Abstract: A planar fully integrated variable reluctance micromotor (10) is microfabricated on a substrate base (18). The micromotor includes a pin (19), rotor (12) with radially extending poles (16), and a stator (20) having a plurality of poles (21) configured in pairs (22) circumferentially spaced about the rotor. The rotor is microfabricated in place, or in situ, contiguous to the substrate base. The pairs of stator poles include a multilevel core (26) wrapped around a meander conductor (27) which is connected to bonding pads (32). The variable reluctance micromotor is particularly adapted to operating as a micropump (45) for conductive fluids.

Abstract: The two-phase electromechanical transducer (2) comprises a stator (4) formed by a planar structure (12) and two cores (14, 16) respectively carrying two coils (18, 20). The planar structure defines three magnetic stator poles (22, 23, 24) and has a stator hole (48) closed on itself and within which the two coils are situated relative to a projection in the plane of this planar structure.

Abstract: Electrostatic linear motor comprising a planar stator having a capacitive structure formed by a metal layer and a layer of dielectric material and a runner movable parallel to stator and carrying resiliently deformable projecting feet formed by a thin conductive film, arranged in rolling contact with the layer of dielectric material of the stator. The layer of dielectric material has a non-linear polarization versus the electric field applied by a source for supplying voltage pulses, and is preferably constituted by a film of ferroelectric material with a high value of dielectric permittivity.

Abstract: A coreless motor device having a rotor comprised of a cylindrical coil, a coil support, a rotary shaft inserted and stabilized in the center of the coil support, and a commutator installed either on the coil support or rotary shaft is disclosed. A cylindrical field magnet is positioned on the inside of the cylindrical coil, and one end of the cylindrical field magnet is affixed at a bottom of a cylindrical housing that surrounds the outer circumference of the cylindrical coil. The rotary shaft of the motor is supported by a thrust bearing at the end of the cylindrical field magnet opposite the end that is affixed at the bottom of the cylindrical housing, and it is also supported by a multiple number of radial bearings installed at intervals on the upper part of the cylindrical housing.

Abstract: According to this invention, in a stepping motor in which bearings are disposed at two end portions of a motor shaft which is coaxially fixed to a magnet rotor, one bearing of the motor shaft arranged in a motor case, a bobbin serving as a coil frame, and the positioning portion of the motor holder are integrally formed of a resin. In addition, two projecting pieces that protrude outward are formed on the bearing on the motor holder side of the stepping motor. A projecting portion is formed on each projecting piece. A positioning rotation regulating hole which is fitted on the projecting portion to regulate rotation and an opening for passing the projecting piece are provided to the bearing support portion of the motor holder.

Abstract: A micro-turbo generator device (10) includes a housing (12), a rotor (14), a plurality of stator cores (16), and coils (18) encircling the stator cores. The housing (12) includes a shaft (34) which has an axis (11). The rotor (14) is rotatably mounted onto the shaft (34) and includes a perimeter (32) and a plurality of rotor poles (24) extending generally radially about the axis (11). Each rotor pole (24) includes a magnetizable tip (30) and a concave fluid impact surface (26). The stator cores (16) are disposed about the rotor (14) and include first pole face (15) and second pole face (17) facing the perimeter (32) of the rotor (14) and spaced apart therefrom. The coils (18) helically encircle the stator cores (16) and conduct electrical current to magnetize the stator cores (16) to magnetize the tips (30) and to alternately conduct induced electrical current generated in response to changes in magnetic flux between the first and second pole faces (15, 17) and the magnetizable tips (30).

Abstract: A specially designed, forceful, compact magnetic micro-mover includes at least one etched single crystal silicon plate having integral springs and stable, low internal stress. A structure of springs which support a rectangular plate are etched in silicon. The plate is driven by planar electromagnetic actuation. The micro-mover consists of a specific etched silicon spring in combination with a planar electromagnetic moving coil actuator that is capable of generating forces greater than 50 mN, while dissipating less than 1 W peak power. The micro-mover also includes a plate suspension system that facilitates the required plate motions and resolution, while preventing changes in plate spacing from effects such as external acceleration, temperature, humidity, and aging; and includes an actuator that appropriately moves the plates in response to electrical signals, such that there is only minimal cross-talk between axes of motion.

