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6670783 Method and apparatus for improved motor control through current/velocity correction  
The present invention provides a method and apparatus, including a processor and software incorporating a table that contains sets of pre-determined correction values that are used to supply...
6667595 Stall detection in stepper motors  
A stall detection method and system for a stepper motor ascertains a stalled condition according to current rise time of the windings. The motor is determined to be in a normal running condition...
6667594 Determination of maximum travel of linear actuator  
An apparatus for and method of monitoring the operation of a stepper motor used to control the main burner valve of a gas appliance by positioning a linear actuator. The gas appliance has a pilot...
6664753 Apparatus of controlling to rotate step motor  
To prevent erroneous detection when a step motor is not rotated by a simple constitution. A control circuit controls to make a transistor to ON/OFF in a rotation detection period immediately after...
6664754 Motor driving control apparatus  
A motor driving control apparatus for driving a motor repeats alternately the supply of current to the motor coil during the exciting period and the non-supply of current to the motor coil during...
6661193 Stepping motor driving apparatus with dynamic torque control  
A stepping motor driving apparatus with dynamic torque control includes a motor controller, a motor driver, and a frequency-to-voltage converter. In practice, the clock signals are sent to the...
6657406 Soft start control method for a motor-driven actuator  
A method of operation for a motor-driven worm gear actuator coupled to a load device energizes the motor in a series of pulses during an initial period of motor operation when reversal of the motor...
6642687 Stepping-motor driving device and lens driving device using the same  
A driving device for a stepping motor capable of providing positioning accuracy with low power consumption includes elements such as a setting circuit for setting the number of driving steps of the...
6640791 EGR valve control apparatus  
An EGR valve control apparatus is provided which is capable of controlling an amount of exhaust gas to be recirculated in a precise and proper manner by using a step motor, as well as improving the...
6628098 Method for accelerating a control movement in a positioner system with step motors  
A method for the acceleration of the adjusting movement in a positioning system in which at least one stepping motor is controlled at a variable control frequency f, the adjusting speed is...
6624608 Indicating instrument for a vehicle  
In an indicating instrument for a vehicle including a step motor and a stopper unit for stopping a pointer at a zero position, a memory for pre-storing a zero-level electric angle as a correction...
6624607 Energy-absorbing filter for a motor  
An energy absorbing filter for reducing mechanical oscillations in motor is disclosed. The energy absorbing filter places a virtual shunt across the motor windings so as to dissipate mechanical...
6611658 Disk device and disk decelerating and stopping method for the same  
A decelerating method with low power consumption can be selected when rapid deceleration is not required. A disk can be stopped promptly and reliably even when a need arises for stopping the disk...
6603282 DC motor control device and control method  
A DC motor control device and a DC motor control method are configured to calculate driving motion time and DC motor current flow per unit time, or DC motor total current flow and driving motion...
6597147 1/8th and 1/16th micro-stepping motor drive software architecture  
A method of controlling a microstepping motor is disclosed. Logic circuitry is initialized by a microcontroller. A logic sequence to determine a motor use profile, a system profile, and a program...
6597077 Stator coil T-connection for two-phase step motors  
A two-phase step motor with bifilar winding around the stator poles is connected to phases α and β (90° apart) of a two-phase driver in a manner that maximizes torque at medium speed operation...
6573680 Method and circuit for driving stepping motor  
A method for driving a stepping motor which performs a micro step driving of the present invention makes a rise through rate variable by matching a step difference related to a change in a value of...
6563285 Stepper motor control system  
A method and system for controlling a stepper motor that may be used in a paper feed rolling arrangement of a printer. The method includes storing step mode selection data in combination with time...
6563282 Motor control apparatus  
With a memory access control portion without being intermediated by control of a CPU controlling an entire drive control of a motor, velocity data for setting velocity of a motor step by step are...
6555987 Step motor control for accommodating friction load variation  
Gradually increasing and decreasing the friction torque feedforward term in time, prior to and immediately following intended motion, respectively, reduces the effects of variations in Coulomb...
6555985 Stepping motor control device  
In a stepping motor control method using an encoder, a timer means is provided, and an excessive advance of a phase during low rotation is restricted to attain a high speed without compromising...
6541882 Power generator, timepiece and electronic device having the same, and cogging torque adjustment method for the same  
Inner notches ( 225 A, 226 A) for adjusting the cogging torque of a rotor ( 21 ) are formed on a stator ( 22 ) in a small-size power generator ( 20 ). Since the inner notches ( 225 A, 226 A) are...
6522096 Control circuit for a robot power supply  
A mechanism controller for controlling power to motors of a mechanism having several motors, such as a robot. Each motor has a resolver for indicating the motor position. A driver unit is...
6518682 System monitor for a linear/rotary actuator  
A system for programming and controlling the movement of a probe of a voice coil actuator along a path includes a control module that is mounted on a voice coil actuator. Specifically, the control...
6515445 Digital encoder control method  
A digital encoder control method of a digital control apparatus has a driving unit, a frequency signal generating unit for generating a pulse signal of a frequency according to a driving velocity...
