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Advantages of Electrostatic Micromotor and Its Application To Medical Instruments
Advantages of Electrostatic Micromotor and Its Application To Medical Instruments
Advantages of Electrostatic Micromotor and Its Application To Medical Instruments
I f exciting current.
So that,
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driving force is proportional to high-order power of L . So, as
the dimensions of micromotors are reduced, electrostatic force
scales advantageously when compared to the magnetic force.
The paper further compares the two types of micromotors
from two aspects: power per unit volume and efficiency. Due
to simple structure, higher power per unit volume and
efficiency, Electrostatic micromotor is suitable for
miniaturization. Therefore, for MEMS, elctrostatic
micromotor appears more attractive and promising than
electromagnetic micromotor. According to those advantages
of electrostatic micromotor, the paper finally discusses its
application to optical endoscope. By putting an electrostatic
micromotor with higher motive torque in the tip of endoscope
could widen visual field of traditional endoscope. With the
performance improving of electrostatic micromotor, its
applications to medical instruments are very promising.
Figure 1. Tip of endoscope with triple prism driven by electrostatic
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