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6611119 Switching processes for control of servos  
Methods and systems for controlling a servo are provided. One method includes calculating at least a first switching time to change an amplitude of a command signal to a servo, providing a first...
6605915 Numerical control apparatus for machine tool  
The present invention provides a numerical control apparatus for a machine tool, which corrects an axial displacement of a main spindle caused due to a change in preload level and occurring...
6600280 Electric power steering system  
An electric power steering system is provided which employs an electric motor as a driving source to apply a steering assist force to a steering mechanism. The system includes: an operation degree...
6597146 Method and apparatus to compensate for cyclic load disturbances in a control system  
A method and apparatus for essentially eliminating cyclic disturbances in a motor control system, the method including identifying frequencies of undesirable components in a feedback signal that...
6590358 Servocontrol device  
Magnitudes of a sine-wave component and a cosine-wave component of a periodical disturbance are estimated in real time during motor rotating, the sine-wave component and the cosine-wave component...
6586901 Methods and apparatus suitable for facilitating control of an aircraft rudder  
A method and an apparatus for controlling aircraft rudder movement are disclosed. The system including a yaw damping control portion integrated with a directional compensation rudder control...
6580234 Monitoring apparatus  
A monitoring apparatus for monitoring operation of a no-back device of an actuator assembly driven by a motor, the apparatus comprising sensor device operable to sense an operating parameter of the...
6566837 Position controller for motor  
A position controller for motors for increasing the position loop gain of a full-close control system without causing recurrence of vibration. The controller where a position signal representing...
6566835 Nc machine tool, and method of controlling nc machine tool  
The present invention relates to a method of controlling a numerically controlled machine tool having a plurality of feed shafts. Also, the present invention relates to a numerically controlled...
6559612 System and method for the electronic control of an actuator assigned to an automatic control system in motor vehicles  
A system for electronic control of an actuator of an automatic control system in a motor vehicle, has a control unit with at least one control function unit for controlling the actuator as a...
6541937 Motor control device with vector control function  
When the amount L of actual load change that is picked up from an external plant control device exceeds a reference level L* of load change amount per prescribed unit time that is pre-set to serve...
6531842 Sine wave variable speed drive  
The present technique utilizes already existing components within a variable speed drive to provide harmonic filtering characteristics. Particularly, the present technique integrates transformers...
6518719 Power tools with operating speed control circuit  
A variable speed power tool may include a speed adjusting device and/or a maximum speed adjusting device for adjusting the operating speed, and a fixed operating speed switch. An operator...
6518721 Oscillation isolator  
An oscillation isolator for supporting an oscillation isolation platform on a pedestal includes an active oscillation isolator having a displacement generating type actuator to reduce oscillation...
6515442 Position controller  
To overcome the problem of a low frequency disturbance causing minute vibrations affecting response attributable to the difficulty of adaption to the phase of the vibrations, the present invention...
6498447 Apparatus and method for controlling an electric machine  
A controller for an electronically commutated electrical machine receives a feedback signal indicative of a parameter which it is desired to minimize, e.g. torque ripple, current, voltage,...
6459228 Dual input servo coupled control sticks  
The present invention provides an active control system for coupling the movements of a pair of independently operated manual input devices such as dual flight control sticks operated by a pilot...
6452356 Chopping energization control device for electric motor  
In a chopping energization control device, a pair of switching elements IGBT/U and IGBT/L are used to control an electric power supplied from a DC power source to a phase coil CL 1 of a DC motor,...
6452348 Robot control device, robot control method and storage medium  
A robot control device for controlling a robot having a substantial entertainment value is disclosed. A sensor signal processor recognizes the voice of a user, sets an association between the voice...
6441578 Method and apparatus for torque linearization in an electric power steering system  
An exemplary embodiment of the invention is a method of controlling a motor in an electric power steering system. The method includes obtaining a motor control signal having an initial duty cycle...
6437534 Control method for NC machine tool  
A control method for an NC machine tool is provided which ensures a high precision of the contouring control, and allows for extension of the drill life, and reduction in machining time. The...
6420847 Device for detection of current or voltage on a PWM driven winding with reduced jitter and related methods  
A method for detecting a zero-cross event of an induced back electromotive force (BEMF) or of a nullification instant of a periodic current in a PWM driven winding, by circuits generating an analog...
6400114 Numerical control apparatus for roll grinding machine  
A numerical control apparatus for the numerical control of a roll grinding machine comprises a flaw detecting means for scanning the entire surface of a roll ( 11 ), provided with an ultrasonic...
6396234 Servo control apparatus and servo control method  
A servo control apparatus for performing a feedback control to a controlled system having characteristics represented by a characteristic equation including at least a second order term, a first...
6377900 Measuring system for transfer function matrix of a system to be controlled in multi-degree of freedom vibration control  
A measuring system for measuring a transfer function matrix of a system to be controlled by applying sine-wave excitations to a test object simultaneously by multiple number of vibrators. In the...
6324933 Planar movable stage mechanism  
Apparatus for moving a platform in X and Y directions including a first shaft secured along a first edge of the platform and oriented axially in the X direction and a second shaft secured along a...
