Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080203852 | Circuit and Method For Analog-Driving a Capacitive Load, in Particular a Piezoelectric Actuator - A circuit for analogously controlling a capacitive charge, has a drive source used to provide an operating voltage or an operating flow used to charge the capacitive charge, a circuit arrangement used to charge and discharge the charge, and a storage capacity used to intermediately store the charge of the charge during the discharge of the charge and to emit intermediately stored charge to the charge during charging of the charge. In a method for analogously controlling a capacitive charge by applying a operational voltage or an operating flow of a drive source in order to charge the capacitive charge onto the charge and to discharge the charge, during a first discharge phase, the charge of the charge is intermediately stored in a storage capacity and during a first charging phase, which is used to charge the charge, the charge from the charge capacity is charged in the charge. | 08-28-2008 |
20080218027 | Circuit and Method for Controlling a Piezoelectric or Electrostrictive Actuator - A circuit and/or a corresponding method for controlling a piezoelectric or electrostrictive actuator (P) have a series-connected driver stage (G) which provides a control signal which is used to drive the piezoelectric actuator (P). A reference capacitor (M), which is used to measure a charge (qP) of the actuator (P), is serially connected to the actuator (P). The reference capacitor (M) is used as a series capacitor in order to measure the actuator charge (qA(T)=qP(t)) of the piezoelectric actuator. The output variable is a voltage which is proportional to the actuator charge. The voltage is guided to an A/D-converter and is processed further in a digital manner or guided directly to a analogue controller. | 09-11-2008 |
20080231142 | Piezoelectric Actuating Unit or Piezoelectric Drive Device - A piezoelectric actuating unit has a piezoelectric actuator pressed to a first cap which makes it possible to fix the actuating unit thereabove to the drive body of the piezoelectric drive device and cables and/or contact pins used in the form of contact elements with the actuator for the electrical operation thereof. In an advantageous manner, the first cap has at least one orifice for introducing the contact element. In particularly advantageous manner, the actuating units are used in the piezoelectric drive device with a drive body which has a cylindrical drive surface, at least two actuating units provided with the piezoelectric actuators which displace the drive body on a drive plane, a drive shaft which is placed on the drive body surface and is rotated by oscillation and the contact elements for connecting an actuator operating circuit to the actuators. | 09-25-2008 |
20090146528 | HYBRID CONTROL CIRCUIT - A device for controlling a capacitive charge, in particular a piezoelectric actuator ( | 06-11-2009 |
20100026140 | Solid-state actuator drive apparatus - A solid-state actuator drive apparatus has—a shaft, —a pivot bearing for supporting the shaft, —a drive body, —at least two actuators for the excitation of the drive body and the shaft relative to each other for causing the shaft to rotate relative to the drive body, and—a base element, on which these components are attached. Either the drive body is configured such that it has a drive body opening, and the shaft at least leads into the drive body opening, —or the shaft is configured as a hollow shaft, and an element of the drive body having an annular or discoid circumference is disposed therein. The drive body is disposed stationary relative to the base element. The shaft is disposed in the pivot bearing and is adjustably disposed in the radial direction of the shaft relative to the base element by the solid-state actuators. | 02-04-2010 |
20100164327 | Solid State Bending Actuator Comprising an Extension Element - A solid state actuator arrangement comprising an actuator which is configured as a solid state bending actuator and which has a first and a second end section opposite each other, a fastening device for fastening the first end section of the actuator in such a manner that it can still be adjusted, and connections for applying a driver signal to the actuator for adjusting the second end section by bending the actuator between at least two positions, an extension element being fastened to the free second end section of the actuator. | 07-01-2010 |
20100212642 | Fluid Metering Unit and Fluid Metering System - A fluid metering system has a metering valve, which is located between a supply region and a fluid metering region and an actuator drive that converts the elongation of at least two drive elements into the rotation of a drive shaft, the shaft being mechanically coupled to the metering valve, driving the latter for the metering process. | 08-26-2010 |
20100278310 | MULTI-LEAF COLLIMATOR WITH ROTATORY ELECTROMECHANICAL MOTOR AND OPERATING METHOD - Multi-leaf collimators have a guide frame ( | 11-04-2010 |
20100289378 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF - An information converter has at least two material layers having polygonal base surfaces, which are connected to each other in a shear-rigid way, wherein at least in one material layer a change of length can be induced. The polygonal base surface has at least two different interior angles. | 11-18-2010 |
20100295418 | ELECTROMECHANICAL MOTOR, ESPECIALLY A PIEZOELECTRIC MICROSTEPPER DRIVE - A motor which includes two drive elements, especially piezoelectric bending actuators, having effective directions that are perpendicular to each other. These actuators act upon a drive ring to thereby rotate a shaft. Two tension-compression bars, which are parallel to an effective direction, are connected to the drive ring, have respective joints at their ends and are connected to the ends of a diagonal bar, relative to which the ring can be displaced in the other effective direction. The diagonal bar itself can be displaced relative to fixing elements to an effective direction via a diagonal suspension. The drive, having actuators that are non-radially hinged to the ring. | 11-25-2010 |
20110266920 | ELECTROMECHANICAL MOTOR, ESPECIALLY A PIEZOELECTRIC MICROSTEPPER DRIVE - A motor which includes two drive elements, especially piezoelectric bending actuators, having effective directions that are perpendicular to each other. These actuators act upon a drive ring to thereby rotate a shaft. Diagonally opposite securing elements are provided on the drive ring and are used to flexibly suspend the drive ring via respective articulated corner elements on respective fixing elements that are diagonally opposite the respective securing elements. The drive according to the invention is compact, having actuators that are non-radially hinged to the drive ring. | 11-03-2011 |
20120146461 | Electromechanical Motor Especially a Piezoelectric Microstepper Motor - A microstepper motor which comprises two electromechanical drive elements, especially piezoelectric bending actuators, having effective directions that are perpendicular to each other, These actuators act upon a drive ring to thereby rotate a shaft. The actuators are non-radially hinged to the drive ring via an approximately square shear-flexible and torsion-proof frame structure, the drive ring being arranged inside said frame. The drive according to the invention is compact, the frame and the drive ring being configured as a single injection-molded drive module. | 06-14-2012 |