Abstract: An electromecanic transducer comprises a stator 4 formed of three parts 6, 8 and 18 each presenting merlons or teeth 52, 54 and 60 superposed to a multipolar magnet 34 of rotor 30. Three statoric magnetic poles 10, 12 and 20 are situated in a same statoric plane and define, together with two branches 22 and 24 each containing a coil 26 and 28, two principal magnetic circuits of the transducer. The transducer is particularly suitable for a step functioning, in particular when a relatively high number of steps per turn is desired.

Abstract: A motor comprises a motor rotation shaft, a first thrust bearing which supports one end of the motor rotation shaft and a second thrust bearing which supports the other end of the motor rotation shaft to control positioning in a thrust direction of the motor rotation shaft. The first thrust bearing further comprises a bearing for supporting one end of the motor rotation shaft and is movable in a shaft direction of the motor rotation shaft, a guide member for guiding the movement of the bearing in the shaft direction and a plurality of pre-loaded elements for opposing the force generated by the bearing in the shaft direction. The pre-loaded elements are evenly spaced around the motor shaft.

Abstract: Micromechanical actuators capable of bidirectional and bistable operation can be formed on substrates using lithographic processing techniques. Bistable operation of the microactuator is obtained using a single coil and a magnetic core with a gap. A plunger having two magnetic heads is supported for back and forth linear movement with respect to the gap in the magnetic core, and is spring biased to a neutral position in which the two heads are on each side of the gap in the core. The single electrical coil is coupled to the core and is provided with electrical current to attract one of the heads toward the core by reluctance action to drive the plunger to a limit of travel in one direction. The current is then cut off and the plunger returns by spring action toward the gap, whereafter the current is reapplied to the coil to attract the other head of the plunger by reluctance action to drive the plunger to its other limit of travel.

Abstract: A miniature motor includes a frame which has been solder treated on its surface and which has a closed end and is generally cylindrical-shaped or generally oval-shaped in cross section. The frame includes a projected portion of an outer periphery thereof for insertion into a hole of a printed circuit board. The projecting portion has a notch for holding the printed circuit board therein, wherein the printed circuit board and the projected portion extending through the hole of the printed circuit board are soldered to each other with solder while the printed circuit board is held in the notch of the projected portion.

Abstract: A medical instrument, such as a surgical drill, includes a battery-powered handpiece and a booster. The handpiece includes an electrical device, such as a motor, having an operating characteristic responsive to changes in DC voltage and a battery that applies a first DC voltage to the electrical device. The booster is disposed externally of the handpiece body and includes a DC power source and a cable for connecting the DC power source with the battery in the handpiece to apply a second DC voltage to the electrical device. The operating characteristic of the electrical device, e.g., speed, is modified by selectively coupling or decoupling the booster from the handpiece.

Abstract: A flat vibration generating apparatus wherein a flat coreless eccentric vibrator armature generates an eccentric vibration desired from the aspect of body feel. An air-core armature coil group thereof consists of m pieces (where m is an integer of 3 or more) of armature coils disposed in superposition with one another in m phases in an arrangement such that they are eccentric and with their phases deviated in a circumferential direction, and that they do not describe a complete disc-like shape as viewed from the axial direction.

Abstract: A miniature electric generator and lighting apparatus is provided for use in a power-driven tool. The apparatus includes a rotor assembly 22 having a permanent magnet, and a stator assembly 24 within which the shaft and magnet are received. The stator assembly 24 includes a pair of electrically conductive arms 38 extending on opposite sides of the rotor, an electrically conductive shank 40 connecting the arms together, and a winding 36 of electrically conductive wire presenting a pair of opposed ends. A lamp 54 is connected to the ends of the winding by a circuit 52 so that it is powered upon rotation of the shaft. A housing assembly 30 supports the stator assembly 24 on the output shaft of the tool, and is secured to the tool. The housing assembly 30 and cooperating structure 42 position the stator assembly 24 relative to the magnet 32 to prevent contact between the stator element 34 and the magnet during rotation of the output shaft 14.

