Nidec Slider linear vibration motor

Nidec has developed an ultrathin linear vibration motor known as Slider.

A number of commercially available smartphones and smart watches are equipped with a vibration motor nowadays. While in the past an eccentric motor was used to create a simple pattern of vibration to notify users of an incoming message, such motors are equipped in recent years with functions to control vibrations to make users feel as if they were pressing a button, and to vibrate in synchronisation with the scenes in a game they are playing. Such applications make vibration motors important in enhancing the sense of immersion and realistic sensations that digital devices provide.

Slider was developed based on Nidec’s magnetic circuit design technology, which was cultivated in the company’s design of HDD spindle motors. While the motor maintains the vibration strength of the company’s existing products, its volume is 40% lower than its predecessors and it measures just 2 mm thick. This should enable digital devices to be more compact and thinner than they are now.