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7622880 Voice-coil motor control with zero-current sensing  
A circuit for controlling a voice-coil motor (VCM) may incorporate a pulse-width modulation driver to drive the VCM, a zero-current detector to determine whether the current across the VCM is zero,...
7616466 Three phase inverter with improved loss distribution  
An inverter circuit couples a DC voltage source having a primary side and a reference side to an electric motor or other AC machine having multiple electrical phases. An inverter circuit includes...
7615958 Motor control device  
The present invention is a motor control device comprising a control system, the control system being capable of controlling the motor by PWM and having integration means being capable of...
7612518 Inverter apparatus and method of reducing speed of alternating current motor  
There is provided an inverter capable of reducing a speed in a short period of time without generating an overcurrent even in a case of an alternating current motor which is easy to be saturated...
7612517 Stepping motor controller and gaming machine  
A stepping motor controller includes: a pulse frequency adjustment circuit that receives a command pulse having a first frequency from an external controller that outputs the command pulse in...
7612508 System and method for communication with an information handling system cooling fan  
An escape sequence coded in power commands from a system controller, such as a BMC, to a cooling fan controller directs the cooling fan to send identification information coded in tachometer...
7612507 Motor controller  
A motor controller capable of appropriately change the drive control condition in response to variations generated in motor drive control. The receiving circuit wirelessly receives and demodulates...
7609024 Auxiliary bus method  
Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a system comprising an electric drive system for a machine. The system can comprise a rectifier adapted to convert AC power from an alternator to DC...
7609021 Method and arrangement for monitoring signals  
The invention relates to a method and to an arrangement for monitoring signals which are guided to a multi-phase motor by an end stage and the pulse width thereof is controlled by a controller. The...
7605556 Microcontroller methods of improving reliability in DC brushless motors and cooling fans  
A method of controlling a motor speed for a fan assembly includes receiving a duty cycle value at a microcontroller. The microcontroller receives a measured fan speed from a speed sensor. An...
7598698 Motor control device  
A motor control device includes a current detecting portion that detects phase current of one phase among three phase currents supplied from an inverter to a motor, and a current estimator that...
7598687 Method and control unit for controlling fan motors  
A method for controlling a first fan motor using a first pulse width modulation signal having a first pulse control factor, and for controlling a second fan motor using a second pulse width...
7595605 Method and control circuit for determining an operating state when controlling a fan motor  
A method is described for determining an operating state on triggering a fan motor, the fan motor being operated with the aid of a switching device, the switching device being activated via a...
7595599 Drive regenerative control system  
Provided is a drive regenerative control system of a drivee with a motor superior in torque and weight balance and suitable for miniaturization as the drive source. In a drive regenerative control...
7589490 Motor control system for the PWM control of an electric motor  
The subject of the present invention is a motor control system having a monitoring circuit for monitoring PWM control for a DC electric motor, the PWM control comprising a power end stage having at...
7586287 Computer housing temperature control device  
A computer housing temperature control device is disclosed. The present invention obtains the PWM signal generated from the CPU in the motherboard to control the rotation speed of all cooling fans...
7586277 Electric power steering device  
An electric power steering device changes the discontinuous non-linear characteristics in the duty ratio of the PWM signal versus motor current generated during steering wheel handle return into...
7583047 Quenching device for a converter bridge with line regeneration  
There is described a method for controlling a quenching device for a converter bridge with line regeneration, whereby the converter bridge controlled by a network-timed control circuit by ignition...
7573217 Methods and systems for automatic rotation direction determination of electronically commutated motor  
A method for determining a direction of rotation for an electronically commutated motor (ECM) is described. The motor is configured to rotate a blower and the method comprises rotating the blower...
7567749 Motor control circuit  
A motor control circuit includes a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal generating circuit, a driving circuit and a waveform-shaping circuit connected between the PWM signal generating circuit and...
7567046 Motor-driving apparatus  
An object of the present invention to accurately and reliably detect rotational positions of a rotor irrespective of noise overlapping inductor voltage. Employed for accomplishing the...
7560897 Current controller and current offset correction  
To provide a current controller capable of constantly detecting an offset value of a current detection system, the offset value overlapping with a current detection value, in a state of regular...
7548038 Controller for motor  
A controller for a motor is capable of reducing the amount of energization required to operate a motor under a predetermined condition, the motor having two rotors disposed around a rotating shaft....
7541760 Method capable of controlling brushless DC motor  
A method capable of controlling brushless DC motor detects the magnetic pole positions of the rotor with a Hall component to produce a Hall signal correspondingly, generates a PWM signal based on...
7538515 Motor controller  
A motor controller includes an inverter circuit, a speed detector, an amplifier, a voltage detector, and an offset voltage addition circuit. The inverter circuit drives a motor based on a PWM...
7535188 Motor driving apparatus, motor driving method and disk driving apparatus  
A motor driving apparatus includes a neutral point difference voltage detecting unit operable to detect a difference voltage between a virtual neutral point of a resistor circuit connected in...
