Nippon Pulse Introduces Green Drive Linear Actuator

Nippon Pulse has announced the introduction of its newest linear servo product, the Green Drive linear actuator. The Green Drive is an all-inclusive linear direct drive actuator suited for high-performance applications requiring high force, accuracy, and precision.

Features of Nippon Pulse’s Green Drive include:

• Acceleration (peak) force of up to 600N for 40 seconds
• Effective stroke lengths between 10mm and 1540mm
• Cooling systems that can increase rated force up to 20%
• Rated force between 13N and 150N
• Position repeatability of ±0.05mm
• T-slots for easy and quick integration into applications
• Position sensors, temperature sensors, interpolation electronics
• Four different feedback output types: analogue SIN/COS, Digital Bus BISS-C, Digital A/B TTL Linedrive Incremental, and Absolute SSI
• Color coded quick connectors
• High-performance slide bearings

The Green Drive currently is available in two sizes, the G16x series and G25x series. The G16x series features a shaft (magnets) with a 16mm diameter and the G25x a 25mm shaft diameter. The G16x series is 66mm wide and high, while the G25x series is 88mm wide and high. Each has varying lengths depending on the required effective stroke.

Nippon Pulse will be highlighting the Green Drive at the ATX West tradeshow in Anaheim, CA in mid-February. Those interested in the Green Drive can visit booth #4348 to learn more about the actuator.

Nippon Pulse America, Inc.
www.nipponpulse.com

FMC32 control board registers up to 32 operation profiles

Nippon Pulse (www.nipponpulse.com) has proudly announced that release of its latest motion control product that has the capability to control two-phase bipolar stepper motors. With an integrated driver, the FMC32 control board is a compact controller that is fitted with LSI PCD2112 chip, making it suitable for controlling a serial bus.

With a built-in CPU, the FMC32 board also has the ability to register up to 256 steps as well as up to 32 operation patterns in an execution sequence in the internal memory of the board. Eliminating the need for an external PC, the FMC32 automatically processes those sequences and patterns. With the help of the built-in CPU, users can easily repeat the execution sequence automatically.

In addition, users can utilize a USB-to-4-wire serial conversion to simplify the writing as well as the saving of patterns and the execution of sequences to the board’s non-volatile memory.

Aside from the PCD2112 serial bus control chip, the FMC32 control board is also equipped with a NP3775E3 driver chip. The chip enables the board to drive a motor in both half-step and full-step execution modes.

Nippon Pulse’s FMC32 control board offers other features including a maximum current of 1.2 A, an input voltage of DC 24 V, a maximum output pulse frequency of 2.4 Mpps and two different operational modes, which are the stand-alone control mode and the PC control mode.

4mm Linear Shaft Motor from Nippon Pulse

Available from Nippon Pulse is the 4mm Linear Shaft Motor (model S040), a servomotor designed for small-scale, high-precision applications. The smallest in the Linear Shaft Motor line, the 4mm motor serves as a replacement for many traditional linear motor systems including ball-screws and belt drives.

With strokes lengths up to 40mm, the S040 Linear Shaft Motor provides up to 0.98N of continuous force, 0.6 Arms of continuous current, 3.8N of acceleration force, and an acceleration current of 2.2Arms. Regardless of the winding size, the S040 has a width of 10mm and has a forcer length of up to 79mm.

The S040 Linear Shaft Motor is currently used in nanoscale manufacturing, processing, and metrology in the biomedical, life sciences, pharmaceutical, and education industries.

The Linear Shaft Motor is the first linear motor designed for the ultra high precision market. The motor generates less heat, uses all magnetic flux, is up to 100 stiffer than traditional linear motors, and has no cogging. These features allow it to achieve sub-micron resolution without the use of an external heat sink. These features, along with others, also make the Linear Shaft Motor 50 percent more energy efficient than competing linear motors. Sizes of the Linear Shaft Motor range from a 4mm shaft diameter (S040) to a 60.5mm diameter (S605) with forces ranging from 0.29N to 780N.

Nippon Pulse America, Inc.
www.nipponpulse.com

PF25G gearhead stepper motor delivers high torque in compact package

Nippon Pulse (www.nipponpulse.com) has unveiled its latest PFG25G gearhead stepper motor.