Abstract: In the present invention, various sizes of non-wetting droplets are inserted into microtube devices of various shapes having therein a gas or wetting fluid which causes the droplets to movement in response to fluid pressure. The droplets may translate within a void of the microtube device which is filled with the gas or wetting fluid or rotate in a fixed position. The nonwetting fluid may also be formed into rings within ring shaped channels. The microtube devices may operate to stop fluid flow, act as a check-valve, act as a flow restrictor, act as a flow regulator, act as a support for a turning axle, and act as a logic device, for example.

Abstract: A micromotor in a ceramic substrate, including a unitary ceramic body providing a micromotor substrate which has been formed with a first internal cavity and a plurality of second internal cavities and a recess, a ferromagnetic stator formed in the first internal cavity, and embedded conductive coil structures formed in the second internal cavities and disposed in operative relationship to the ferromagnetic stator, and a rotor mechanism mounted in the recess and in operative relationship to the ferromagnetic stator and having a rotor member formed of a hard magnetic material which is free to rotate so that when voltages are applied to the coil structures, a field is created through the ferromagnetic stator which provides a torque to the rotor member causing it to rotate.

Abstract: A coreless motor has a cylindrical shell of magnetic material, a column-like magnet securely and coaxially positioned in the shell to form a cylindrical clearance therebetween, and a rotor. The rotor includes a cylindrical winding of a coil, arranged coaxially in the clearance, a commutator mechanically supporting one end of the winding and electrically connected with the coil, and a shaft for supporting the commutator. The motor further includes a pair of brushes arranged in contact with the commutator,such that an electric current is supplied via the commutator to the coil. A first bearing is mounted at an end portion of the magnet adjacent the commutator to rotatably support a first portion of the shaft, and a second bearing is mounted adjacent one end of the shell to rotatably support a second portion of said shaft.

Abstract: A bobbin-wound stator for small single-phase AC motors that surmounts magnetic compromises required by previous implementations is fabricated of stacked two-piece laminations and a split winding bobbin fitted about a first one of the lamination piece stacks that permits bobbin winding of a single coil about the pole neck of a magnetic yoke having pole shoes magnetically coupled to each other, but not in direct contact with each other, at a predetermined clearance distance chosen to balance rotor-to-armature flux linkage, armature inductance, and reluctance torque. The second lamination piece stack is pressed into the first lamination piece stack supporting the bobbin-wound coil to complete the stator. The stator is usable in several single-phase AC motors, including electronically commutated motors, chaotically-starting permanent magnet motors, and shaded-pole induction motors.

Abstract: A bearing installation for a Floppy Disk Driver motor which is simple in structure and high in accuracy of a rotating action of a rotary shaft, thus hardly impairing the read and write characteristics of a Floppy Disk Driver device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a damping member constituted of a viscoelastic member and a constraint member, each of which is formed on a brush made of thin metal plate, in a dc minimotor, the viscoelastic member comprising adhesive mass containing a copolymer of alkyl acrylate and acrylic acid. The present invention further provides a brush constituted of the above damping member and a dc minimotor equipped with the brush.

Abstract: Machine structures each comprising a stack of a plurality of micromachine layers laminated together are presented, along with fabrication methods therefore. Each machine structure includes a movable member(s) defined from microstructure of at least one layer of the plurality of micromachine layers comprising the stack. During fabrication, the micromachine layers are separately formed using VLSI techniques and then subsequently laminated together in a selected arrangement in the stack to define the machine structure.

Abstract: A brushless permanent magnet DC motor for use as a disk drive spindle motor has a radial working gap but uses flat coils that generate magnetic fields that interact with the permanent magnet fields across the radial gap. The stator includes a plurality of angularly spaced stator teeth that have faces radially spaced across the gap from the permanent magnet. The magnetic flux from the permanent magnet is directed radially across the gap and into the stator teeth. Each stator tooth has an axially oriented post around which is wound a flat coil that generates an axial field. The central axis of the coil forms part of the magnetic circuit. The magnetic flux directed radially into each stator tooth is turned axially into the post. The axially directed magnetic flux through the coil and post on each tooth is redirected from the axial direction to the circumferential direction by a ring magnetic flux guide. The ring flux guide interconnects the stator teeth and forms part of the magnetic circuit.

