Cambridge GaN power drive start-up QPT has recruited an advisor to its board: electric motor and business specialist Simon Hart, who “holds C-level roles at several technology companies”, according to QPT, and is entrepreneur in residence at the University of Nottingham. “Nothing excites me more than finding a British innovation and then helping the company on its journey to bring ...
Toshiba is aiming at air conditioners, air purifiers and pumps with an IGBT-based brush-less dc motor driver, suitable for sine-wave generation, in a ~13 x 33mm through-hole HDIP30 package. TPD4165K, as it will be know, can handle a maximum output of 3A, compared with 2A for the company’s earlier TPD4163K or TPD4164K. Absolute maximum input voltage has been raised to ...
Infineon is aiming to drive motors up to 4kW with a series of integrated three-phase IGBT motor drivers. There are three: IM12B10CC1 800V 10A 2.2kW IM12B15CC1 800V 15A 3kW IM12B20EC1 800V 20A 4kW Each comes in the same 36 x 23mm DIP package and includes six 1,200V IGBTs, six anti-parallel diodes, and a protected level-shifting gate driver compatible with logic-level ...
Teknic has added an EtherCAT interface to some of its brushless servo motor models, creating the ClearPath-EC range. These come in frame sizes from NEMA 23 to 34 and powers from 38 to 429W, and the motors are sealed to IP66K or IP67 which enables them to be washed down. All feature an internal position encoder, and are programmable via ...
Micronas had created a pair of automotive-rated Hall effect magnetic angle sensors that work up to 150,000rpm. “Developers have the choice between two sensor models – HAL 3020 and HAL 3021 – for fast angle determination, with which they can meet the need for robust motor position detection and ISO 26262-compliant development. The components have differential or single-ended sine and ...
Emis has created a range of three phase, dual stage EMC filters designed for industrial motor and drive systems across 5 to 170kW. TMF3221 and TMF3222 “are housed in a space-saving slim book-shelf enclosure which may be installed next to inverters, converters or motor drives”, according to the company. “The devices are designed to meet the needs of power drive ...
Cambridge GaN Devices (CGD) has teamed up with Qorvo to build a GaN-based evaluation kit for controlling brushless-dc and permanent magnet synchronous motors. From Qorvo comes its PAC5556A motor control IC that combines a 150MHz Arm Cortex-M4F processor and 128kbyte of flash, with 600V gate divers, PWMs and multi-chanel data conversion. CGD is providing its IC-based GaN power hemts that ...
Specialist electric car maker The Little Car Company is celebrating three years since it delivered its first vehicle. The company creates slightly scaled down versions of classic vehicles, powered by electric motors rated at up to 28kW. So far is has delivered 400 vehicles to over 50 countries, spread between its Bugatti Baby II, Aston Martin DB5 Junior and Ferrari ...
STMicroelectronics has introduced a demo board that controls two 10A 74V brushless motors with real-time field-oriented control. Called EVSPIN32G4-DUAL, it is built around the company’s STSPIN32G4 motor control system-in-package (9x9mm VFQFPN). Inside that is a 170MHz 32bit Arm Cortex-M4 MCU die (STM32G431) that includes a hardware CORDIC accelerator for trigonometric calculations, alongside a gate driver die that can sink or ...
Drive System Design (DSD) and Alvier Mechatronics have teamed up to create a development platform for electric vehicle drives. “The project leverages DSD’s expertise in rapid development engineering and Alvier Mechatronics’ experience in novel manufacturing methods for high-volume applications, material know-how and electromagnetic design,” according to DSD. Called iDS, it “showcases technologies, materials and analysis techniques with real, tested hardware for ...
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