Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080265691 | Canned Linear Motor Armature and Canned Linear Motor - The present invention provides a canned linear motor armature and a canned linear motor in which insulation reliability of the canned linear motor armature of a water cooling type is improved, and assembly workability is good. | 10-30-2008 |
20090315414 | CANNED LINEAR MOTOR ARMATURE AND CANNED LINEAR MOTOR - A canned linear motor armature includes an armature winding, a picture-frame-shaped casing, a flat can, and a plurality of refrigerant flow channels. The armature winding includes a coil. The picture-frame-shaped casing has an opening and encloses the armature winding. The flat can has a plate surface to close and seal the opening of the picture-frame-shaped casing. The plurality of refrigerant flow channels are provided within the can to face the coil of the armature winding. | 12-24-2009 |
20100320847 | LINEAR MOTOR ARMATURE AND LINEAR MOTOR - A linear motor armature includes a plurality of armature core blocks that are linearly connected to each other, each armature core block being formed of a stack of a plurality of armature cores that are substantially I-shaped, each armature core block including teeth portions around which armature coils are wound, the teeth portions being provided in two end portions of the armature core block in a longitudinal direction of the armature core block, and a step portion extending in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the armature core block, the step portion being provided at a center of the armature core block and having a width larger than a width of the teeth portions, wherein an attachment hole for fixing each of the plurality of armature core blocks to an external armature attachment plate is formed in each of two side portions of the step portion. | 12-23-2010 |
20100327669 | MULTI-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM ACTUATOR AND STAGE DEVICE - A multi-degree-of-freedom actuator includes a movable element having a plurality of permanent magnets, and a stator including a stator core and a plurality of coils. The permanent magnets are arranged in the X direction such that the number P of poles is an even number of two or more. The coils are of two types: X-direction driving coil and Z-direction driving coil. The Z-direction driving coils the number of which is P are disposed at positions opposite to magnetic poles of the permanent magnets. The X-direction driving coil or coils the number of which is P/2 are each disposed at a position opposite to an intermediate point between two adjacent ones of the magnetic poles of the permanent magnets. | 12-30-2010 |
20110012440 | PERIODIC MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATION DEVICE, AND LINEAR MOTOR AND ROTARY MOTOR USING THE SAME - A periodic magnetic field generation device is provided with a field pole of a Halbach array structure in which main pole permanent magnets magnetized in a direction of a generated field and sub pole permanent magnets magnetized in a direction opposite to the direction of magnetic poles of the main pole permanent magnets are alternately disposed linearly or circularly so as to be adjacent to each other. A part of each of the main pole permanent magnets on a side on which the magnetic field is generated is replaced by a soft magnetic member, and a relation between a length A of the soft magnetic member on the side of the generated field along a moving direction and a length B of each main pole permanent magnet on a side of a back yoke along the moving direction is A01-20-2011 | |
20110043053 | LINEAR AND CURVILINEAR MOTOR SYSTEM - A linear and curvilinear motor system includes: linear and curvilinear guiding devices movably guiding and respectively supporting right and left of a slider, each having a guide rail configured by linear tracks and a circular arc track and slider blocks; a motor unit having a stator with a stator linear section and a stator circular arc section and a mover with a linear section and provided for the slider and away from the stator with a gap interposed therebetween; and an encoder head and a hole sensor detecting positions of the linear tracks and the circular arc track. When a magnetic pole pitch of the linear section of the stator is a distance λm and a magnetic pole pitch of the circular arc section of the stator is an angle γm, a radius r of the circular arc track at the position detection point is defined as r=λm/γm. | 02-24-2011 |
20110101896 | LINEAR MOTOR DEVICE - Provided is a linear motor device which is compact even when a stroke is increased, which can reduce heat generation, and which can eliminate damping force caused by circulating current. The linear motor device includes a linear motor that includes a movable member having a plurality of fields and a stator in which a plurality of armatures including polyphase coils are arranged in line in the moving direction of the movable member, and a controller that sequentially outputs control commands to current amplifiers respectively connected to the armatures in accordance with the relative position of the movable member. The controller selectively outputs the control commands to only the current amplifiers corresponding to the armatures which are opposite the movable member such that the armatures are positioned within a range corresponding to the length in the moving direction of the movable member. | 05-05-2011 |
