Nippon Pulse America, Inc. (NPA) is a global supplier of precision motion control system products including tin can and hybrid stepping motors, linear shaft motors, chip level and board level controllers with communication, networks and drivers.
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Nippon Pulse offers custom-designed motion controllers to streamline applications and reduce cable mess
May 22, 2020 10:47amNippon Pulse now offers new service for the OEM design engineers — the creation of custom-designed motion controller boards that use the Nippon Pulse Commander core for multi-axis applications. The boards can be designed to meet unique specifications, helping streamline the design process to bring a new product to market faster or reduce the manufacture […]
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Linear shaft motors see increased force capabilities thanks to advances in magnets
March 20, 2020 12:07pmBy Paul Denman • Applications engineer and business development Nippon Pulse America Today most linear-motion designs execute their strokes with actuators based on stepper motors or brushless dc (BLDC) servo motors. Such designs have an inherent complexity due to the fact that the motors and its gearing and encoder must essentially hang off the machine […]
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Linear guides, power transmission, actuators see unexpected applications
March 20, 2020 10:18amOur 2020 survey of the industry indicates an unabated trend towards more automation of previously static or manually tended systems. Key to these new offerings is installation simplicity for OEMs and end users of linear components for linear axes … as well as positioning stages and Cartesian robots. In fact, Cartesian robots (also called linear […]
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