A New Solution for Detecting Electric DC Motor Rotation
The company has developed a sensor-less rotation detection, control and monitoring method for brushed DC electric motors. IDEAdvance claims that its so-called DCM-MotionTechnology can eliminate the need for Hall sensors, sensor wires and connectors that are used around brushed DC electric motors.
To help fund this development, IDEAdvance was awarded a grant by the UK government to help it prove the feasibility of DCM-MotionTechnology. This funding has further helped the company open an R&D and customer support centre in Bracknell. Built around an electrically powered seat motor driving a linear actuator, IDEAdvance's demo kit emulates a power seat control unit that detects the motor commutations as the motor rotates and uses these signals to control, store and recall seat positions.
