A handful of small, affordable devices now let homeowners add smartphone and voice controls to many existing ceiling fans, ...

TDK Corporation announces its participation in Embedded World 2026, held from March 10 to March 12 in Nuremberg, Germany. At ...

Motors are everywhere—from air conditioners and vacuum cleaners to power tools and industrial equipment. As globalisation and ...

Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a towering figure in the early decades of electrical engineering, easily the intellectual equal of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla—men he considered his friends. One of ...

The market for high-efficiency motors (>IE4 or equivalent) continues to grow at a faster pace than the broader low voltage AC ...

What if the future of electric motors didn’t rely on bulky copper windings or heavy steel components? Ziroth outlines how Printed Circuit Board (PCB) motors are flipping the script on traditional ...

There are two separate circuits when it comes to motors and motor control. The main power circuit is what supplies the power to the motor itself to cause it to run. What determines when that power is ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. The quest to develop consumer products that are more reliable, efficient, and cost competitive is never-ending. While progress is made across all ...

Vector Control, also known as Field Oriented Control or FOC is an AC motor control scheme that enables fine-grained control over a connected motor, through the precise control of its phases. In a ...

Solid State Relays (SSRs) and Solid State Contactors (SSCs) are ideally suited for controlling dynamic loads such as motors, particularly where frequent or multiple start/stop cycles are required in ...

This important work investigates how orientation signals detected in higher brain areas may be transformed into motor responses in behaving animals. The authors characterize two types of descending ...

Abstract: This paper presents the design and validation of a 3-phase inverter connected to an induction AC motor, which is integrated in a curtain control module. The circuit was modeled using bond ...