Abstract: A robotic device includes an electric motor in which a drive control circuit includes a driver circuit for intermittently supplying the magnetic coils with a supply voltage VSUP; a switching signal generating circuit that generates a switching signal supplied to the driver circuit; and a voltage setter that supplies a supply voltage control value Ya to the switching signal generating circuit. By adjusting pulse width of the switching signals DRVA1, DRVA2 with reference to the supply voltage control value Ya, the switching signal generating circuit adjusts the effective voltage which is applied to the magnetic coils.

Abstract: A coil back yoke has laminated structure in which a plurality of annular components are stuck together along the axis direction of a cylinder, the annular component is formed of a soft magnetic body and has structure in which a plurality of divided annular components having a shape divided along the circumferential direction of an annular ring are stuck together in an annular shape, and, to prevent joint portions formed in the annular components by sticking together the divided annular components along the circumferential direction of the annular ring from lining up on a straight line parallel to the axis direction of the cylinder, the joint portions of at least a part of the plurality of annular components are stuck together while being shifted along the circumferential direction of the annular ring with respect to the joint portions of the other annular components.

Abstract: An ?-wound coil is formed by winding ends on both sides of a predetermined intermediate position of a wire rod from air-core end edges of both the ends toward an outer circumferential side to form two coil portions and superimposing the formed two coil portions to be opposed to each other. When the electromagnetic coil is subjected to bending molding to be adapted to a shape along the cylindrical surface on which the electromagnetic coil is arranged, the circumferential length of a bent-molded shape along the circumferential direction of the cylindrical surface of a first coil portion arranged on the inner circumferential side is set to be smaller than the circumferential length of a bent-molded shape along the circumferential direction of the cylindrical surface of a second coil portion arranged on the outer circumferential side.

Abstract: A variable power supply voltage generator generates a variable power supply voltage Vvar and supplies it to other circuits. A transmitting circuit 130 (or 140), operative at the variable power supply voltage Vvar, generates multi-value analog signals Smulti and transmits them to other circuits. A receiving circuit 140 (or 130), operative at the variable power supply voltage Vvar, receives the multi-value analog signals Smulti and subjects them to A/D conversion to generate multi-value digital signals. The threshold voltage generator generates threshold voltages used for A/D conversion from the variable power supply voltage Vvar or from a signal having a voltage value proportional to that of the variable power supply voltage Vvar and supplies them to the receiving circuit. An analog clock generator 120 generates an analog clock signal having a cyclical analog waveform.

Abstract: A control device includes a drive controller that controls the driving of an electromagnetic coil, and a regeneration controller that controls the regeneration of power from the electromagnetic coil. The drive controller includes an excitation interval setting unit that sets excitation and non-excitation intervals such that voltage is applied to the electromagnetic coil during the excitation interval but is not applied during the non-excitation interval. The excitation and non-excitation intervals are symmetrical with centers that respectively correspond to the ?/2 and ? phase points of the induced voltage waveform. The regeneration controller includes a regeneration interval setting unit that sets regeneration and non-regeneration intervals such that power is regenerated from the electromagnetic coil during the regeneration interval but is not regenerated during the non-regeneration interval.

Abstract: An electromechanical device includes a rotor having a magnetic back yoke with a cylindrical shape, and at least one rotor magnet arranged along an outer periphery of the magnetic back yoke in a cylindrical manner, a stator having at least one air-core magnetic coil arranged along an outer periphery of the rotor in a cylindrical manner, and a coil back yoke with a cylindrical shape disposed on an outer periphery of the magnetic coil arranged in a cylindrical manner, and a casing adapted to cover the stator and the rotor, wherein at least a part of the casing is formed of carbon fiber reinforced plastic.

Abstract: An electromechanical apparatus includes: a rotor including a central shaft and permanent magnets disposed around a cylindrical surface along an outer circumference of the central shaft, and a stator including hollow electromagnetic coils disposed around a cylindrical surface along an outer circumference of the permanent magnets and a pipe member having a hollow cylindrical shape and disposed between the permanent magnets and the electromagnetic coils, wherein the pipe member is made of a carbon fiber reinforced plastic, and the carbon fiber reinforced plastic is formed by weaving carbon fiber bundles formed of bundled carbon fibers.

Abstract: An electromechanical device includes: a rotor including a center axis, a permanent magnet arranged on a first cylindrical surface along an outer periphery, and first and second magnet side yokes arranged at both end parts, of the permanent magnet; and a stator including an electromagnetic coil arranged on a second cylindrical surface along an outer periphery of the permanent magnet, and a magnetic sensor arranged opposite the permanent magnet with the first magnet side yoke located between the magnetic sensor and the permanent magnet. The first and second magnet side yokes are configured in such a way that a magnetic flux density on a surface opposite to the permanent magnet, of the second magnet side yoke on the side where the magnetic sensor is not arranged, is smaller than a magnetic flux density on a surface opposite to the permanent magnet, of the first magnet side yoke.