Abstract: An electromechanical transducer (1), in particular a motor used in timepieces, having a stator (2) and two rotors (14 and 15). The two rotors (14 and 15) are situated respectively in two stator holes (4 and 6) each defined by three stator poles (8a, 10a, 12a; 8b, 10b, 12b). The transducer (1) is capable of functioning as a stepping motor, each of the two rotors being capable of rotating in the two possible rotational directions independently of the other rotor.

Abstract: A motor whose torque is not generated by magnetic fields but rather by dielectric forces to be used in microelectronics and micromechanics. The rotors are composed of several dielectrics, which are arranged in a sector-shaped or shell-shaped manner or partially or completely envelop each other. These motors can be miniaturized down to a size of a few millimeters. They are distinguished by having slow to medium rotation speeds, short starting phases (ms range and less), extremely low current consumption, simple construction, high running constancy and being practically maintenance free. The characteristic curve of rotation (rotation as the function of the field frequency) may be selected in many ranges by changing the dielectrics of the rotor.

Abstract: A micromotor includes a magnetic rotor fixed on a shaft. A stator has at least one winding. Bearings are provided to rotatably support the shaft relative to the stator. The bearings include a first silicon substrate having a V-groove, with a pair of bounding walls. Both bounding walls extend parallel to the shaft. The bearings also include a second silicon substrate having a third bounding wall which also extends parallel to the shaft. The shaft is positioned relative to the stator by the three bounding walls.

Abstract: A miniature motor comprising a housing formed into a bottomed hollow tubular shape and having a permanent magnet fixedly fitted to the inner circumferential surface thereof, a rotor facing the permanent magnet and comprising an armature iron core having a coil wound thereon and a commutator, an end plate fitted to an open end of the housing and having brushes coming in sliding contact with the commutator and input terminals electrically connected to the brushes, and a cooling fan provided between the armature iron core of the rotor and the commutator; the rotor being rotatably supported by bearings provided on the bottom of the housing and the end plate, in which an integral cooling fan is formed by providing a plurality of fins at circumferentially equal intervals between first and second fan rings fitted to the ends of the commutator and the armature iron core, respectively, and a plurality of bosses are provided on the end face of the second fan ring.

Abstract: A planar fully integrated variable reluctance micromotor (10) is microfabricated on a substrate base (18). The micromotor includes a pin (19), rotor (12) with radially extending poles (16), and a stator (20) having a plurality of poles (21) configured in pairs (22) circumferentially spaced about the rotor. The rotor is microfabricated in place, or in situ, contiguous to the substrate base. The pairs of stator poles include a multilevel core (26) wrapped around a meander conductor (27) which is connected to bonding pads (32). The variable reluctance micromotor is particularly adapted to operating as a micropump (45) for conductive fluids.

Abstract: A polysilicon micromotor, of either inner rotor or outer rotor design, is fabricated with a process that uses as few as three mask steps. In an outer rotor (wobble) micromotor, a free-rotating insulating flange bearing mechanically couples the inner periphery of the rotor to the stator, permitting the outer periphery of the rotor to be directly coupled to other mechanisms. The dielectric constant of the flange bearing increases motive torque of the motor as contrasted with air-gap designs. This and other factors results in motive torque, in the illustrated embodiment, more than 100 times larger than in previous designs. Among its other benefits, the disclosed fabrication process results in in-place formation of all motor elements, and enables precise definition of the rotor/stator gap.

Abstract: An improved spindle motor connector for a disc drive. The spindle motor connector includes a central housing having socket connectors for mating engagement with connector pins of the spindle motor. Electrical leads are connected to the socket connectors and extend radially from the central housing, and spoke arms are connected to the central housing and extend radially from the central housing adjacent the electrical leads. Spacer arms are connected to the spoke arms and maintain the desired spacing between the spindle motor connector pins and a disc drive printed wiring assembly, which is mounted below the spindle motor. The connector pins of the spindle motor are located at an end of and within the axial extent of a spindle motor stator shaft, so that the central housing extends into the end of the stator shaft. The end of the stator shaft extends through a hole in the disc drive printed wiring assembly.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a planar micro-motor particularly well-suited to batch methods of microfabricating multiple planar stepper micro-motors from a single substrate wafer. Such micro-motors, having a planar stator supported by an electrically insulating substrate, a planar rotor body aligned over the stator, and a housing integral with the substrate and forming a rotor chamber therewith in which the rotor is rotatably captured, are formed by microfabricating the stator, rotor, and housing on the substrate with a boundary of release material encapsulating the rotor body. The release material is then removed to free the rotor body for rotation within the rotor chamber. Release materials, such as poly-alpha-methylstyrene, are suitable, being removable to free the rotor by heating to at least 180.degree. C. under vacuum.

