Automated Diamond Turning Lathe for the Production of Copper Accelerator Cells

Not Available The innovation and the resulting opportunity proposed here involves taking advantage of the increased reliability of solid state smart material actuators, coupled together with optimized electrical circuitry performance, to yield a highly efficient, compact standalone positive displacement pump. Specifically, it is proposed that piezo-electric and magnetostrictive smart material actuators based pumps be designed so that the capacitive and inductive natures of the smart materials are also properly harnessed and phased to yield a electrically resonant circuit for greater system efficiency. The benefit of this would be reduced power requirements, smaller power amplifiers, reduced heat dissipation, and in general a smaller, lighter, more affordable standalone pump system. Use of the solid state smart materials also helps increase system simplicity and reliability. While specifically focused on the dual use of magnetostrictive and piezoelectric actuators to create a more efficient total pump system, there is a great deal of freedom left to consider a wide range of specific pump types.