| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 318600000 | Digital or numerical systems | 62 |
| 20080203956 | Predictive Maintenance Method - The predictive apparatus and method for preventive maintenance of rotating CNC machinery for application to a multi motor machine tooling operating under computer numerical control with provisions for a program control using the computer ( | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080303474 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING LIMITED ROTATION MOTOR SYSTEMS - A control system is disclosed for controlling the movement of a limited rotation motor. The control system includes a computer system and a closed-loop motor controller. The computer system is for generating command digital data including digital input commands for controlling the movement of the limited rotation motor. The closed-loop motor controller includes an input circuit for receiving the command digital data synchronous with a data input signal, a digital control system for processing the command digital data, an output circuit for providing a motor drive signal to the limited rotation motor, and a feedback circuit for providing digital feedback data to said digital control processing circuit. The digital control processing circuit providing closed-loop motor control calculations on a computation cycle that is synchronous with the data input signal. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080309277 | Driving system for mobile robot - In a system for driving a mobile robot having a body, a plurality of legs each comprising a thigh link and a shank link, a first electric motor and a second motor for driving the thigh link in a forwarding direction, a power line connecting a power source to the first and the second motors, and a motor driver that supplies drive voltage to the first and second motors, a booster that boosts the drive voltage to be supplied to the first and second motors is provided such that the booster and the motor driver are installed in the thigh link where the first and second motors are installed, thereby enabling to satisfy both the low-voltage demand and high-voltage demand and to supply drive voltage to the motors effectively. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090009126 | NUMERICAL CONTROLLER CONTROLLING ACCELERATION AND DECELERATION OF RESPECTIVE CONTROL AXES UP TO COMMAND SPEEDS - Initial speeds in the move commands for respective control axes at servo-on are determined according to parameter setting, or the comparative relationship or difference in speed among the actual speeds of the control axes so that difference in position between the control axes does not increase as the move commands are executed after the servo-on. The actual speeds of the control axes are set as initial speeds in the move commands, and a target axis is specified on the basis of the comparative relationship among their actual speeds and the other control axes are accelerated or decelerated at the acceleration or deceleration rate specified in the move commands to attain the position and speed of the target axis, so that differences in position and speed among the control axes are gradually decreased as the move commands are executed after the servo-on, thereby preventing abrupt speed changes and suppressing mechanical shocks. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090195206 | SERVO MOTOR CONTROL SYSTEM - A table containing correspondence between “n” and “m” is set in a control circuit of a servo control system so that the current command data in the m-th (m=1, 2, 3 . . . ) current command register is assigned to the n-th (n=1, 2, 3 . . . ) servo amplifier. When data is specified in this table to satisfy “n=m”, the current command data in the n-th current command register is passed to the n-th servo amplifier. When “m=1” is set for “n=1” and “m=1” is set for “n=2” in this table, the current command data stored in the first current command register is passed to the first and second servo amplifiers. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090218979 | OPTICAL HEAD MOVING CONTROL APPARATUS AND OPTICAL HEAD MOVING CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an optical head moving control apparatus according to one embodiment of the invention includes a stepping motor configured to be rotationally driven by a two-phase excitation scheme to move an optical head in a first direction and in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a motor driver configured to control stop and resumption of rotational driving of the stepping motor at a plurality of electrical angles different from a plurality of electrical angles corresponding to a plurality of two-phase excitation points at which the absolute values of driving voltages of two phases supplied to the stepping motor are equal. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090309532 | DISPLACEMENT DETECTING METHOD, CORRECTION TABLE MAKING METHOD, MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING MACHINE - A displacement detecting method of the present invention includes the steps of driving a moving part | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100123422 | MOTOR CONTROLLER WITH DETERMINISTIC SYNCHRONOUS INTERRUPT HAVING MULTIPLE SERIAL INTERFACE BACKPLANE - In one embodiment, a motor drive is provided that includes a control board and one or more option boards coupled to the control board via one or more serial interfaces such that data from the one or more option boards is communicated via one or more synchronous interrupts on the one or more serial interfaces. A method of operating a motor drive that includes transmitting one or more signals from an option board to a control board via one or more synchronous interrupts, wherein the option board is coupled to the control board via a serial interface. A tangible machine-readable medium implementing the method is also provided. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100123423 | SERIAL INTERFACE MOTOR CONTROLLER HAVING USER CONFIGURABLE COMMUNICATIONS SPEEDS - In one embodiment, a motor drive is provided that includes a control board and an option board coupled to the control board via a serial interface, wherein the option board includes a configurable data transfer rate. A method of operating a motor drive that includes configuring a transfer rate of an option board coupled to a control board via a serial interface. A tangible machine-readable medium implementing the method is also provided. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100123424 | MOTOR CONTROLLER WITH INTEGRATED SERIAL INTERFACE HAVING SELECTABLE SYNCHRONIZATION AND COMMUNICATIONS - In one embodiment, a motor drive is provided that includes a control board and a plurality of option boards configured to communicate with the control board via one or more serial interfaces, wherein the one or more serial interfaces are configured to transfer one or more synchronized signals from each option board. A method of operating a motor drive that includes transferring data between a control board and a plurality of option boards over one or more serial interfaces, wherein the transfer of data from each option board is synchronized with the plurality of option boards. A tangible machine-readable medium implementing the method is also provided. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100123425 | MOTOR DRIVE SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - Multiple motor drives are synchronized to permit complex coordination in operation. Each motor drive includes a control circuit coupled to functional circuits that are separately supported and linked to the control circuit via dedicated serial interfaces. The control circuit generates interrupts for coordinated transfer and collection of data from all functional circuits. Each drive includes a synchronization counter, and all synchronization counters are linked via a network link. The synchronization counters synchronized clocks of each control circuit. The interrupts, and consequent data transfer and collection are thus synchronized between all drives based on the synchronization of the clocks. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100259209 | MULTI-AXIS DRIVER CONTROL METHOD, MULTI-AXIS DRIVER AND MULTI-AXIS DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEM HAVING THE SAME - Provided is a multi-axis driver control method that enables communications with drive-axis basis controllers of a multi-axis driver with use of a single general-purpose external interface. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20110006719 | PRESS MACHINE CONTROLLER - A press machine controller ( | 01-13-2011 |
| 20120181969 | Numerical Control - A numerical control for operating a machine tool having a plurality of axes, includes a drive controller for each axis to be actuated, the drive controllers being able to be parameterized via machine parameters and thus adaptable to the most varied applications. Variable control values and machine parameters are selectable via tapping points in the drive controllers in order to be used as arguments or parameters of a user-defined function for calculating an output value, which is used for function-dependent influencing of one of the drive controllers. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120212171 | Motor Control System and Motor Control Method - There is provided a motor control system and motor control method which can shorten settling time by restraining vibration and deviation relative to an advancing direction during operation. Moreover, according to the present invention, it is possible to cause a motor to be operated with an ideal track and, since it is possible to always monitor a present position, it is made easy to cause a plurality of axes to be synchronously operated. The motor control system is provided with a unit generating command waveforms from a jerk data which has significant effects on the vibration relative to the advancing direction, and a unit performing a real time real position control of regenerating future command waveforms according to a deviation amount, while always performing jerk-limit, whereby the vibration and the deviation relative to the advancing direction when the motor operates at high speed are restrained. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20130057191 | MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS - A motor control apparatus includes a position detector to detect a position of a motor. A speed operator calculates a first speed of the motor. A position controller outputs a first speed command. A speed controller acquires a difference between the first speed command and a second speed of the motor to output a first torque/thrust command. A phase compensator includes a lowpass filter to advance a phase of the second speed, and acquires the first speed and the first torque/thrust command to output the second speed. An inertia variation inhibitor includes a disturbance observer estimating a disturbance torque/thrust. The inertia variation inhibitor acquires the first speed and a second torque/thrust command, and adds the disturbance torque/thrust to the first torque/thrust command to output the second torque/thrust command. A torque/thrust controller acquires the second torque/thrust command to control a motor torque/thrust. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130119916 | Energy Efficient Motion Control System - A control signal for controlling an operation of a motion control system suitable for positioning a load is generated using determining a cost function based on a model of energy consumption of the system and a function of a tracking time; and minimizing the cost function subject to constraints to determine a trajectory of the control signal. The control signal is generated based on the trajectory and a current state of the system, wherein the steps of the method are performed by a processor. