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Nano Motor Miniaturisation
Date: 31 May 2007
NanoLensTM and NanoZoomTM technology could bring camera phone miniaturisation to industrial applications
Nanomotion, the designer and manufacturer of innovative
piezo-ceramic servomotors and controls successfully launched its
NanoLens and NanoZoom motor modules during 2006 to provide the
enabling technology for high quality autofocus and optical zoom in
today's mobile phone and PDA cameras.
As a leading precision motion control equipment supplier and the UK
distributor for Nanomotion, Sussex based Heason Technologies are
looking for other miniature sub-micron positioning applications
where these products may be applied.
The miniature modules are based upon Nanomotion's standing wave
inverse piezoelectric effect technology that delivers sub-micron
resolution and accuracy for demanding linear and rotary positioning
applications in both manufacturing and research for a wide range of
market areas including semiconductors and electronics, lasers and
photonics, MEMS and nanotechnology, biotech' and biomedical.
The NanoLens module provides autofocus accuracy down to
5 micron with cycle times of under 100 milliseconds in a
package size of less than 10 mm x 10 mm x 8 mm. The product is
manufactured in partnership with Nanomotion's sister company Nihon
Mini Motor, both are part of the Johnson Electric Group, the world
leader in motors for automotive and commercial markets.
The NanoZoom is a packaged optical zoom module that typically
provides a 3x zoom ratio with a focal length of 5 mm to 15 mm. Zoom
speed is an incredible 100 mm/sec which translates to a
telephoto-to-wide move in less than 0.1 seconds. Measuring just 13
mm x 14 mm x 23 mm, the module provides crystal sharp images by
combining simultaneous two-axis (zoom and focus) moves, powered by
a proprietary ASIC driver.
Heason Technologies has a complete applications support service for
the Nanomotion motor range and also represents an impressive list
of global motion and positioning system manufacturers as well
manufacturing and developing its own range of precision rotary
actuators and custom motion platforms.
The Company is sure that these exciting miniature positioning
products can be applied to many other applications gaining a cost
benefit from the massive mobile phone market where volume
manufacture has helped to reduce unit costs to attractively low
levels.
The technology could be applied to micro-miniature pumps and
sensors, opto and medical imaging equipment, surgical tools,
nanotechnology and MEMS devices and many more ... watch this
space!
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