Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
318689000 | TORQUING MOTORS | 13 |
20090033273 | Direct Drive Torque Motor - A direct drive torque motor comprises: a body, a direct drive torque motor, a main shaft, a bearing assembly, a brake assembly, a cooling assembly, and a position-sensing assembly. The bearing assembly is used to position the main shaft in the direct drive torque motor and the body. The brake assembly is disposed between the body and the main shaft. The cooling assembly is located in the body to cool the torque motor. The position-sensing assembly is mounted on the body for sensing the rotation of the main shaft and then controls the drive of the direct drive torque motor. With above arrangements, the direct drive torque motor can be used on various machines that need to rotate to perform various angle control, rotation control and accuracy control, it can improve the life and the modular application of the product. | 02-05-2009 |
20090128081 | ELECTRIC STEERING SYSTEM - An electric steering system is provided with: a steering torque detection unit which detects a steering torque acting on the shaft; a brushless motor which includes a rotor and a stator having multi-phase stator coils, and generates an assisting torque for assisting the steering torque; a current supply switching unit which drives the brushless motor; a rotary angle estimation unit which outputs an estimated rotary angle; a determination unit which determines whether or not the estimated rotary angle is appropriate by comparison with a direction of the steering torque; and a steering control unit which drives the brushless motor in accordance with the estimated rotary angle determined to be appropriate by the determination unit to control generation of the assisting torque. | 05-21-2009 |
20090302798 | TORQUE CONTROL CIRCUIT FOR IMPACT TOOL - A torque control circuit includes a motor driving circuit, a motor operating current detection circuit, a reference voltage generation circuit, a maximum motor current setting circuit, a torque setting circuit, an information output circuit, a regulated-voltage power supply circuit, a motor operating temperature detection circuit, and a control circuit. The control circuit includes an integrated circuit to carry out functions of reading information detection sources, processing, and instruction for execution of torque control and output terminals of the reference voltage generation circuit, the maximum motor current setting circuit, the motor operating temperature detection circuit, and the motor impedance torque setting circuit are respectively connected to corresponding input terminals of the integrated circuit to carry out desired control of torque supplied to the impact tool. | 12-10-2009 |
20100007303 | Torquer Apparatus - A torquer apparatus generally comprises a reaction-gyro sphere consisting of a concentric assembly of a substantially spherical rotor and a substantially spherical stator. This is implemented in the present invention as a rotor with magnetic poles such that, when radially projected on a concentric octahedron, the same symmetrical pattern is obtained on all faces of said octahedron, the polarity of the poles projected on two adjacent faces of said octahedron being opposite and a stator with at least twenty poles magnetized with coils and such that, when radially projected on a concentric icosahedron, the same symmetrical pattern is obtained on all faces of said icosahedron, said stator being-in nominal position-concentric with said rotor. Real-time measurements, or equivalent information, of the position of the rotor with respect to the stator are obtained together with exported torque from the stator, or the orientation of the rotor with respect to the stator. A controller controls the current in the coils of the stator poles based on said measurements, or said equivalent information, such that the rotor is magnetically held in said nominal position, and that the desired torque is exported. | 01-14-2010 |
20100295498 | ELECTRIC POWER STEERING APPARATUS - Provided is an electric power steering apparatus which allows a reduction in apparatus size as well as in noise. A controller ( | 11-25-2010 |
20110204838 | ROTARY DRIVE DEVICE - A first angle-detecting unit outputs a first rotation angle according to the rotation angle of a rotation shaft of a servo motor. A second angle-detecting unit outputs a second rotation angle according to a rotation angle of a rotation shaft of a reduction gear. A torque calculation unit calculates the torque acting on the rotation shaft of the reduction gear according to the angle difference between the first rotation angle and the second rotation angle. An angle-control unit generates a torque reference value according to the difference between the angle reference value and the second rotation angle. A torque control unit generates a current reference value according to the difference between the torque reference value and the torque. | 08-25-2011 |
20120319639 | TORQUE GENERATOR USING FULL-PITCH WINDING RELUCTANCE MOTOR AND CONTROL UNIT THEREFOR - A torque generator includes a full-pitch winding reluctance motor provided with three-phase or more coils which are composed of full-pitch windings, and a control unit therefor. The control unit controls currents supplied to the respective phase coils such that the coil for a first phase designated among the phases is first started to be current-supplied and then the coil for a second phase designated among the phases is started to be current-supplied during the current supply to the coil for the first phase. The control unit decreases an amount of the current supplied to the first coil immediately before starting the current supply to the second coil and to reinstate the amount of the current supplied to the first coil in response to starting the current supply to the second coil. | 12-20-2012 |