7528569 Inverter circuit free from power-source-voltage fluctuation  
An inverter circuit includes a bridge circuit constituted of a plurality of pairs of a high-side switching element and a low-side switching element, a command signal processing section, a pulse...
7525264 Shunt regulation apparatus, systems, and methods  
In some embodiments, an apparatus and a system, as well as a method and an article, may include receiving shunt current in one or more conductors according to a sensed component of power...
7521889 Method of braking induction motor and control apparatus  
In a DC braking method for stopping an induction motor, torque shock generated by an abrupt change of an output current phase is reduced to a predetermined value or less when a switch-over from a...
7521883 Motor current shaping  
A method and apparatus is disclosed for generating a drive signal that is applied to a coil in a motor. The drive signal is applied during a period (commutation period) between a commutation event...
7518335 Method and apparatus for PWM control of voltage source inverter to minimize current sampling errors in electric drives  
A method for controlling an alternating current (AC) motor includes choosing a pulse sequence based on a ripple current in the AC motor at a sampling instant; and providing a voltage to the AC...
7518334 Method and device for controlling a brushless DC motor  
A method and a control device for a brushless DC motor, which has an AC/DC inverter supplied by an intermediate direct voltage circuit for feeding the DC motor, a pattern generator for controlling...
7518328 Method and device for commutating electromechanical actuators  
The invention relates to the commutation of electromechanical, commutatorless actuators, more particularly of permanent magnet motors and reluctance motors, having a rotor and a stator including at...
7514894 Driver for a brushless motor and data reading/writing device comprising a brushless motor controlled by such a driver  
A driver for a brushless motor ( 10 ) is described comprising a static position sensing device ( 22 ), a back EMF detector for detecting a back EMF voltage ( 40 ), comprising a filter ( 42 ). The...
7509032 Motor drive control circuit and motor apparatus using the same  
A motor drive control circuit includes a rotation control amplifier that compares the lower of a voltage limiting reference voltage of a reference voltage source and a rotation speed control...
7508153 Method and device for determining the rotary speed of an electrical machine  
A method for determining the rotary speed of an electrical machine, especially of a direct current motor, which is controlled in PWM operation, the tracking voltage of the electrical machine being...
7501781 Pulse-width-modulation motor drive circuit having potential limiter  
A PWM motor drive circuit includes a drive IC member, a PWM converter circuit and a potential limiter. The drive IC member electrically connects with a motor coil and further includes a pin...
7495412 Motor driving using discrete time oscillator  
A pulse width modulator includes a discrete time oscillator, a data storage device, a data processing block, a counter, and a comparator. The discrete time oscillator generates a first address of...
7495407 Fan rotational speed controlling circuit  
A circuit for controlling rotational speed of a fan includes a sensor, a first chipset, and a second chipset. The sensor detects an ambient temperature and generates a corresponding temperature...
7495399 Power output apparatus and vehicle including the same  
A coordination control device of a power output apparatus includes a coordination control unit. The coordination control unit calculates an intermediate value between the maximum value and minimum...
7482768 Hybrid electric lawnmower having dual power supply  
A hybrid electric lawnmower having dual power supply is described which includes an electric motor operating the blade and the ability to drive the motor from either 120 VAC line voltage or from a...
7479757 System and method for a cooling system  
Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a system comprising an electric drive system for a machine. The system can comprise a rectifier adapted to convert AC power from an alternator to DC...
7479754 Hybrid electric lawnmower  
A hybrid electric lawnmower is described which includes an electric motor operating the blade and the ability to drive the motor from either 120 VAC line voltage or from a battery pack. There is a...
7474069 Circuit for using the sign transitions of a motor phase and a motor phase back EMF currents to control PWM  
A circuit for optimizing power transferred from an inverter circuit to a motor, the circuit using an open loop method to start-up the motor and have it reach a minimum speed, each phase of the...
7471526 Method and apparatus to reduce PWM voltage distortion in electric drives  
Methods and apparatus are provided for reducing voltage distortion effects at low speed operation in electric drives. The method comprises receiving a first signal having a duty cycle with a range...
7466100 Digital high-resolution controller  
Kinematic control of an electronic positioner and its associated actuator is effected through a control algorithm that delivers energy to the actuator based on observed motion produced by a...
7459879 Motor controller  
A control apparatus for an electric motor, in which a current controller giving multiphase voltage commands to a drive circuit for an inverter includes a normal-mode current controller for use in a...
7456597 Method of driving fan motor  
A fan motor is driven under a pulse width modulation (PWM) control. PWM signals to be supplied to a circuit for driving the fan motor are formed from carrier waves having a specified frequency and...
7449860 Control technique for limiting the current of an induction machine drive system  
A method and apparatus for deriving phase voltage control signals for use in controlling current flow to an induction motor. The method may comprise obtaining an error term; converting the error...
7449854 PWM signal generation apparatus and method thereof and motor control apparatus and method thereof  
A PWM signal generation of the present invention includes a counter, a compare register, a comparator comparing a compare value of the compare register with a count value of the counter and...