Motion and Controls Reference Materials
Reference Articles 401 - 500 of 1912
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Minimizing PCB Parasitic Effects with Optimum Layout of the Gate Driver Loop Applicable to AHV85110 AND AHV85111 Gate Drivers
Description: This application note shows how to minimize PCB parasitic effects with optimum layout of the gate driver loop. ...
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Sensorless and Always Without Reverse Rotation: Rapid and Accurate Startup for Blower Fan Motors
Description: In modern fans or pumps, cost savings and power efficiency incentives are pushing motor designs toward sensorless motor drivers. Conventional motor drivers use trapezoidal motor control with three ...
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Mini Brushless DC Motor Series for Water Floss
Description: Mini brushless DC motor series for water floss,With the improvement of living standards,people pay more attention to physical health issues,and current household medical and health products have ...
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Customized Servo Gearmotor, Wheels, and Bracket Assembly Making a Package Handling Robot Mobile
Description: The creator of a specialized robot needed a customized solution for mobility. The application needed a durable motor with low DC voltage and high torque requirements to overcome the system inertia ...
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DC Motor in Coffee Machine and Solutions
Description: Coffee machines on the market are divided into automatic coffee machines and coffee grinders. Automatic coffee machine refers to a machine that can make a cup of coffee just by pressing a button, The ...
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DC Motor for Automotive Seat Adjustment
Description: Lightweight automotive motor 13V gearbox DC motor PGM-W043 series, through fast level adjustment, low noise and long life bring a comfortable experience, good durability is another feature, repeated ...
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Application Note: White Goods
From: Isabellenhutte USADescription: LOW-OHMIC PRECISION AND POWER RESISTORS ...
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Integrated Granite Motion Systems vs Positioning Stages Mounted on a Granite Base
Description: Differences and Similarities of High Precision Multi-Axis Positioning Systems Concepts ...
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Laser Seam Welding of Electronic Packages Using Galvo Scanners
Description: Improving Quality in Laser SEam Welding of Electronic Packages with Galvo Scanners ...
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Solving the Challenges in MicroLED Manufacturing with Fast and Precise Motion Control Solutions
Description: Display Technologies in Comparison: LCD - LED - OLED - MicroLED ...
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BLDC Motor for Bladeless Fan with Low Noise
Description: With the heat of summer, the use of bladeless fans is particularly important. It can not only solve the high temperature, but also bring you safe and efficient use. Focusing on the extensive needs of ...
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Continuous Generation Gear Grinding
From: Gear Motions, Inc.Description: By following the evolution of gears over a long period of time, we in the gear manufacturing industry increase the likelihood that we can learn from the past without engineering some of its mistakes ...
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Gears in the Right Place, at the Right Time
From: Gear Motions, Inc.Description: Most people focus on the right material, meaning quality, and the right cost, meaning price, but fail to look at place and time. ...
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Learning About Gears
From: Gear Motions, Inc.Description: Have you ever thought, "I'd like to know more about the gears our company buys or specifies. It might help me or one of our engineers or quality folks do our jobs better. ...
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Reducing Gear Manufacturing Costs at Turning
From: Gear Motions, Inc.Description: The management of gear manufacturing costs is a complex process. It is more than just the standard action process that gears take in their production. ...
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Reducing Gear Rattle
From: Gear Motions, Inc.Description: Another glaring problem in the field of gear assembly that can lead to reduced life of both parts and machine - gear rattle. ...
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Variable Speed Drives Improve Machine Efficiency in Industrial Application
From: Newark, An Avnet CompanyDescription: A comprehensive overview of VSD applications in improving machine efficiency and saving energy from electrical motors in industrial appications ...
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BLDC Motors in Food Waste Disposer
Description: Food waste is an inescapable problem of family life and there are more than 50% of Municipal Solid Waste(MSW) are food waste according to statistical data. Though the government invested lots of ...
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Custom Motors Platforms for BLDC Motors in Electric Fan
Description: Most of the electric fans on the market now use traditional AC motors, which have a limited service life, inconvenient maintenance, high energy consumption, and low motor controllability. To satisfy ...
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16mm BLDC Motors Essential to Atherectomy Devices
From: PortescapDescription: Orbital and rotational atherectomy procedures cut or grind away calcified plaque to restore blood flow in obstructed vessels. Atherectomy devices utilize different motion approaches for grinding or ...
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Miniature Motors Help Power Robotics Applications
From: PortescapDescription: A key element of the robotics industry is the motion control system that powers robotic applications and helps to make their small footprint, efficiency, and precision a reality. Miniature motors are ...
