This paper presents a 3D piezoelectric ultrasonic motor using a single Flexural Vibration Ring Transducer. The motor consists of three main parts, the rotor, the stator and the housing unit. The stator is a piezoelectric transducer ring made from PZT S42 material. Three steel rods and a magnet were designed to support the rotor. The rotor is a sphere of metal that rests on the stator intersecting at the tips of the steel rods and the magnet. The housing unit is made of Perspex, a transparent thermoplastic material. Longitudinal and bending vibration modes, of oscillating structures are superimposed in the motor, generating elliptical micro motions at the driving tips. Pressing the rotor against the stator tips the micro motions are converted into a 3D rotational motion, via the friction between the tips of the three rods and the rotor. The motor structures, working principles, design and finite element analysis are discussed in this paper. A prototype of the motor was fabricated and its characteristics measured. Experimental tests show typical speed of movement equal to 35 revolutions per minute, a resolution of less than 5μm and maximum load of 3.5 Newton.
This paper presents a standing wave rotary piezoelectric ultrasonic using a single flexural vibration transducer. The motor consists of three main parts, stator, rotor and housing unit. The stator is a single piezoceramic flexural vibration transducer. The rotor is made up of the motor driving wheel and the shaft. A computer simulation and modelling using finite element analysis for the proposed motor is discussed and used in the motor design development process. Finite element analysis has been used to evaluate the motor structure by performing an algebraic solution of a set of equations, describing an ideal model structure, with a finite number of variables. The established simulation and modelling for ultrasonic motor using finite element analysis enabled to select, the material of the flexural transducer, defining the operating parameters for the motor, determining the principles of motion and proposing an innovative technique to control the direction of motion, by controlling the phase between the two modes of vibrations. This enabled to create two directions of motion from a single vibration bar. A prototype of the proposed motor was fabricated and its characteristics measured. This showed that operating parameters of the fabricated prototype are: frequency equal to 40.7 KHz, voltage: 50: 100 volt and current: 50: 100 m-amperes. This is showed a close agreement with FEA. Typical output of the prototype is no-load speed of 120 rpm, a resolution on the order of micrometers and a dynamic response <100 µsec. The motor is able to carry a load equal to 2.8 Newton.
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