Lenze Couplings
YB Components are pleased to offer UK customers a high-quality range of couplings and clutches manufactured by Lenze, a trusted name in drive and motion technology. The Lenze product range includes a wide selection of reliable and precision-engineered solutions, designed to meet the demanding requirements of modern industrial applications. Products include rigid couplings, flexible couplings and multiple-disc steel clutches, alongside a variety of other coupling and clutch solutions.
Whether you require a rigid connection, flexibility to accommodate misalignment, or a robust clutch solution for controlled power transmission, YB Components can provide access to the appropriate Lenze product for your requirements.
Torsionally Rigid Steel Disc Couplings
The steel multiple-disc clutches are torsionally stiff and backlash free couplings that are maintenance free and suitable for use in the harshest of environments. These allow for shaft mis-alignments to be compensated but without any damping properties.
ArcOflex Diaphragm Coupling
- Backlash-Free and torsionally rigid diaphragm coupling
- Single cardan version compensates for axial and angular mis-alignments
- Double cardan version additionally compensates for radial misalignments
- Maintenance and wear-free.
- Temperature range from -35° to +150°C
- High strength, flexible stainless steel diaphragm packs
- Optimised via FEM (Tapered diaphragm shape)
RADEX®-N – Steel Multiple Disc Couplings
- Single or double cardan versions
- Maintenance and wear-free
- High mis-alignment compensation capacity
- Rated torque up to 280,000Nm
- Temperature range up to +280°C
RADEX®-N NN
- Single cardan design
- Only angular and axial mis-alignment permissible
- Highest torsional rigidity
- Compact size
RADEX®-N NN NANA 1 / NANA 2
- Double cardan design
- High mis-alignment compensation capacity with low restoring forces.
RADEX®-N NANA 3 (API 610)
- Double cardan design
- Intermediate pieces adapted to standard installed pump sizes
- Radial Mounting
- Available in accordance with API 610
RADEX®-N NANA 4
- Intermediate Piece according to customer specifications
- Max. shaft gap up to approx. 6m
- Welded intermediate pipe for the highest torsional rigidity
RADEX®-N NNW
- Intermediate Piece according to customer specifications
- Coupling consisting of 2x NN design with intermediate shaft
- For drives with relatively low speeds
RADEX®-N NNZ
- Compact double cardan coupling
- Cannot be installed radially
- With intermediate disc
- Ideal for replacing steel curved-tooth couplings
RADEX®-N NENE
- With reduced hub
- Compact double cardan coupling
- Intermediate piece cannot be installed radially
- Intermediate piece length is variable
RADEX®-N Composite
- Intermediate piece made from carbon fibre
- Corrosion-resistant version for large shaft gaps
RIGIFLEX®-N – Steel Multiple Disc Clutch
RIGIFLEX®-N
- Series for pump drives
- Couplings in line with API 610, optionally API 671
- Double cardan version
- Maintenance and wear free
- High mis-alignment compensation capability
- Rated torque up to 280,000Nm
- Suitable for temperatures up to +280°C
RIGIFLEX®-HP – (High Performance)
- Standard versions suitable for torques up to 330.00Nm and for shaft diameters up to 380mm
Backlash-Free Servo Couplings
Modern machinery demands greater speed, precision, reliability, flexibility and safety. As automation continues to increase, so does the use of servo technology and the need for components designed to meet these demanding requirements.
