Based on near-field acoustic levitation and driving, a novel
absolutely non-contact piezoelectric actuator was presented.The cylinder rotor
was levitated by a Langevin transducer,and driven by a cylinder type stator.
Applying voltages on the piezoelectric ceramic patches of transducer and stator,
the first order of flexural vibration was exerted on radiating surface of the transducer,
and two B(0,3) flexural standing waves at different phases were generated and
lead to a traveling wave in the cylinder type stator,which applied driving force for the rotor
by the induced high intensity sound.The finite element models of the cylinder
type actuator,including Langevin transducer and stator,were built,and the dynamic
analysis,design,and experiments for scanning and fitting frequencies for
the stator were conducted.At last,a prototype was manufactured and the test system for the actuator was built,and its levitation and driving characteristics were measured.The rotation speed of the rotor can achieve 4261r/min.The experimental results confirm that the rotor successfully achieves absolutely non-contact rotation based on near film ultrasonic levitation and driving effect.