Motors & Drives

Since its introduction to the UK three years ago, the Framo Morat ‘Compacta’ slip-on geared motor has proved to be the perfect solution for applications where space is at a premium. Supplied in the UK by R. A. Rodriguez this product is designed for repeatable positioning and reversing tasks.

Bibby Transmissions, a World leader in the design and manufacture of couplings for use in industrial markets, has been appointed as the official European Repair Centre for the Ameridrives range of high performance diaphragm couplings. These couplings are widely used for demanding turbo machinery power transmission applications including, gas compression, power generation, and marine propulsion systems.

Looking for an affordable, effective and reliable motor for use in demanding washdown environments? If a stainless steel sealed electric motor is too expensive, a gearbox assembly too heavy and a specially designed inverter panel / enclosure too cumbersome – and neither offer the reliable immunity to high pressure or caustic wash downs that you really need – then an air motor might be just the solution you’ve been looking for.

Haydon Kerk Motion Solutions, Inc. introduces the Haydon RoHS compliant PCM4806 IDEA programmable linear actuator drive. The PCM4806 is the most recent addition to the IDEA Drive family of products. It’s optimized to regulate a low current power stage suitable for controlling the smaller Haydon can-stack linear actuators. With the addition of the PCM4806 to the IDEA line, there’s a programmable drive available for use with just about the entire line of Haydon stepper motor linear actuators.

Rotalink continues to expand its DC motor schedule with a new line of miniature brushless motors for nominal output torques to over 250 mNm at maximum efficiency and maximum power ratings to 270 W. The new BL brushless motors are very competitively priced and together with Rotalink's own innovative and uniquely designed precision gearboxes, motor feedback devices and motion controls, offer excellent price vs. performance for complete miniature power transmission solutions.

New to the Adept Scientific product range are United Electronic Industries DNA/DNR-DIO-452/462. The 12-channel, electromechanical relay boards are designed for use with UEI’s ‘Cube’ and RACKtangle I/O series respectively.

Custom built hydraulic motors, designed and manufactured by Parker Hannifin are playing a vital role in helping Cameron, the major oil and gas flow equipment supplier, make deep sea oil wells safer, more productive and more profitable.

Providing engineers and machine designers with the latest in cutting edge motion control technology, Inmoco’s new Elmo Gold Line is an evolutionary family of motion products, including intelligent servo drives, a revolutionary, distributed multi-axis network controller, and a network I/O controller. These products provide seamless connectivity (communications, feedback and I/Os), high performance and ease of operation, to create comprehensive, high performance, yet easy to use solutions for modern motion control systems.

Sprint Electric now offers drives for slip ring motors. The new motor controllers will be introduced in November at SPS/IPC/Drives, the international trade fair for electric automation, systems and components, in Nuremberg, Germany.

BEI Kimco Magnetics recently developed a BLDC motor to meet the challenging high speed requirements for a Turbomolecular Vacuum Pump application. The Turbomolecular pump is widely used in the semiconductor device manufacturing process, which requires highly compressed gases for chemical deposition and implantation. The pump design incorporates the specially designed BEI motor driven turbine rotor, which is capable of operating speeds of up to 70,000 rpm. The extremely high speeds are essential to achieve vacuum pressures down to one micropascal.