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is often used in contact, and the ultrasonic vibration induced in the stator is used both to impart motion to the rotor and to modulate the frictional forces present at the interface. The friction modulation allows bulk motion of the rotor (i.e., for farther than one vibration cycle); without this
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made use of traveling-wave vibration to obtain bi-directional motion, and found that this arrangement offered better efficiency and less contact interface wear. An exceptionally high-torque 'hybrid transducer' ultrasonic motor uses circumferentially-poled and axially-poled piezoelectric elements
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vibration. Some of the earliest versions of practical motors in the 1970s, by
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to amplify the vibration of the stator in contact with the rotor in ultrasonic motors. Ultrasonic motors also offer arbitrarily large rotation or sliding distances, while piezoelectric actuators are limited by the static
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within a structure. Many engineering materials suitable for vibration permit a peak vibration velocity of around 1 m/s. At low frequencies — 50 Hz, say — a vibration velocity of 1 m/s in a
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One common application of ultrasonic motors is in camera lenses where they are used to move lens elements as part of the auto-focus system. Ultrasonic motors replace the noisier and often slower
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Koyama, D.; Takeshi, Ide; Friend, J.R.; Nakamura, K.; Ueha, S. (September 2005), "An ultrasonically levitated non-contact sliding table with the traveling vibrations on fine-ceramic beams",
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together to combine axial and torsional vibration along the contact interface, representing a driving technique that lies somewhere between the standing and traveling-wave driving methods.
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A key observation in the study of ultrasonic motors is that the peak vibration that may be induced in structures occurs at a relatively constant
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Hu, Junhui; Nakamura, Kentaro; Ueha, Sadauki (May 1997), "An analysis of a noncontact ultrasonic motor with an ultrasonically levitated rotor",
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or slider depending on the scheme of operation (rotation or linear translation). Ultrasonic motors differ from other
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