Abstract: Disclosed is a piezoelectric inertial drive stage including a piezoelectric inertial driver, a slider and a holder. The driver includes a mounting portion for the mounting on the holder, a friction portion coupling to the slider, a flexure portion between the mounting portion and friction portion, a piezoelectric element with a first end bonded to the mounting portion and a second end bonded to a movement portion, the movement portion transferring the motion of the piezoelectric element to the friction portion to drive the slider.

Abstract: An oscillation actuator of the present disclosure includes an oscillation body, a contact body configured to be in contact with the oscillation body, a holding member configured to hold the oscillation body, the holding member having a through hole, a pressing member configured to press the oscillation body through the through hole, and an oscillation damping member configured to be in contact with the holding member and the pressing member between the holding member and the pressing member.

Abstract: A quick assembly structure used for a linear driver includes a motor, an upper shell and a lower shell. The motor is combined with the lower shell through a clamping mechanism, and the lower shell is covered with the upper shell.

Abstract: A rotary ultrasonic motor includes an ultrasonic actuator, a driven element, an inner casing member and an outer casing member. A piezoelectric or electrostrictive or magnetostrictive material is arranged between an excitation electrode and at least one general electrode. The ultrasonic actuator is between the inner and outer casing members of a casing, and is directly or indirectly in contact with the element to be driven, so that periodic deformations generated in the ultrasonic actuator by electrical excitation are transferable to the drive element. The ultrasonic actuator is mounted by a retaining device arranged on the casing with at least one retaining section which engages in a recess associated with a respective retaining section.

Abstract: A method of controlling a piezoelectric motor as a piezoelectric drive device having a vibrator including piezoelectric elements, a rotor as a driven unit that moves at a target speed by vibration of the vibrator, and drive signal generation units that generate drive signals and output the drive signals to the piezoelectric elements, includes intermittently outputting the drive signals to the piezoelectric elements by the drive signal generation units, wherein a time when output of the drive signals is stopped is shorter than a time from when output of the drive signal is stopped to stoppage of the vibration.

Abstract: A piezoelectric drive device for vibrating a vibrating body to make a tip of a protruding part make a rotational motion of drawing an elliptic orbit to thereby drive a driven member, wherein the vibrating body includes a substrate, a driving piezoelectric element configured to vibrate the substrate, and a detecting piezoelectric element configured to detect a vibration of the substrate, the driving piezoelectric element includes a first driving piezoelectric element for making the vibrating body perform a stretching vibration in a first direction, and a second driving piezoelectric element for making the vibrating body perform a flexural vibration in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the detecting piezoelectric element is arranged with the first driving piezoelectric element in the first direction, and there is provided a voltage control section for controlling a magnitude of a voltage to be applied to the first driving piezoelectric element.

Abstract: There is provided a control method for a piezoelectric driving device including a vibrating body configured to vibrate when a driving signal including a periodic signal is applied to a piezoelectric element for driving, a section to be driven that is driven by the vibration of the vibrating body, and a driving-signal generating section configured to generate the driving signal using a pulse signal generated based on a target pulse duty ratio. The driving-signal generating section detects voltage amplitude generated in the piezoelectric element for driving and generates the target pulse duty ratio based on the voltage amplitude. The driving signal includes an intermittent signal formed by an output period in which the periodic signal is output and a suspension period in which the output of the periodic signal is suspended. The driving-signal generating section detects the output-period voltage amplitude and does not detect the suspension-period voltage amplitude.

Abstract: A vibration actuator that is reduced in the change of posture of a vibration element with respect to a contact body. The vibration element unit and the contact body are movable relative to each other. The vibration element unit includes a vibration element in contact with the contact body, a first holding member that holds the vibration element, a base, a first supporting member that is fixed to the base, and movably supports the first holding member in a direction orthogonal to a friction sliding surface of the contact body in slide contact with the vibration element, while maintaining the vibration element in a predetermined posture with respect to the contact body, and an urging unit that is arranged on the base independently of the first supporting member and presses the vibration element in a direction orthogonal to the friction sliding surface of the contact body.

Abstract: A vibration actuator capable of adjusting the position of a vibration element with respect to a contact body. The vibration actuator includes a vibration element unit and a contact body capable of relative movement to each other. The vibration element unit includes a first vibration element in contact with the contact body, an urging unit that brings the first vibration element and the contact body into contact with each other with predetermined pressure force, a first holding member that holds the first vibration element, a base, a first supporting member that slidably supports the first holding member in a direction in which the first vibration element is pressed against the contact body, and a first connection member that is rotatably connected to the first supporting member and rotatably connected to the base about an axis parallel to a direction of the relative movement.

Abstract: A controller for use in a power converter that is configured to operate in a plurality of modes including a first mode and a second mode includes a frequency monitor module coupled to measure a signal characteristic of a switch drive signal coupled to control switching of a switches block of the power converter. The frequency monitor module includes a memory coupled to store a measured signal characteristic of the switch drive signal measured during the first mode. The frequency monitor module is coupled to generate a clock signal in response to the measured signal characteristic stored in the memory. The switch drive signal is coupled to be generated in response to the clock signal during the second mode.

