Brushed DC motor
From home and garden, to power tools, to Automotive: no matter your brushed DC motor application or budget, find the ideal solution in Infineon's broad semiconductor portfolio. You can achieve energy and cost efficiency by selecting one of our designated solutions for the three main types of brushed DC motors. All in proven Infineon quality you can depend on. Find what's best for your application: look through our diverse range of suitable high-quality products. See additional motor control applications here in battery powered applications and home and building.
There are three main types of brushed DC motors: series wound (uni-directional), shunt wound (bi-directional by changing connections) and permanent magnet (bi-directional by reversing current). Powering a set of windings generates a magnetic field in the rotor. The opposing magnetic fields (N-N and S-S) push away from one another creating rotation until the fields align (NS – NS).
Example application for brushed DC motor control and drives
Example application for brushed DC motor control and drives (highly integrated)
Key characteristics brushed DC motor
- Easy to control: torque is proportional to current – speed is proportional to voltage
- Moderate efficiency
- Variable speed: fewer external components required than induction or brushless DC motors
- Maintenance necessary as brushes wear out
- Louder than induction motors (EMI and audible)
How Infineon can support you
Infineon covers a wide range of brushed DC motor control applications, including sunroof, power window lift, and electrical pumps and fans, with a complete system-on-chip solution known as Embedded Power ICs. The TLE984x and TLE986x product families, parts of the Embedded Power ICs range, are designed to provide reliable, energy efficient, size and weight optimized solutions.
For a customized solution for your brushed DC motor control application, discover our selection of ARM-based Embedded Power ICs and use our Solution Finder for automotive applications.
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DC Motor Control Shield - How to easily and quickly make a motor turn
In this training, you will:
- Be able to understand the MOSFET turn-on process after watching the overview on MOSFET driver optimization
- Have also a deeper look on adaptive MOSFET control
In this training, you will:
- Learn about Infineon‘s TLE956x motor system ICs, which are the first devices in the world that combine half-bridge gate drivers, power supply and a communication interface in a single device
- Get also an overview of TLE956x’s main features and benefits
In this training, you will:
- Learn about the TLE985x family, which belongs to a platform of products developed specifically for highly integrated motor control solutions where a small footprint is essential
- Get also an overview of TLE985x’s main features and benefits
In this training, you will:
- Learn about Infineon’s TLE9210x, which is a family of Multi MOSFET Driver ICs, designed to control up to eight half-bridges (up to 16 n-channel MOSFETs) with one packaged device
- Get also an overview of overview of TLE9210x’s main features and applications
