Direct drive field actuator motors

Patent · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1998

OSTI ID:871415

Grahn, Allen R ^[1]

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1. Salt Lake City, UT

A positive-drive field actuator motor including a stator carrying at least one field actuator which changes in dimension responsive to application of an energy field, and at least one drive shoe movable by the dimensional changes of the field actuator to contact and move a rotor element with respect to the stator. Various embodiments of the motor are disclosed, and the rotor element may be moved linearly or arcuately.

• Research Organization: Bonneville Scientific, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-92ER81439
• Assignee: Bonneville Scientific Incorporated (Salt Lake City, UT)
• Patent Number(s): US 5726520
• OSTI ID: 871415
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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