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Gearhead Technologies and Innovations
From: PortescapDescription: Gearheads, which are also referred to as either gearboxes or gear motors, are popular accessories in the world of miniature motors. Providing either increased torque capabilities or speed reduction of ...
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Improving Aircraft Passenger Comfortability with Brush DC and Brushless DC Motors
From: PortescapDescription: It's time to board your flight! You enter the cabin, stow your carry-on in the overhead compartment, sit down in your designated spot, and automatically adjust the seat for comfortability with the ...
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Thrombolysis Treatment Devices Depend on DC Motors
From: PortescapDescription: The 22mm and 24mm DC Coreless motors provide the higher speed and torque capability, wider speed range coverage, and competitive price/performance necessary to meet the requirements of thrombectomy ...
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Brushless DC Motor Solutions for Electric Fans
Description: Hot Summer is coming soon. It is particularly important to choose a fan that is comfortable and easy to operate. With an efficient and quiet motor, it will greatly increase the good experience. Power ...
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BLDC Motor for High-end Automotive Electric Seat Solution
Description: Many types of automobile electric seat adjustment motors on the market. Basically, they are mainly brushed motors. Brushed motors have large volume, low efficiency, high noise, and short life. The ...
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Inefficient Actuators Upgraded to Rotork Intelligent Electric Actuation at a Water Adventure Site
From: Rotork plcDescription: IQ3 actuators from Rotork have improved and modernised the flow control system at a white water centre in the north-east of England, UK. ...
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7 Benefits of Using Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) to Control Your Crane or Hoist
Description: Variable frequency drives, or VFDs, are a type of AC motor controller that drive an electric motor by varying the frequency and voltage supplied to it. ...
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Gearbox Motor in Automotive Electric Seat Solution
Description: Shenzhen Power Motor concentrates our advantageous R&D resources, invested more than 3% of income every year to develop the Automotive Seat Adjustment Motor Solution. We creatively redesigned the ...
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Ten Must-Know Messages About High Speed BLDC Motor
From: Constar Motion Co., LtdDescription: Micro high speed brushless DC motors have attracted more and more attention from customers in high-precision applications. Many high-end medical and precision industrial instruments use high-speed ...
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Closestool Pump DC Motor in Smart Home
Description: how to improve the flushing capacity of the toilet has also become an urgent problem. Adding a toilet pump to toilet design is the most effective solution.The difference between RV and yacht toilets ...
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Strain Wave Gear for Multi-Axis Robot Power Unit
From: KOFON Motion GroupDescription: The multi-axis power execution robotics unit constantly be one of the major application field of strain wave gears. This application example shows wrist axis of one 2 axis robot for routing ...
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Smart Water Meter Switch Actuator with DC Motor
Description: Power Motor complied with market demand, designed a new structure to replace the limit switch for water meter through innovative structural design and special material selection, so developed the ...
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Designing Medical Devices for the 21st Century
From: PortescapDescription: Healthcare today is an ever-changing marketplace where technological advances fuel change and increase the demand for innovative ideas that often spawn a series or new applications. ...
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Slotless vs Slotted Brushless DC Motor Designs
From: PortescapDescription: Due to their mechanical commutation, brushed DC have limited operational lifetime and are confined to low speeds typically less than 12K rpm. ...
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Comprehensive Guide to Assist Selection of the Correct Coupling Type and Size
From: jbj Techniques LimitedDescription: Hello and thank you for downloading this document from jbj Techniques Limited which aims to serve two purposes: The first to provide a useful resource to assist in the correct selection of coupling ...
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The Applications for Strain Wave Gear 2
From: KOFON Motion GroupDescription: The strain wave gear is widely used in the classic and new industrial applications. Here we share the mostly classic applications. #2 Optical Machines, Wood, Light Metal and Plastic Tooling Machine, ...
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Confirming Picometer Performance of Nanopositioning Systems
From: Mad City Labs, Inc.Description: When evaluating nanopositioners and their performance, interpreting published specifications from multiple vendors always is challenging. Differences in definitions or units of measurement can make it ...
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How Many Types of Brushless Gimbal Motor Structures are there and How to Choose?
From: Constar Motion Co., LtdDescription: The rise of short videos has made portable handheld gimbals and shooting drones become popular, and the brushless gimbal motor as a core component has also become an important development direction ...
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New BLDC Roller Motor
Description: The rapid rise of the logistics field makes the demand for industry automation higher and higher. From the traditional high-intensity and high-density manpower industry to today's sorting machine, ...