20130033220 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE - A motor control device main unit includes a pressure command signal generation module, a pressure control module, a speed control module, and a current control module. The pressure command signal generation module of the motor control device main unit generates a pressure command value so that a derivative of the pressure command value is equal to or less than a product of an elastic constant of the pressurized target and a maximum motor speed. The pressure control module carries out pressure control calculation to calculate a motor speed command value based on a deviation between the pressure command value and an actual pressure value, and generates a motor speed command signal, which is a signal of the motor speed command value. | 02-07-2013 |
20130033221 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE - A motor control device main unit includes a pressure command signal generation module, a simulated pressure control module, a simulated position calculation module, a simulated pressure signal generation module, a pressure control module, a speed control module, and a current control module. The speed control module receives a motor speed command signal, which is a signal of a sum of an actual motor speed command value of an actual motor speed command signal from the pressure control module and a simulated speed calculated value of a simulated motor speed signal. The speed control module carries out speed control calculation based on a motor speed command value of the motor speed command signal and an actual motor speed of an actual motor speed signal. | 02-07-2013 |
20130063068 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE - A motor-control-device main unit includes a pressure-command-signal generating section, a pressure control section, a speed control section, a current control section, and a parameter-adjusting section. With respect to a parameter for a control computation by the pressure control section, the parameter-adjusting section includes an information-acquiring section and a parameter-calculating section. The information-acquiring section acquires, from an exterior, each of pieces of information including an elastic constant of a pressurized target, a reaction-force constant indicating information of a reaction force, a transfer characteristic from a motor torque to a motor speed, and parameters of the speed control section. The information-acquiring section previously acquires information of a control law of the speed control unit. The parameter-calculating section calculates a parameter for the pressure control section based on the information acquired by the information-acquiring section. | 03-14-2013 |
20140042951 | METHOD OF CONTROLLING TORQUE OUTPUT OF IMPACT POWER TOOL AND THE CONTROL APPARATUS - An impact power tool includes a motor, a battery, a hammer mechanism and a control apparatus. The motor runs in the same speed no matter what torque level is selected. The motor runs for a total running time which is identical to an impacting time plus a compensative time. The impacting time is decided according to the selected torque level, and the compensative time is decided according to the power of the battery. An impacting time table and a compensative time table are pre-established to decide the impacting time value and the compensative time value. Therefore, the impact power tool always provides the theory torque output of the selected torque even if the battery is low. | 02-13-2014 |
20150022138 | FORCE FEEDBACK MECHANISM AND RELATED ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND OPERATION METHOD - A force feedback mechanism disposed inside a casing for vibration balance of the casing is disclosed in the present invention. The force feedback mechanism includes an accelerator, a force generator and a controller. The accelerator detects an acceleration parameter of the casing. The force generator respectively generates an effective force at a first direction and a second direction. The first direction is substantially opposite to the second direction. The controller is electrically connected to the accelerator and the force generator. The controller obtains and analyzes absolute value and vector of the acceleration parameter, and drives the force generator to generate the corresponding effective force according to the absolute value and the vector. | 01-22-2015 |
20160006329 | Method And Device For Torque Generation Based On Electromagnetic Effect - A method and device of torque generation based on electromagnetic effect is provided. An electromagnetic torque whose direction is opposite to the motor driving direction is generated in a magnetic field when a motor-drive armature winding is adopted based on the electro-magnetic induction principle. Meanwhile, a reverse electromagnetic torque which is reverse to the armature winding with the same magnitude, is applied on a magnet set and is transmitted to an underactuated system so as to provide required torque for the underactuated system. Advantageously, the provided torque is in direct ratio to speed, difficulty in control is significantly reduced, two-stage electromagnetic variable speed can be achieved, the design of the system is simple and reliable with a concise and clear structure, and the device may be employed in a wide variety of applications. | 01-07-2016 |