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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7245106 | Controller of pulse width modulation signal-driven device, and method of reducing noise of the device A controller of a pulse width modulation signal-driven device, includes: an instruction input of operating the pulse width modulation signal-driven device; a control section generating a control clock which operates the pulse width modulation signal-driven device; a... | 07/17/2007 |
| 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 one or more first reference clocks used to determine a width of one o... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7164244 | Apparatus for controlling electric motors and related control method An electric motor controller controls the currents flowing through the phase windings of an electric motor. The electric motor controller includes driving stages for driving respective phase windings of the motor and a memory for storing samples of reference signals... | 01/16/2007 |
| 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 signal to be currently counted and an immediately preceding pulse sig... | 01/03/2006 |
| 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 from an encoder. The motor controller adjusts a detection period for th... | 11/16/2004 |
| 6559616 | Rotational pulse generating circuit for motors A motor rotational pulse generating circuit for a motor is provided which generates a correct pulse signal even at an initial turning-on stage of the motor, by adjusting a filter cutoff frequency in response to motor rotational condition. The motor rotati... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6400113 | Apparatus and method for monitoring fan speeds within a computing system Apparatus for monitoring fan speeds within a computing system includes a tachometer turning with the fan, providing a tachometer signal including a number of pulses during each revolution of the fan. This tachometer signal is provided as an input to a sig... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6335603 | Motor control circuit and control system using the same Disclosed herein are a motor control circuits and a control system comprising the motor control circuits. Each motor control circuit comprises a pulse generation counter for counting a clock and generating control pulses, a pulse counter for counting the ... | 01/01/2002 |
| 6327425 | Regulator for heating and air conditioning appliances in motor vehicles A regulator for heating and air-conditioning appliances in motor vehicles, having a suction fan which is driven by an electrically commutated DC motor and in whose induction air flow a temperature measurement sensor is arranged. A disturbance in motor run... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6262549 | Fan speed pulse filter for a PWM fan A fan speed pulse filter is used for a PWM fan. The filter comprises a comparator, a latch circuit and a synchronizer. The fan unit, including a tachometer pulse output, is controlled by a PWM signal for determining the fan speed. By comparing the PWM sig... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6040671 | Constant velocity control for an actuator using sampled back EMF control An apparatus for controlling an actuator having a moveable member and having a coil that influences movement of the member, by provision of a drive current to the coil in response to a target speed voltage signal. The invention includes an up/down counter... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5798919 | System for and method of equivalent circuit reference type control In a technique of monitoring whether a physical system is normal or abnormal by continuously comparing a phenomenon taking place in the system and a phenomenon taking place in a model and also in a technique of control adopting evaluation functions using ... | 08/25/1998 |
| 5790971 | Frequency-locked stepping position control system A frequency-locked stepping position control servo (FLSPS) system for driving a stepping motor. It essentially comprises a means for driving the stepping motor to move an object toward a target according to a driving signal, a means for detecting position... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5696642 | Circuit for controlling the rotation of a rotating member A circuit for controlling a rotating member is provided with an input capture register which reads out the value of a free running counter at a timing of an FG (frequency generated) pulse generated in accordance with a rotation of a rotating member. A cen... | 12/09/1997 |
| 5680023 | Method of measuring linear velocity of disk A method of measuring a linear velocity of a rotating disk on a disk drive system wherein a rotation of a spindle motor is controlled in accordance with a predetermined linear velocity which is generated based on a signal reproduced from the disk to contr... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5483132 | Control device for motor-driven telescopic antenna A control device for an electrically driven telescopic antenna including: a counting signal extracting circuit which detects the altered waveform of an rectified current generated during the forward or reverse rotation of a DC motor so as to extract count... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5387856 | Speed control arrangements for electric motors In a speed control arrangement for an induction motor or an a.c. permanent magnet motor in which any one of a number of power frequencies may be selected for application to the motor, there is provided circuitry to control the rate of change of frequency ... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5365385 | Method and apparatus for multirate sampling for disk drive spindle control In the spindle control system of the present invention the compensator is divided into two portions. The first portion is driven by a first clock signal at a first frequency and a second portion is driven by a second clock signal at a second frequency der... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5345532 | Rotation drive device A rotation drive device for driving a rotator is disclosed, comprising an electric motor for driving the rotator, a phase detecting circuit for detecting the phase of rotation of the rotator, a reference signal source for forming a reference signal of a c... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5293445 | AGC with non-linear gain for PLL circuits A circuit automatically changes the gain in a PLL for driving a motor of the type having a motor speed signal that indicates the speed of motor rotation. The circuit includes a phase detector for sensing a phase difference between the motor speed signal a... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5278935 | Device for controlling moving body participating in photographing operation A control device for a moving body such as a focusing lens or the like is arranged to vary time intervals at which a speed control action is performed on a motor according to a driving amount required for moving the moving body to a target position by mea... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5212434 | Phase-locked step motor speed servo controller A speed controller is equipped to a step motor for controlling the rotation of the step motor with a desired angular velocity. The step motor speed controller utilizes a phase-locked stepping servomechanism (PLSS) in which a phase-controlled oscillator (P... | 05/18/1993 |
