e-Power Technology

Innovative Magnetic Designs in New BLDC Motors from maxon

Two new brushless DC motors from maxon of Switzerland feature innovative magnetic aspects that enable them to provide important capabilities for design engineers. A frameless brushless-DC motor with new winding technology and a matching encoder really comes into its own in dynamic applications. A new series of flat motors, shown above, also feature special winding technology along with segmented magnets, designed particularly for design engineers grappling with tight spaces. […]

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Ultra fast and programmable: 12-Bit Sin/Cos Interpolation IC

Get to know the new iC-PI: iC-Haus from Germany presents its new programmable 12-Bit Sin/Cos Interpolation IC with RS422 Driver. It is suitable for applications with magnetic and optical position sensors, linear scales and high-resolution angle sensing. Highlights at a glance: Latency-free sine-to-digital conversion (less than 250 ns) with up to […]

Software and Design

Magnetic Encoder Onboard Trinamic Motion Control Module

Trinamic has introduced a small, low-power servo control module with integrated motion control for stepper motors that features an on-board magnetic encoder. The single-axis controller-driver module is designed for two-phase bipolar stepper motors used in robotics and automation equipment. It optimizes speed and synchronization […]

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Heidenhain Speeds Up Angle Encoders

Heidenhain, the Germany-based manufacturer of magnetic and optical encoders, has introduced smarter and faster versions of its RCN absolute angle encoders series for use in machine tools. With permissible speeds are up to three times higher than older RCN encoders, the […]