About
About the Device
maxon motor control
EPOS4 Positioning Controller
Document ID: rel6852
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EPOS4 50/5 Hardware Reference
Edition: May 2017
© 2017 maxon motor. Subject to change without prior notice.
1.1.5
Trademarks and Brand Names
For easier legibility, registered brand names are listed below and will not be further tagged with their
respective trademark. It must be understood that the brands (the list below is not necessarily conclud-
ing) are protected by copyright and/or other intellectual property rights even if their legal trademarks are
omitted in the later course of this document.
Table 1-3
Brand names and trademark owners
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Copyright
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The present document – including all parts thereof – is protected by copyright. Any use (including repro-
duction, translation, microfilming, and other means of electronic data processing) beyond the narrow
restrictions of the copyright law without the prior approval of maxon motor ag, is not permitted and sub-
ject to prosecution under the applicable law.
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About the Device
Capabilities of the
device, included fea-
tures, and supported
motors.
maxon motor control’s EPOS4 50/5 is a small-sized, full digital, smart positioning control unit. Its high
power density allows flexible use for brushed DC and brushless EC (BLDC) motors up to approximately
250 Watts with various feedback options, such as Hall sensors, incremental encoders as well as abso-
lute sensors in a multitude of drive applications.
The device is specially designed to be commanded and controlled as a slave node in a CANopen net-
work. In addition, the unit can be operated via any USB or RS232 communication port of a Windows or
Linux workstation. Moreover, the integrated extension interface allows pooling with optionally available
communication interfaces, such as EtherCAT or other additional functionalities.
Latest technology, such as field-oriented control (FOC) and acceleration/velocity feed forward in combi-
nation with highest control cycle rates allow sophisticated, ease-of-use motion control.
Find the latest edition of the present document as well as additional documentation and software for
EPOS4 positioning controllers also on the Internet:
Brand Name
Trademark Owner
Adobe® Reader®
© Adobe Systems Incorporated, USA-San Jose, CA
BiSS
© iC-Haus GmbH, DE-Bodenheim
CANopen®
CiA®
© CiA CAN in Automation e.V, DE-Nuremberg
CLIK-Mate™
Micro-Fit™
Mini-Fit Jr.™
Mega-Fit®
© Molex, USA-Lisle, IL
EnDat
© DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GmbH, DE-Traunreut
EtherCAT®
© EtherCAT Technology Group, DE-Nuremberg, licensed by Beckhoff
Automation GmbH, DE-Verl
Linux®
© Linus Torvalds (The Linux Foundation, USA-San Francisco CA)
PCI Express®
PCIe®
© PCI-SIG, USA-Beaverton, OR
TwinCAT®
© Beckhoff Automation GmbH, DE-Verl
Windows®
© Microsoft Corporation, USA-Redmond, WA
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