One of the most common motors used in motion control applications is the stepper motor. These motors are used mostly in positioning applications and have the advantage of being able to be very accurately controlled for the most precise positioning applications, down to fractions of a degree without the use of feedback devices such as […]
Stepper Motors
Stepper Motors from Nippon Pulse for High Torque Applications
Radford, Va. – For high torque applications in a variety of industries, Nippon Pulse offers the PF55 stepper motor, a two-phase tin-can style brushless motor available with both unipolar and bipolar windings. With a unipolar winding, the PF55 stepper offers a holding torque of 120N, while a bipolar winding provides 150N of holding torque. In […]
35mm Linear Stepper Motor from Nippon Pulse
Radford, Va. – Nippon Pulse’s PFL35T LINEARSTEP® tin-can type linear actuator gives engineers the ability to design a linear motion system simply and at a low cost. Nippon Pulse’s LINEARSTEP series offers direct linear motion without the need for any mechanical transformers, allowing users the ability to design a simple system at a low cost. […]
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 […]
Borries integrates high-speed drives in its markers
Borries Marking Systems (www.borries.com) has announced the release of the latest high-speed motor drives integrated in its programmable dot peen and scribe marking machines. These drives replace the more complex and expensive servo drive systems, which are current alternative for marking situations. Borries latest markers feature an upgraded, high-speed stepper motor drive system that reduces […]
Rohm introduces high-performance stepper motor drivers
Rohm Semiconductor (www.rohm.com) is proud to announce the release of its new high-reliability, high-performance stepper motor drivers that offer selectable excitation modes, full-step to 16th-step with 1 A or 2.0 A output current and full-step to 8th-step with 2.5 A output current. The stepper motor drivers are now available in RS Components stocks (www.rs-components.com). The […]
B&R Expands Line of Synchronous and Stepper Motors
B&R Industrial Automation announces the addition of precision planetary gears to its line of synchronous and stepper motors. The result is a high performance and economical drive program for all industrial fields that can be optimized to meet customers’ needs and is provided from a single supplier. Together with the renowned German manufacturer Neugart, B&R […]
Micromech introduces TMCM-078 stepper motor drive module
Micromech (www.micromech.co.uk) is pleased to launch its TMCM-078 stepper motor drive module with coil currents up to 7A and 75V. The TMCM-078 stepper motor drive is made for bipolar two-phase stepper motors, operating with motor coil currents of 0.7A to 7A (rms) (9.8A peak) and voltages of 15V to a maximum of 75V. Depending upon […]
TI introduces new DRV8412 evaluation kit
Texas Instruments Incorporated (www.ti.com) is pleased to introduce its all-new DRV8412 evaluation kit (DRV8412-C2-KIT) – a new line of scalable evaluation platforms intended for spinning motors. The kit includes all of the software and hardware needed to spin a single stepper motor or two brushed DC motors out of the box. It also speeds up […]
JVL launches world’s shortest stepper motor
Danish motor specialist JVL (www.jvl.dk) is proud to launch an integrated stepper motor – which it says is the world’s shortest stepper motor with a built-in controller. The 3-Nm version of the motor is only 95 mm long, but incorporates all the stepper control electronics, such as a programmable motion controller and IP67-protected CANopen and […]
