QCS just finished off with the design of a driver for an ultrasonic motor, Phase I. We are now on Phase II, the miniaturization of the driver to the level where the electronics can be placed inside the housing of the motor. Special integrated circuits will be developed for this purpose to get everything in one chip. We are thinking of using some of the mixed analog/digital ASICs for this end. The power drivers will be the most difficult to reduce in size due to the thermal requirements. The image shown is an exploded view of a typical ultrasonic motor which contains very minimal number of components. Pound for pound they are lighter, less noisy, and much smaller than an electrical motor of the same torque and power ratings. Manufactured in quantities they are also less expensive to make. They work in almost any environment, and in ambients up to hundreds of degrees C.

QCS is also at present developing a Windows 95® and Windows NT® application for driving various different types of multi-axis "C" scan bridges and turn tables developed by QMI®. This package will allow the user to select which motor controllers, instrumentation package, and data acquisition package for his particular version of test scanner. The motors available will be the latest from Galil®, CompuMotor®, and Motion Engineering Inc®. At the present time the instruments Airscan®, and UTEX® as well as others will be selectable. Data acquisition boards from QMI®, MEI®, and UTEX® as well as others will be selectable. This software package can be tunable to almost any motor driver, instrument, or data acquisition board manufacturer, and will be upgraded continuously to accommodate new motors, instrumentation, and data acquisition products as they become available.