Coming from the company’s well-established portfolio of tin-can stepper products, PFG25G gearhead stepper motor is suitable for medical device industry’s projects that demand for high torque motor but have limited space.

The gearhead stepper motor is offered both in unipolar and bipolar winding and features 24 steps or 48 steps per revolution. Depending on the device’s step number and winding, Nippon’s gearhead stepper motor offers a rated voltage of either five volts or 12 volts. It also delivers a resistance ranging from 15 ohms and 122 ohms, a holding torque that stands between 8 mNom and 12 mNom. Weighting 35 grams, the PFG25G stepper motor’s other remarkable features include a starting pulse of 490 pps or 790 pps, a maximum torque of 100 mNom and a motor diameter of 25 mm.

Nippon’s PFG25G stepper motor offers customers the choice of more than 20 gearhead ratios, starting from 6/25 to 1/300. Depending on the motor’s gear ratio, it produces a maximum torque of between 20 mNom and 100 mNom.

Just like the rest of Nippon Pulse stepper motor products, the company offers customers the option to customize their PFG25G motor to meet their individual need. The Nippon Pulse factory and model shop can add longer lead wires, connectors, ball bearings, customized flanges, pinions and many other motor options.

Nippon Pulse introduces Serial Communication System

Nippon Pulse (www.nipponpulse.com) unveiled its latest serial communication networking system, the Motionnet system. It allows operators to greatly reduce wiring and it provides message communication, CPU emulation, motor control and input/output control. The new network system can transfer four bytes of data in 15.1 µsec with cyclical communication to control both output and input. The Motionnet system is ideal for semiconductor equipment, factory automation and biomedical machines. It can construct a multi-axis communication system to reduce wiring costs.

The G9001A chip can control up to 64 local devices and is the system’s center device, G9001A has 256 bytes of RAM for I/O control and it has 512 bytes of RAM for data. It can also support a maximum 256 bytes of data communication in a local data device. With a 64-pin QFP, the G9001A device features a 20Mbps maximum communication speed.

The G9003 and G9002 chips are local devices, which can be connected into the G9001A center device. Operators are able to connect of up to 64 devices to each chip or 64 combined devices to both chips (“no more than 64”).

The G9002 chip is categorized as I/O device. The 80-pin QFP, the chip has four 8-bit ports per device, features a tolerant buffer, and it makes use of cyclic transfer. While the G9003 is the motor control device, which can control a stepper motor or single axis servo based in instructions from center device with a 6.5Mpps maximum output. Operators can get encoder signal interface, various motion profiles and the ability to change speed and position on the fly.

With CPU emulation device, G9004A chip, which can be utilized in either message communication mode or CPU emulation mode and exchanges data with center device. The G9004A can communicate a maximum 256 bytes (“per burst”) and features both 16-bit and 8-bit CPU interfaces.

The new L427 Series with 5 mm air gap from Nippon Pulse

Nippon Pulse (www.nipponpulse.com) introduced its latest linear shaft servomotor from the Linear Shaft Motor (LSM) family, the L427 series. It features a five-millimeter air gap between the magnetic shaft and forcer. In the LSM family, the new L427 series offers a low-maintenance linear motion solution with applications in a broad industry range.

With a five millimeter air gap between the motors shaft and forcer, users will have more flexibility machining their device to level. Also, it is a good linear motion solution when users lack the resources or do not have the ability to make an accurate alignment of the shaft and the forcer.

The device is also an optimal motion solution for environments where there is a possibility for debris to stick to and develop on the shaft. If there is a possibility for the debris to develop on the shaft, the five millimeter air gap keeps the motor from jamming and increase the required time between cleanings.

The L427 series features a constant force of 110N and has a useable stroke length between 100 mm and 4,600 mm. The motor’s force constant is 31(Kf) N/Amps, while its peak force is 450N. Other features of the L427 include a 3-kg forcer weight, a 10 V/m/s back EMF, a 14A peak current, a 3.6A continuous current, and a 42.7 mm shaft diameter.

Nippon Pulse’s LSM has three basic concepts. The motor is high precision while giving complete stiffness with its advantageous ironless make-up that offers zero cogging. It is also simple, consisting of only one magnetic shaft and one forcer. And being non-contact, its shaft motor has a non-critical air gap that eliminates force variation throughout the entire stroke of the device.