovetail slides are bearings traveled by drive
mechanisms. Not all linear slides are power-driven, and non-motorized dovetail
slides, ball bearing slides and roller slides provide low-friction linear move
for equipment powered by inertia or by hand. All linear slides provide linear
motion influenced by bearings, whether they are ball bearings, dovetail
bearings, linear roller bearings, magnetic or fluid bearings. XY Furniture,
linear stages, machine slides and also other advanced slides use linear motion
bearings to give movement along both X and Y multiple axis.
