The vibration motor is a kind of micro motors, which is generally used in mobile phones, electric toothbrushes, and wearable devices for vibration alert notifications and haptic feedback. Vibration motor was invented in the 1960s for massaging products. At that time, it was not industrialized as the usage amount of 3v mini vibrator motor was small. After the 1980s, with the rise of pagers and mobile phone industry, the function of the vibration motor was more as haptic feedback and alert notifications.
Types Of Vibration Motor:
According to the internal structure of the motor, we habitually divide the vibration motor into four categories: 3v coin type motor (also called flat vibration motor), SMD Reflow Solderable Vibration Motors, Linear Resonant Actuators – LRA’s, and Cylinder Coreless Motors.
Vibration Motor Applications And Examples:
The application of vibration motor is more and more extensive because of people’s innovative ideas. And it is difficult for us to list them all here! To help, we have discussed some of our most popular applications over the years below.
Toothbrush Coreless Motor For Electric Toothbrushes:
Electric toothbrushes produce ultrasonic vibrations by vibrating motors to clean teeth. Generally speaking, electric toothbrushes will use two types of motors according to their type. The first is the disposable electric toothbrush like Oral-b’s electric toothbrushes for children. They use φ6 series cylinder motor as they don’t need a vibration motor with a long lifetime. The other is the Ultrasonic vibration toothbrush，they will use BLDC motor for vibration.
Haptic Feedback For Mobile Phones
Mobile phones are the most widely used areas of vibration motors. At first, the vibrating motors were only used as a vibration alert function in mobile phones. With the popularity of smartphones, vibrating motors play a more critical role in mobile phones — providing user tactile feedback. The 8mm diameter mini vibration motor is also becoming a necessary component of the mobile phone. At present, the most popular mobile phone vibration motor is coin vibration motor due to their small size and enclosed vibration mechanism.
Vibration Alerting For Wearables Devices
Smart wearable devices are a new area that has become popular in recent years. All technology companies including Apple, Microsoft, Google, Huawei, and Xiaomi have all developed their smartwatches or smart wristbands. With the development of science and technology, smart wearable devices cannot only count steps, display time, but also answer calls, send and receive text messages, and display heart rate. To some extent, it is a simplified smartphone. Many experts predict that smartwatches will ultimately replace traditional watches in the future.
Haptic Feedback For Game Handle And VR Glove
Vibration motors are widely used in game handles and VR gloves. You can find it in game handles like Switch, PSP, Xbox and VR gloves like HTC Vive and OCULUS. With the development of VR industry, VR will become one of the main markets of vibration motors in the future.
Post time: Sep-06-2018