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130285589 | ELECTRIC MOTOR CONTROL SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATION METHOD - An upper-level control device includes a communication control unit that transmits a command, which is used after a command that is currently executed and includes an execution order, to an electric motor control device during electric motor control devices respectively perform driving controls of electric motors, and each of the electric motor control devices includes a command storage unit configured to store a plurality of commands, a communication control unit that stores the command received from the upper-level control device in the command storage unit in the execution order, and a command-follow-up control unit that performs a follow-up control of the electric motors based on the command. When the command storage unit is fully filled with the commands, the communication control unit stores a newly received command in the command storage unit by overwriting the newly received command in an area where an executed command is stored. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130293178 | MOTOR CONTROL PROFILER - A motor control profiler includes: a position calculation main state machine for generating command data to control a motor, the command data being in a polynomial expression of higher degree; a parameter set machine for setting a coefficient and a constant of the polynomial expression of higher degree of the command data; a control state machine for setting a control state of the motor; a time slot control and computation resource management machine for controlling a calculation machine, based on the set coefficient and constant of the polynomial expression of higher degree and the set control state of the motor; and a calculation machine for calculating the amount of motion according to the drive of the motor based on the time slot control and computation resource management. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20140184129 | MULTI-AXIS MOTOR DRIVING SYSTEM AND MOTOR DRIVING APPARATUS - A multi-axis motor driving system, including a plurality of motor driving apparatuses respectively connected to motors and each provided with a regenerative power consumption unit for consuming regenerative power generated from the corresponding motor. The plurality of motor driving apparatuses are connected to a common DC bus. The plurality of motor driving apparatuses each include a regenerative controller for controlling start and stop of activation of the regenerative power consumption unit based on a voltage of the common DC bus. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140217951 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE AND MOTOR CONTROL METHOD - A motor control device includes a power converter, a velocity controller, and a certain-position stop controller. The power converter outputs a driving current on the basis of an input torque command. The velocity controller generates a calculated torque command on the basis of a difference between a velocity represented by a velocity command and a motor velocity. The certain-position stop controller performs position control by, after first detecting a reference position of a motor during velocity control, generating a position command for positioning the motor from the reference position to a target stop position at a torque of a torque schedule, generating the velocity command on the basis of a difference between a position represented by the position command and the motor position, and outputting a value resulting from adding a torque feedforward command generated on the basis of the torque schedule to the calculated torque command. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20150077031 | NUMERICAL CONTROL DEVICE INCLUDING ROBOT CONTROLLER - A numerical control device including a numerical controller, a robot controller, a servo control module and an I/O control module connected to the numerical controller and the robot controller, and an amplifier connecting bus connecting the servo control module and a servo amplifier, and an I/O device connecting bus connecting an I/O control module and an I/O interface device. The machine-tool-side and robot-side servo amplifiers are daisy-chained and the machine-tool-side and robot-side I/O interface devices are daisy-chained. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20160041546 | MACHINING TOOL WITH NUMERICAL CONTROL DEVICE - A machining tool with a numerical control device includes an actual gravity center calculation unit configured to calculate an actual gravity center, the actual gravity center being a whole gravity center of the machining tool and the load, a target gravity center position set unit, a movable part position correction unit configured to correct the relative position of the movable part to the fixed part, to make the target gravity center position and the whole center gravity center position of the machining tool and the load coincident. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160161942 | Antenna Positioning System - An antenna positioning system includes an outdoor unit with a rotating antenna driven by a motor, and an indoor unit connected to the outdoor unit via a communications link, such as a cable or a wireless link, that enables the indoor unit to control the outdoor unit. On startup, the processor of the indoor unit directs the antenna to search for available signals. The resulting signal information is stored and displayed on a user interface on the indoor unit. The user can then select a desired signal and the processor of the indoor unit will automatically rotate the antenna to the appropriate angular position. Both the search procedure and repositioning of the antenna rely on accurate calibration of the antenna's angular velocity to determine the antenna's angular position, rather than relying on a position sensor. | 06-09-2016 |
| 318601000 | Digital comparison | 22 |
