What is the Spanish translation for "Actuator"? This is a technical term.
What is the Spanish translation for "Actuator"? This is a technical term, Is used to determine plastic parts during manufacturing.
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An actuator is a subsystem usually employed in instrumentation, control, automation or robotic systems for translating an electrical signal into a mechanical action or whatever physical variable over which the aforementioned system bases its operation.
Suitable examples are:
- A solenoid valve opens or closes a fuel line in a furnace in response to a command from the temperature control system.
- A servomotor reacts to an electrical signal to locate a given part into place in a robotic arm or a tool into the desired coordinates in a numerical controlled machine (known by the CNC designation)
- A voltage regulator in an electrical distribution network or substation obeys some command from a central computer in order to change the voltage setting and accomodate for load fluctuations.
Examples abound by the hundreds.
An actuator is considered an output device; i.e. the command signal coming from within the system being coupled to the outside world. In that sense, it is the opposite to a transducer (also known as a sensor); the latter being an input device for acquiring the magnitude of the variable under supervision and providing an electrical analogous signal for the system to perform the processing action over it.
I disagree with the Word Reference translation. I'm a Mechanical Engineer, and I've always used the word "actuador" for actuator. Although "accionador" is not incorrect, it's not what is normally used in technical papers.
Google appears to agree. A search for "actuador neumático" gets 919,000 hits, and "accionador neumático" gets only 175,000. Similar results are shown when using "actuador/accionador mecánico.
You can find "actuador" in Wikipedia. On the other side, "accionador" is not there.