Abstract: An electric micromotor comprising a stator winding, a rotor magnet (11) mounted for rotation about a rotor axis (13) and having permanent-magnet poles facing the stator winding, and electrical connection means for the electrical connection of the stator winding to a power source. The stator winding is formed by a cylindrical body (1) having an electrically conductive cylindrical wall (3) provided with longitudinal slots, which extend from an axial end face (15) of the cylindrical body over at least a part of the length of this body, to bound and form axially extending electrical conductors (5) for cooperation with the permanent-magnet poles. The conductors are mechanically interconnected by electrically insulating reinforcement means (19) at the location of the longitudinal slots.

Abstract: Disclosed is an exciter for generating physical vibration in response to the applied electric signal. In this device, a driving coil is attached to the periphery of an inner guide of a lower housing, and a rotor of permanent magnet is provided in the rotor-receiving space of the inner guide, both ends of the rotor being rotatably supported to the inner guide. An upper housing is engaged with the lower housing in such a manner that the upper housing surrounds the driving coil. In this device, the rotation shaft of the rotor is on a shifted state with respect to a center of a gravity of the rotor, by which means the exciter generates vibration through the upper and lower housings when the rotor rotates by the electromagnetic force of the driving coil.

Abstract: A planar micro-motor has a stator supported by a substrate and comprising a planar array of radially extending circumferentially spaced bifilar micro-coils. The micro-motor also has a rotor comprising a rotor body supporting a plurality of elongate, radially extending members or regions circumferentially spaced in a second plane parallel to the plane of the bifilar micro-coils. The radial members are magnetic or otherwise responsive to electromagnetic fields generated by the stator to rotate the rotor. Energizing means selectively energizes subsets of the bifilar micro-coils to generate the electromagnetic fields acting on the magnetic regions of the rotor such that the amount and direction of rotation of the rotor can be controlled. The planar micro-motor can be employed as a gearless stepper motor and can be fabricated using generally known microfabrication techniques.

Abstract: Micromechanical structures capable of actuation for purposes such as fluid flow control are formed on substrates in sizes in the range of one or two millimeters or less using micromechanical processing techniques. A magnetic core having a gap therein is fixed on the substrate, and a plunger is mounted by a spring for movement parallel to the substrate in response to the flux provided to the gap of the fixed core. An electrical coil wound around a mandrel is engaged to the fixed magnetic core such that flux is induced in the core when current is supplied to the coil, driving the plunger against the force of the spring. A micromechanical fluid control unit includes a metal frame structure formed by electrodeposition on a substrate with the inner wall of the frame having slots formed therein to admit a separator wall which divides the interior of the frame into separate chambers, with a cover secured over the top of the frame and the separator wall to seal the chambers.

Abstract: A super-minuature motor used as a driving motor in super-precision miniature machines is disclosed. The motor is constructed from a rotating member 1 made from a permanent magnet, actuators 8-13 which can be moved or displaced by a charged energy, and starters 2-7 made from a magnetic material which are surrounding the outer periphery of the rotating member and movable along with the movement of the actuators toward the direction of the diameter. This construction enables a super-minuature motor to be manufactured even smaller and to minimize the electricity consumption of the motor.

Abstract: An ultrasonic imaging device including a bearingless levitating rotor for rotating a reflective mirror. The device may be used to image from within a hollow object and is particularly suited for use in intravascular imaging. The levitation of the rotor is achieved by forming the rotor as a permanent magnet structure having three distinct magnet regions, two having opposing dipole moments axial to the rotor orientation and one having a dipole moment transverse to the rotor orientation, the transverse magnetic region lying between the first and third magnetic regions. The rotor is radially centered within a housing using passive magnetic suspension elements, including permanent magnet stators at opposite ends of the housing. The rotor is axially positioned within the housing with an active servo feedback controller. Position-drive and sense coils are used to move and detect the positioning of the rotor. Rotation drive coils operate on the transverse magnetic region to cause the rotor to spin.

