Piezoelectric motors and methods for the production and operation thereof

US7368853B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Elliptec Resonant Actuator AG · DE

Inventors

• Bjoern Magnussen · Iserlohn, DE
• Peter Varadi · Corona, US
• Kai Wolf · Wiesbaden, DE
• Benjamin Hagemann · Gerlingen, DE
• Dieter Schuler · Lichtenfels, DE
• Erick Davidson · Richmond, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 22, 2004
• Grant date: May 6, 2008
• Expiry date: Jul 14, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H02N2/103
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a piezoelectric motor comprising a piezoelectric component that is connected to a resonator and a two-dimensional resonator that interacts with a movable. element, the resonator having principal surfaces that are parallel to each other and that are also identical in shape and size. The invention further relates to methods for producing such piezoelectric motors, wherein the resonators are manufactured by cutting a profiled, extruded bar into lengths or by cutting, preferably by punching, from sheet metal having constant thickness. Finally, this invention relates to a method for exciting such a piezoelectric motor, wherein the excitation frequency or frequencies is/are generated by the control electronics as a function of time in response to the respective peak current and/or in response to the respective phase minimum between current and voltage and/or in response to the change in phase.