| 20090009127 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE AND ELECTRIC POWER STEERING DEVICE USING THE SAME - A motor driving control device includes a current instruction value computing section | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090085507 | SIMULATED ENCODER PULSE OUTPUT SYSTEM AND METHOD - The invention includes a system and method for generating simulated encoder outputs in a control system. An output pulse width between reference position inputs is computed, the output pulse width being based upon a difference between an updated reference position input and a previous reference position input, and upon a time interval between the reference position inputs. Next, a plurality of simulated encoder pulses is output between updates of the reference position input based upon the computed output pulse width. The output pulse is thereafter adjusted in a closed loop manner between updates of the reference position input. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090195207 | Servo Control Circuit - The present invention discloses a servo control circuit comprising: a first node for receiving a control voltage; a second node for receiving a feedback voltage; an operational amplifier controlling a current on a path according to the voltages at the first and second nodes, the path including an internal voltage node thereon; an analog to digital converter (ADC) for converting the voltage at the internal voltage node to a digital signal; and a control logic circuit for generating a servo control signal according to the digital signal. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090261772 | Advanced method for stepper motor speed determination - A method and apparatus for determining speed of a stepper motor. In one embodiment of the method, a first terminal of a first coil of the stepper motor is coupled to an input of a multibit digital-to-analog (A/D) convertor. The stepper motor's a rotor is rotated about an axis while the first terminal is coupled to the multibit A/D convertor. An analog signal is induced at the first terminal generating while the rotor is rotating about the axis. The multibit A/D convertor receives the analog signal induced at the first terminal. The multibit A/D convertor generates a plurality of multibit digital signals in response to receiving the analog signal. The multibit digital signals can be processed to determine the rotational speed at which the rotor was rotating when the A/D convertor generated the plurality of multibit digital signals. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20100001679 | ACCELERATION CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD - An acceleration control apparatus for servo control of a computer numerical control (CNC) machine comprises a digital filter. The digital filter is obtained by selecting a cutoff frequency of an analog filter and using a pole-zero matched method to transform an analog filter. The low-pass digital filter includes a signal input unit, a signal input register unit, a signal operation unit, a signal output unit, and a signal output register unit. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100253275 | PARALLEL KINEMATICS MICRO-POSITIONING SYSTEM - The present invention is a parallel kinematic linkage based micro-positioning system that can provide precise movement at the micron and sub-micron level of a payload that is compatible with an existing automation system. The system has a motor controller, a digital signal processor, a base frame, a first motor, a first cranking arm with a first connecting link and an intermediate stage that mounts a second motor that is attached to a second cranking arm with a second connecting link. There is also an output stage (also called a table) that is precisely moved by the second cranking arm and a first and second optical linear encoder used in combination with the first and second motor and the first and second cranking arm forming a first motor assembly that converts operational data into a plurality of highly precise X-axes and Y-axes payload linear movements. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20110057599 | 3D-TRAJECTORY DISPLAY DEVICE FOR MACHINE TOOL - A trajectory display device capable of correctly quantifying an error of a three-dimensional trajectory of a machine tool, and displaying or outputting the error. The trajectory display device has a command line segment defining part adapted to define a command line segment which connects two temporally adjacent points, in relation to each commanded position; an error calculating part adapted to define a normal line extending from the actual position to each command line segment and calculate an error of the actual position relative to a commanded trajectory, the error being determined as a shorter one between a length of a shortest normal line among the defined normal lines and a length of a line segment extending from the actual position to a commanded position which is the nearest from the actual position. | 03-10-2011 |
| 20110241593 | PROJECTOR AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A projector includes: a drive motor adapted to drive a lens unit; a control section adapted to control the drive motor; a storage section adapted to store a target position of the lens unit; and a position detector adapted to detect a present position of the lens unit, wherein if a deviation between the target position stored in the storage section and the present position detected by the position detector is equal to or larger than a predetermined value, the control section performs drive of the drive motor with feedforward control until the present position and the target position are coincident with each other, and performs drive control of the drive motor with a predetermined unit based on a deviation between a stop position by the feedforward control and the target position. