• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.53 no.4
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• pp.213-223
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• 2004

In the machine tool industry, direct drive linear motor technology is of increasing interest as a means to achieve high acceleration, and to increase reliability. The advantages of such a motor are that it has a good linearity and has no need of such mechanical energy conversion parts, which change rotary motion into linear motion, as screws, gears, chains etc In this paper, two structures of LOA are analyzed. One is the moving-coil type LOA and the other is moving-magnet type LOA. Two types of LOA are analyzed, with reference to the following parameters as variables: magnetic field, flux linkage, motor thrust and back emf. These variables are derived by the use of analytical method in terms of two-dimensional rectangular coordinate system. The maximum values of thrust according to such design parameters as air-gap length and magnet height for each model is also represented. The results are validated extensively by comparison with finite element method. In particular, we experiment moving-coil LOA which is already manufactured and confirm that the experimental results are shown in good agreement with analysis through the comparison of between analytical and experimental results

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.50 no.6
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• pp.273-281
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• 2001

In order to overcome the demerit and to improve the operation characteristics of Moving Coil type Linear Oscillatory Actuator(MC-LOA) with single-pole permanent magnet, this paper presents two models having the balanced magnetic circuit by multi-pole permanent magnet. They are short coil type with two-pole single-sided and two-ple double-sided permanent magnet. The characteristics between single-pole and multi-pole permanent magnet type MC-LOA are compared. As a result, multi-pole type MC-LOA has more merits than single-pole type about operation characteristics improvement and machine volume. The characteristics analysis is performed by their dynamic analysis composed of kinetic and electric equations and Finite Element Method(FEM). The propriety of multi-pole type MC-LOA model is verified with analysis results.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.54 no.11
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• pp.533-539
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• 2005

In the previous work, we performed the analysis of a tubular type moving-magnet linear oscillatory actuator (LOA) with cylindrical Halbach array by using 2-d analytical formulas and confirmed validity of analytical results by comparison of those with both finite element (FE) computation and experimental results. This paper deals with the dynamic characteristic analysis of the moving-magnet LOA with cylindrical Halbach array. Control parameters such as the thrust constant, the back-emf constant, resistance and inductance are obtained from both analytical and experimental results. And then, the dynamic simulation algorithm is established by the state and output equation obtained from voltage and motion equation. Finally, for various values of frequency, the dynamic simulation and experimental results for the characteristics of the voltage, current and displacement of moving-magnet LOA are presented. The simulation results are validated extensively by experiments. The experimental and simulation results for the variation of stroke according to control voltage are also presented for various values of frequency.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.52 no.1
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• pp.9-15
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• 2003

This Paper deals with the design of Moving Magnet type Linear Oscillatory Actuator(MM-LOA) using spring damper based on the design procedure and the characteristic analysis. MM-LOA is applied to variable load such as vaccum pump and compressor, The structure of piston type is selected to reduce a noise. MM-LOA has over-displacement in starting state because of the low inertia of mover To improve the starting characteristic, spring damper is used. The optimum spring constant of spring damper is detected and in consideration of spring damper, MM-LOA redesigned. The parameter is calculated by Finite Element Method(FEM). For the dynamic characteristic analysis, time differential method composed of voltage and kinetic equation is used. The propriety of the improved model is verified through the experimental results.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.55 no.1
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• pp.21-26
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• 2006

This paper deals with the dynamic analysis and experiments of moving-magnet linear actuator with/without spring. On the basis of two dimensional (2-D) analytical solutions and experiments, control parameters such as thrust constant, back-emf constant, inductance and resistance are obtained. And then, dynamic simulation algorithm is established from the voltage and motion equation. Finally, for various values of frequency, dynamic simulation results for characteristics of current and displacement of moving-magnet linear actuator with and without spring are presented and confirmed through the experiments. In particular, This paper applies the PWM voltage waveform obtained from a DSP for bidirectional voltage drive to the actuator.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.53 no.2
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• pp.63-68
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• 2004

This paper presents an approach to optimum design of Moving Magnet Type Linear Oscillatory Actuator(MM-LOA). The Finite Element Method is applied to characteristic parameters for characteristic analysis and in order to reduce modeling time and efforts, the moving model node technique is used. In addition the neural network is used to reduce computational time of analysis according to changing design variable. To confirm the validity of this study, optimum design results are compared with results of analysis procedure that is verified by experiment.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• summer
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• pp.1091-1093
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• 2004

This paper deals with two structures of tubular LOA. One is the moving-coil type LOA and the other is moving-magnet type LOA. We analyze and compare the characteristics of tubular LOA according to mover type. The results of predicitions from the analysis are compared with corresponding finite element analysis.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07a
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• pp.105-107
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• 1999

This paper presents results of FEA and tests on the characteristics of moving coil type LOA due to the static field excitation method. In case the static field is generated by NdFeB permanent magnet, the static thrust is almost 6 times than that by electromagnet. Therefore under the same power, the volume becomes small according to using permanent magnet for the generation of static field.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07b
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• pp.742-744
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• 2001

Moving flat core LOA consists of iron flat core as a mover and electric magnet as a stator and operated by electromagnetic force between mover and stator. In a moving flat core type, it takes advantage of doing not have to be equipped with power supply device, having a lower manufacturing cost. But it has a lower linearity and precision. In this paper, a static characteristics of LOA were studied and analyzed using FEA. Experiments, electromagnetic force and inductance according to air gap and input currents, were carried by exciting coil. And we compared these results one another.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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• v.49 no.11
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• pp.713-719
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• 2000

This paper presents an approach toward improving the performance of Moving Coil Type Linear Oscillatory Actuator (MC-LOA) with the application of Finite Element Method (FEM) to a simple control system. MC-LOA has an unbalanced magnetic circuit due to its asymmetric structure and there is a different flux distribution on the air-gap along the current direction. The interaction driven by two fluxes between the Permanent Magnet (PM) and the current causes the unbalanced thrust and interferes with the proper oscillation of MC-LOA. In order to solve the above problems and improve the driving performance, it is necessary to analyze the rate of the unbalanced thrust according to the current direction by using FEM. Then, the analysis results are used to determine the input currents for both directions. Controlling the input currents can be easily achieved by a simple control system, such as Pulse Width Modulation (PWM), without complex units. The validity of the approach is verified by the experimental results.