Newport Corporation

Roger Desailly

Patrick Thomas

Daniel Gvero

Jean Levine

Alain Jeanne

Eric Durand

Franck Duquenoy

Serge Maneuf

Jeremy Malaize

Van Di&ecirc;p Nguyen

Adjustable mounts for optical elements or the like that may include absolute position information feedback. For some embodiments, position data may be generated independent of displacement measurement. Position data feedback may be provided to driver embodiments, such as piezoelectric inertia drivers, by a controller and used to achieve a desired position setting for an adjustable mount.

Optical adjustable mounts with absolute position feedback

Embodiments include optic mounts that may be adjustably positioned with a piezoelectric inertia driver. Position data feedback may be provided to embodiments of a piezoelectric inertia driver controller from an encoder, such as an optical encoder.

Optical adjustment mounts with piezoelectric inertia driver

An apparatus comprises a brushless motor, driver, incremental displacement sensor, and processor. The motor has a rotor, stator, and electrical terminals accepting a drive signal. The initial phase of the rotor is unknown. The driver is connected to the electrical terminals and produces the drive signal. The displacement sensor is configured to measure a displacement of the rotor and to produce an output signal. The processor has an input receiving the output signal and an output connected to the driver. The processor causes the driver to produce the drive signal according to a predetermined function of time, observes the output signal from the displacement sensor resulting from the drive signal, and performs mathematical computations on the basis of the observed output signal and a model of dynamic behavior of the motor to estimate the initial phase of the rotor.

Apparatus and method for estimation of initial phase of a brushless motor

The present application is directed to a linear motor and includes a first mounting plate having an interior face disposing one or more magnetic elements thereon, a second mounting plate having an interior face disposing one or more magnetic elements thereon, a cooling element positioned between the interior faces of the first and second mounting plates and defining one or more cooling passages therein, the cooling passages having one or more heat sink wall members therein, at least one end cap configured to be coupled to cooling element and enclose the cooling passages therein, at least one seal positionable between the end cap and the cooling element and configured to couple the end cap to the cooling element in sealed relation, and a forcer device positioned between the magnetic elements on the first and second mounting plates and configured to movably engage the cooling element.

Cooling system for linear motors

A specimen positioning mechanism () includes a movable stage () movable along multiple axes, a plate () connected to and supporting a specimen mounting chuck (), multiple linear displacement mechanisms () coupling the plate to the movable stage and mutually spaced apart at different locations between the movable stage and the plate and separately controllable to change distances between the movable stage and the plate, and a flexible member () coupling the movable stage and the plate. The flexible member is motion compliant in three axes of motion. The flexible member in response to linear displacements of the linear displacement mechanisms allows linear and rotational movement of the specimen mounting chuck in the three axes of motion compliance.

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