The AdaptivEnergy RLP® actuator has been designed for applications requiring high displacement, low power consumption, and world class reliability in a small form factor. The RLP® is a proven game-changing technology that enables portable pumping, embedded active valving in fluidic systems, and meso-scale motion control.
Stress Engineered Smart Materials System
The AdaptivEnergy RLP® (Ruggedized Laminated Piezo) actuator is engineered to place a piezoceramic component in compression eliminating common ceramic failure modes resulting in a highly reliable, high displacement, small form factor device which can be mass produced. The RLP® performance can be optimized through materials selection and mechanical design.
The AdaptivEnergy Advantage...Piezo Power in a New Domain
AdaptivEnergy’s RLP® uses an advanced proprietary polyimide bonding process that allows 4 to 10 times more stress to be applied to the ceramic material thereby allowing the actuator to perform more mechanical work. AdaptivEnergy’s highly automated polyimide process bonds the piezoceramic material to a stainless steel substrate at a high temperature, increasing strength and reliability while minimizing assembly time.
Devices built using the RLP® are able to achieve 10x the performance of traditional piezo devices under loaded conditions. Applications that were once impossible using traditional piezos are now easily achievable. Additionally, existing applications utilizing traditional piezo actuators are now vastly improved.
Next Generation Products are now possible
RLP® actuators enable portable, battery powered and embedded applications -not possible with traditional electromagnetic actuators. The physical and economic limitations of miniaturizing motors and solenoids make them unsuited for portable devices or embedded applications. The RLP® has unparalleled reliability, performance and low power consumption in a small form factor while delivering performance that is 100x of what is possible in MEMS devices and occupying 1/10th the size of electromagnetic devices.
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