Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
318630000 | Antibacklash systems (e.g., with unidirectional approach to balance) | 12 |
20080203959 | SERVO MOTOR CONTROLLER - A controller includes a rotating direction detecting unit | 08-28-2008 |
20090237026 | System and Method for Drive Controller Anti-Backlash Control Topology - Method and system for backlash control in gear trains that are driven by electric drives controlled by a drive controller. The drive controller causes the drives to generate continuously opposing torques and adjusts torque rotational offsets so as to maintain desired backlash and gross motion of the driven gear. | 09-24-2009 |
20090302796 | POSITION CONTROL APPARATUS - A position control apparatus includes a reverse displacement calculation unit configured to calculate a reverse displacement that represents an amount of movement made from a preceding reverse point to a current reverse point by an axis that performs a reversing motion; a reversing-time segmenting number calculation unit configured to compare the reverse displacement to a predetermined value, and, when the reverse displacement is less than the predetermined value, increase a value of a reversing-time segmenting number, which is a coefficient indicating a number of segments per unit time during a reversing motion, and, when the reverse displacement is greater than or equal to the predetermined value, decrease the value of the reversing-time segmenting number; and a quadrant inversion compensation unit configured to automatically adjust a quadrant inversion compensation amount according to the reversing-time segmenting number and perform the quadrant inversion compensation based on the automatically adjusted compensation amount. | 12-10-2009 |
20120119689 | MOTOR CONTROL SYSTEM - An amount of a rotational angle corresponding to a half of a play (included in an insert-fit coupling device having a maximum production tolerance) is set as a correction amount. When a shift range is changed to a target range, a target rotational angle for an output shaft corresponding to such target range is calculated. The target rotational angle is corrected to get a virtual rotational angle for the output shaft, so that the output shaft may be further rotated by the correction amount in addition to the target rotational angle. A control error for a stop position of a roller is controlled within a half of the play. According to the invention, it is not necessary to carry out a learning process for the play. | 05-17-2012 |
20130271058 | PRECISE ASCERTAINMENT OF ACTUATING POSITION FOR A MOTOR-DRIVEN VEHICLE PART - A method is specified for ascertaining an actuating position of a vehicle part that can be moved by an electric actuating motor. The speed of an actuating motor correlated therewith is acquired in a time-resolved manner during an actuation process. An initial no-load phase of the actuation process is identified, during which the actuating motor rotates while overcoming the system tolerance of the actuating mechanism without motion of the vehicle part. An actuating position measure for the actuating position of the vehicle part is ascertained from the motor rotation, with this measure being corrected during the no-load phase. By averaging over time, a test quantity is ascertained from the second derivative or the measured quantity correlating herewith. The end of the initial no-load phase is identified in this process when the test quantity exceeds a predetermined limit. | 10-17-2013 |
20130271059 | PRECISE ASCERTAINMENT OF ACTUATING POSITION FOR A MOTOR-DRIVEN VEHICLE PART - In order to ascertain the actuating position of a vehicle part that is moved by an electric actuating motor via an actuating mechanism, an angle of rotation correlating with the number of motor shaft rotations during the actuation process or a motor signal correlated therewith are ascertained during an actuation process. An actuating position measure for the actuating position of the vehicle part is derived from the angle of rotation or the motor signal correlating therewith. During this process, an unloaded angle of rotation, through which the motor shaft rotates during an initial no-load phase of the actuation process without motion of the vehicle part is compensated by a predetermined correction term. The correction term is changed according to a stored dependency on a characteristic quantity for the age of the actuating mechanism. | 10-17-2013 |
20140062378 | MOTOR CONTROL SYSTEM WHICH CORRECTS BACKLASH - A motor control system ( | 03-06-2014 |
20140197773 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE FOR COMPENSATING BACKLASH - A motor control device includes a position command generating unit, a difference calculating unit for calculating a difference between a positional detection value of a movable unit and a positional detection value of a driven unit, a retaining unit for retaining, as an engaging difference, the difference when the movable unit is moved in a first or second direction to engage with the driven unit, in association with the first direction and the second direction, and a compensation amount calculating unit for calculating a backlash compensation amount based on the difference calculated by the difference calculating unit and the engaging difference retained by the retaining unit. It is determined whether or not the movable unit is engaged with the driven unit by comparing a movement amount of the driven unit with a threshold. | 07-17-2014 |
20150054445 | ELECTRIC ENDOSCOPE - An electric endoscope includes a motor that generates a rotational driving force, a torque shaft that transmits the rotational driving force from a proximal end portion to a distal end portion, a connecting section for bending a bending portion by the rotational driving force transmitted by the torque shaft, an input section that instructs a target rotation amount of the motor, a detecting section that detects rotation information of the motor in a rotating state thereof, an estimating section that estimates a rotation state of the motor based on the rotation information, a motor physical model, a torque shaft physical model and a connecting section physical model, and a control section that performs control so that the rotation state of the distal end portion matches with a rotation state of the target rotation amount based on the estimated rotation state of the motor. | 02-26-2015 |
20150309500 | MOTOR CONTROLLER FOR PERFORMING CORRECTION WHEN DIRECTION OF ROTATION IS REVERSED - A motor controller is configured to judge whether or not the amount of displacement of a driven body after the direction of movement of the driven body is reversed, exceeds a predetermined threshold value, and whether or not the amount of displacement of a motor after the direction of movement of the motor is reversed, exceeds another predetermined threshold value. When the amount of displacement of the driven body exceeds the threshold value, or the amount of displacement of the motor exceeds a second threshold value, the correction of the commands to the motor is terminated. | 10-29-2015 |
20150362911 | MOTOR CONTROL APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MOTOR - A motor control apparatus includes a error calculation unit which calculates a error between a first position detection value of a movable part and a second position detection value of a driven part, a storage unit which stores the errors when the movable part engages with the driven part in a first and second drive direction, as a first initial error and a second initial error, respectively, and a compensation calculation unit which calculates the amount of compensation to correct backlash and an elastic deformation. The compensation calculation unit calculates a command error based on the first initial error and the second initial error and a predetermined constant which is larger than 0 and not greater than 1 and calculates the amount of compensation by subtracting the current error calculated by the error calculation unit from the command error. | 12-17-2015 |
20160124418 | DETECTION OF THE POSITION OF A WINDING DRUM COUPLED TO A MOTOR VIA A DAMPING FLEXIBLE ELEMENT - An apparatus ( | 05-05-2016 |