The document summarizes a direct-drive motor that simplifies servo applications by eliminating gearboxes, pulleys, belts, and other transmission components. The direct-drive motor was originally created for tire manufacturing in Europe but is now being offered by Vickers Electronic Systems to simplify servo systems for applications that do not require high complexity. The direct-drive motor incorporates features like ferrite magnets and a segmented rotor to provide high torque at low speeds without issues from torque harmonics or mechanical resonances. This allows for simpler, more compact, and lower cost servo systems.
The document summarizes a direct-drive motor that simplifies servo applications by eliminating gearboxes, pulleys, belts, and other transmission components. The direct-drive motor was originally created for tire manufacturing in Europe but is now being offered by Vickers Electronic Systems to simplify servo systems for applications that do not require high complexity. The direct-drive motor incorporates features like ferrite magnets and a segmented rotor to provide high torque at low speeds without issues from torque harmonics or mechanical resonances. This allows for simpler, more compact, and lower cost servo systems.
The document summarizes a direct-drive motor that simplifies servo applications by eliminating gearboxes, pulleys, belts, and other transmission components. The direct-drive motor was originally created for tire manufacturing in Europe but is now being offered by Vickers Electronic Systems to simplify servo systems for applications that do not require high complexity. The direct-drive motor incorporates features like ferrite magnets and a segmented rotor to provide high torque at low speeds without issues from torque harmonics or mechanical resonances. This allows for simpler, more compact, and lower cost servo systems.
complexe They typically contain motors, drives, gearboxes, belts, pulleys, sensors, and power-transmission shafts, often with right angle tums in them. Not all applications require such com- plexity, however. To simplify servo system, Vickers Electronic Systems (VES) now offers a direct-drive solution. With it, control engineers can eliminate gearboxes, belts, pulleys, and right angle shafts. The resulting servo systems are therefore simpler to install Some advantages of the motor were and maintain. They also generate less noise, unexpected, notes Monte C. Swinford, a are more compact, and cost less. VES engineer. "Machines that use the direct Key to the direct drive solution is a line of drive tend to be quieter, because the motors new permanent magnet brushless servo operate at 600 to 1,000 rpm, instead of motors. Originally created for tire 3,OW rpm," he says. The elimination of manufacturing applications in Europe, the gearboxes also significantly reduces noise, motors are designed for the specific needs of he says. direct drive applications. They supply Although Swinford recommends that sufficient torque and precise rotation at The rotor of the FC direct-drive motor is users stick with gearboxes for high band- relatively low speeds, overcome potentiel constructed in segments, which helps to simplify width (above 400 Hz) applications, he says problems due to torque harmonics, ensure manufacturing and reduce cost. that the direct drive concept offers far accurate positioning, and avoid mechanical greater simplicity for those applications resonances. enabling engineers to reduce its volume. where it best fits. "If engineers are creative To accomplish all that, engineers A special anti-resonance filter, with in their use of this concept, they can incorporated several unique features in the adjustable frequency and amplitude, eliminate ball screws, gearboxes, couplings, new design, known as VES FC High Torque enables it to deal with any potentiel and all kinds of other components," Low Speed Motor line. One of the keys is mechanical resonance problems. Swinford says. "this way, they can build a their use of magnetics: They employed Although the new motor line was just much more compact machine than they economical ferrite magnets, then oriented recently introduced to the U.S. market, could before" them in such a way as to provide high flux engineers from VES say the technology Additional details...Contact Monte density. The rotor is also constructed in has had a wide variety of applications. Swinford, Vickers Electronic Systems, 1151 segments, which helps to simplify The tire industry used it for direct W. Mason-Morrow Road, Lebanon, OH manufacturing and reduce cost. Equally driving of variable diameter drums for 45036, 513-494-5654 important, the motor's designers tire molding. The glass industry has incorporated a high number of poles and employed it for direct drive of spindle other Applications armature slots, which enabled them to reduce motors for making hollow glass items. It Printing machinery torque harmonics at slow speeds. has also seen use on bending machines, Robotic assembly Engineers also paid special attention to particularly for bending of muffler Textile manufacturier thermal and mechanical issues. The motor's components. Other applica- tions include armature is totally encapsulated in thermally plastic injection molding, printing conductive material, thus machines, and motion simulators.