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7615959 Apparatus and method for controlling brushless DC motor  
Disclosed is a control apparatus for a brushless DC motor, which has a rotor with n poles (where n is a natural number) that rotates due to a supply current with m phases (where m is a natural...
7589487 Method of selectable simultaneous/sequential motor drive in a multiple drive circuit including failure detection  
A system and method is provided for improved monitoring and controlling of mechanically commutated DC motors. The system and method include DC motors, pulse-count driver circuitry for driving the...
7586283 Magnetic encoder device and actuator  
Provided is a magnetic encoder device capable of detecting a rotating angle of an actuator having a cavity structure. The magnetic encoder device includes a ring-shaped rotating body 11 , a...
7545110 Motor drive control  
A drive system for a multi-phase brushless motor comprises a single current sensor drive circuit, including switch means, switchable between a plurality of states. A controller is arranged to...
7518324 Universal motor speed controller  
Moderately accurate closed loop speed control of a universal motor is attained without the need for any type of speed sensor. Motor armature (across the brushes) voltage is sensed and supplied to a...
7508154 Integrated motor and resolver including absolute position capability  
An integrated motor and position sensor achieves motion between a moving portion and a stationary portion by electrically energizing poles to interact with magnetics respectively on the moving and...
7489260 Resolver hall decoding circuit  
A device for converting position data to Hall code data includes a data input for providing the position data, a data output for providing the Hall code data, a first adder circuit operative to...
7466090 Apparatus, software and method for controlling the operation of a window covering  
Systems, methods, apparatus, computer readable mediums and propagated signals are provided for controlling the position, orientation, movement, configuration and/or operation of one or more window...
7417411 Apparatus and method for monitoring tap positions of load tap changer  
A load tap changer (LTC) having a plurality of windings is coupled to one of the primary and secondary windings of a power transformer in order to regulate the output voltage of the power...
7397207 Electric supercharger for vehicle  
The electric supercharger includes a vehicle connector, an impulse signal generator empowered by a power source, and a signal amplifier. The vehicle connector has a positive terminal and a negative...
7377379 Transport belt drive control device, image forming device, and transport belt drive control method  
In a transport belt drive control device, a first detection unit has a first resolution and indirectly detects a feed amount of a transport belt, a control unit controls drive of the transport belt...
7375487 Geared motor  
A motor encoder is mounted on a motor shaft of a geared motor 1 , and the origin position is detected by using a Z-phase signal. An absolute value encoder with a precision that allows the number...
7323838 Motor control method and device thereof  
A motor control method and device. The motor control device includes a programmable integrated circuit (IC) receiving a phase signal, the phase of which is consistent with the rotation phase of a...
7319303 Method and apparatus for estimating the position of a moving part of a linear actuator  
A method and an apparatus for estimating the position of a moving part of a linear actuator are provided. The method comprises the following steps. Move the moving part towards a target position....
7317294 Pulse generator and method thereof  
A pulse generator and method thereof. The pulse generator may include a first switching unit receiving a plurality of receiving a plurality of time interval indicators and a first selection signal....
7312590 Model railroad velocity controller  
Control over velocity of a model train may be determined based upon the speed of rotation of a control knob. A processor receives electronic pulses indicating rotation of the knob beyond a...
7288913 Drive wave generation circuit  
Two standard waves from a standard waveform generation circuit are output via an output gate while being interchanged by a direction selector. The switching operation of the direction selector is...
7271558 Method for the generation of electrical pulses  
In rotating systems with angular references, angular- and/or time-based pulses must be generated which can be described in a generic manner to meet various requirements. The parameters for...
7221114 Conveyance control apparatus and image forming apparatus  
A conveyance control apparatus controls an amount of movement of a carrier. A first encoder detects an amount of movement of the carrier and outputting a first signal. A second encoder detects an...
7208907 System and method of restarting a switched reluctance motor after a rapid cycling of power  
A system and method of restarting a switched reluctance motor after a cycling of power provided to the motor is provided that includes receiving at the motor a power-off signal followed by a...
7196489 Rotary shaft control apparatus  
The invention aims to suppress or prevent the vibration that can occur due to the intervention of a low-rigidity part between detector and rotating body. An angular acceleration sensor for...
7183731 Pulse generating method and pulse generator, and motor control system using the same  
A method of generating pulses includes setting a cycle based on a frequency of reference clock, determining a total number of the pulses to be generated during the cycle, calculating the number of...
7180255 Controlling the release of a brush motor which has applied a load  
A method for controlling the release of a brush motor which has applied a load includes several steps. One step includes applying a release current to the brush motor to rotate the brush motor in a...
7135831 Method and device for controlling motor  
A motor control method is provided in which a cycle between at least one of leading edges and trailing edges of a pulse signal is measured. The pulse signal is outputted from a pulse signal...
7132814 Method of calculating correction value and method of manufacturing printer  
A correction value calculating method includes: preparing a printer including a motor, a PID control system for controlling the motor, and a memory for storing a correction value, the printer being...
7088070 Resonant scanning mirror driver circuit  
A resonant scanning mirror driver configured to drive a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) mirror to a desired deflection utilizes a PWM pattern selected from patterns having a preset number of...
