Sick Stegmann Intros SKS 36 SinCos Motor System

Sick Stegmann Inc. (Dayton, OH), a wholly owned subsidiary of Sick AG (Waldkirch, Germany), introduced its new SKS 36 SinCos motor feedback system with HIPERFACE interface. The construction of the SKS 36 rotary encoder offers a minimum number of components to open the door to the production of miniaturized rotary encoders, aloowing small motor manufacturers to shorten the overall length of their motors.

The SKS 36 features Mini-Disc (MiDi) technology and includes a track radius of just 2 mm. This permits integral (full) scanning of the entire code disc, which eliminates eccentricity errors of the code disk, ball bearings and shaft common to conventional systems. The code disk is mounted in the center of the axis of rotation, so high angular velocities are no longer limited by the code disk.