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20120007539 | NUMERICAL CONTROL DEVICE - In order to obtain an NC device that can easily shift by an arbitrary amount a main spindle single-revolution reference signal without being dependant on hardware and while rotating a main spindle, the NC device includes a main spindle reference angle correction amount setting unit for inputting a correction angle of a reference point, a main spindle within-single-revolution feed-back position correction unit for correcting the reference point by a correction angle set by the main spindle reference angle correction amount setting unit, and a main spindle within-single-revolution command position correction unit for correcting a main spindle within-single-revolution command position by the correction angle set by the main spindle reference angle correction amount setting unit. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120081063 | Motor Control Device - A motor control device comprises: an acceleration upper limit estimating unit; a target acceleration setting unit; a motor control unit; and a deficit calculating unit, wherein the target acceleration setting unit corrects the target acceleration based on the acceleration profile by an amount corresponding to the acceleration deficit within a range in which the target acceleration does not exceed the acceleration upper limit on the basis of the acceleration deficit calculated by the deficit calculating unit to set the target acceleration at each time. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120229069 | MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING MOTOR - A motor control apparatus includes a power converter, a speed controller, and a stop position controller. The power converter outputs a current to drive a motor based on a torque command. The speed controller generates the torque command based on an error between a speed command of the motor and a speed of the motor. The stop position controller calculates an acceleration command to output a predetermined torque after detection of a reference position per revolution of a position detector for a first time during speed control of the motor, generates a torque feed-forward command based on the acceleration command, generates a position command based on the acceleration command, and generates the speed command based on an error between the position command and the motor position to execute position control of the motor. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20130049670 | INTEGRATED SERVO SYSTEM - An integrated servo system and a method of controlling a motor is provided. The integrated servo system includes a position detector which determines original position data of a motor and a position signal processor which determines a position of the motor based on the determined position data. The integrated servo system further includes a servo controller circuit which controls the motor based on the determined position data and a parallel bus through which the determined position data is transmitted from the position signal processor to the servo controller circuit. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20150061564 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE - A command value generating circuit determines an acceleration profile indicating changes in acceleration of a mechanical load over time. The acceleration profile is determined such that the mechanical load is accelerated from a stop at a first position to a peak velocity, and is decelerated from the peak velocity to stop at a second position, and that the absolute value of an acceleration during accelerating and decelerating the mechanical load is equal to or less than an upper limit acceleration, and that the acceleration is maintained at the upper limit acceleration for a period of time from starting to accelerate the mechanical load, and then, gradually decreased from the upper limit acceleration. The command value generating circuit determines a velocity profile indicating changes in the velocity of the mechanical load over time, according to the acceleration profile, and generates a position command value, according to the velocity profile. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150091489 | Apparatus for Finding a Machine Tool Origin - An apparatus for finding a machine tool origin includes a base and a sensor positioned on a first side of the base. The sensor includes probe engagement components and electronic circuitry. The probe engagement components are configured for movable engagement with a probe of the machine tool to produce electronic signals processed by the electronic circuitry to provide a signal indicative of the machine tool origin. Mechanical positioning components are positioned on a second side of the base. The mechanical positioning components include a pedestal with a first tab and a second tab aligned to be operable as a mechanical stop with the second tab corresponding to the position of a right-hand origin for the machine tool and the second tab and a third tab aligned to be operable as a mechanical stop with the second tab corresponding to the position of a left-hand origin for the machine tool. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20160011581 | NUMERICAL CONTROLLER FOR CONTROLLING DRILLING OPERATION | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160098041 | MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS, MOTOR CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL SYSTEM, AND POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD TO BE USED IN CONTROL SYSTEM - A motor control device may include a position command output means, a first subtraction means that calculates and outputs a position deviation, a position control means, a second subtraction means that calculates and outputs a position deviation, a speed control means that outputs a torque command, a limiter limits the level of the torque command, a motor drive means, and a voltage fluctuation detection means. When the voltage fluctuation detection means detects that the voltage of said power source has dropped below a predetermined reference level, either the position command output means varies the position command so as to reduce the rotational speed of the motor and/or said position control means limits said speed command to be output. