Standard contacts for piezo actuators are 100 mm stranded wires or soldering points. For each piezo element, different wires acc. to the AWG standard are used. PICA Shear for cryogenic and UHV environments use tantalum electrodes, which can be contacted by means of a conducting adhesive or by welding. Please observe the soldering instructions for each product.
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| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| Resonant impedance I [Ω] | <50 |
| Maximum peak-to-peak amplitude APP [µm] | 20 |
| Maximum power consumption P [W] | 5 |
| Quality factor Qm | >2000 |
PI Ceramic Timeline
With the intention of establishing a manufacturer of piezoceramic components for the PI Group, PI Managing Director Dr. Karl Spanner founds the company together with Albrecht Otto. PI Ceramic has its first headquarters in rented facilities in the former production building of the Electronicon company in Gera, Thuringia.
PI Ceramic is proud of its first ten employees, including Managing Director Otto Albrecht (1st from right) and Frank Möller (3rd from left), who still works for PI Ceramic today.
Dr. Karl Spanner breaks ground for the first construction phase of the new company building in the small town called Lederhose in Thuringia. The picture shows the five founding employees of PI Ceramic.
Finally, the time has come: The first construction phase with over 2,000 square meters of production and office space was completed and the employees can move in.
After five years, the company counts 30 employees, all working together to achieve the vision: to become the manufacturer of piezoceramic components for the entire PI Group.
The 2,000 square meter company headquarters is being expanded with an additional 5,000 square meters of production and office space. This means lots of space for new employees and more capacity for manufacturing new products.
With the series production of NEXLINE® modules, PI Ceramic receives an immense growth boost in the early 2000s and the building becomes too small. A further extension creates an additional 3,600 square meters of production and office space. At this point, the company headquarters covers more than 10,000 square meters.
The company's 25th anniversary is celebrated by the 280 employees at the headquarter in Lederhose.
Albrecht Otto (on the left) retires and hands over the management to Dr. Patrick Pertsch (on the right). Mr. Pertsch has been an employee of the PI Group for 20 years at this point, most recently as plant manager at PI Ceramic.
Also pictured: Dr. Peter Schittenhelm, former Managing Director of PI Ceramic and Chief Operating Officer of PI.
The company's headquarters are being expanded for a fourth time to include more than 7,500 square meters of office and production space and a parking garage. The new extension will provide space for multilayer production, offices and a showroom on three floors.
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Your Advantages with PI as a Partner
Custom piezo element and transducer manufacturing
Already during the development stage of your product, PI supports you in finding the optimum design and the ideal specifications of piezo elements. Beyond that, we manufacture piezo components, subassemblies, and ultrasonic transducers. You have a design idea, we contribute our long-standing experience. Together, we will achieve the best performance for your product.
Value-added designs
More than just piezo components or actuators: We offer value-added designs for our piezo elements. Whether you need soldering of stranded wires and flexible PCBs, gluing onto substrates, or the assembly of ultrasonic transducers with acoustic matching layers and housing: We deliver a ready-to-install, quality-tested product. Talk to us about your specific requirements!
Miniaturized piezo components
Special applications require special piezo elements. You are planning with the smallest installation spaces? PI has the technical expertise to produce tiny piezo components for this purpose. Whether it is tubes with 0.4 mm diameter or 2 mm small spheres: We support you in miniaturizing your solution.
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White Paper: Focus and Zoom Function Drives for Video Endoscopes
Miniaturized Precision Drives Make It Possible
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