6476579 Pulse motor driving device, pulse motor driving method, timepiece device, and timepiece device control method  
A pulse motor driving device having a rotation detecting unit adapted to detect whether or not a pulse motor rotates. In this device, a control unit performs an operation of increasing the...
6476580 Electronic apparatus and control method for electronic apparatus  
In an electronic apparatus including a generator device for generating power, a storage device for storing the generated electric energy, and a motor driven by the electric energy stored in the...
6476578 Stepping motor driving apparatus and image forming apparatus having such driving apparatus  
In an image forming apparatus, change in electrical current value flowing through an exciting coil of a motor is measured for a predetermined time period, and, if a measurement result of the change...
6473657 Adaptive motion controller  
An adaptive motion controller for driving a servo motor. The adaptive motion controller has an amplifier including a voltage command which can be set at a voltage at which the amplifier will be...
6462502 Stepper motor controlling apparatus  
A stepper motor controlling apparatus having a storing unit storing driving data for generating a stepper motor driving phase signal in each of plural controlling circuits, which share the driving...
6462503 Drive control system for stepping motor  
A device is provided for chopping a control signal of an initial excitation phase or a final excitation phase by a predetermined cycle during low speed rotation control of an excitation phase...
6459229 Motor control apparatus  
A motor control apparatus for outputting the excitation signal of a stepper motor to drive the stepper motor includes a unit for specifying the driving current of the motor, and a determination...
6459507 Image scanner with a stepping control table  
This invention provides a scanner, which is capable of scanning document images based on a stepping control table and a method to generate such a table. This scanner includes a scanning module to...
6449117 Reducing acoustic noise using a current profile during initial stages of a disc drive seek  
Apparatus and method for reducing the generation of acoustic noise in a disc drive. A seek is carried out to move a head from an initial track to a destination track on a corresponding disc surface...
6448724 Apparatus and method for commutation noise reduction  
A brushless DC motor modifies motor commutation events to reduce noise by providing overlapping activation of the switch being deactivated with the switch being newly activated so that three...
6441579 Current magnitude variation correction for open loop stepper motor driver circuit  
An available input of to a motor controller is used to measure the motor power supply voltage. Typically, a scaled down version of the voltage is sensed. The microprocessor is used to calculate the...
6442437 Method for step motor control  
When the driver of a step motor is executed in a personal computer, its speed will be varied in response to the speed of the CPU. To provide a constant and stable speed of the step motor, the...
6429619 Generator comprising two pairs of differential outputs  
The generator having two pairs of differential PWM outputs ( 11 -12, 21 -22 ), comprises i) a microprocessor ( 1 ) having one normal PWM output, ii) two assemblies ( 10, 20 ), each having two...
6417635 Apparatus and method for electrically disposing of hypodermic needle  
An apparatus and method for electrically disposing of a hypodermic needle, which provide electric power to the hypodermic needle to generate heat and eliminate the needle with the heat, comprising:...
6414461 Scanner that controls stepping motor torque  
A scanner has a housing, a scanning module for scanning a document, a driving module for driving the scanning module, and a control circuit for controlling the scanner. The driving module comprises...
6414460 Low cost 1/8th, 1/16th micro-stepping motor drive system  
The invention is a low-cost stepper motor drive system comprising a microstepping motor and a logic circuit. The logic circuit includes two integrated circuits for controlling one or more phases of...
6407527 Motor drive control apparatus  
In a motor drive control apparatus, without using a current control circuit, a gate circuit, and a minus power supply, a short period (a period in which either one of Nch and Pch FETs is turned on...
6388415 System and method for controlling a step motor in a scanner  
A method for controlling a step motor of a scanner by using three sets of parameters is provided. The three sets of parameters include a pulse count number PCN, a count base CB, and a motor...
6384566 Motor combination system and method for operating as an induction motor or a stepping motor  
A motor combination system with operating method for operating as an induction motor or a stepping motor is disclosed. The disclosed system basically encompasses a switch device, an induction motor...
6384562 Scanner motor acceleration method  
A scanner motor acceleration method that uses a software driver and a flexible process method to enable a scanner to perform fast scanning operation without increasing motor cost or complex...
6373209 Stepping motor with an electrical activation circuit and arrangement with a stepping motor  
A stepping motor with an electrical activation circuit for electrical control of its exciter windings, is made as a driving motor and also as a braking motor with an adjustable braking action. The...
6356046 Instrument panel having pointer driven by stepping motor  
An instrument panel for use in an automobile includes a speedometer, an engine rotational speed meter and other indicators. A pointer of each meter is driven by a stepping motor via a reduction...
6348774 Method for controlling several stepping motor modules with prior loading of ramp data  
In a method and device for controlling several stepping motor modules in printing or copying machines, sets of ramp data are centrally calculated in a computer in a calculation phase and are...
6339306 Control device for stepper motor, control method for the same, and timing device  
A control device for stepping motor including a driving pulse supplying unit for supplying a plurality of driving pulses to a driving coil for driving a rotor. A rotation detecting pulse supplying...
6333610 Speed control device for an electronically commutated multiphase electric motor  
A speed control device, whereby individual motor phases of an electronically commutated multiphase electric motor are supplied via corresponding individual phase shifters from a constant voltage...