Amplified Piezoelectric Actuators and Stepping Piezo Actuators
15, Chemin de Malacher - Inovallée (ex-ZIRST),
38246 Meylan Cedex,
Other,
France
Cedrat Technologies offers a wide range of standard off-the-shelf mechatronic products including piezoelectric actuators and motors. Our motion products are used for various scientific and industrial applications requiring features such as micro and nano positioning, the generation of vibrations, micro-scanning, fast and precise motion control, active control of vibrations, and energy harvesting.
Most of these products are available in OEM versions for low-cost and high-volume industrial applications.
Stroke is sometimes the limiting factor for using direct piezo actuators. With an ingenious mechanical flexure, our APA amplified piezoelectric actuators combine:
Our amplified piezoelectric actuators are highly dynamic and are available in extremely small sizes.
The SPA stepping piezo actuator is a motor derived from amplified piezoelectric actuator technology. This tiny piezo motor can provide longer travels than amplified piezoelectric actuators and benefit from the same features:
Our stepping piezo actuator is available in a developer kit including a SPA30µXS, a 70nm resolution sensor, and the associated driver and controller.
The fields of use for amplified piezoelectric actuators and stepping piezo actuators include:
Cardiolock: stabilisation during heart surgery (courtesy of EAVR) is a concept of active heart stabilisation for totally endoscopic beating heart surgery. Thanks to high-speed visual feedback and piezo actuation, the cardiolock compensates actively for motions due to the heart beating.
Exoskeleton: cellular artificial muscles based on exponential PZT strain amplification (courtesy of Georgia Tech University) use MRI-compatible APA50XS actuators, identified as the best technology force / stroke / bandwidth for this application.
MRI compatibility tests: SPA30µXS moves a ‘fantom’ for MRI evaluation in the frame of a project to make an internal body valve for blood regulation.
To find out more about our piezoelectric actuators and other mechatronic products please contact us.
Cedrat Technologies , your innovation specialist for mechatronics and piezoelectric and magnetic actuators, will be exhibiting at MEDTEC Europe, the European leading trade show for the medical manufacturing industry, which will be held 22-24 March in Stuttgart. We invite you to visit o
Cedrat Technologies, your innovation specialist for mechatronics and piezoelectric and magnetic actuators will be exhibiting at COMPAMED, the international trade fair for high-tech solutions for medical technology, which will be held 17-19 November in Düsseldorf, Germany. We invit
Cedrat Technologies has developed several classes of low-voltage piezo actuators to cover a wide range of needs and applications. Amplified piezo actuators (APA™) are solid-state long stroke linear actuators. They are based on the expansion of the active material and on a mechanism for ampli
Just after ACTUATOR (14-16 June 2010), join Cedrat Technologies for two one-day training courses in the Congress Center Bremen (Germany) on 17 June 2010: Piezoelectric actuators Linear magnetic actuators As these training courses are not part of ACTUATOR
15, Chemin de Malacher - Inovallée (ex-ZIRST)
38246 Meylan Cedex
Other
France