Actuators

Electric bicycles are becoming increasingly popular – in Germany, their number has nearly doubled in the last three years, according to the Federal Statistical Office. The importance of developing powerful and robust electric motors and precautions against tampering and pirating has grown accordingly. Schreiner ProTech delivers solutions for protection against weather and mechanical impact, for marking, and for authentication of Brose’s e-bike drive systems.

Improved Accuracy with Faster Dynamic Responses POSITAL’s updated analog programmable rotary encoder are now available with even more features. ■ Broader supply voltage range for mobile machine applications ■ Increased accuracy, resolution and number of turns ■ Further programmability function with our UBIFAST configuration tool ■ Singleturn encoders with measuring range less than 360 degrees available […]

Sensata Technologies, one of the world’s leading suppliers of sensor, industrial control, power management and electrical protection solutions, has published a new white paper that explores the development of next generation motors in the context of the disruptive growth of the Internet of Things (ioT) and Industry 4.0 smart manufacturing. Entitled ‘How advanced precision motors empower […]

VAC (Vacuumschmelze), the specialist in combining cobalt-iron rotor-stator-systems and permanent magnet assemblies to record-breaking systems is supporting the University of Nottingham (UoN) in constructing a unique electric motor-bike. The first test under racing conditions at Donington Park/GB led the team to an overwhelming victory in the second race. They won with an impressive lead of […]

CUI’s Motion Group today announced a new line of stepper motors paired with their AMT11 incremental encoder series. The NEMA‑AMT112S stepper servo motor family ( https://www.cui.com/catalog/motion/stepper-servo-motors ) is available in compact NEMA 8, 11, 14, 17, and 23 frame sizes with a step angle of 1.8° and holding torques ranging from 3 to 270 oz-in […]

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Murata announced that they have marked the shipment of over 30 million units of its ENC-03RC-10-R gyro sensor for radio-controlled helicopters. The ENC series of piezoelectric vibrating gyroscopes, initially designed for image stabilization in digital still and video cameras, have increasingly been in high demand to aid stable flight performance of indoor radio-controlled helicopters. The […]