Abstract: A miniature motor comprising a case having a positive temperature coefficient resistor incorporated therein and a permanent magnet fixedly fitted thereto, a rotor comprising an armature and a commutator, and a case cap having a pair of power-feeding brushes and a pair of input terminals electrically connected to the brushes, in which a lanced and raised lug or lanced and raised projections are provided at the tip of a retaining member made of an electrically conductive material, a retaining part is formed by bending a part or the whole of the tip of the retaining member toward the side of the lanced and raised lug or lanced and raised projections, the size of a gap between a projection or a lanced and raised lug provided on any one surface of a pair of input terminals, and the retaining part in free state and the lanced and raised lug is made smaller than the thickness of the positive temperature coefficient resistor being inserted therebetween so that the positive temperature coefficient resistor can be inse

Abstract: A microengine uses two synchronized linear actuators as a power source and converts oscillatory motion from the actuators into rotational motion via direct linkage connection to an output gear or wheel. The microengine provides output in the form of a continuously rotating output gear that is capable of delivering drive torque to a micromechanism. The microengine can be operated at varying speeds and its motion can be reversed. Linear actuators are synchronized in order to provide linear oscillatory motion to the linkage means in the X and Y directions according to a desired position, rotational direction and speed of said mechanical output means. The output gear has gear teeth on its outer perimeter for directly contacting a micromechanism requiring mechanical power. The gear is retained by a retaining means which allows said gear to rotate freely. The microengine is microfabricated of polysilicon on one wafer using surface micromachining batch fabrication.

Abstract: A surface micromachined micromagnetic actuator is provided with a flap capable of achieving large deflections above 100 microns using magnetic force as the actuating force. The flap is coupled by one or more beams to a substrate and is cantilevered over the substrate. A Permalloy layer or a magnetic coil is disposed on the flap such that when the flap is placed in a magnetic field, it can be caused to selectively interact and rotate out of the plane of the magnetic actuator. The cantilevered flap is released from the underlying substrate by etching out an underlying sacrificial layer disposed between the flap and the substrate. The etched out and now cantilevered flap is magnetically actuated to maintain it out of contact with the substrate while the just etched device is dried in order to obtain high release yields.

Abstract: In a coreless motor, a shaft of the coreless motor does not pass through a magnet but is arranged in series with a columnar magnet on the same axis. The magnet is inserted in a tubular frame made of magnetic material and a coil which is mounted on the shaft is inserted in the gap between the outer surface of the magnet and the inner surface of the frame.

Abstract: It is possible to use an oriented monolayer to limit the Van der Waals forces between two elements by passivation. An oriented monolayer (34) is formed on a surface of a micromechanical device. When the surface comes in contact with another surface, the oriented monolayer decreases the Van der Waals forces to reduce the attraction between the surfaces.

Abstract: A micromechanical component, for example a motor, wherein micromechanical structures such as a rotor, rotational axle, and stator, are manufactured of the same layer or multiple layer of, for example, CVD tungsten deposited in corresponding trenches. As a result thereof, no alignment problems arise. The static micromechanical structures are connected to the underlying substrate with electrical and/or mechanical connecting means, whereby retaining the movable micromechanical structure to a substrate can be simultaneously achieved. The manufacturing process is compatible with the production of integrated circuits on silicon and requires only three photolevels.

Abstract: A miniature motor comprising a case having a permanent magnet fixedly fitted to the inner circumference thereof, a rotor having an armature iron core and a commutator, and a case cap having power-feeding brushes and input terminals in which a pair of connecting members made of an electrically conductive material are provided on the inner end face of the case cap in a state insulated from brush holders, and a pair of terminals is integrally provided on each of the connecting members and the brush holders; one terminal of the connecting member being connected to the input terminal directly or via other electrically conductive members, the other terminal of the connecting member being connected to a pig-tail wire, and a capacitor being connected across the terminals.