Abstract: A vibration wave motor includes a first holding member; a second holding member; a first regulating region; and a second regulating region, wherein a position of a first contact region of the first holding member, which comes into contact with the first regulating region, is different from a position of a second contact region of the second holding member, which comes into contact with the second regulating region, and wherein a position of the first regulating region is different from a position of the second regulating region in the relative movement direction so that, in the relative movement direction, a difference between a distance from the first contact region to the first regulating region and a distance from the second contact region to the second regulating region is shorter than a difference between the position of the first contact region and the position of the second contact region.

Abstract: A power conversion device includes a semiconductor stack, a reactor, and a capacitor. The semiconductor stack includes a plurality of semiconductor modules stacked on one another in a stacking direction. Each semiconductor module includes a semiconductor element. The reactor constitutes a boost circuit that boosts a direct-current voltage. The capacitor is electrically connected to the plurality of semiconductor modules. The semiconductor stack, the reactor, and the capacitor each include a coolant flow passage, and the reactor and the capacitor are located adjacent to each other.

Abstract: A rotating piezoelectric motor including a piezoelectric actuator including a resonator having a pair of arms connected at one of their ends in a connection area, the other two ends being referred to as ‘free’, a passive element including a cylindrical part extending orthogonally to the resonator, the cylindrical part being able to be rotated by the friction of the free ends of the arms on the cylindrical part, each free end including a protuberance such that the protuberances extend towards one another and together form a housing for a portion of the cylindrical part, the motor including a device for holding the portion of the cylindrical part inside the housing.

Abstract: An electric motor comprising: a frame; and a stator assembly; the stator assembly including a bobbin assembly and at least one c-shaped stator core. The frame comprises at least one lug, the bobbin assembly includes at least one recess, and the stator assembly is fixed to the frame by fixing the lug inside the recess of the bobbin assembly.

Abstract: A flexure stage with modularized flexure units for convenient manufacturing, assembly and repair is provided. The flexure stage comprises a base, a platform separated from the base, and a plurality of flexure units disposed between the base and the platform. Each flexure unit comprises a first section, a second section, and a third section. The first section is located on the base. The second section is connected with the platform and separated from the first section. The third section is coupled with the first section and the second section through the first bending part and the second bending part respectively wherein the first bending part and the second bending part comprises flexibility in different axial directions.

Abstract: One aspect of an electric actuator of the disclosure includes: a motor having a motor shaft rotating about a central axis; a speed reduction mechanism connected to a portion on one side in an axial direction of the motor shaft; a case accommodating the motor and the speed reduction mechanism; an output part to which rotation of the motor shaft is transmitted via the speed reduction mechanism; a rotation detector having a rotation sensor detecting rotation of the output part; and a wiring member electrically connected with the rotation sensor. The case has a first concave part located on an outer surface of the case. One end part of the wiring member penetrates the case from inside the case and protrudes inside the first concave part. The rotation sensor is located inside the first concave part and connected with one end part of the wiring member.

Abstract: A multi-level boost apparatus. Voltage allocation among N first switches is achieved by connecting N voltage dividing modules, sequentially connected in series, in parallel with the N first voltage switches, respectively. Thereby, a voltage across each of the N first switches is within a safety range. Even if an input voltage is high and a voltage across a flying capacitor is zero at an instant of being powered, it is prevented that a second one to an N-th one of the N first switches break down due to overvoltage.

Abstract: A pre-loaded piezoelectric stack actuator comprising a stack of piezoelectric material. Caps are coupled at opposed ends of the stack. Each of the caps includes projecting fingers. Insulating plates are stacked between the ends of the stack and the caps. A pair of pre-loaded spring plates are coupled to the stack. The spring plates define slots. The fingers on the caps extend through respective ones of the slots at respective ends of the spring plates for coupling the spring plates to the stack. A method of pre-loading the piezoelectric stack actuator includes the step of mounting the stack, the caps, the insulating plates, and the spring plates in a pre-load tool that applies a pre-load tensile stretching force to the spring plates. The pre-load tensile force is subsequently released and the actuator is removed from the tool.

Abstract: This invention reduces the shaft voltage of an axial-air-gap dynamo-electric machine while ensuring high output and high efficiency. Said axial-air-gap dynamo-electric machine comprises the following: a stator comprising a plurality of stator cores, each of which comprises a core and a coil, arranged in a circle around a shaft; a housing, the inside surface of which faces the stator radially; and at least one rotor, the surface of which faces the surface of the stator with a prescribed air gap interposed therebetween in the radial direction of the shaft. The rotor has, on the outside thereof, a conductive section comprising a conductive member. This axial-air-gap dynamo-electric machine has a first region where the inside surface of the housing faces the aforementioned conductive section radially and a second region, closer to the stator than the first region is, that extends to the coil side surfaces that face the rotor.

Abstract: A six-degree-of-freedom large-stroke uncoupling large hollow series-parallel piezoelectric micro-motion platform includes a base, a movable platform top, a second platform and a first platform, wherein a first guide unit, a second guide unit, a third guide unit, a fourth guide unit, a fifth guide unit and a sixth guide unit are respectively connected in sequence to the second platform and the first platform; the first guide unit is internally provided with a first drive unit, the second guide unit is internally provided with a second drive unit, and the third guide unit is internally provided with a third drive unit; and the base is provided with a fourth drive unit, a fifth drive unit, a sixth drive unit and a seventh drive unit, the fifth drive unit is provided below the second drive unit, and the sixth drive unit is provided below the third drive unit.