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4904917 Drive apparatus  
Drive apparatus, particularly for a twin polygon thermal scanner, utilizes a stepper motor driven by pulses of variable width timed, relative to the rotational position of the motor, so that the...
4901000 Variable rate stepper motor driver circuit and method  
A circuit inserted between a microprocessor controller and a stepper motor driver uses a detector to detect single peak or double peak pulses from the controller and selectively produce one or two...
4899267 Spotlight and control system therefor  
A multifunction spotlight and control system therefor, the spotlight functions each being adjustable by a bipolar stepper motor, a control means such as a dimmer unit for enabling analogue control...
4897590 Track access apparatus in a magnetic recording/playback system  
Disclosed is an apparatus for gaining high-speed random access to a track in a magnetic recording/playback system of the type in which a magnetic head is shifted to an adjacent track in response to...
4897589 Apparatus for indexing an origin of a moving member  
Disclosed herein is an origin indexing apparatus applicable to a printer. A moving member, such as a printing head mounted on a carriage, is moved by a stepper motor which rotates in stepwise...
4896105 AC electric energy meter having drive circuit including stepper motor for driving mechanical register  
An AC electric energy meter is coupled to a source of AC electrical energy and to an AC load. A sensing circuit senses the amount of AC electric energy consumed by the AC electric load. An AC...
4896088 Fault-tolerant switched reluctance machine  
A switched reluctance motor drive or generator takes advantage of the characteristic independence of concentrated phase windings to optimize fault-tolerant operation. No "dead zones" in motor...
4896089 Fault management system for a switched reluctance motor  
A fault management system for a switched reluctance motor detects faults through phase current differential sensing and phase flux differential sensing and isolates any fault by deactivating any...
4890105 Step data processor for 180X and 90X compass synchro data  
A compass data converter converts 180X and 90X synchro compass data to 1/6 degree step data. 180X synchro data is converted by utilizing a 360X to 1/6 degree step data converter that divides the...
4890048 Low torque ripple stepping motor controller circuit  
A stepping motor controller supplies a pulsed input signal to a motor driver controlling rotation of a stepping motor. To accelerate or decelerate the motor, the controller linearly increases or...
4888542 Driving method of a stepping motor  
The present invention relates to a driving method of a stepping motor, wherein the hold position of the motor does not change and further no complicated control is required in controlling current...
4888541 Method and apparatus for controlling stepmotor mechanical drives  
A method and apparatus for controlling stepmotors having a broad range of applications including fuel control for gas-turbine engines, and operating powered automatically controlled doors for mass...
4884016 Closed loop torque angle control of synchronous motor  
A closed loop motor system having a motor with a plurality of poles and motor windings associated therewith. The poles define full step motor output positions. The system is of the type that...
4882530 Stepping motor control apparatus  
In an all-phase de-energized state of the stepping motor, all motor windings having different phases are energized. After the all-phase de-energized state is detected, the motor windings are...
4876618 Method for detecting zero track  
A magnetic disk drive device includes a rotatable disk. The disk has at least data tracks and guard band tracks. The data is previously recorded on the data tracks in the reversed magnetization...
4869610 Carriage control system for printer  
A carriage control system for a printer which effects printing by moving the carriage mounted on a print head to reduce the distance on either side of the printing area required for acceleration...
4868478 Motor energizing circuit  
Energizing system for a reluctance motor having at least two phases. A sensing and control circuit (1-5) which is constructed to indicate the inductance, or a clearly related magnitude, in the...
4868477 Method and apparatus for controlling torque and torque ripple in a variable reluctance motor  
Apparatus for controlling torque and torque ripple in a variable reluctance motor uses a generated torque waveform for each phase of the number of phases associated with the motor and corresponds...
4862051 Stepping motor's negative-phase braking control device  
A negative-phase braking control device for accurately stopping a plural-phase stepping motor in a very short time. The negative-phase braking control is performed by comparing the present position...
4859923 Microprocessor controlled dual channel closed loop controller for stepper motors used in servo systems  
A controller for stepper motors used in servo systems is implemented for being controlled by a microprocessor via appropriate input/output circuitry. Upon application of discrete commands, the...
4858103 Fluid valve control system for controlling fluid pressure or flow  
Controlled variable table data, which consist of pulse number data corresponding to the maximum controlled variable of a fluid valve and divided into N divisions in each of which given pulse number...
4857817 Drive circuit for stepping motor  
In this invention, an excitation current is switched in accordance with a change in number of phases so as to reduce an excitation current per phase in a 2-phase mode to be smaller than that in a...
4851766 Fault diagnosis system for rotor winding of rotary electric machine  
A fault diagnosis system for a rotor winding of rotary electric machines is disclosed, in which the rotor winding of rotary field type is excited in DC fashion by an excitation circuit, on which an...
4851755 Low power stepper motor drive system and method  
A system and method for driving a stepper motor utilizing a near minimum amount of driving power is described. A stepping detector is utilized to determine whether the motor has actually stepped in...
4845417 Driver for stepping motor  
A driver circuit for a stepping motor includes first and second windings for two-phase magnetization to give a magnetomotive force to the stepping motor. A first control signal and a second control...
