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Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Flex-PCB Air-Gap Windings in Slotless BLDC Machines

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic, Bruno Dehez, François Baudart

Slotless brushless dc motors find more and more applications due to their high performance and their low production cost. This paper focuses on the windings inserted in the air gap of these motors and, in particular, to an original production technique tha ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Flexible Winding for a Rotating Motor

The basic idea of the project (run in collaboration with a Swiss company) is to design a flexible winding, which will 'replace' the classical slotless BLDC motor winding. The new winding should be thermally and mechanically improved compared to the classic ...

2012

AC introduction motors have been used in traction applications for a long time. They have a good efficiency for a low cost and are very robust. Most of these motors have been developed for industrial applications and they have a torque ripple because of th ...

2011

Reliable MEMS Actuators for Driving Large Microsystems

Nicolas Bernard Golay

Nowadays many consumer electronic devices are using small engines (micromotors). Thanks to technological innovation, the components can be imbedded into numerous portable systems. The key factors for a nomadic integration are: reduction of power consumptio ...

EPFL2010

Very high-speed slotless permanent-magnet motors

Pierre-Daniel Pfister

The development of very high-speed motors has evolved fascinatingly in the last few years. Due to their speed, their low weight and their high power density, the need for such motors has recently increased for various different applications. Among them, su ...

EPFL2010

Torque measurement methods for very high-speed motors

Yves Perriard, Pierre-Daniel Pfister

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to develop a contactless torque measurement methods. The need for low-weight, high-efficiency and high-power density motors has led to an increased research and development activity in the field of very high speed (VH ...

2010

This dissertation considers mechatronic systems driven by piezoelectric ultrasonic motors (PUM). The focus is set on optimal system design and sensorless position control. Mechatronic industry faces the challenge to deliver ever more efficient and reliable ...

EPFL2010

The tail sheath structure of bacteriophage T4: a molecular machine for infecting bacteria

Petr Leiman

The contractile tail of bacteriophage T4 is a molecular machine that facilitates very high viral infection efficiency. Its major component is a tail sheath, which contracts during infection to less than half of its initial length. The sheath consists of 13 ...

2009

Proteins are large and complex molecular machines. In order to perform their function, most of them need energy, e. g. either in the form of a photon, as in the case of the visual pigment rhodopsin, or through the breaking of a chemical bond, as in the pre ...

2009

Preparation and characterization of Poly(Ethylene Glycol)/gamma-CD Polyrotaxanes using beta-CD derivatives as a capping reagent

Blaise Tardy

As living systems understanding got better, as life could be modeled in a batch, using immortalized cells, researches in fundamental sciences found startling applications of advanced techniques on living systems. As the biomaterial field developed various ...

2009