Abstract:
An apparatus for converting wave energy into electrical energy including a float element excited at a defined frequency by the waves. A power extraction system collaborates with the float element to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy, the mechanical energy coming from the movement of the float element excited by the waves. The power extraction system takes the form of a frequency amplifier made up of at least two piezoelectric motors each composed of at least one piezoelectric post excited at a frequency higher than that of the float, and a member for activating said piezoelectric motors acting on the piezoelectric motors so as to squash said piezoelectric posts. Each piezoelectric motor has a mechanical amplification device connected to rollers and includes a) jaws able to apply mechanical stress to the posts, b) a lever acting on the jaws with a proximal end connected to said jaws and a distal end connected to a roller in contact with the member so as to activate said piezoelectric motor.
Abstract:
Provided are an electrostrictive element comprising film electrodes that have a good elasticity and conductivity, and a manufacturing method therefor. Film electrodes 3 of an electrostrictive element 1 are sheet-shaped carbon nanotube aggregates 6, and can expand in the fiber direction while maintaining a state in which carbon nanotubes 7 overlap with each other, when the dielectric film 2 expands.
Abstract:
A method for controlling a displacement in the thickness direction of the contraction-type gel actuator having an effect of contraction in the thickness direction by applying a voltage between an anode and a cathode between which a gel which includes a dielectric polymeric material is interposed, which includes performing feedback control of an applied voltage, with a sampled value of a displacement when the applied voltage acts on the contraction-type gel actuator, according to the following equation (1): E=kp(xd−x)+Ed (1) In the equation, xd represents a target displacement of the contraction-type gel actuator; Ed represents an applied voltage with respect to the target displacement xd obtained by the linear approximation of the applied voltage and the displacement from a measured result of the displacement in accordance with the applied voltage of the contraction-type gel actuator; and kp represents a proportional gain.
Abstract translation:通过在阳极和阴极之间施加电压来控制具有厚度方向收缩效果的收缩型凝胶致动器的厚度方向上的位移的方法,在该阳极和阴极之间插入包含电介质聚合物材料的凝胶, 根据以下等式(1),当所施加的电压作用在收缩型凝胶致动器时,执行施加的电压的反馈控制与位移的采样值:E = kp(xd-x)+ Ed )在等式中,xd表示收缩型凝胶致动器的目标位移; Ed表示相对于根据施加电压的线性近似获得的目标位移xd的施加电压和根据收缩型凝胶致动器的施加电压的位移的测量结果的位移; kp表示比例增益。
Abstract:
Provided is a piezoelectric element including: an electrode portion including a piezoelectric layer and an electrode layer that are laminated; and a non-electrode portion that is in contact with the electrode portion and includes a piezoelectric layer without an electrode layer, in which the non-electrode portion includes a region having a density smaller than a density of the piezoelectric layer of the electrode portion.
Abstract:
An ultrasonic vibration apparatus includes a vibrator, wherein the vibrator includes at least two vibration elements to generate ultrasonic vibration when a driving voltage is applied to the vibration elements, at least three electrode portions wherein the vibration elements and the electrode portions is alternately arranged side by side in a vibrating direction, at least the three electrode portions includes at least two first electrode portions and at least one second electrode portion alternately arranged in the vibrating direction, the vibrator integrally vibrates ultrasonically in the vibrating direction when the driving voltage is applied to the first electrode portions and the second electrode portion, and a bridging portion coupling and electrically connecting two first electrode portions of at least the two first electrode portions with each other, and the ultrasonic vibration apparatus further includes an anti-vibration portion to suppress vibration of the bridging portion in any other direction except the vibrating direction.
Abstract:
A vibration-wave drive motor incorporating a multilayer piezoelectric element having reduced vibration damping as well as a design lending itself to reduced manufacturing costs and miniaturization. The multilayer piezoelectric element includes a piezoelectric active part formed by a plurality of piezoelectric layers having an internal electrode, and a piezoelectric inactive part formed by an integrated piezoelectric layer with no internal electrodes. The vibration-wave drive motor consists of a vibration body including the multilayer piezoelectric element, and a contact body press contacting the vibration body.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a piezoelectric actuator, in particular for actuating control valves or injection valves of internal combustion engines in motor vehicles, having a circular, cylindrical piezoelectric actuator body in the form of a multilayered laminate made up of stacked layers of piezoelectric material with intervening metallic or electrically conductive, alternating first and second electrode layers that function as electrodes, wherein these first and second electrode layers alternatingly contact a first and second electrically conductive common electrode connection. Either the piezoelectric actuator body has either an internal longitudinal bore and at least the first common electrode connection is provided on the inner wall of the actuator body constituted by the internal longitudinal bore and contacts every first electrode layer there or alternatively, the actuator body has no internal bore and the first and second electrode layers are respectively exposed on the outer cylinder wall of the actuator body at points angularly offset from one another and respectively contact the first and second electrode connections there.
Abstract:
A method for producing a piezoelectric actuator (8) with a multilayer structure of layers of a piezoelectric sheet (3, 4), and with inner electrodes disposed between them, is proposed, in which the individual layers are formed of two continuous strands (3, 4) of the piezoelectric sheet, and the two strands (3, 4) are wound over one another in the form of a double helix to form a hollow-cylindrical stack, thereby enclosing the inner electrode between them. The two strands (3, 5) are preferably guided over deflection rollers (5, 6, 7) in such a way that the overlays of the two strands (3, 4) on the already-wound stack are offset from one another by a predetermined angular amount.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an electromechanical drive or a sensor element composed of piezoelectric elements arranged in the form of a stack. The drive or the sensor element is intended for measurement instruments and operates even at very high temperatures. The new drive or the new sensor element (10) for this purpose comprises a number of piezoelectric ceramic layers (12a-f), with electrode layers (16a-e) in each case being arranged between two mutually facing surfaces of directly adjacent piezoelectric ceramic layers. Connectors (18a,b) in the form of wires run in grooves (14a-d) in the electrode layers (16a-e) in order to make electrical contact with the electrode layers (16a-e), and are passed out of the electrode layers (16a-e).
Abstract:
With actuators according to prior art, it is known that, in the inactive region, which is required for contact purposes, irregularities in expansion occur. These produce cracks in the piezoelectrically inactive electrode region, which may occur at regular intervals. As a result of the irregularities in expansion, the stresses accumulate in the passively expanded regions, up to a level at which they are relieved by crack formation. It is therefore proposed according to the invention that the contact surfaces (17), and therefore the inactive regions (15) assigned to them, of one or a predetermined number of electrodes of the same polarity (11; 30 to 37; 39, 40), arranged above one another in the same direction, are arranged offset to one another by a predetermined angle (22) of the size null, opposite the contact surfaces (17), and therefore the inactive regions (15) assigned to them, of the preceding internal electrode or a predetermined number of preceding electrodes of the same alignment and the same polarity.