Nippon Pulse now offers a new series of motors to its extensive line of Linear Shaft Motor servomotors. The SX series features high-energy magnets for greater force in mid-range sizes, to supplement the existing sizes of the standard S-series motors. The SX series motors are available in 6, 8 and 10mm shaft diameters. Each size […]
Nippon Pulse offers custom-designed motion controllers to streamline applications and reduce cable mess
Nippon 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 […]
Linear shaft motors see increased force capabilities thanks to advances in magnets
By 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 […]
Linear guides, power transmission, actuators see unexpected applications
Our 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 […]
What are the four torque characteristics associated with stepping motors?
When choosing a stepper motor, it is important to understand four torque characteristics: ■ Pull-out torque is the maximum torque that can be delivered without losing steps. It reaches its maximum at the lowest frequency or speed, and decreases as frequency increases. If the load on the stepping motor during rotation increases beyond the pull-out…
New 20-mm linear stepper motor now available from Nippon Pulse
Nippon Pulse now sells the the PFL20 Linearstep — its smallest linear stepper motor yet. The PFL20 is a highly efficient, high thrust tin-can linear actuator with a 20-mm diameter and a bipolar winding. PFL20 is RoHS-compliant, has a 30/60-mm effective stroke, and can reach 6 N of force at 200 pps. With 24 steps […]
Can-stack linear actuators: How the motor and screw components work
Can-stack linear actuators are one type of stepper-motor design that converts rotary to linear motion with a built-in leadscrew. The linear actuators incorporate can-stack motors — sometimes called claw-tooth step motors, tin-can stepper motors, or claw-pole motors — leverage low-cost construction with punched sheet-metal parts that form toothed (or clawed) cups surrounding bobbin coils. Common […]
Nippon Pulse releases German-language catalog for stepper motor products
Nippon Pulse is catering to German manufacturers with the creation of a new German-language catalog for our stepper motor products. Nippon Pulse hopes to better serve the European market with this new piece, by providing information in prospective customers’ native language. More after the jump. Together with a technical translator and Nippon Pulse’s distributor for Germany […]
New CAD models available for download
Nippon Pulse is pleased to announce that more than 10 new CAD models for the company’s tin-can and hybrid stepper motors are now available for download. These new…
PCD46x1A line of Nippon Pulse controller chips to replace existing PCD line
Nippon Pulse has released a new line of PCD controller chips as an upgrade for the PCD46x1 series. The new PCD46x1A series includes updates and a few new…
New scaleless linear motor with built-in encoder from Nippon Pulse
Nippon Pulse‘s new linear motor, the SL083, is a scaleless linear motor with a built-in linear encoder. It’s ideal for positioning applications that would benefit from the repeatability,…
PCL61x4 series high-performance servo/stepper controller chips from Nippon Pulse
Nippon Pulse has released its newest series of motion controller chips, the PCL61x4 Series. PCL61x4 is a series of two high-performance servo/stepper controller chips: the PCL6114 single-axis chip…
Nippon Pulse Offers Geared Stepper To Replace NEMA11
Nippon Pulse has introduced the PFCU30 integrated geared stepper motor as a replacement option for a NEMA11 hybrid stepper motor. Because it is a tin-can style stepper motor,…
Step Motors—Troubleshooting basics, part 1
By Nippon Pulse America Have you ever picked up a motor and discovered it had a few more wires then you were expecting? If so, it was likely a step motor. Step motors are commonly used in a number of products, from wrist watches to printers, IV pumps to gas pumps. They are also found…