Estimate Brush DC Motor Reliability With Confidence

When it comes to manufacturing advanced medical instruments, reliability is a critically important consideration for coreless miniature DC motors. To estimate a motor’s expected lifetime, manufacturers employ reliability tests to measure a motor’s survivability against typical stresses like torque, speed, temperatures and vibration. Because it can take months or years to test a motor’s resistance to these conditions, accelerated life testing (ALT) over an abbreviated schedule is often the most practical testing approach.

Choosing a Motor for Electronic Pipettes

When it comes to dispensing a specific volume of liquid in a lab environment, pipettes are essential. Electronic air displacement pipettes have taken the lead due to the needfor a high level of precision and accuracy required for repeated use over a periodof time. With the improvement of a digital interface for adjusting aspiration or dispensing, electronic pipettes offer a huge advantage and relief from ergonomic methods.

The motor is the key element in the design. When design engineers specify a motor    they must consider factors such as motor power, size and weight, and control electronics. Let’s look at the two most considered motor options - stepper motors and DC motors to help determine the fit for your application.

Selecting the Optimum Flat Motor Technologies For Your Application

Many applications today have critical space constraints and require flat motor solutions. However it is not always obvious what technology would work best in this type of situation while still being able to meet performance requirements. Typically, the speed-torque criteria can help provide a guide on what technology may be optimal for the given application. Let’s explore the various technologies available for flat motors depending on design requirements.

Motor Selection Tips: Understanding Thermal Parameters of DC Coreless Motors
With the help of simple thermal modeling

Motor Innovations: Differential Compact Drives

What is the need for new gearing technologies?

Miniature motion technology demands flexibility as well as compactness with higher power and efficiency. Conventional gear technologies have some limitations which restricts the development of new concepts. One such new concept is a “Differential Compact Drive” which differentiates with other concepts in such that it provides high reduction, high efficiency, lower noise, and a compact length gearbox. Before reviewing the advantages of this new concept lets first review the limitations of Conventional Planetary systems.

Brush DC and Stepper Technologies for Security and Locking Devices

Security systems are an important part of any commercial buildings whether it’s an office or a warehouse. Biometrics is one of the most deployed systems in a wide variety of industries, from government institutions to industrial buildings. A motor plays a vital part in the design of security locks. Portescap offers the best viable solution for these applications with its various technologies.

Driving DC Brushed Motors

To control a DC motor, a variable, and controlled power supply is needed. There are three types of methods that can be used:         

• Voltage-controlled linear supply
• Current linear supply
•  PWM (Pulse Width Modulation)

Encoders provide feedback for accurate control of speed and positioning. The rotor angular position is given through two square waves 90 degrees shifted and an optional index pulse occurring once a revolution. There are multiple technologies to get these results.

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The thermal data given in our catalogue may be indicative, and it should always be confirmed whether the heat dissipation in a given application is actually better and stable. As per the speed-torque curve in Portescap’s catalogue, there is a temporary working range in which we can overload the motor for a small time span. However we should always confirm what that time span should be, and it all really depends on motor size and design. There is a definite time span for every motor size, and this limitation comes from the coil temperature and more precisely, how fast the motor coil or winding heats up.

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Portescap offers miniature motor technologies to solve the motion needs of end markets. Our typical markets can range from motors for medical devices to various industrial applications. We serve our customers through innovative product technologies encompassing brushless miniature DC motors, brush DC & can stack motors, disc magnet motors and stepper linear actuators, to optimize their application performance.