Synopses & Reviews
Fractional-Horsepower drives are crucial for all kinds of products, from simple domestic utensils to most complex technological applications. This handbook gives a practical overview on the available drives. It gives a comprehensive reference about design, functionality, properties, and applications of fractional horsepower drives and introduces into their control and the mechanical transducers. Additionally, the book shows us avenues for projecting new drives. With first English edition of the bestselling German book, the author address practicing engineers as well as students of electrical and mechanical engineering, control and mechatronics.
Synopsis
This is the first English-language edition of the bestselling German book in which the authors address the issue of fractional horsepower drives - crucial for all kinds of products - and provide a practical overview on all of the available drives.
Synopsis
Aimed at engineers in product development as well as advanced students of electrical engineering, control and mechatronics, this is the first English-language edition of the bestselling German book in which the authors address the issue of fractional horsepower drives. They are crucial for all kinds of products, from simple domestic utensils to the most complex and advanced technological applications. This handbook gives a practical overview on all of the available drives.
Table of Contents
Motors for Continuous Motion.- Commutator Motors.- Electrically Exited DC Motors.- Permanent-Magnet DC-Motors.- Electrically Exited DC Motors.- Commutator Series Motors Contract System and Commutation.- Noise Behaviour.- Radio Interference suppression.- Brushless Permanent Magnet Motors.- Switched Reluctance Motor.- Rotating-Fields Motor.- Rotating-Field motors.- Electromagnetic Stepping Drives.- Drives with Limited motion.- Electromagnets.- Electrodynamic Linear and Multicoordinate Drives.- Linear and Planar Hybrid Stepping Motors.- Piezoelectric Drives.- Open-Loop and Closed-Loop Control of Small Electric Motors.- Magnetic Bearing Technology.- Mechanical Transfer Units.- Planning and Design of Drive Systems