Damping Hinges

Hanaya Inc. also provides damping hinge solutions to meet the requirements of your application. Apart from the standard damping hinges that we carry, we also provide customize damping solutions with different damping torques, mounting configurations and sizes. The most common question a lot of our customers ask is:
A friction hinge is a hinge that provides constant torque to hold a device in place through all angles of motion. Unless an external force is applied to move the device, the hinge will resist motion. An application we see it being used every day is a laptop.
A damping hinge is a hinge that slows motion but will not hold the device in any fixed position. When a damping hinge is attached to a weighted device, gravity will cause the device to rotate on its own until the entire system reaches a state of equilibrium. The purpose of a damping hinge is not to hold a device in place but to reduce the effects of motion in an oscillatory system, e.g., in the case of a door slamming, we want to reduce that effect so that it closes slowly.