ROTEX® GS Coupling
ROTEX® GS Miniature Coupling
- Compact dimensions
- Torque range from 0.2 to 12Nm
- Clean room certified
ROTEX® GS Compact
- 1/3 shorter than standard
- Good concentricity
ROTEX® GS Clamping Ring Hub Light
- Integrated clamping system made of aluminium
- High friction fit torques
- Very smooth running
ROTEX® GS Steel Clamping Ring Hub
- Integrated clamping system made of steel
- High friction fit torques
- Very smooth running
ROTEX® GS P In Accordance With DIN 69002
- Integrated clamping system made of steel
- High friction fit torques
- Developed for short drilling spindles
ROTEX® GS-P ETP®
- Integrated ETP quick clamping system
- Compact mounting dimensions
- Exceptional concentricity
ROTEX® GS Expanding Hub
- Integrated clamping system for hollow shaft connections
ROTEX® GS A-H
- Designed for radial assembly/dis-assembly
- Held in place with 4 grub screws
ROTEX®GS DKM
- Double-Cardan jaw coupling
- Can compensate for larger radial mis-alignments
ROTEX® GS ZR1
- Intermediate shaft coupling with clamping hub on intermediate pipe
- Used with larger shaft gaps
ROTEX® GS ZR2
- Intermediate shaft coupling with CLAMPEX locking elements
- Used with larger shaft gaps
ROTEX® GS ZR3
- Intermediate shaft coupling with glued aluminium pipe
- Possible lengths of up to 4m
- Split coupling hubs
ROTEX® GS HP
- No single ring gear; consists instead of individual elastomers
- Developed for high speed drives
RADEX®-NC – Servo Multiple Disc Clutch
- Backlash-free
- Increased torsionally rigidity
- Low moment of inertia and high speeds
- Temperature range up to +200°C
Servoflex – Shaft Coupling
- High strength, flexible stainless steel diaphragm packs
- Optimised via FEM (tapered diaphragm shape)
- Single and double cardan design
- Suitable for high temperature environments
- Compensates for axial, radial and angular mis-alignments
- Suitable for clockwise and counter-clockwise rotation and alternating operation
- Allows for high torques to be transmitted
- Low damping of torque peaks, direct torque transmission
TOOLFLEX® – Metal Bellows Coupling
TOOLFLEX® S
- Shallow installation depth thanks to short bellows
- Increased torsional rigidity
- Torques ranging from 0.1 to 15Nm
TOOLFLEX® M
- Torsionally rigid power transmission
- Torques ranging from 1 to 600Nm
- Temperature range up to +200°C
TOOLFLEX® KN
- Integrated clamping system with cone clamping ring hub
- Torques ranging from 35 to 340Nm
TOOLFLEX® PI
- Bellows with 1 clamping hub and 1 PI clamping hub, crimped
- Torques ranging from 15 to 150Nm
TOOLFLEX® CF
- Bellows with 1 cone ring and 1 clamping hub, crimped/welded
- Torques ranging from 35 to 340Nm
TOOLFLEX® S-H/M-H
- Half-shell version for easy installation/disassembly
- High torsional stiffness
- Torques ranging from 15 to 170Nm
TOOLFLEX® ZR
- Intermediate shaft coupling with glued aluminium pipe
- Torques ranging from 15 to 170Nm
COUNTEX® Rotary Transducer Coupling
- High torsion spring stiffness
- Intermediate piece made of plastic with high temperature resistance
- Reduces restoring forces to a minimum
- Compact dimensions for tight installation spaces
- Maintenance-free
- Backlash-free and torsoinally rigid
- With an axial plug-in
- Temperature range from -40°C to +160°C
Flexible, Jaw and Bolt Couplings
Suitable for a very wide range of applications. Flexible couplings damp oscillations and vibrations and are able to compensate for shock in the drive train.
EVOLASTIC® Highly Elastic Shaft Coupling and Flange Coupling
- Max. Torque 5,600Nm
- Max. operating temperature 110°C
- Highly elastic
- Maintenance and backlash-free
- Vibration dampening
- Slip-free
- Electrically insulated
Variations
- EVOLASTIC® E/EP: Highly elastic single element for frequently
- EVOLASTIC® EH/EHP: Elastomer with Radial Hub
- EVOLASTIC® E2H/E2HP: Shaft Coupling
- EVOLASTIC® EFH/EFHP: Flange Coupling with SAE and special flange dimensions
- EVOLASTIC® D2H: Intermediate Shaft Coupling
- EVOLASTIC® DFH: Intermediate Shaft Coupling (Combination of standard connecting flange in accordance with SAE-J620 and intermediate shaft)
POLY-NORM® Torsionally Flexible Jaw Coupling with Shallow Installation Depth
- Compact Size
- Torques up to 67,000Nm
- Maintenance-free
- For use in explosion protection areas
- Torsionally flexible, vibration dampening
- Fail-safe
- Shallow installation depth, short shaft gap
POLY-NORM® M Torsionally Flexible, Fail-Safe Shaft Coupling
- Available in 8 sizes
- Nominal torques from 100,000 up to 5,500,000Nm
- Compact construction despite high performance level
- Shallow installation depth (short shaft gap)
- Vibration dampening
- Axial, radial and angular mis-alignment compensaton
- Easy mounting with an axial plug-in
REVOLEX® KX-D Torsionally Flexible Bolt Coupling
- Extensive range with a large number of different variants
- Torques from 4,300bis 1,350,000Nm
- Vibration dampening
- Can be installed/removed radially
- For use in explosion protection areas
- With an axial plug-in
- Fail-safe
