摘要:
A vibration damping apparatus has a vibration-isolating table for placing an object thereon which is to be isolated from vibrations, an air spring mounted on an installation floor and supporting the vibration-isolating table for attenuating vibrations from the installation floor, an air pressure controller for controlling an air pressure of the air spring, a displacement sensor for detecting a relative displacement between the vibration-isolating table and the installation floor and supplying a signal indicative of the detected relative displacement to the air pressure controller, and a spring element acting between the vibration-isolating table and the installation floor for positioning the vibration-isolating table horizontally. An electromagnet is disposed between the vibration-isolating table and the installation floor for actively attenuating vibrations of the vibration-isolating table. The vibration damping apparatus is operated to position the vibration-isolating table horizontally by means of the spring elements, and vertically by means of the air spring.
摘要:
A magnetically levitated vibration damping apparatus includes a table having a flat board of a magnetic material, an electromagnetic actuator for applying magnetic attractive forces to the flat board to levitate the table, a displacement sensor for detecting relative displacement between the flat board and the electromagnetic actuator, an acceleration sensor for detecting absolute acceleration of the table, and a control system for controlling a current supplied to the electromagnetic actuator based on signals from the displacement sensor and the acceleration sensor according to a first control rule for controlling a gap between the flat board and the electromagnetic actuator based on the signal from the acceleration sensor and a second control rule for controlling vibrations of the table based on the signal from the acceleration sensor, the second control rule including stability control of relative displacement of the table.
摘要:
A control system for controlling a linear actuator including magnetic bearings for levitating a robot arm and a pulse motor for linearly driving the arm in a non-contact manner is disclosed, which comprises a displacement detection unit including displacement sensors, first and second calculation units, moving amount detection unit and adding circuit. The displacement detection unit detects displacement values of the arm from a reference posture, the first calculation unit calculates guiding (y), levitation (z), roll (p), pitching (q), and yaw (r) control current values in response to the displacement values and provides guiding, levitation, roll, pitching, and yaw control current signals (, , , , ). The moving amount detecting circuit detects a moving amount (X.sub.0) of the arm from a reference position in response to an operation of the pulse motor, and provides a compensation current value (.DELTA.Iq") proportional to the moving amount, and the adding circuit adds the compensation current value (.DELTA.Iq") to the pitching control current signal (). The second calculation unit, in response to the guiding, levitation, roll and yaw control current signals (, , , ) and the added pitching control current signal (+.DELTA.Iq"), calculates drive current control values to compensate drive current flowing through the magnetic bearings.
摘要:
A robot with no mechanically contacting components are suitable for use in special environments such as semiconductor manufacturing processes where dust and lubrication are matters of important concern. The robot has a linear actuator composed of magnetic bearings and a linear motor for moving a robot arm linearly without mechanical contact, and a rotary actuator composed of magnetic bearings and a rotary motor for rotating a body which supports the linear actuator, around the rotary actuator without mechanical contact.
摘要:
An electron microscope has an electron gun for emitting an electron beam, a specimen holder for holding a specimen thereon, and a deflection coil for applying the electron beam from the electron gun to the specimen on the specimen holder. A controller produces a differential signal representing the difference between a signal from a vibration sensor which detects vibrations of the electron gun and a signal from another vibration sensor which detects vibrations of the specimen holder. The differential signal is added to a deflection signal for the deflection coil for thereby effecting feedforward control of the electron beam to cause the electron beam to reach the specimen on the specimen holder, irrespective of the vibrations of the electron gun and the specimen holder.
摘要:
There is provided a vibration eliminating apparatus utilizing a magnetic suspending system which achieves zero power control. The vibration eliminating apparatus includes a table on which equipment to be installed, magnetic yokes fixed on the table, control magnets for suspending the magnetic yokes from an installation floor, displacement sensors for measuring gaps between the control magnets and the magnetic yokes, power amplifiers for supplying exciting currents to the control magnets, and compensation circuits for controlling the exciting currents of the control magnets by supplying outputs from the displacement sensors to the power amplifiers. Each control magnet includes a permanent magnet for generating a bias magnetic flux and an electromagnet for generating a control magnetic flux to form a magnetic circuit. An integrated value of the exciting current fed to the electromagnet is fed back to the power amplifier.
摘要:
An electromagnetically suspended floating floor apparatus in which a floating floor on which machines are set up is suspended from an installation floor with electromagnetic actuators so that the floating floor is spatially separated from the installation floor whereby no vibration is transmitted to equipment on the floating floor. The floating floor apparatus comprises the floating floor suspended from the installation floor at a plurality of supporting points by electromagnetic actuators, a light emitting member, fixed to a beam or a pillar, which emits a horizontal light beam, and a photosensor fixed to the installation floor which outputs a position signal representing a position of incidence of the horizontal light beam to the electromagnetic actuators. On the basis of the position signal, the electromagnetic actuators control a vertical position of the floating floor.
摘要:
A dynamic pressure bearing is provided with a moving side bearing member and a fixed side bearing member so as to support a rotor for rotation by generating a fluid dynamic pressure between the moving side bearing member and the fixed side bearing member. The dynamic pressure bearing includes a high-frequency exciting device for applying a high-frequency vibration to the fixed side bearing member at the time of at least one of start-up and shutdown of the rotor. In this way, both bearing members are kept almost free from contact with each other and a frictional resistance at start-up and/or shutdown is minimized.
摘要:
A thin-film forming device including a reaction chamber having an atmosphere different from that in the outside world, a susceptor rotatably disposed in the reaction chamber for mounting a substrate thereon to form a thin film thereon, and a nozzle disposed within the reaction chamber facing the susceptor for supplying a thin-film forming material on the substrate, the thin-film forming device comprises: a levitating means including magnetic bearings for non-contact support of the susceptor; and a driving means for rotating the susceptor at high speed, to thereby increase the rotational speed of the susceptor and the thin-film forming rate.
摘要:
A spindle motor has a rotor supported by a stator through a thrust bearing and a radial bearing. At least the thrust bearing is a hydrodynamic bearing. The spindle motor is provided with a device for adjusting the thrust laod that is applied to the thrust bearing. The load adjusting device has an electromagnet that is provided on the stator and a permanent magnet that is provided on the rotor in opposing relation to the electromagnet. Either the repelling force or the attraction force, which acts between the electromagnet and the permanent magnet, is controlled by changing the current supplied to the electromagnet.