4843294 Solar array stepping to minimize array excitation  
Mechanical oscillations of a mechanism containing a stepper motor, such as a solar-array powered spacecraft, are reduced and minimized by the execution of step movements in pairs of steps, the...
4841214 Control device for a stepping motor  
A control device is provided for a stepping motor which connects with a drive system comprising a somewhat resilient member exerting a rebound force, such as a gear for the platen or a wire for the...
4837493 System for driving drum  
A system for driving a drum includes a pulse motor including an annular rotor fixedly mounted within the drum for rotation therewith and rotatable relative to a stator disposed within the rotor....
4836387 Deflection gate driven by stepper motor  
Apparatus for sorting articles and comprising a deflector movable between first and second positions to ensure that an arriving article will follow one of two paths, a stepping motor (20), the...
4835451 Switching circuit for five-phase stepping motor and method of switching  
The invention relates to a switching circuit for a permanently excited five-phase stepping motor with a pentagonal circuit of series-connected stator windings. The junctions between neighboring...
4833593 Method for preparing information tables for a digital valve control apparatus  
An external system for preparing information tables is connected by a connector to a digital valve control system which controls a digital valve by driving a pulse motor according to the...
4833385 Method for the phase synchronization of step-drive controlled equipment  
A method for the phase synchronization of step-drive-controlled equipment, in particular of optical modulation devices for multiple-beam spectrophotometers. Starting with the phase comparison of a...
4833372 Control circuit for electric motor  
A control circuit can drive an electric motor such as a stepping motor and a DC torque motor within a wide supply voltage range so that its rotor follows a selected speed pattern without error. The...
4831320 Duty factor control method  
A duty factor control method for electromechanical actuators which can take only mutually discrete positions. A required quantity of state R which is in intermediate condition between two discrete...
4829222 Stepper motor driver control circuit  
A driver circuit is under the control of a microprocessor and in communication with a stepper motor. The stepper motor is in driving communication with a mechanism. A power source having a first...
4827200 Velocity control unit of detecting head  
A velocity control unit of a detecting head consists of a differentiation circuit for differentiating a reference velocity signal and feeding it via an analog switch to a first-order lag circuit...
4825133 Electromechanical actuator control system  
An electromechanical actuator includes an electric motor and a control and drive circuit mounted integrally with the electric motor. The control and drive circuit includes a serial-to-parallel...
4825313 Method for adjustably positioning a transducer for a disc drive  
A method of adjusting the position of a magnetic head in a magnetic head positioning mechanism positions the magnetic head at a target track on a magnetic disk. Since a floppy disk system is so...
4821644 Method and apparatus for positioning a member  
The method utilizes an encoding switch to derive encoded position signals representing the current position of a member such as the print element of a franking machine. The switch has conductive...
4822019 Electronic equipment utilizing forward/reverse rotation of motor  
A cut sheet feeder feeds out a cut sheet from a first paper cassette when a bidirectional pulse motor for driving paper feed rollers rotates forward and from a second paper cassette when the...
4820963 Driving device for step motor  
A step motor driving device comprises a single control circuit and a single voltage generating circuit for controlling plural step motors, each step motor being connected to a drive circuit. The...
4817007 Machine tool control systems  
A machine tool has a workpiece which is rotated by a motor. The tool is moved by a tool drive to machine a required surface profile on the workpiece and is also indexed on a carriage. The stepping...
4816756 Circuit and method for statically testing rotating rectifiers in brushless alternators  
Rectifiers mounted on the rotor of a brushless alternator are tested by applying an AC voltage to an exciter field winding of the brushless alternator. This applied voltage induces current in a...
4812059 Printer apparatus with automatic gap adjusting mechanism  
A printer apparatus including a timer, for setting a period T1 when the print head moves forward toward a platen, and a period T2, which is longer than period T1, when the print head moves away...
4812727 Stepping motor drive device  
A stepping motor drive device including a comparator for comparing the number of drive steps with a prescribed value and a control circuit for changing the operation of the stepping motor between a...
4806834 Electrical circuit for inductance conductors, transformers and motors  
An electrical circuit for inductance conductors, transformers and motors is provided wherein two coils of electrically conductive wire are coiled about a bar of magnetizable material such that they...
4803414 Method of controlling a step motor  
A method of controlling a step motor for rotating and halting a rotor of the step motor at a predetermined position by applying a driving voltage or a holding voltage lower than the driving voltage...
4803415 Stepper motor control circuit and apparatus  
The present invention relates to a motor control circuit for a stepper motor which causes a motor shaft to oscillate between an incremental rotational position nearest above and nearest below a...
4800334 Method of analyzing the voltage induced in an exciter coil of a stepping motor  
A method of analyzing the voltage induced in an exciter coil of a stepping motor. After energization the exciter coil is loaded by a low impedance so that the induction voltage can produce a...
4799002 Method of driving a five-phase stepping motor  
A five-phase stepping motor system includes phase windings connected in series with each other to form a ring and pairs of switching devices connected in series with each other, with each pair...