Servo motors offer durable positioning

Nanomotion's DuraMotor ceramic servomotors provide durability for applications in high vacuum, clean room and non magnetic environments.

Nanomotion's new DuraMotor series ceramic servomotors provide superior levels of durability for sub-micron linear and rotary positioning applications in high vacuum, clean room and non magnetic environments, and for demanding high-duty/high-speed move and settle motion profiles.

Based upon Nanomotion's standing wave inverse piezoelectric effect technology, the DuraMotor benefits from new materials and manufacturing techniques for the motor tip and drive strip to provide low-wear characteristics and a long life.

The new range will suit demanding production and test applications in semiconductors, fibre optics, photonics, electronics, MEMS, bio-medical and cutting-edge research.

Available in the UK from Heason Technologies, the new DuraMotor series includes four versions with one, two, four and eight-element motors in a choice of configurations covering standard, vacuum, ultra high vacuum, non-magnetic and combinations of vacuum plus non-magnetic.

The range is identical to Nanomotion's HR series with the eight-element version producing a static holding force of 28N and measuring 41.6 x 46.6 x 23.8 mm with a mass of only 120g.

Nanomotion's ceramic servomotors provide an effectively unlimited travel range, a nanometre level resolution and speeds ranging from 1um to 250mm per second with exceptional smoothness, fast settling times and excellent in-position stability.

Depending upon the loading and inertial requirements of the application, single or multiple motors transmit force on to a drive strip which is fixed to linear or rotary stage mechanics.

The motors also provide a built-in braking and holding capability and may be used with cross roller, linear motion guide or air bearing based precision positioning stages.

Encoder or other precision feedback is required for servo positioning applications although ceramic motors may be used in open loop mode for standard actuator type applications.

Dedicated 20kHz servo drives can be supplied from Nanomotion and Heason also offers other compatible drives along with range of motion controllers.

The extremely compact motor design lends itself to customised applications where envelope space is irregular or limited.

Ceramic servo motors bring advantages in size, simplicity, force per volume, dynamic performance, and cost over traditional drive technologies.

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