20110236162 | PROCESSING-OBJECT-SUPPORTING MECHANISM, SUPPORTING METHOD, AND CONVEYING SYSTEM INCLUDING THE MECHANISM - A processing-object-supporting mechanism includes at least three devices each including a lift pin, a motor, and a drive controller. The lift pin contacts a processing object to support the processing object. The processing object is transferred between a conveying arm and the processing-object-supporting mechanism. The motor lifts and lowers the lift pin. The drive controller is configured to control the motor. The drive controller of each of the at least three devices is configured to control the motor of each of the at least three devices independently. | 09-29-2011 |
20110254385 | DIRECT ACTING ROTATION ACTUATOR - A direct acting rotation actuator includes a motor unit, an output shaft, a detector unit, and a bearing portion. The motor unit includes a field magnet portion which includes a permanent magnet or a core tooth, a first armature winding which generates a rotation magnetic field in the rotation direction, and a second armature winding which generates a traveling magnetic field in the direct acting direction. The output shaft is attached to the field magnet portion of the motor unit. The detector unit includes a direct acting detector and a rotation detector respectively detecting a position in the direct acting direction and an angle in the rotation direction of the output shaft. The bearing portion includes a direct acting bearing and a rotation bearing respectively supporting the output shaft in the direct acting direction and the rotation direction. The motor unit is disposed on an anti-load side of the output shaft, and the detector unit is disposed on a load side of the output shaft. | 10-20-2011 |
20120001499 | ACTUATOR - An actuator according to an embodiment includes support mechanisms that are disposed in plural places of an output shaft in a longitudinal direction and support the output shaft in a linear direction and a rotation direction, a motor portion that is disposed in a longitudinal direction of the output shaft and drives the output shaft in the linear direction and the rotation direction, a first detecting portion that detects an angle of a rotation direction of the output shaft, and a second detecting portion that detects displacement of the direct direction of the output shaft. | 01-05-2012 |
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20110221284 | LINEAR MOTOR - The disclosure discloses a linear motor comprising: a field system in which a plurality of permanent magnets are linearly arranged: and an armature configured to face said field system and to have an armature core provided with armature windings, said linear motor running along a predetermined direction of travel with either said field system or said armature serving as a mover and the other serving as a stator, wherein: said armature core comprises: auxiliary teeth that are respectively provided on both ends along said direction of travel and around which said armature windings are not wound; and a plurality of main teeth that are provided between said auxiliary teeth, and each of said auxiliary teeth comprises an end portion shape in which a dimension in a teeth height direction orthogonal to said direction of travel is variable along said direction of travel. | 09-15-2011 |
20130033123 | THETA Z DRIVE APPARATUS AND STAGE APPARATUS - In this θZ drive apparatus, at least three coil portions are arranged to be capable of driving a stage in a direction Z, a direction θx which is a rotation direction employing a direction X in a horizontal plane as a center line of rotation, and a direction θy which is a rotation direction employing a direction Y in the horizontal plane orthogonal to the direction X as a center line of rotation. | 02-07-2013 |
20130049489 | MOVER FOR A LINEAR MOTOR AND LINEAR MOTOR - A mover for a linear motor includes an armature having a plurality of teeth arranged along a line and wound with coils. The mover further includes a main-pole magnet array arranged at a side of the armature at which the teeth exist. The main-pole magnet array includes a plurality of main-pole magnets with different polarities alternately arranged along an arranging direction of the teeth. The mover further includes at least one auxiliary-pole magnet arranged adjacent to one end or both ends of the main-pole magnet array. | 02-28-2013 |
20150035458 | LINEAR MOTOR SYSTEM - A linear motor system includes a stator, a mover, and a controller. The stator includes a plurality of armature coil units arranged so as to be spaced apart from one another at certain intervals. The mover includes a permanent magnet. The controller is configured to sequentially select, as a power-feeding target, an armature coil unit opposing the mover from among the plurality of armature coil units, perform, for the power-feeding target, computation for power-feeding control on the basis of a speed command, and sequentially feed power to the armature coil unit. The controller includes a power-feeding-switching compensation function of performing switching compensation when the power-feeding target is switched to a next armature coil unit. | 02-05-2015 |