HexaFlex Torsionally Flexible Shaft Coupling
- Compensates for mis-alignments axially, radially, and angularly
- Torques up to 4,200Nm
- Shaft diameter from 14mm to 100mm
- Easy replacement cardan discs
- Maintenance-free and backlash-free
- Cushions jolts and vibrations
- Can be installed radially
Simplaflex Torsionally Flexible All-Steel Coupling
- Full-metal design
- Compensates mis-alignments axially, radially and angularly
- Highly flexible
- Rated torque up to 900Nm
- Temperature range from -40°C to +100°C (and up to +300°C in stainless steel/brased version)
- Large number of different variants available (including a rust-free model)
- Shaft diameters from 3mm to 75mm
- Independent of the direction of rotation
ROFLEX® Torsionally Flexible and Fail-Safe Shaft Coupling
- Modular system in graduated sizes
- Shallow installation depth (short shaft gap)
- Easy to service
- Compensates for all types of misalignments
- Damping of torsional vibrations
- Axial plug-in (easy to mount)
- torques up to 5,000Nm
- ATEX compliant
Variations
ROFLEX® N: 2 part shaft coupling in standard design
ROFLEX® S-H Split: 3 part shaft coupling with split-cracked hubs (elastomer elements can be replaced in installed state)
Mechanical Tooth Clutches
Mechanical tooth couplings are torsionally rigid couplings, oscillations, vibrations and shocks are not dampened
BoWex® Tooth Clutch
- Double cardan curved-tooth coupling
- Maintenance-free thanks to the plastic/steel material pairing
- High degree of thermal resistance of the polyamide sleeve (+100°C)
- Highly compact design
- Available in rust-free and ATEX versions
- Wide range including Variants that can be combined with torque limiters
BoWex® Junior
- 2-Piece curved-tooth plug-in coupling made of plastic
- Low dead weight
- Low moments of inertia
BoWex® Junior M
- 3-Piece double cardan coupling made of plastic
- Low dead weight
- Low moments of inertia
BoWex® M
- Double cardan curved-tooth coupling
- Maintenance-free thanks to the plastic/steel material pairing
BoWex® M-C
- Double cardan curved-tooth coupling
- Sleeve made from carbon fibre reinforced polyamide
- No electrostatic charge via plastic sleeve
BoWex® Stainless Steel
- Hubs made in stainless steel, polyamide sleeve
- For use in harsh environments
BoWex® I
- Double cardan curved-tooth coupling
- Maintenance-free thanks to the steel/plastic material pairing
BoWex® AS
- Double cardan curved-tooth coupling
- Separable coupling design
- Sleeve axially moveable in installed state
BoWex® Spez.-I
- Double cardan curved-tooth coupling
BoWex® SD/SD-D
- Curved-tooth coupling switchable at standstill
- Rapid connection and disconnection of units possible when at standstill
BoWex® SD1
- Curved-tooth coupling switchable at standstill
- With slip ring and switching rod for manual actuation
- Rapid connection and disconnection of units possible when at standstill
BoWex® SG
- Double cardan curved-tooth coupling
BoWex® SSR
- Double cardan curved tooth coupling with seeger supporting rings and mobile sleeve
- Maintenance-free thanks to the steel/plastic material pairing
BoWex® Spez.-I/CD
- Double cardan curved-tooth coupling
- Designed for sliding rotor motors
- Maintenance-free thanks to the steel/plastic material pairing
BoWex® GT
- The sleeve consists of two half shells
- Double cardan operating principle of the BoWex® is preserved
BoWex® ZR
- With intermediate piece for bridging larger shaft gaps
BoWex® HEW Compact – Highly Flexible Shaft Coupling
- High degree of compensation of misalignments
- Very compact design
- Torques ranging from 200 to 8,400Nm
- With axial plug-in
GEARex® – All-Steel Tooth Clutch
- Double cardan crowned gear coupling
- Compact dimensions, low dead weight and low mass inertia
- Outstanding torque to size ratio
- Fitted with special lubrication ports for easy maintenance while in fitted state
- Compensates for all mis-alignments
If you would like more information about the extensive range of Lenze couplings and clutches supplied to customers throughout the UK by YB Components, please get in touch with our team. Whether you require rigid couplings, flexible couplings, multiple-disc steel clutches or another solution from the Lenze range, YB Components can help you identify the right product for your application.
For further information, product enquiries or assistance with selecting a suitable Lenze coupling or clutch, please contact YB Components today.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the main types of LENZE Couplings?
Torsionally Flexible / Elastic Couplings: Best for absorbing shocks and dampening vibrations. (ROTEX, POLY-NORM, and Simplaflex).
Backlash-Free Servo Couplings: Used for high precision where zero play is required. (ROTEX® GS, TOOLFLEX® & ServoFlex).
Torsionally Rigid Couplings: Built to withstand immense torque and zero vibration dampening. ( Steel Gear couplings & Radex®-NC).
Rigid Couplings: Solid Components that offer zero play and no misalignment compensation