This presentation explains in brief how piezo motor works. It also displays different type of piezo motors. It consists of a comparison of Piezo Motors and Electromagnetic motors.
2. PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION
■ Works on Inverse Piezoelectric effect
■ Piezoelectric effect: Potential difference created on certain materials due to
mechanical stress.
■ Converse of the above effect: Mechanical stress created on materials due to
potential difference.
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4. Materials that exhibit Piezoelectricity
■ Quartz
■ Berlinite (AlPO4), a rare phosphate mineral that is structurally identical to quartz
■ Sucrose (table sugar)
■ Rochelle salt
■ Topaz
■ Tourmaline-group minerals
■ Lead titanate (PbTiO3).
■ PZT - Lead Zirconate Titanate.
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6. Features of micromotor:
1. No friction element to reduce resolution due sub nanometer range.
2. Do not require use of any lubricant and thus are ideal for ultrahigh vacuum
applications.
3. Resolution: 1μm to 100μm
4. Force capability: in orders of 1000s of N
5. Temperature range: -200C to 200C
6. Voltage range: from a few millivolts to 1000V
7. No wear and tear.
8. No magnetics field involved, and hence is not affected by it.
9. Acceleration of the range 10,000 g.
10.Response time of microseconds.
7. Comparison of piezo motor vs
Electromagnetic motor
Electromagnetic motor
1. Comparatively large size
2. Less accuracy in range of
micrometers
3. Cannot hold position while power is
off
1. Efficiency falls down when size is
scaled down
2. Designing linear electromagnetic
motor is comparatively difficult.
Piezo motor
1. Size in order of micrometer
2. Accuracy in range of nanometers
3. High holding capability even if
powered off
1. Efficiency remains same even if size
of motor is less
2. Designing and manufacturing linear
micro piezo motor is very simple
8. Bimorph piezoelectric actuator
■ Similar to bimetallic strip
■ Two sheets of piezo films of opposite polarities adhered together forms a
bimorph
■ Voltage applied → One film lengthens, other shrinks
■ Cantilever bends
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10. Basic shear bender structure
•A sandwiched beam is modeled where a
part of the core has been replaced by
piezoelectric material.
•The electric field is applied
perpendicular to the poling direction,
inducing a transverse shear strain.
•This shear bender consist of a 100 mm
long sandwiched cantilever beam.
•The 2 mm thick core is sandwiched by
two 8 mm thick aluminum layers.
•The rigid foam core is partially replaced
by a 10 mm long piezoceramic actuator.
11. Simulation result of piezo shear
bender Boundary conditions for
simulation:
1. The cantilever beam is fixed
at the surfaces at z=0
2. A 20 V potential difference is
applied between the top and
bottom surfaces of the
piezoceramic subdomain.
12. Types of micro motors
1. Electromagnetic motors
2. Electrostatic motors
3. Piezoelectric motors
a) Inertia Driven
b) Resonance Drive
c) Piezo-walk Drive
13. Inertia Driven/ Stick Slip Motors:
I In this, movement is generated by
friction.
A sawtooth signal of electric field makes
piezoelectric material expand fast and contract
slowly making the attached mass move to and fro.
In multilayer actuators, a sliding
element (inertia mass)
attached with a
spring force, creating frictional coupling
between rod
and inertia mass.
Such motors are
16. Rotation principle of Ultrasonic Motor
1. Voltage applied → shape of piezoelectric ceramics changes
2. Standing wave is created with modifications in input voltage signal
3. The stator metal touches the rotor only at each peak of a traveling wave
4. Each of that peak carries out elliptical movement
5. A rotor rotates in response to the influence of the elliptical movement
6. Direction of movement of this ellipse is a direction contrary to the direction
which a traveling wave follows.
17. Piezo walk drive
Multiple piezoelectric actuators make
synchronous motion by repeating “release-
clamp-move and clamp-release-move” steps
to produce a movement.
Each drive element is a piezoelectric bimorph
that is electrically isolated and can be
controlled independently.
Deformation in length and bending direction
of the bimorph element simultaneously
causes the pressed slider to make a linear
motion.
This principle drives piezoelectric stepper
motors.
19. Why Piezo motors?
Fast response time, compact size, and self-locking at the rest position make
piezoelectric motors suitable candidates for focusing, zooming, and optical
image stabilization in cameras.
Inertia- and resonant-drive types are used by camera manufacturers for
lens moving mechanisms.
Piezoelectric motors have been integrated into various fields as compact,
fast responding, and magnetic insensitive, vacuum compatible, and high-
precision actuators.
As systems in medical and micro robotic fields requiring more complex and
multi-tasking actuations, the need for these motors would be in demand.
20. References
1. Piezo motor design principles, an overview: http://www.pi-
usa.us/pdf/Different_Piezo_Motor_Designs_Overview.pdf
2. Ultrasonic motor operating:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F8qU5LaHXY
3. What is a piezo motor and how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Dm-5EfSAk
4. V8 piezo motor with nanometer precision:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcdJh-ELcRY
5. Ultrasonic precision piezomotor:
http://www.piezo-motor.net/pdf/Piezo_Motor_White-
Paper_Ultrasonic_Piezoelectric_Precision_Motor.pdf
6. Comsol tool for MEMS:
https://www.comsol.com/models/mems-module/page/4
7. Ultrasonic piezomotor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasonic_motor
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1535999/