Ultrasonic Actuators, Motors and Sensors

This homepage covers the advanced actuators activity of the JPL's NDEAA Technologies Lab.

 

Description: USM simulationUltrasonic Motors

Description: bulletRotary Ultrasonic Motors - SPIE, San Diego, CA March 1997

Description: bulletRotary Ultrasonic Motors - SPIE, San Diego, CA March 1998

Description: bulletPlanetary Dexterous Manipulators* - SPIE, Newport Beach, CA March 1999, paper #3668-17

Description: bulletRotary Ultrasonic Motors - SPIE, Newport Beach, CA, March 1999 paper #3668-63

Description: bullet"Complete Modeling of Rotary Ultrasonic Motors Actuated By Traveling Flexural Waves," SPIE Smart Structures 2000, paper 3992-103

Description: Description: Description: http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/nasa-nde/blueball.gif Miniaturization of planar horn motors” Proceedings of the SPIE Smart Structures and Materials/NDE Symposium, Paper No. # 8345–80, San Diego, CA, March 12-15, 2012

 

Actuators

Description: bullet"Enabling Novel Space and Terrestrial Applications Using Transducing Materials at JPL," SPIE's Transducing Materials and Devices, Brugge, Belgium, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 2002, paper 4946-02

 

 

Energy harvesting

Description: bullet “The Physical Acoustics of Energy Harvesting,” S. Sherrit, 2008 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Proceedings

 

Sensors

Description: W:\www\nasa-nde\usm\blueball.gif"BAW and SAW sensors for In-situ analysis," Paper 5050-11, Proceedings of the SPIE Smart Structures Conference, San Diego, CA., Mar 2-6. 2003



Patents related to Actuators

Y. Bar-Cohen, S.-S. Lih and W. Grandia, "High Torque Ultrasonic Motor System Using A Series of Connected Individual Motors and a Stack of Piezoelectric Drivers," NTR, Item No. 9447, Docket 19835, Nov. 14, 1995 (Patent Pending).

Description: bullet"Multiphase backing materials for piezoelectric broadband transducers," Patent No. 4,482,835, November 13, 1984

Description: bullet"Multiphase backing materials for piezoelectric broadband transducers," Patent No. 4,581,070, April 8, 1986

Description: bullet"Multiphase backing materials for piezoelectric broadband transducers," Patent No. 4,582,680, April 15, 1986

Description: bullet"Broad band acoustic transducer," Patent No. 4,698,541, October 6, 1987

Web addresses for other USM sources

Description: bulletMIT's webpage - table comparing USM and conventional motors

Description: bulletMIT's webpage - table comparing various actuators

Description: bulletUltrasonic motors websites list

Description: bulletUltrasonic motors at Harbin Institute, China

Description: bulletCEDRAT Recherche's Piezoactive motors

Description: bulletHigh-Power Electrostatic Motor

Description: bulletPiemo ApS, Kvistgaard, Denmark



Links to actuator websites

Description: bulletManufacturers of piezoceramics

Description: bulletIntelligent Materials website

Description: bulletPiezo Systems, Inc.

Description: bulletUCLA Active Materials lab

Description: bulletShape Change Technologies

Description: bulletCenter for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Virginia Tech

Description: bulletNebulasearch - actuators



Sensors

Description: bullet"Sandia National Lab - Microsensors R&D"



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Last update April 10, 2000