2024 LEAP Awards by Design World
Design World’s VP, Editorial Director Paul J. Heney and Executive Editor Lisa Eitel presented the winners of the 2024 LEAP Awards on October 30th, 2024, in an online broadcast. These brands cross four of the company’s design engineering brands: Design World, Fluid Power World, Engineering.com, and EE World. This year’s winners were chosen by an independent judging panel of 10 engineering and academic professionals.
Bodine Won Silver
Bodine Electric Company won Silver in the Mechanical category. The product nominated in question is the Type 42R Motor Redesigned for Wet Environments. Bodine Engineers worked exclusively to construct this motor to better accommodate the needs of future customers. This motor is a TENV (Totally Enclosed, Non-Ventilated) version of the original 42R motor. The exterior center ring was redesigned all while retaining the rotor and stator.
The Re-Design in Detail
A new center ring features a smoother exterior surface without fins. The O-rings at each joint were also taken into consideration and designed with an ingress protection rating of IP-66 (IP-66 means that the enclosure is protected from high-pressure water jets in any direction). With the removal of the fan and shroud, it allows the creation of an integral wiring compartment, which enables the motor to fit easily into narrow spaces without the need of a terminal box. Terminal boxes are typically mounted on the side of the motor, which would take up too much space. The accompanying photo shows the original 42R fan-cooled design on the left (with a terminal box mounted on the side) and the new 42R water-protected design on the right (with the end cover removed to show the integral wiring compartment). The first product to use the new motor design is Bodine’s type 42R hypoid series gearmotor.
Thank You
Thank you to the judges and academic professionals that voted for our product. We also thank Design World for featuring us. Congratulations to Ogura Industrial Corporation in winning the Gold in the Mechanical category for their Power-Off Micro Clutch.