‘Linear Motor’

An Engineeringtalk guide

Start with the news release Micro stepper motors bring pictures into focus from EMS, which we summarised at the time by saying "Electro Mechanical Systems has supplied Precistep micro-stepper motors to Life Optics to allow it to develop a compact, reliable and light-weight head-mounted microscope.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Q-Sys provides custom-designed motion systems from Q-Sys: "Q-Sys offers a complete design-and-build service for all types of precision motion and positioning systems. ".

In November 2009, we covered the news from ABB Automation Tech (Drives and Motors) - take a look at ABB drives reduce swimming pool energy bills which says: "ABB drives have helped a UK holiday park operator save GBP77,000 a year on energy bills for its swimming pools. ".

Take a look also at the news release from Jena Rotary Technology, Jena Tec offers ballscrew repair discount, as well as Actuator system for sampling applications from Heason Technology, and Fluke offers trial promotion of Ti9 thermal imager from Fluke (UK).

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DC motors engineered for transportation purposes (November 2009)

Rotron brushless DC motors from Ametek, engineered for applications on board heavy-duty transit buses, coaches and other vehicles, deliver long-life power solutions serving up to 60,000 hours.

Renishaw Tonic benefits wide-format printing (November 2009)

Renishaw's Tonic incremental linear-encoder system offers advantages for wide-format printing.

OEMDynamics enhances linear belt drive (November 2009)

OEMDynamics, a division of Animatics, has announced enhanced features on the HLD 60-H3 actuator.

GE controller firmware has online programming (November 2009)

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms has released its Versamax Micro Plus controller firmware revision 4.0.

Igus energy-supply system comprises 200 products (November 2009)

Igus has introduced six product lines to its Triflex R system of third-generation six-axis robot energy chains.

PCB provides linear motion for abrasive blasting (November 2009)

PBC Linear was asked to provide a linear-motion system for the abrasive blasting of fabricated steel that could tolerate extreme environments.

Viscotec devises drive solution for dosage units (November 2009)

Viscotec Pumpen and Faulhaber have devised a drive solution for dosage units on a system that comprises a fast DC drive and high-precision piezo rotary drive, mounted on a common spindle.

Stemmer camera has monochrome CCD sensors (November 2009)

Stemmer Imaging's latest camera offering, the JAI AD-081CL, features two monochrome progressive scan CCD sensors mounted to a custom-designed optical prism.

THK details linear motor actuator offering

Linear motor actuators from THK are available in four different models, with a total of eight versions available for use in almost all applications.
Festo unveils linear motor based actuators

Festo has developed a class of electric actuators based on very high-performance linear motors.