Abstract: The circuit structured to drive a motor is provided. The circuit includes: a division signal generator that generates a division signal dividing each of a high level period and a low level period of a binary position signal representing a relative position of a magnetic coil to a permanent magnet into a preset number of multiple divisions; a pulse width setter that sets a pulse width for PWM control corresponding to each of the multiple divisions represented by the division signal; and a PWM signal generator that performs PWM control with the set pulse width, thereby generating a PWM signal as a driving signal for driving the motor.

Abstract: The brushless motor includes a stator having a electromagnetic coil and a position sensor; an axis fixed to the stator; and a rotor having a permanent magnet. The rotor rotates around the axis. The rotor is linked to a driven member that is driven by the brushless motor.

Abstract: An electromechanical device includes: a center shaft; a rotor having a rotor magnet disposed around an outer periphery of the center shaft; and a stator disposed on an outer periphery of the rotor, wherein the center shaft is formed of a carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic, and when projection is performed in a radial direction from the center shaft toward the rotor magnet, an angle between a direction of carbon fiber in the carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic and a direction of the center shaft is 45°.

Abstract: A coreless electric machine includes: a permanent magnet on a first member; N-phase (N?2) air-core electromagnetic coils on a second member; and a coil back yoke on the second member, each electromagnetic coil including a conductor bundle in which a conductor is wound M times (M?2), coil sub-aggregates are provided, each including the N electromagnetic coils of the respective N phases and in each of which a conductor bundle forming an effective coil area of a first-phase electromagnetic coil contacts a second conductor bundle forming an effective coil area of another phase electromagnetic coil, and the second conductor bundle is in an air-core portion of the first phase electromagnetic coil, and the coil sub-aggregates are arranged along the cylindrical area, in which the coil sub-aggregates do not overlap in a radiation direction of the cylindrical area, and adjacent coil sub-aggregates contact each other.

Abstract: A coreless electric machine apparatus includes: a permanent magnet arranged on the first member; two-phase coreless electromagnetic coils arranged on the second member; a coil back yoke arranged on the second member, wherein the electromagnetic coils include effective coil areas for generating a force to move the first member relatively to the second member, and coil end areas, the effective coil areas of the two-phase electromagnetic coils have same shape and are arranged in a cylindrical area between the permanent magnet and the coil back yoke, the coil end area of a first phase electromagnetic coil of the two-phase electromagnetic coils is bent in an inside direction or an outside direction of the cylindrical surface, the two-phase electromagnetic coils have same electric resistance value, and the coil back yoke covers outer peripheral areas of the effective coil areas and does not cover outer peripheral areas of the coil end areas.

Abstract: An energy converter includes magnetic coils of N phases (N is an integer of 3 or more), and a PWM drive circuit for driving the magnetic coils of N phases, wherein the magnetic coil of each phase can be independently controlled by the PWM drive circuit.

Abstract: The PWM control circuit includes a polarity determination unit, a full wave rectification unit, an adjustment unit that generates an adjusted waveform signal by adjusting waveform of the full wave rectification signal, and a carrier signal generating unit that generates a fixed frequency carrier signal. The PWM control circuit further includes a comparator that generates an original PWM signal by comparing the adjusted waveform signal and the carrier signal, and a PWM waveform shaping unit that generates a first PWM signal for the positive polarity section and a second PWM signal for the negative polarity section, by shaping the original PWM signal according to the polarity signal.

Abstract: The shock absorber includes N magnets arranged such that like poles of adjacent magnets face each other to generate repulsive force, where N is an integer of al least 2; and a magnet holder that accommodates the N magnets such that a distance between the adjacent magnets is variable, whereby the shock absorber absorbs a shock applied to two end magnets disposed at respective ends of the N magnets.

Abstract: An electric motor includes a rotor and a stator. Apart of the rotor includes a first frictional portion forming a movement locus. The stator includes a second frictional portion which brakes and stops the rotation of the rotor by a mechanical frictional force produced by contact between the second frictional portion and the first frictional portion, and a braking actuator which does not allow application of braking by shifting the second frictional portion away from the first frictional portion during power supply to the electric motor, and allows application of braking by pressing the second frictional portion against the first frictional portion during cutoff of power supply to the electric motor.

Abstract: The planar heater includes an insulating substrate, an electric conductive film disposed on the substrate, a plurality of electrodes both attached to one side of the electric conductive film, and an insulating film covering the electric conductive film. The electric conductive film is preferably formed of material having a resistance temperature coefficient of 420 ppm/° C. or higher at normal temperature.

Abstract: An energy converter includes magnetic coils of N phases (N is an integer of 3 or more), and a PWM drive circuit for driving the magnetic coils of N phases, wherein the magnetic coil of each phase can be independently controlled by the PWM drive circuit.

Abstract: An electromechanical device includes at least one magnetic coil formed of an electric wire coated with a first insulating material wound a plurality of times to have a ring-like shape, and an insulating section made of a second insulating material and disposed so as to cover at least apart of the magnetic coil, and a withstand voltage between an outside of the insulating section and the magnetic coil across the insulating section is higher than a withstand voltage between the electric wires adjacent to each other in the magnetic coil.