Special Section on Recent Development of Electro-Mechanical Devices — Papers selected from International Session on Electro-Mechanical Devices (IS-EMD2010) and other research results —

摘要

International Session on Electro-Mechanical Devices (IS-EMD) 2010 was successfully held in Xian, China on Nov. 11-12, 2010 and many young Chinese researches and oversea researcher presented interesting papers, owing to Prof. Sawa's effort. In this section, most of papers are selected among those presented at IS-EMD 2010, and several papers submitted for this special section are also included. Nowadays, circumstances surrounding electromechanical devices are drastically changing, due to mobile information equipment technology developments and the automobile electrification development, where the connector reliability problems are more important. In addition, theoretical analysis tools, such as 3-dimensional mechanical-electrical coupled analysis tools, and experimental analysis tools are highly progressing, in recent days. Therefore, the new needs and the new seeds will be coupled and will be expected to make it possible to develop further innovative technologies for this field.