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160139604 | ELECTRIC MACHINE AND DISPLAY METHOD - An electric machine according to the embodiment includes: a motor; a current controller supplying a current to the motor; a detector detecting a position, a speed, or an acceleration of a shaft of the motor; a controller calculating a torque parameter indicating a torque of the motor based on a current instruction that specifies a supply current to the motor and calculating a speed parameter indicating a rotational speed of the shaft of the motor based on a detection result from the detector; and a display part displaying a graph showing a relation between the torque parameter and the speed parameter. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160167224 | MOTION BASE WITH CONTROLLED ACTUATORS | 06-16-2016 |
| 318602000 | Commutating switch-type encoder | 4 |
| 20090058345 | MOTOR CONTROLLER PROVIDING POSITION FEEDBACK CORRECTION - A motor controller employs absolute encoder signals to periodically assess the existence of cumulative error in a position signal derived from an incremental encoder signal. In one embodiment the absolute encoder signals are extracted from commutation switches of the motor eliminating the need for a separate absolute encoder. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090179607 | Motor Absolute Position Signal Processing Apparatus - A motor absolute position signal processing apparatus connected to a signal processor and an optical encoder of a motor control system includes first and second switches, a signal integration amplifier, first and second separators and an inverter. The first switch is connected with the optical encoder, the second switch with the optical encoder and the first switch, the signal integration amplifier with the first and second switches, the first separator with the signal integration amplifier and the signal processor, and the second separator with the signal processor. An input end of the inverter is connected with the second separator and an output end with the second switch. The signal processor outputs an enable signal to be processed by the inverter for switching the first or second switch. The signal integration amplifier processes and transmits two sets of differential signals SIN;/SIN and COS;/COS of the optical encoder to the signal processor. | 07-16-2009 |
| 20090184675 | Motor Position Signal Processing Apparatus - A motor position signal processing apparatus electrically connected to a signal processor and an optical encoder of a motor control system includes a first switch, a second switch, a first signal integration amplifier, a first separator, a second signal integration amplifier, a second separator, a third signal integration amplifier, a third separator, a fourth separator and an inverter. An enable signal outputted by the signal processor is processed by the inverter to switch the operation to the first switch or the second switch. An incremental signal outputted by the optical encoder, a motor mechanical position and a reset correction signal are processed by the first, second and third signal integration amplifiers and transmitted to the signal processor for controlling the operation of a motor. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20150292917 | ENCODER, SERVO AMPLIFIER, CONTROLLER, AND INFORMATION EXCHANGE METHOD IN SERVO SYSTEM - An encoder includes a storing unit that retains information concerning a servo amplifier connected in the past. The encoder detects an operation state of a servomotor driven by a servo amplifier connected anew. | 10-15-2015 |
| 318603000 | Pulse-counting systems | 13 |
| 20080203957 | MOTOR CONTROL METHOD AND MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS - A motor control method includes the steps of: measuring a time period from an output of a drive detection signal to a next output of a drive detection signal; storing the measurement result at each time of output of a drive detection signal as a measured cycle; calculating a driven velocity of the driven object based on the stored measured cycle; calculating an operation amount of the motor such that the calculated driven velocity is equal to a predetermined target velocity. In the motor control method, it is determined, at each calculation timing, whether or not the driven object is in a low velocity state where an actual velocity is lower than the target velocity. When determined affirmative, calculation of the driven velocity of the driven object is performed based on a measured value being currently measured at the calculation timing in place of the stored measured cycle. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20090079380 | MOTOR CONTROLLER HAVING COUNTER TO COUNT POSITION ERROR EVENTS AND METHOD OF MOTOR CONTROL USING SAME - A motor control system uses an incremental encoder that provides a signal indicative of motor position. If an illegal state change is detected in the same sampling interval, an error event is recorded and an error counter is incremented. When the number of counts exceeds a pre-determined threshold, the motor is disabled so that appropriate corrective action can be taken. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090091287 | Linear Actuator - A linear actuator comprising a spindle nut, where the spindle nut and the spindle between a first and a second point, indicating the length of stroke, can move axially in proportion to each other, depending on whether the spindle or the spindle nut is being driven around via the transmission, and where the position is determined with incremental position sensors, such as at least two Hall sensors or Reed-switches. For determining the position an initiating procedure, where the nut/spindle is moved from a first point on the spindle/nut to a second point on the spindle nut, is carried out, and that the number of pulses from the incremental position sensors appearing by it are registered as a measurement for the length of stroke, and the position is subsequently determined in relation to that. It is noted that the control is active before, during and after the operation of the motor. Hereby, absolute position detection is achieved with incremental sensors, where one formerly was obliged to use rotary potentiometers. Simultaneously an optional determination of the length of stroke and its position and immediate possibility to change the same at any time is achieved. