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About Nidec Drive Technology

Nidec Drive Technology Corporation is the precision-reducer company of Japan’s Nidec group, supplying the gearboxes and drive components that sit inside robots, machine tools and semiconductor equipment. Its catalogue is built around servo-grade reduction: the ABLE series of planetary reducers with ground gears and backlash down to one arc-minute, the Coronet (ER series) cycloidal-type reducers, FLEXWAVE strain-wave gears for robot joints, the WP series, and traction drives, servo reducers and right-angle hypoid units such as DYNA GEAR. The robotics relevance is direct: strain-wave and high-precision planetary reducers are the parts that determine a robot joint’s accuracy, stiffness and life, and Nidec Drive Technology markets complete line-ups from small joint sizes to large frames for industrial robot and automation builders.

The company descends from Shimpo Kogyo, founded in 1952, which became Nidec-Shimpo and was renamed Nidec Drive Technology in April 2023 as Nidec consolidated its power-transmission businesses; it sells through Nidec’s global network with a dedicated Americas operation assembling configurable gearheads in Illinois. For partners, it is a Japanese, high-volume source of precision reducers positioned between the premium strain-wave specialists and commodity planetary suppliers, with online selection and configuration tools that shorten the design-in cycle for machine builders.

Products & services

• ABLE series precision planetary reducers (including ultra-high-precision VRS, VRT and VRB types)
• FLEXWAVE strain-wave (harmonic) reducers for robot joints
• Coronet (ER series) cycloidal-type reducers for servo and general motors
• WP series and traction-drive reducers; DYNA GEAR high-precision hypoid reducers
• Servo reducer selection and online configuration tools, CAD downloads

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