7075262 Print control system, print control method, and recording medium having recorded print control program  
A print control system according to the present invention comprises: a paper rear edge holding/driving control part for driving and controlling a paper feed motor so that the rear edge of a paper,...
7049778 Inverter control apparatus and inverter control method  
An interrupt signal is generated at each of rising timings of PWM signals which are produced on the basis of phase-shifted triangular wave carrier signals for phases, and voltage command values for...
7049771 Multi-phase carrier signal generator and multi-phase carrier signal generation method  
A carrier signal generation section is provided for each of U, V, and W phases, and each of the carrier signal generation sections has an up-down counter for counting clock signals output from a...
7050885 Pulse count accumulator for pulse count motor control system  
A pulse count accumulator includes a plurality of counters and a communication port. The plurality of counters are each coupled to a different one of a plurality of actuators and a value of each of...
7042190 Motor control apparatus and motor control method  
A control device measures time intervals T 1 to T 12 from the reference time until when each of the rotational angles θbn 1 , θbn 2 output from each of resolvers becomes n×60 degrees (n=1 to...
7038420 Method of regulating an electric motor and corresponding electric motor  
A method of regulating an electric motor, regulation being implemented with a loop of gain less than unity as a function of a divergence between a setpoint signal for an operating parameter of the...
7038407 Circuit arrangement and method for operation of an electric motor in a DC supply network  
The invention relates to a circuit arrangement and a method for operating an electric motor in a direct voltage source, in particular for operating a permanent-magnet-excited DC motor in the direct...
7034490 Motor positioning servo loop using oversampling bitstream DAC  
A Hard Disk Drive VCM positioning servo loop comprises an oversampling bitstream Digital to Analog converter. The oversampling DAC is a sigma-delta converter which yields higher resolution and...
6983102 Motor control device for vehicular power mirror  
When a signal level of a motor brush switching signal is low and thus dropouts or omission of the pulse signals converted by a waveform shaping part take place, so that an interval between a pulse...
6967459 Method for controlling or regulating the current in a direct current machine for a fan  
The invention concerns a method of regulating the current in a direct current machine with which are associated an arrangement for generating a current target value signal, as well as a PWM...
6956343 Method of controlling a physical variable in an electronically commutated motor, and motor for carrying out said method  
In a method for controlling a physical variable in an electronically commutated motor, current is supplied to the stator winding arrangement ( 102 ) of the motor in the form of current blocks. The...
6911798 Rotation angle detecting apparatus for synchronous rotary electric machine  
A rotation angle detecting apparatus for a synchronous rotary electric machine includes an incremental encoder. The incremental encoder generates an index pulse each time electric power is supplied...
6912427 Programmable limit switch with distributed intelligence  
A programmable limit switch includes output channels for receiving position data, each position value of the position data representing an incremental advance of a workpiece through a production...
6876167 Method and apparatus for determining the rotational rate of a rotating device  
A non-invasive apparatus and method for measuring the speed of a rotating device that includes a sensor that measures a dynamic characteristic of the rotating device. A sample of the signal is...
6853161 Recording apparatus, motor control apparatus, and motor control method  
A motor control apparatus which can improve detection accuracy of control information and stabilize a control system includes a detector for detecting first pulse information which corresponds to...
6841954 Apparatus and method used in disk drive for driving spindle motor  
A CPU sets an SPM driver in SPM start-up mode when a SPM is started up. At this time, a voltage selector applies, to a driver circuit, a voltage (high voltage) boosted by a voltage booster. A...
6822415 Motor controller  
A electric motor control device is provided for controlling an electric motor which actuates a movable member of a machine through a transmitting mechanism. When a torque command is given as motion...
6823132 Method and apparatus for controlling motor  
In controlling a motor in a device which drives a mechanism using the motor as a power source, pre-driving of giving a predetermined driving parameter to the motor and driving the mechanism is...
6819074 Apparatus and method of controlling a driving speed of a motor  
An apparatus for controlling a driving speed of a motor comprises a motor controller provided in the motor controlling apparatus detecting the motor driving speed in response to pulses outputted...
6809489 Print control unit and print control method, and storage medium storing print control program  
There is provided a print control unit capable of transferring and stopping an object to be controlled at a target position when unexpected load is applied to the object. A print control unit...
6809492 Speed control device for AC electric motor  
A speed control apparatus of an AC motor a first subtracter 1 for finding toque component voltage saturation amount ΔV q from torque component voltage component V q ′ output from a torque...
6798156 Method for minimising the phase errors during the driving of an electric motor, and a circuit using the method thereof  
The present invention relates to a method and a circuit using the method thereof for minimising the phase errors during the driving of an electric motor, and a circuit using the method thereof,...
6791293 Sensorless control device for synchronous electric motor  
The invention provides a synchronous motor sensorless controller which drives a synchronous motor without use of a rotational position sensor. The controller has a relative position counter 4 ...
6768282 Method for detecting the rotational position of the drive shaft a dc motor  
A method for determining the rotational position of the drive shaft of a DC motor includes providing a period of a reference current ripple indicative of proper operation of the motor. The period...