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Different Scanning Stage Concepts for Precise Motion Control in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Applications
Description: OCT has long been used in ophthalmology but recently also finds growing application in dermatology, for example to fight skin cancer. In comparison to conventional invasive diagnostic measures, OCT ...
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Moonshots, Mine Carts, and Million Mile Motion Stages
Description: Load and Inertia are the Enemy: The Parallels of Precision Automation and Performance Cars ...
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Piezo Nano-Focus Stage used in Magnetic Tweezers Assay to Elucidate the Nucleotide Addition Cycle of SARS-CoV-2
Description: Viruses, especially emerging and re-emerging positive-sense single-stranded RNA ((+)ssRNA) viruses, such as the severe acutre respiratory syndrome coronavirus - 2 (SARS-CoV-2), have caused several ...
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Test Results: Voice-Coil Nanopositioning Stages for Two-Photon Polymerization
Description: Having been predicted by physicists in the early 20th century, it wasn't until the turn of the 21st century that the laser became a standard tool for material scientists and engineers ...
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XY-Linear Motion - The Difference between Planar XY-Stages, Integrated XY-Stages, and Stacked Stages
Description: True Planar Motion - What is a Planar XY Stage? ...
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Miniature Motors Power Ivenix's Large Volume Infusion Pump
From: PortescapDescription: Ivenix continues to be a satisfied customer leveraging Portescap motors as they aim to eliminate infusion-related patient harm. ...
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DC Motors for Missile Fin Actuation Systems
From: PortescapDescription: Miniaturized, lightweight motors are essential to improving the maneuverability of mission-critical systems. ...
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Dedicated Brushless DC Geared Motor for Pruning Shears Applications
From: PortescapDescription: When compared to manual pruning tools, light and powerful motorized pruning shears help to reduce fatigue and repetitive motion injuries in many contexts such as viticulture, orchard and tree pruning, ...
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Motor Technology Options for Handheld Electronic Pipettes
From: PortescapDescription: What Mini Motor Options Exist for Handheld Electronic Pipettes? ...
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The Strain Wave Gear Industrial Applications
From: KOFON Motion GroupDescription: The strain wave gear is widely used in the classic and new industrial applications. Here we share the mostly classic applications. ...
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Electric Fans Brushless DC Motor
Description: Most of the electric fans on the market now use traditional AC motors, which have a limited service life, inconvenient maintenance, high energy consumption, and low motor controllability. To satisfy ...
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We Direct Drive Innovation in Delta Robots
From: TecnotionDescription: The new generation delta robots have one thing in common. Their design replaces the familiar servo motors with gearbox for direct drive torque motors. Together with Tecnotion, Brom mechatronics ...
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Rotork Provides Critical Fire Safety Duties on Turkish Subway
From: Rotork plcDescription: Rotork has installed over 150 RC200 pneumatic actuators to perform critical safety functions on a railway line in Turkey. Actuators operating fire dampers on an extension of the Kadıköy ...
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Application of DC Motor in Classic Automotive Electric Seat
Description: As everyone knows, all the cars equipped manual adjustment seats in the past, even today, most of the mid and low-end cars are still equipped manual adjustment seats, only a small amount of high and ...
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How to Make Linear Motion Systems Cleanroom Compatible
Description: While we often talk about the importance of keeping contamination out of linear motion components such as linear guides and screws, when these systems are used in a cleanroom, the goal is just the ...
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Linear Actuator IP Rating
Description: The IP rating improves the service life of the equipment and the safety requirements of the user. The first number indicates the level of protection against solids entry, and the second number ...
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The Advantage of Strain Wave Gear
From: KOFON Motion GroupDescription: Why strain wave gear? Since power is transmitted through multiple tooth engagement, strain wave gear (harmonic reducer) offers high output torque capacity. Strain wave gears (harmonic reducer) are ...
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Platform-based Solution for Car Seat Lifting Motors
Description: Power Motor has an in-depth searching of the market demand, analyzes and integrates several types of main seat frame structures, and proposes a platform-based motor response program of "same motor, ...
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The Classic Industrial Applications for Strain Wave Gear | KOFON®
From: KOFON Motion GroupDescription: The strain wave gear is widely used in the classic and new industrial applications. Here we share the mostly classic applications. ...
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Embedded Drives for HVAC
From: Vincotech (Germany) GmbHDescription: Drives for HVAC are addressed by a wide variety of power modules. ...
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What Factors Contribute to Friction in Linear Motion Systems?
Description: Designers and engineers typically try to avoid or mitigate friction in linear motion systems. Although friction isn’t always bad — in some applications, it can provide a damping effect and ...
