CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES is now owning a trademark registration for its APA® (Amplified Piezoelectric Actuators).

>> March 2010, certificate of registration issued by the Office for Harmonization in the internal market (OHIM).

>> May 2010, certificate of registration issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Vincent Ardon will present all his thesis work performed at G2Elab and CEDRAT to introduce parasitic capacitances in the EMC (electromagnetic compatibility) modeling of the structures of power electronics.

You are cordially invited to his thesis which will be held on June 21, 2010 at 10:30 in the A010  auditorium of ENSE3 (Ampere site - old ENSIEG) and the traditional drink which will follow at the local G2Elab. Access to ENSE3

Thesis title: Numerical methods and tools to take into account capacitive effect in the EMC modeling of power electronic devices. Abstract

The AVIBUS R&D project (Drilling with Vibration Assistance by Piezoelectric Actuators) sustained by the PEGASE and VIAMECA clusters funded by the FUI8 (National French R&D Funding), aims at developing vibrating, active, auto adaptive tool-holders for the drilling of various materials as well as the associated process.

The project is coordinated by CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES, with the help of ENSAM for the machining process aspects. The partners of the project are CETIM, DUFIEUX Industrie, EADS Innovation Works, G2ELAB/UJF, RICHAUD and SECO-EPB.

"Industrie & Technologies" comes back on this launch...

CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES has been selected by OSEO to be member of OSEO EXCELLENCE 2010, network of 2 000 outstanding contractors selected to represent growth companies. An undeniable opportunity to improve our visibility and promote our expertise.

CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES can be proud of this new distinction.

More information on the OSEO website...

CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES has just received the prestigious 2009 INPI Trophy for innovation! The prize giving took place on Monday, 16^th November 2009 with the presence of Pascal Duyck, Director of Regional action (INPI) and Gilles Dumolard, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Grenoble.

CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES was represented by Frank Claeyssen, Innovation, Marketing & Sales Director. This distinction is awarded each year to 3 SME using patent rights for expanding their company. This is the case of CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES that keeps on promoting innovation to meet its customers' and partners' needs. 

Read more on the INPI's website...

CEDRAT is pleased to announce the release of Flux 10.3.2 patch.

• Enhancements brought by the patch
  New embedded circuit editor for which user interaction and connection algorithms have been improved.
  Some bugs corrections, resulting in a version of better quality.

• Linux version
  Flux v.10.3.2 also brings for the first time a Flux Linux version, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Edition 5.3, 32 and 64 bits.
  With Linux, gain from a better memory management and increase solving speed !
  We noticed an average speed increase of 15 to 20% with Linux equipped machines. 

• Flux speed improvement
  Benefit from reduced computation time on 32 bits machines using Flux v.10.3 leading to a tremendous acceleration of the solving process when comparing to v10.2.
  Examples demonstrated at last Flux User Conference:
  - 75% on a typical 3D magnetostatic case
  - 80% on a 3D transient analysis

All the Flux v10.3 benefits can be found at: Flux 10.3 New features

Applied Magnetics, our Swiss distributor, is organizing a training course relative to our software solution Flux 3D on November 20, 23 and 24, 2009. The sessions will take place at MORGES in Switzerland.

Should you be interested feel free to contact Mr DAHO Taghezout.

The objective of Onera/DLR’s “Active Flap Rotor” project is to create a four-blade wind tunnel rotor characterized by an active flap on the trailing edge. A full scale adaptable flap actuator model was made by Onera.
It includes one of CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES's APA® (Amplified Piezo Actuators) based on using prestressed piezoelectric stacks.

Read more...

CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES is proud to announce the release of its new 2010 products catalogue for «Compact, Dynamic & Precise» piezo solutions!

You will find a range of piezo actuators, stages, motors, related drivers & controllers as well as customised solutions in order to better answer to your needs in:

• Micro & nano positionning
• Fast and precise actuation
• Active control of vibration
• Vibration generation ...

Should you be interested in receiving a hardcopy for free or a high resolution file (32 Mb) or for any other request, do not hesitate to contact us at actuator(at)cedrat.com

CEDRAT is organizing a Flux training course for 2D & 3D users.

Date: 26, 27, 28 October, 2009
Who should attend: Flux 2D & 3D Users
Location: CEDRAT - Meylan (F)

Should you be interested in attending this 3-day special session please contact our Training Department to obtain all the details relative to the program and registration. 

CEDRAT Group is proud to announce the release of Portunus Version 3.2, a unique multi-domain system simulation software.

Portunus is the ultimate package for modelling complete mechatronic systems for a wide range of applications: Transportation, Automation and Drives, Energy Conversion, Sensors and Actuators, etc.

Thanks to Portunus’ extremely user-friendly and intuitive interface, new users will quickly learn handling the software and thus focus on their main target: explore new domains and converge faster to solutions.

Compatible with VHDL-AMS, the latest IEEE standard language, Portunus is the right package software to centralize your engineer multi-competences and make your projects come true earlier.

Portunus will simply help you to reduce your time to market with shortened engineering phase, avoid costly prototypes and long multiple validation processes, product liability optimization with complete and efficient analysis.

New powerful features:

• Multiple pages technology allowing the splitting of schematics into different pages and the creation of extra sections for visualisation and documentation.
• A new electro thermal model of IGBT with analytical computation of switching losses. Included predefined sets of parameter of over 100 models from Infineon components.
• Fast Data Storage Technology for the storage of result files up to terabytes.
• Other: GUI improvement, support of symbolic mathematics, enhanced numerical stability, support of “Std_logic_1164” package by VHDL AMS compiler.

For more information on this new version and pricing please contact us at software@cedrat.com.
 

CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES is proud to announce that the SMART JOINT European project has just been approved by OSEO.
In the context of this project new developments of Contactless Torque Sensors (CTS) are performed for high-precision compact Robot Joints.

CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES, is proud to announce that it has just obtained the Research Credit Tax  for the period 2009-2013.
Thanks to this certification, the costs for the realization of R&D operations entrusted to CEDRAT TECHNOLOGIES will enable its customers to benefit from the Research Credit Tax (CIR).

EMSAC has been appointed by CEDRAT as official agency for the sale and support of Flux and Portunus software in India.

This is in addition to the relationships already established in the field of motor design software with the SPEED consortium (Glasgow, UK) and for the MotorCAD software (Ellesmere, UK).