Posted to News on 15th Oct 2021, 00:00
Brushed pancake motor from PMW drives ultraprecise rotary table
A high accuracy brushed pancake motor from Printed Motor Works is being used in a new ultraprecise rotary table developed by metrology manufacturer Rotary Precision Instruments. The printed armature motor needed to be extremely smooth-running to deliver the angular precision needed for the inspection of critical components such as turbine rotors.
The use of an iron-free armature for the GN9T servo motor helps to produce zero cogging with no torque ripple under load, while the coupling to a strain wave gearbox ensures zero backlash.
The ultracompact motor, which has an internal tachometer to provide speed feedback, also had to have a very low profile to enable it to fit within the rotary table base.
Another important factor was minimising heat losses so as not to impair measurement precision and not to heat up the laboratory environment since the instruments are usually used in temperature controlled QA laboratories. The motor can optionally be cooled with forced air cooling through ports in the side casing.
The rotary table is designed for use in metrology applications such as with coordinate measuring machines as well as in the angular calibration of precision instruments such as tilt meters, inclinometers, encoders, indexers, gyroscopes and guidance systems.
