Presentation 2015-10-02
Degradation Phenomenon of Electrical Contacts by using a Micro-Sliding Mechanism
Shin-ichi Wada, Keiji Koshida, Koichiro Sawa,
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Abstract(in English) Authors have studied the degradation phenomenon on contact resistance under the influences of an external micro-oscillation. They have developed a hammering oscillating mechanism (HOM) or a micro-sliding mechanism 1 (MSM1) which provides micro-oscillations for electrical contacts. It is shown that each mechanism is able to simulate an actual degradation phenomenon on electrical contacts. And they have also developed the third mechanism, namely another micro-sliding mechanism 2 (MSM2) which provides micro-sliding driven by a piezo-electric actuator and elastic hinges, which has more precise sliding performance, less thermal drift on the sliding, and smaller sized system constituted of commercial parts. In the previous paper, by the MSM2, they consider the theoretical analysis and experiments on input force waveform or output displacement response in the case of three types of input waveform as force which are a sinusoidal, a rectangular, and a pulsive ones. In this paper, they obtain the experimental results concerning ``minimal sliding amplitude'' against force waveform when resistances on electrical contacts fluctuate under the conditions which are six types of waveform as the above and three levels of frictional force which are usual (1.6 N/pin), middle (1.0 N/pin), and smaller (0.3 N/pin) between a male-pin and a female-part using the MSM2. And, they compare the differences on the above minimal sliding amplitudes under the conditions by dispersion analysis on statistical test. Consequently it is shown that that the larger the frictional force is the larger the minimal sliding amplitude is and that the amplitude in a sinusoidal one is larger than in rectangular or pulsive ones. However, it is not shown that the differences in the amplitudes in pulsive one are clear.
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Keyword(in English) electrical contact / micro-sliding mechanism / minimal sliding amplitude / sinusoudal waveform / rectangular waveform / pulsive waveform / statistical analysis / degradation phenomenon
Paper # EMD2015-66
Date of Issue 2015-09-25 (EMD)

Conference Information
Committee EMD
Conference Date 2015/10/2(1days)
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Place (in English) Fuji Electric FA Components & SystemCo.,Ltd.
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Chair Junya Sekikawa(Shizuoka Univ.)
Vice Chair Yoshiteru Abe(NTT)
Secretary Yoshiteru Abe(Sumitomo Denso)
Assistant Shinichi Wada(TMC system)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Electromechanical Devices
Language ENG
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Title (in English) Degradation Phenomenon of Electrical Contacts by using a Micro-Sliding Mechanism
Sub Title (in English) The comparison with input waveforms concerning of minimal sliding amplitudes under some conditions
Keyword(1) electrical contact
Keyword(2) micro-sliding mechanism
Keyword(3) minimal sliding amplitude
Keyword(4) sinusoudal waveform
Keyword(5) rectangular waveform
Keyword(6) pulsive waveform
Keyword(7) statistical analysis
Keyword(8) degradation phenomenon
1st Author's Name Shin-ichi Wada
1st Author's Affiliation TMC System Co. Ltd.(TMC)
2nd Author's Name Keiji Koshida
2nd Author's Affiliation TMC System Co. Ltd.(TMC)
3rd Author's Name Koichiro Sawa
3rd Author's Affiliation Nippon Institute of Technology(NIT)
Date 2015-10-02
Paper # EMD2015-66
Volume (vol) vol.115
Number (no) EMD-234
Page pp.pp.37-42(EMD),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2015-09-25 (EMD)