Design News - June 06, 2005

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Cover Story

If you fire up the Formula race car that Raser Technologies recently built, don't expect to hear the roar of the engine. Because there isn't one. Raser's racer instead runs solely on electric power from a bank of more than 30 12V batteries and a proprietary drive system based on an ac-induction pancake motor.

Departments

Expo
Motion Control/Power Transmission
Software/Hardware
Fluid Power
Electronics
My View
Change is in the Air at Design News
Mail
Readers Sound Off
Slant
Single-Control Design Is Within Reach
Trend Watch
Occupant Detection Sensors
Automotive Structures Gain Strength
Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Gyroscopes
Ask
Ask the Search Engineer
Weblog
The Right Drive
Rant
The Value of Flexible Thinking
Green Scene
RoHS Part Numbering: The Continuing Saga
Flash
New and Notable Product Design
Gadget Freak
Ryan Demonstrated the Basics of Torsion Mechanics
Cool Software Tricks
Converting a Fortran Program to Mathcad
Designer's Corner
Improving the Accuracy of Microstepping Motors
Featured Product
Data Acquisition Gets Smaller
Rarely Asked Questions
Rarely Asked Questions
Calamities
The Case of the Collapsing Coliseum

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