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BLDC Motor For Food Waste Disposer in Home Application
Description: Normally, we installed the food waste disposer under the sink in the kitchen, we have no need to classify the food waste no matter it is fishbone, vegetables stem, fruit peel&shell and others when ...
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Rotork Actuators Improve Efficiency and Reliability at Jersey Water Treatment Works
From: Rotork plcDescription: Rotork has worked with Jersey Water to replace obsolete actuators at two water treatment sites on the Channel Island. Rotork IQ3 intelligent electric actuators have given Jersey Water increased levels ...
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Strain Wave Gear - History and Operational Principle
From: KOFON Motion GroupDescription: The strain wave gear was invented by Walton Musser in 1957. It was firstly applied in the electrically-driven wheels of Apollo Lunar Rover. Through 60 years development, now in various applications in ...
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Technology Update of Linear Actuator ANT-16
Description: Antuator's smallest electric linear actuator Ant-16 completed the technology upgrade that can take Hall sensor, Hall element is a thin sheet made of semiconductor material, can feel the measured ...
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Pandemic Impacts Linear Motion Component Manufacturing and Applications
Description: Linear motion components include everything from various types of linear actuators to linear guides, slides and ways, and a host of components in between. One thing they all have in common is that ...
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DC Motor in High-Power Automatic Gate Door Application
Description: With the development of society, automatic doors are used more and more widely in people's lives because of their superior convenience. Automatic doors are divided into electric rolling gates, ...
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Linear Motion Basics: 13 Fundamental Topics You Need to Know
Description: Whether you’re new to designing and sizing linear motion systems, or you could just use a refresher, we’ve gathered all the articles that cover mechanical concepts used in linear motion ...
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Electrification in the Field
From: EwellixDescription: The transition of mobile machinery and off-highway equipment away from fossil fuels may be a long-term goal,? but electrification is already delivering real benefits in the sector Is the era of the ...
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Comparing Micropositioning and Nanopositioning Stages
Description: Linear stage designs can range from long-stroke, high-load gantries to micropositioning and nanopositioning stages with light payloads. Although all linear stages are designed and constructed to ...
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FAQ of Antuator Linear Actuators
Description: ANTUATOR designs and manufactures linear electric actuators for automated industrial, medical, automotive, outdoor home and ergonomic equipment. We offer our customers complete, customised system ...
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How to Choose Between Linear Shafts, Rotary Shafts, and Posts Part 2
From: MISUMI USADescription: You would not be blamed for mistaking linear shafts, rotary shafts, and posts at first glance. All three have similar appearances as they are all generally metallic, rod-shaped assembly components, ...
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The Electric Vehicle Revolution
From: MISUMI USADescription: The electric vehicle (EV) revolution continues to change the look, feel, and drive of the world's automotive fleet. Once extremely uncommon, a steadily increasing number of EVs can be spotted cruising ...
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Your Metal is Showing: Low Temperature Black Chrome Plating
From: MISUMI USADescription: Low temperature black chrome (LTBC) plating is a special coating used for many different products such as shafting, linear guides, and actuators. This popular coating is beneficial in many ways. ...
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Screwjacks Control The Gap Positioning
From: DieQua CorporationDescription: Home improvements, and especially kitchen renovations, are hot topics in lifestyle TV shows and magazines. The focal point of most family’s homes is the kitchen. Selection for the countertop is ...
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DC Gearbox Motor For Garage Door Industry Automation
Description: Power Motor designed a PMDC gearbox motor-PGM.W072M0078 for the electric garage door which equipped with worm and helical gear. It outputs low speed and high torque to control the up and down movement ...
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5 Points You Should Consider When Replace Linear Motion Systems
Description: We outline the top five points that engineers, maintenance technicians and service providers should consider when replacing linear profile rail systems. When a linear system has reached the end of its ...
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Modern Motor Drivers Enable a Common Platform for Power Tool Designs
Description: The current power tool market is a large and diverse space with a wide range of low and high power batteries that make it difficult to design a common platform to fit all tools. A tool line up can ...
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Ode to an Induction Motor
Description: Review three basic concepts of induction motors. Explore electrical concepts involved in induction motor design. ...
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Understanding the Key Components of a Labeler Machine
Description: Labeling systems are often used in the packaging industry. Placement and positioning must be precise to avoid potential errors. Software can help users overcome issues by making the process more ...
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Half-Bridge vs. Sixpack Modules for Motor Drives
From: Vincotech (Germany) GmbHDescription: The use of one power module for each phase is state-of-the-art in solar and UPS applications even at relative small power ratings whereas in drive applications a single module for the whole ...
