Product profile
D-Series Frameless Motors
D-Series Frameless Motors are Nidec compact brushless motor kits for direct machine integration. They provide low inertia, high efficiency and high torque...
Facts
- Company
- Nidec
- Product type
- component_family
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- frameless brushless motor family
- Website
- https://moen.nidec.com/automation/Products/Brushless-DC-Motors/Frameless-Motors
About D-Series Frameless Motors
Nidec’s D-Series is supplied as separate rotor and stator components for integration directly into the customer’s joint or mechanism. Frame diameters span approximately 35–100 millimetres, with selectable stack lengths and large rotor bores for bearings, cabling and mechanical structure.
Catalogue configurations provide continuous torque from roughly 0.145 to 2.97 newton-metres and peak torque up to 9.68 newton-metres. Removing an external motor housing lets designers reduce mass and package the drive around the machine’s geometry and cooling. Nidec supports customised windings and configurations for robots, medical systems and industrial automation.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Frameless motor
Core: D-Series
Function: Joint actuation
Audience: Robot OEMs
Specifications
- continuous_torque_at_stall_range
- 0.145 Nm to 2.97 Nm
- diameter_range
- 35 to 100 mm
- peak_torque
- 0.457 Nm to 9.68 Nm range across D-Series
- power_rating
- 73 W to 498 W
- variant_summary
- All diameters allow variations in stack height
Operations
- Environment
- robotics, industrial_automation, mobile_robotics
- Primary user
- Robot and automation OEMs
- Role
- Provide compact direct-drive actuation
- Interaction model
- embedded_component
- Mobility class
- fixed_component
- Product detail
- component_family, frameless motor family, robot joint, AGV and compact motion-system integration, https://moen.nidec.com/automation/-/media/Project/Nidec/MotionControl/Images/Products/Frameless-motors/Frameless-without-Background.jpg, clean_photo_or_studio_fallback, embedded motor integration, Existing product image is already clean and suitable; generation skipped., 2026-06-02, clean_existing_product_media, frameless_motors, actuation, #e8e7e3
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Nidec Drive Technology launches Smart-FLEXWAVE BD reducer with built-in torque sensor — 2024-12-25
- Nidec motors used in Skydio X10 drone platform — 2024-02-21
- Nidec Drive Technology develops KINEX precision reducer for robot joints — 2023-11-10
- Nidec scales production of automotive and industrial motor systems — 2021-10-20
- Nidec launches integrated E-Axle traction motor system for EV platforms — 2019-04-16