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090230911 | OPTICAL APPARATUS - An optical apparatus ensuring smooth driving control of an optical member is disclosed. The optical apparatus includes an optical member, a stepping motor configured to drive the optical member, a driving commander configured to generate driving pulses supplied to the stepping motor, a pulse count generator configured to count the driving pulses output from the driving commander, a position detector configured to detect a position of the optical member, and a pulse count presetter configured to replace, based on an output of the pulse count presetter and an output of the position detector, a pulse count output from the pulse count presetter with a pulse count corresponding to the output of the position detector. | 09-17-2009 |
| 20130043820 | PROCESSING A MOTOR VARIABLE OF A DC MOTOR AND ACTUATING DEVICE FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE - A method processes a motor variable of a DC motor of an actuating device for a motor vehicle. The DC motor is supplied by an on-board system DC voltage, in which the armature current and the motor voltage of the DC motor are detected and the actuating position of an actuating element is determined from a time profile of the armature current by counting the current ripple contained therein. During an initial phase, the armature current which rises over time is replicated by a function which is determined from pairs of values for the motor voltage and the armature current which are detected in a time interval. A current value of the armature current expected at a later point in time is extrapolated. In the event of a discrepancy between the armature current detected at this later point in time and the extrapolated armature current, a ripple count is started. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130099718 | RIPPLE COUNTER FOR MULTI-POLE MOTORS - An electric motor includes at least one first brush and at least one second brush, which are arranged in a stationary fashion and arranged to contact a commutator that rotates with a rotor. The commutator includes at least one cylindrical section with a circumferential surface on which a plurality of segments are arranged with insulating sections interposed between them. In order to detect the rotating speed and position of the rotor, the motor includes brushes with asymmetric circumferential widths or angles or a stator with an uneven magnetization. The motor is arranged to detect only one signal when the rotor rotates for an angle between two adjacent segments. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130141031 | MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS - When a failure of a feedback control operation of an electric motor is sensed, a control unit changes the feedback control operation to an open loop control operation. At the time of executing the open loop control operation, the control unit sequentially changes the exciting phase of the motor without executing feedback of information of the count value of the encoder counter and rotates a rotor of the motor until a count value of an exciting phase change counter reaches an open loop target count value, which corresponds to a target rotational position of the rotor. When the control unit changes the feedback control operation to the open loop control operation, the control unit sets the open loop target count value by correcting a feedback target count value based on an exciting phase deviation correction value for the count value of the encoder counter. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20140015467 | MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS - A motor control apparatus includes a motor that rotates a controlled object, an encoder that outputs a pulse signal in synchronization with a rotation of the motor, and a control section that performs a feedback control so as to rotate the motor to the target rotational position. The control section includes a stopping and holding control portion. The stopping and holding control portion performs a stopping and holding process in which the stopping and holding control portion supplies electric current to the motor so as to stop and hold the motor for a current-supply holding time. The stopping and holding control portion sets the current-supply holding time on the basis of a rotation speed of the motor just before the stopping and holding process. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140070752 | MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS, MOTOR CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL SYSTEM, AND POSITION ESTIMATION METHOD TO BE USED IN CONTROL SYSTEM - The present invention provides a motor control device capable of operating a robot properly without stopping a motor that operates the robot even when an instantaneous voltage drop occurs. The motor control device | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140139171 | RANGE SWITCHING DEVICE - A range switching device provides a feedback control for rotating a motor toward a target rotation position. When a target shift range is switched, the range switching device rotates the motor toward a target rotation position by sequentially switching power supply phases of the motor based on an encoder count value. When the motor rotates within a predetermined stop range, the feedback control ends and a power supply to the motor is stopped. However, if the motor has not rotated to the target rotation position after a predetermined time has elapsed from the stopping of the power supply to the motor, an open drive is performed, in which the power supply phase of the motor is sequentially switched by open-loop control and the motor is rotated in small and/or minute steps toward the target rotation position. In such manner, position accuracy of the shift range switching is improved. