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Canon Optoelectronic Components, Integrating the Latest Technologies. Canon has been developing industrial components with super-high levels of precision and accuracys using its optical technologies gained and accumulated for over half a century. Canon now has a line of products that integrate cutting-edge optical technologies, electronic circuit technologies, and super-precision fabrication technologies, meeting the needs of our customers everywhere from research and development to production lines.

 

FEATURED PRODUCTS

Canon’s SR Series Ultra Miniature Optical Encoder is a highly miniaturized and high-resolution optical encoder ideal for applications involving linear/rotary motion and speed control.

Industry-leading high-performance, fully digital galvano scanning system from Canon. LED optical encoder (digital position sensor) with high speed digital servo controller brings high precision and high accuracy that surpasses all analog galvano scanners in the market.

Canon's DC motors are custom manufactured to achieve the exact speed, power, and current required of the OEM application. Canon motors are RoHS-compliant and are completely designed, manufactured, and assembled in our facilities.

Canon offers a variety of brushless, coreless, and ironcore DC motors that are custom manufactured to achieve the exact speed, power, and currents required for OEM applications. These motors are supplied with attached gears, pinions, pulleys, lead wires, and conductors in order to reduce OEM labor and material costs.

Canon's brushless servomotors are compact in size and provide high output power. Two types are offered with quick response and smooth rotation. Various custom options can be incorporated to fit your applications.

Canon's BN22A brushless servomotors are compact in size and provide high output power, achieving accurate control from low to high-speed ranges.

Canon's brushless servomotors are compact in size and provide high output power. Two types are offered with quick response and smooth rotation. Various custom options can be incorporated to fit your applications.

Canon's new ultra sonic piezo motor is compact, quiet, and accurate for linear positioning applications.

FEATURED VIDEOS

  • On our last day at Photonics West 2023, Canon’s Asumi Kobayashi talks linear ultrasonic motors. Learn about what Canon’s motors can do by checking out this video.

  • Canon's BN22A brushless servomotors are compact in size and provide high output power, achieving accurate control from low- to high-speed ranges.

  • Canon's BN13 brushless servomotors are compact in size and provide high output power. Cordless winding technology contributes to low cogging, resulting in a high mechanical response.

  • Canon's linear ultrasonic motors (USM) are used as an autofocusing actuator for Canon camera lenses, offering high speed and smooth drive.

  • At Photonics West 2022, Asumi Kobyashi at Canon USA introduces a high performance, high reliability piezo motor that features high speed and response, followed by a  servo motor driver that features four-axis control and a series of DC brushless motors with features including high efficiency and high-precision positioning capabilities.

  • The Machine Vision RV-Series from Canon is made up of a group of systems that are specifically designed to work as the “eyes” of robotic arm systems. Benefits for using these machine vision systems include one-time measurements of 3D pose, high-speed recognition, improved productivity, and reduced production costs. This series is ideal for use in industrial production applications such as automobile parts manufacturing, car manufacturing, and electronics manufacturing.

  • Sukegawa Takashi from Canon USA, Inc. Optoelectronic Components introduces the new Canon Immersion Grating. With a size that is 1/27th of typical spectroscopy devices and the ability to cover infrared frequencies from 1 to 20 micrometers, this immersion grating is ideal for astronomy, satellites, and large ground-based telescope applications.