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Controllable printing droplets on demand by piezoelectric inkjet: applications and methods
Piezoelectric inkjet is a kind of device which can achieve drop-on-demand and has the advantages of high injection precision, fast response, and good stability. Nowadays, the piezoelectric inkjet technology ha...
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Effects of pulse voltage on piezoelectric micro-jet for lubrication
A novel piezoelectric micro-jet for bearing lubrication is presented in this paper, and the micro-jet is working at the slap** mode. The micro-jet is embedded in the bearing system, and add little mass or vo...
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Research on the Injection Performance of a Novel Lubricating Device Based on Piezoelectric Micro-Jet Technology
In order to solve the problem of lubrication failure in bearing systems, a novel lubricating device which can achieve drop-on-demand lubrication is proposed based on piezoelectric micro-jet technology. The inj...
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A rotary ultrasonic motor using radial bending mode of ring with nested PZT excitation
This study presents and verifies a new idea for constructing a rotary traveling wave ultrasonic motor (USM) that uses the radial bending mode of a ring. In the new design, 20 trapezoid cross section slots are ...
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Numerical Simulation of Batoid Locomotion
The hydrodynamics of batoid swimming motions is investigated using the three-dimensional simulation of a self-propelled body in still water. The kinematics of batoid swimming is characterized by large amplitud...
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Research on the Swing of the Body of Two-Joint Robot Fish
The disadvantages caused by the swing of a fish body were analyzed. The coordinate system of a two-joint robot fish was built. The hydrodynamic analysis of robot fish was developed. The dynamic simulation of a...
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Novel high torque bearingless two-sided rotary ultrasonic motor
Applications are limited at present because the currently available ultrasonic motors (USMs) do not provide sufficiently high torque and power. The conventional travelling-wave USM needs the bearing to support...