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Motor Drive Applications
From: Vincotech (Germany) GmbHDescription: Electric motors are all around us in appliances such as washing machines and refrigerators, and in transportation modes such as cars and in planes. We would not have many of the common modern ...
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DC Motor Solution for Smart Home Air Fryer
Description: In recent years, with the increasing income level of residents in my country, the living environment and consumption-ability of residents have been significantly improved. With the expansion of the ...
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Top 5 the Most Popular Structures of Linear Rail Guide
Description: We offer motorized stages that can be assembled into many different configurations; for example, XY stages, XYZ stages. We list top 5 the most popular stage combinations here, but you can select your ...
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Case Study: Water Resistant Linear Actuator System for Testing Facility
From: Isotech, Inc.Description: Given the environment in which this application would be subject to, the customer’s main concern was operational efficiency and longevity in water. In addition, they required an automated ...
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Brief Analysis of the Brushless DC Motor for Smart Appliance
Description: Kitchen Robot(Multi-Function cooking machine) combines more than 10 kinds of kitchen appliances into one, the functions include weighing, mixing, chopping, grinding, shortener, whipping, cooking, heat ...
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Linear Guides and Slides in Designs Light and Large
Description: Linear guide systems include guide rails,slides and ways. Industry categorizes them into a few basic types as well — including profile rails, drawer slides, linear bearings, guide wheels and ...
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Rise of the Electric Bike Market
From: Gear Motions, Inc.Description: Last month we discussed the popularity of electric vehicles and the impact on the gear industry. This month we focus on a specific type of electric transportation, electric bikes. E-bikes have seen a ...
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Slideology 101: Why Do So Many Drawer Slides Use a Half-Inch Cross-Section?
Description: Be it in a bedroom dresser or a kitchen island, there's a reasonable chance the drawer slides occupy a half-inch cross-section. ...
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What is Linear Motion Design Engineering?
Description: Linear motion is an area of motion control encompassing several technologies including linear motors, linear actuators, and linear rolling guides and bearings, among others. Traditional linear motors ...
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DC Motor for Hand Blender Mixer 230V in Home Appliances Full-automatic Coffee Machine
Description: Full-automatic coffee machine is a practical machine which can realize the entire process of make a cup of coffee by simply press a button. For a full-automatic coffee machine, the coffee bean grinder ...
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Design Application Examples Using Linear Shafts
From: MISUMI USADescription: Whether you're building a new machine or considering making modifications on an existing machine, engineering effort, cost and time are all factors that should be heavily considered before beginning ...
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Guide Mechanisms for Precision Positioning Stages
From: MISUMI USADescription: Most stages employ three primary types of guide mechanism for their precision positioning stages. Dovetail, Linear Ball, and Cross Roller guides compose most of the MISUMI product line. Each mechanism ...
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How to Choose between Linear Shafts, Posts, and Rotary Shafts
From: MISUMI USADescription: Linear shafts, posts, and rotary shafts are used when you need to control some type of motion, either linear or rotary, or a combination of the two. ...
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Manual and Motorized Drive Stages
From: MISUMI USADescription: Positioning stages are differentiated by the means used to control the position of the stage platform, either by manual control, via a positional knob, or motor control, via a stepper motor. These are ...
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Setting the Stage: Four Steps in Stage Selection
From: MISUMI USADescription: Selecting the right stage for your application can seem like a daunting task, especially with the variety available. An engineer might not want to spend too much time determining which stage to use ...
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Shaft and Hole Tolerances and Fits
From: MISUMI USADescription: It seems like even the most basic engineering design decisions can be exceedingly difficult and complex. Almost every mechanical system involves some sort of hole/shaft joint, and an innumerable ...
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Strengths & Limitations: Belt Drive vs. Ball Screw Actuators
From: MISUMI USADescription: The challenge for mechanical automation systems in the past has been the successful conversion of rotational motion from electric or mechanical motors into useful forms of linear motion. A ...
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Estimate Brush DC Motor Reliability With Confidence
From: PortescapDescription: When it comes to manufacturing advanced medical instruments, reliability is a critically important consideration for coreless miniature DC motors. To estimate a motor's expected lifetime, ...
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The Benefits of Engineer-to-Engineer Collaboration in the Motion Control Industry
From: PortescapDescription: When you're designing a device that requires a miniature motor, selecting a trusted and reputable motion control provider is absolutely crucial. One of the key qualifications to look for while vetting ...