| 5058191 | Motor rotation speed control circuit A motor rotation speed control circuit fabricated in an LSI, a first counter which, after being reset by each rotation of the motor, begins counting clock pulses. Bit-outputs of the first counter are led out of the LSI package of the LSI, and are selectiv... | 10/15/1991 |
| 5046123 | Error signal detection circuit in a servo control device An error signal detection circuit in a servo control device comprises a reference signal generation circuit for selectively generating reference signals of different periods, each having a slope which changes from a reference value at a substantially cons... | 09/03/1991 |
| 5040234 | Apparatus for and method of generating a timing signal A circuit for generating a pulse-like timing signal driving a stepping motor which is used to drive for example a magnetic tape to run in an audio tape or video tape recording and reproducing apparatus. A rewritable memory stores output pattern data and t... | 08/13/1991 |
| 4961036 | System for controlling a working shaft The inventive system for controlling a working shaft includes a layout for the time to number conversion, wherein a divider is provided to divide with use of a pulse rate outputted from the memory storage, and the shaft driver is operated by output from s... | 10/02/1990 |
| 4933985 | Rotation drive device A rotation drive device for driving a rotator is disclosed, comprising an electric motor for driving the rotator, a phase detecting circuit for detecting the phase of rotation of the rotator, a reference signal source for forming a reference signal of a c... | 06/12/1990 |
| 4914713 | Rotation detection or speed pickup device for miniature d-c motor In order to pick up in a simple manner which is reliable, and under rough operating conditions, a rotation of the rotor in a miniature motor excited by permanent magnets with magnet segments at a tangential distance with magnet segments distributed at the... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4887307 | Speed control apparatus for electric motor A speed control device for an electric motor having a rotation speed and driven by a power source and including components for producing a counter value from the rotation speed of the motor, components for comparing the counter value produced from the pro... | 12/12/1989 |
| 4885793 | Digital servo system using microcomputer for controlling phase and speed of rotary body A microcomputer (20) servo controls the rotational speed and the rotational phase of a cylinder motor (37) of a VTR in a digital manner. The microcomputer (20) generates a 10-bit digital phase error signal DPH having sufficiently low conversion... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4885515 | Velocity control apparatus A velocity control apparatus according to the invention is used in order to acccept feedback data, for velocity control of a servomotor or the like. The disclosed apparatus provides velocity information in the form of discrete data from a pulse coder or t... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4884162 | Method and apparatus for preventing the overheat of a line feed motor for a printer A method and apparatus prevents the overheating of a line feed motor used in a printer. First and second timers are respectively provided to measure first and second time intervals. The second time interval includes a cessation period in which the line fe... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4879754 | Speed controller The invention provides a speed controller which detects the period of an AC signal containing information of the rotational speed of a motor and controls the rotational speed based on the detected period value and a reference speed value. More particularl... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4873473 | Modular motor controller An apparatus for controlling a motor comprises an oscillator for providing a source of periodic signals, and a divider for converting the oscillator output into desired motor rotation frequency signals. A tachometer generates actual motor rotation frequen... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4862048 | Speed control system In a speed control system for a carriage movable along a predetermined path, light beams originating at the ends of the path are deflected by light conductors aboard the carriage so that they are interrupted, as the carriage moves, by a slotted plate exte... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4845608 | Digital speed controller using a single-chip microcontroller A speed regulator digital speed controller for rotating machinery is comprised of a single-chip microcontroller operating in conjunction with a multiple counter/time peripheral, and is programmed in a high level language. Pulses are generated by a digital... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4833375 | Digital motor control system A digital motor control system includes a flip-flop latch for receiving motor circuit drive data from a microprocessor, a counter for counting to a predetermined value representing the total duration of a motor drive pulse, a comparator for comparing the ... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4827201 | Digital servo system for motor driven apparatus A digital servo system comprising source means of a clock signal, counter means, latch means which latches a predetermined lower bits of the output of the counter means, means for obtaining a servo control output in response to the latch means, and sequen... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4816722 | Digital phase-locked loop filter A phase-locked loop filter applicable to a motor speed control of an optical disk apparatus and others counts a difference in phase between an input signal to a phase-locked loop and an output signal of the loop, integrates the resulting counts modulo a p... | 03/28/1989 |
| 4816723 | Variable speed motor control method and apparatus A motor control method and apparatus employing a speed control loop and a phase control loop, each of which receives a clock signal (F-- TACH) indicative of the motor's measured phase and rotational frequency, and a synchronizing clock signal (... | 03/28/1989 |
