Micromotor Using Electroconjugate Fluid (Fabrication of Inner Diameter 2mm RE type ECF Motor)

Shinichi Yokota; Masakazu Hirata; Yutaka Kondoh; Koichi Suzumori; Atsushi Sadamoto; Yasufumi Otsubo; Kazuya Edamura

doi:10.20965/jrm.2001.p0140

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JRM Vol.13 No.2 pp. 140-145

doi: 10.20965/jrm.2001.p0140

(2001)

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Micromotor Using Electroconjugate Fluid (Fabrication of Inner Diameter 2mm RE type ECF Motor)

Shinichi Yokota^, Masakazu Hirata^, Yutaka Kondoh^, Koichi Suzumori^, Atsushi Sadamoto^, Yasufumi Otsubo^, and Kazuya Edamura^

^*Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho Midori-ku Yokohama 226-8503

^**Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushima-naka, Okayama-city, Okayama 700-8530, Japan

^***Toshiba Corp. 1 Komukai Toshiba cho Saiwai-ku Kawasaki 212-8582, Japan

^****Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho Inage-ku Chiba, 263-8522, Japan

^*****New Technology Management, 2-9-1-306b Higashi-Shinkoiwa Katsushika-ku Tokyo 124-0023, Japan

Received:

October 2, 2000

Accepted:

November 7, 2000

Published:

April 20, 2001

Keywords:

micro actuator, dielectric fluid, jet flow, electrostatic, micro motor, ECF, smart fluid

Abstract

Some kinds of dielectric fluids as dibutyl decannedioate generate jet flow between electrodes. One of the authors calls the fluids ECf (Electro-conjugate Fluids), which are considered as smart fluids. The authors propose a micro motor by making use of ECF. In our previous paper, a rotor electrode(RE)-type micro ECF motor have been reported In the paper, fabrication of micro ECF motors having I.D.ø3mm, I.D.ø4mm, I.D.ø8mm is described. On the RE-type micro ECF motor, some pairs of electrodes are located on the surface of a cylindrical rotor. The rotor can rotates with the reaction force caused by ECF jets. By making use of the ECF jet's reaction force, micro motors are easily realized. In this paper, fabrication of a micro ECF motor having I.D.ø2mm is described. Also, Basic characteristics such as rotational velocity are experimentally examined.

Cite this article as:

S. Yokota, M. Hirata, Y. Kondoh, K. Suzumori, A. Sadamoto, Y. Otsubo, and K. Edamura, “Micromotor Using Electroconjugate Fluid (Fabrication of Inner Diameter 2mm RE type ECF Motor),” J. Robot. Mechatron., Vol.13 No.2, pp. 140-145, 2001.

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Micromotor Using Electroconjugate Fluid (Fabrication of Inner Diameter 2mm RE type ECF Motor)

Shinichi Yokota*, Masakazu Hirata*, Yutaka Kondoh*, Koichi Suzumori***, Atsushi Sadamoto***, Yasufumi Otsubo****, and Kazuya Edamura*****

Shinichi Yokota^, Masakazu Hirata^, Yutaka Kondoh^, Koichi Suzumori^, Atsushi Sadamoto^, Yasufumi Otsubo^, and Kazuya Edamura^