Electrical generator or motor structure – Dynamoelectric – Linear
Patent
1998-06-23
1999-09-14
LaBalle, Clayton
Electrical generator or motor structure
Dynamoelectric
Linear
310 15, 310 40R, 310 80, H02K 4100
Patent
active
059527447
ABSTRACT:
An actuator, with two independent degrees of freedom, rotates a stage about an axis and moves the stage along the axis, the range of motion defining a cylinder or cylindrical section. The stage is mounted on a hollow cylindrical plunger fitting in an annular well. A bearing allows the plunger to move axially and rotationally, in the preferred embodiment the bearing is an air bearing. The plunger has an array of permanent magnets on its external cylindrical face opposite coils in the well. Equal numbers of oppositely-polarized permanent magnets are arranged in a regular cylindrical pattern at 50% packing density forming rings and columns of like-polarity magnets, the rings of one polarity alternating with rings of opposite polarity and the columns of one polarity alternating with columns of opposite polarity. A set of Z-axis coils (for axial movement) curve around the plunger and are shaped to allow a current in them to produce an axial force with respect to the rings of magnets. A set of .phi.-axis coils (for rotational movement) have longitudinal axes that are parallel to the axis of the plunger and are sized to allow current in them to impel the columns of magnets. Part of the external surface of the plunger has a grid scale, which is encoded by Z-axis and .phi.-axis optical pickups to provide position information to a controller.
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Anoiad Corporation
LaBalle Clayton
Waks Joseph
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