• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.222-226
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• 2009

This paper presents the new design of flat electromagnetic actuator. Novel shorted turn and copper center pole are placed into existent design in order to reduce the inductance of coil and accelerate the initial response. Finite element analysis using commercial electromagnetic solver “MAXWELL” is performed to simulate the improvement of dynamic characteristics such as fast initial response and so on.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.149-152
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• 2010

The flat coil actuator is widely used to make high precision products because it has no friction between the moving coil and the guide. Finite Element Method, a favored actuator design tool due to its high accuracy, was utilized to analyze the electromagnetic actuator, but it consumes a lot of time especially in computation iterations for optimization. Accordingly, the magnetic equivalent circuit analysis can be an alternative tool to FEM because of its computation iteration capability with fair accuracy. In this paper, lumped parameter model and the simulation results are presented. In addition, the result of lumped parameter analysis is compared with those obtained from finite element analysis for verification.