Abstract: An analog-display device, such as a gauge or the like, includes a moveable display member driven by a planar micro-motor. The micro-motor comprises a substrate, a stator for receiving electrical current to generate an electromagnetic field, and a rotor which is rotatable in response to electromagnetic fields generated by the stator. In the stator, a plurality of electrically conductive micro-coils are supported by the substrate and arrayed in a first plane. A plurality of magnetic members is arrayed in the rotor in a second plane substantially parallel to the first plane. The visible display member of the analog display device is mounted for movement by rotation of the rotor body. Analog display devices of the invention can be used in motor vehicle instrument panels, wherein the micro-motor carrying the display member can be mounted, as by cementing, to the display face of the device.

Abstract: A sheet coil motor is configured such that a plurality of coil units are attached to a circuit substrate at a predetermined interval, the interval separating the coil units are regular. Each of the plurality of coil units includes a plurality of coils and has a shape of a sector. Accordingly, the sheet coil motor can be made thin, the number of driving sheet coils can be reduced, and the production cost can be reduced. A method of fabricating the sheet coil motor includes the steps of printing, on a sheet base, a plurality of sheet coil units, in which units a plurality of sector-shaped coils are provided, such that the coil units lie in alternately opposite directions, cutting out the sheet coil units from the sheet base, attaching sheet coil units, in which units a plurality of sector-shaped coils are provided, on a substrate at an arbitrary distance from each other, and attaching driving sheet coils thus fabricated to the substrate so as to be opposite a rotor magnet at a close distance.

Abstract: The stator of the motor comprises two pole pieces (1, 2) which are axially staggered. An axially magnetized cylindrical rotor (5) is disposed in the openings or bores of said pole pieces. The rotor (5) is provided with an external toothing (3) which is continuously engaged with an internal toothing (4) of the stator. In the unexcited stator, the rotor (5) assumes a stable position by attraction to the pole pieces (1, 2). Due to the excitation of the stator by a pulse having a suitable polarity, the rotor is displaced to a diametrically opposed stable position. The toothings (3, 4) stay in engagement during said displacement, resulting in an angular displacement of the rotor, the angle being defined by the difference of the number of teeth of said toothings (3, 4). The motor allows a miniaturization and a simple control by alternating pulses of opposed polarities.

Abstract: A miniature motor including a case formed into a bottomed hollow tubular shape and having a permanent magnet on the inner circumferential surface thereof, a rotor consisting of an armature and a commutator, and a case cover fitted to an open end of the case, and having brushes making sliding contact with the commutator and input terminals electrically connected to the brushes, in which a ground terminal formed into a substantially W shape in planar projected profile, with a U-shaped engaging part provided at the central part thereof for engaging with the case cover, and pinching parts provided at both ends thereof, is interposed between a pair of the input terminals so that one pinching part of the ground terminal forces one of the input terminals in position, and the engaging part is interposed between the case and the case cover.

Abstract: A dielectric micromechanical element the moveable component of which (hereinafter referred to as rotor) is an electrically homogeneous or inhomogeneous dielectric. The rotor is driven via one or more electric field vectors which are generated via electrode arrangements by switched voltages and/or by triggering the electrodes with phase-shifted voltages. On at least one side of the rotor and/or inside the rotor the electrodes form a linear or curved row of electrodes.

Abstract: A micro light valve which is corresponding to each of pixels for display and which passes or shuts a light beam by electrostatic force to display images, said light valve comprising a data electrode formed on a substrate and connected with each of data lines through a via; a selection electrode formed on the substrate and connected with each of selection lines; a common electrode formed between the selection and data electrodes; a flat-shaped micro shifting element capable of moving in linear direction and which serves as a resistance body; insulating layers formed respectively between the shifting element and each of the electrodes; a frame for serving as a black matrix, which has a guiding means for guiding the shifting element; and the three electrodes for receiving externally applied driving signals to drive the shifting element and which serve as stationary elements with three phases.

Abstract: An electrostatic actuator according to the present invention includes a first member having a plurality of striped electrodes insulated from one another and arranged in a prescribed direction with a prescribed spacing between them, a second member having a plurality of striped electrodes insulated from one another and arranged in a prescribed direction with a prescribed spacing between them, and continuous-waveform polyphase AC power supplies applied to the electrodes of the first member and the electrodes of the second member, one or both of the first member and second member being moved by an electrostatic coulomb force between the first member and the second member.