6323790 R/D converter  
There is provided an R/D converter capable of realizing a high speed response. When a sine wave for excitation of a resolver is a positive (or negative) maximum value, an AD converter makes AD...
6294892 Method of manufacturing organic thin-film EL device  
In a method of manufacturing an organic thin-film electroluminescent device, a plurality of thin-film luminescent portions are arranged with fine pitches on a substrate. Each of the luminescent...
6274994 Servo control apparatus  
In a servo control apparatus in which a machine system is driven by a servo motor, a phase compensation device is provided. The phase compensating device calculates a speed component (phase delay...
6255794 Procedure for the digital evaluation of analogue resolver output signals  
In a procedure for the digital evaluation of the analogue output signals from a resolver with at least two stator windings, arranged perpendicular to each other on a stator, and at least one rotor...
6252368 Numerically controlled system and backlash compensation device for use with the system  
A backlash compensation device for use with a numerically controlled system compensates for a position command signal used to drive and control an object to be controlled. The device includes a...
6246201 Electronic cam control system  
An electronic cam servo apparatus uses a digital servo controller to perform motion equivalent to a mechanical cam. The control apparatus has one data table representing a characteristic of a...
6232736 Numerical control machine tool positioning system  
The present invention is embodied in an automated system for the positioning and support of a machine tool within a workpiece supporting assembly, comprising a pair of generally parallel, planar...
6218800 Control system, driving system and control method, apparatus including the driving system  
A control system in accordance with the invention comprises error signal generating means for generating an error signal in response to a reference signal and a first and a second position signal....
6204622 Position controller  
A position controller has a command generator for generating position instructions, a position control unit for controlling a position by inputting a position instruction and the position of a...
6192285 Controller for work transfer system  
A controller for a work transfer system, capable of performing precise positioning of feed bars during sole driving of the transfer system and simplified in structure to contribute to savings in...
6184645 Voltage mode drive for control circuit for an actuator using sampled back EMF control  
An apparatus for controlling an actuator in response to a target speed voltage signal, the actuator having a moveable member and having a coil that influences movement of the member. A first...
6184637 Electric power steering apparatus  
Electric power steering apparatus includes a control nit for controlling an electric motor to impart electric steering assist torque to the steering system of an automotive vehicle. The control...
6184644 Deflection-error-reduced position control apparatus for ball screw drive system  
In an apparatus for controlling the position of an object driven by a servomotor via a ball screw drive system, parameters of the ball screw drive system are determined from a position command...
6170506 Method and circuit for actively cleaning electrohydraulic valves in a hydraulic control valve circuit  
A method for cleaning a solenoid-operated regulator valve wherein command current applied to a solenoid actuator establishes a defined response of a valve. Cleaning current pulses applied to the...
6166508 Process for controlling the displacement of the window pane of a motor vehicle door  
A method for controlling a movement of a window pane of a motor vehicle door immediately after the lowering of the window pane, until there is compensation of the system deficiency of the...
6154000 Apparatus for providing a controlled deflection and/or actuator apparatus  
Apparatus for compensating for positioning, pointing and/or orientation errors caused by deflections of structural members and components of a high performance machine or device and/or for reducing...
6147467 Dynamic compensator for use in servo loop for optical pickup head  
A servo loop, including a dynamic compensator, for use in an optical disk player is provided. The optical disk player reproduces data over the optical disk. The pickup head reads data on a data...
6147468 Servo control method for orbital machining with cutting tool and servo control system for orbital machining  
For an orbital machining in which a spindle having a cutting tool attached thereto and a work to be machined are moved, by feed shaft control, to make a relative displacement to each other along a...
6144182 Motor control method for injection molding machine and motor controller for carrying out the same  
The duty of a current to be supplied to an injection motor is calculated on the basis of the ratio between set injection time for which the injection motor operates and molding cycle time, a shaft...
6140791 Method and apparatus for controlling the acceleration trajectory of positioning a high-velocity transducer and for reducing the harmonic content thereof  
A sinusoidal acceleration trajectory controller is used in positioning a transducer at high speed to minimize vibration and acoustic noise. The controller reduces vibration and acoustic noise...
6140784 Power off velocity control for disk drives  
A method and circuit for controlling a voice coil motor (VCM) for a disk drive actuator assembly such that the actuator assembly moves to a landing area at a constant velocity when the disk drive...
6133705 Motion controller  
A numeric array of move command data Qi constituting a reference cam diagram F (θ) is stored in advance in a data table of a CMOS memory. Alternatively, a shift position of a cam corresponding to...
6130517 Magnetic actuator producing large acceleration on fine stage and low RMS power gain  
A pair of complementary magnetic actuators controls a stage in a high-precision positioning instrument in a single coordinate direction. Additional pairs of complementary magnetic actuators can be...
6115205 Method for adapting seeks of a disc drive transducer to the maximum actuator current available to accelerate and decelerate the transducer  
A method for adapting acceleration and deceleration of a disc drive transducer during movements between initial and target tracks on a disc surface to the maximum current available to drive an...