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140167671 | MOTOR POSITION CONTROLLER - A motor position controller includes a temporary setting portion, a position command generating device, a motor controlling part, and a second conformity determination portion. The motor position controller drives a motor based on an input of a command pulse signal and a setting of a desired pulse form. The temporary setting portion is configured to consecutively temporarily set a plurality of the pulse form settings following a predetermined order. The position command generating device is configured to generate a position command signal from the command pulse signal in accordance with the desired pulse form setting. The motor controlling part is configured to supply power to the motor based on the position command signal. The second conformity determination portion is configured to input the command pulse signal, input the pulse form setting temporarily set by the temporary setting portion. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20150130387 | MOTOR CONTROLLER - A motor controller includes a motor, an encoder, and a control circuit. The motor drives a target object to be controlled. The encoder outputs a pulse signal synchronously with rotation of the motor. The control circuit rotates the motor based on a count value of the pulse signal. The control circuit switches to a sleep mode when making sure that a rotation position of the motor is stable after finishing rotating the motor or when a predetermined time necessary for the rotation position of the motor to be stable elapses after finishing rotating the motor. When a change in the pulse signal during a period of time where the control circuit is in the sleep mode is not smaller than a predetermined amount, the control circuit performs a learning process to learn a reference position of the motor when returning to a wakeup mode from the sleep mode. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20160026170 | NUMERICAL CONTROLLER HAVING SUPPRESSOR THAT SUPPRESSES VARIATION IN VELOCITY DUE TO ABRUPT CHANGE IN POSITIONAL DEVIATION - A numerical controller includes a commanded movement-amount adjustment section, in addition to a position command section and a positional deviation counter but also. The commanded movement-amount adjustment section calculates an adjusted command movement amount based on a commanded movement amount output from the position command section, positional deviation acquired from the positional deviation counter, and an actual velocity of a control axis, and outputs the calculated adjusted command movement amount to the positional deviation counter. When a load acts on a servo motor so that positional deviation is accumulated and the load is abruptly removed, a situation in which the servo motor abruptly accelerates with its maximum torque in an attempt to eliminate the accumulated positional deviation is avoided. | 01-28-2016 |
| 318604000 | Analogue comparison | 3 |
| 318605000 | Synchro or resolver (e.g., transmitter simulators) | 3 |
| 20080309278 | Method of Designing a Reluctance Resolver - A method of designing a reluctance resolver, and the resolver comprises a stator and a rotor, and an exciting coil and two sets of outputting wires wind around the tooth portion of the stator. The designing method comprises the following steps: fixing relative position; calculating the turn ratio of the stator; winding the coil of the stator; and designing the resolver. And the resultant resolver can improve the precision of calculating the position of the motor rotor. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090085508 | MOTOR CONTROLLER, CONTROL SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD - A motor controller includes a reference signal generator; an A/D converter performing A/D conversion of the cosine and the sine signals outputted from a resolver; a first amplitude calculator calculating cosine and sine signal amplitudes based on twice-A/D converted cosine and sine signals respectively; a second amplitude calculator calculating averages of the cosine and the sine signals, and that calculates the amplitude of the cosine signal from a difference between the cosine signal average and a latest A/D converted cosine signal, and that calculates the amplitude of the sine signal from a difference between the sine signal average and a latest A/D converted sine signal; a synthesizer synthesizing the cosine and sine signal amplitudes obtained by the first and the second amplitude calculators respectively; a rotational angle calculator calculating a rotational angle based on the synthesized cosine and sine signal amplitudes; and a PWM controller. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20150137728 | PEAK DETECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD - A circuit is provided for detecting peaks of a sinusoidal input signal includes circuitry for generating first and second sinusoidal output signals that are out of phase with one another and with the sinusoidal input signal. A comparator block compares the sinusoidal output signals to determine instances where the amplitudes of the first and second sinusoidal output signals cross over each other. The sinusoidal output signals may lead the sinusoidal input signal somewhat so that, after taking into account processing delay, the indicated crossover instances substantially coincide with peaks in the sinusoidal input signal such that a trigger signal generated by the circuit accurately indicates the timing of the peaks. | 05-21-2015 |
