Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
318599000 | Pulse-width modulated power input to motor (e.g., "duty cycle" systems) | 15 |
20090058344 | VALVE TIMING ADJUSTING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF RELIABLY PREVENTING HEAT DAMAGE OF SWITCHING ELEMENTS - A valve timing adjusting apparatus adjusts valve timing of at least one of intake and exhaust valves of an engine that are opened and closed by a camshaft driven by torque transmitted from a crankshaft. The apparatus includes an electric motor, a plurality of switching elements, a motor driver, and a phase adjusting mechanism. When a target rotational direction of a motor shaft of the electric motor is coincident with the actual rotational direction of the same, the motor driver continuously turns on a selected one of the switching elements for the whole of a predetermined rotation angle range of the motor shaft. When the target rotational direction is opposite to the actual rotational direction, the motor driver continuously turns on the selected switching element only for part of the rotation angle range, and continuously turns off the selected switching element for the remaining part of the rotation angle range. | 03-05-2009 |
20100244761 | DEVICE TO SYNCHRONIZE THE CHANGE OF THE DRIVING MODE OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC LOAD - A device for the change of the driving mode of an electromagnetic load from a first operating mode with pulse width modulation to a second operating mode that is linear by means of switching circuits. During a first operating mode, each of two outputs has a voltage value ranging from a first reference voltage to a second reference voltage. The device adapted to synchronize a change command signal from a first operating mode to a second operating mode of the electromagnetic load with the signal representative of the flow of current circulating within the load at substantially its average value and adapted to generate a first command signal in response to the synchronization. | 09-30-2010 |
20110043157 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE AND SEAT CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A motor control device includes an acceleration portion for increasing a target number of rotations of a motor every predetermined calculation cycle until the target number of rotations of the motor reaches an upper limit number of rotations, which is set on the basis of a reached position of a driven object from a reference position, the driven object is driven by the motor so that a position of the driven object is changed, a deceleration portion for decreasing the target number of rotations of the motor every calculation cycle after the target number of rotations reaches the upper limit number of rotations, and a main control portion for controlling a drive of the motor on the basis of the target number of rotations. | 02-24-2011 |
20110043158 | MOTOR CONTROL DEVICE AND SEAT CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - A motor control device, which includes a main control portion configured to actuate a motor, which displaces a driven object between a first position and a second position in an acceleration control mode in which a rotation speed of the motor gradually increases, in a deceleration control mode in which the rotation speed of the motor gradually decreases, and in a constant speed control mode in which the rotation speed of the motor is maintained at a constant level, and a displacement interference detection portion detecting that the displacement of the driven object is interfered using an actual rotation speed, which is the actual rotation speed of the motor, and an ideal rotation speed of the motor, on which a control result by the main control portion including a feedback control is reflected. | 02-24-2011 |
20110254497 | ACTUATOR - An actuator includes an electrolyte membrane, first and second driving electrodes that are disposed on the opposite surfaces and that give a potential difference to the electrolyte membrane, a sensor that is formed on the electrolyte membrane and that detects a force acting on the electrolyte membrane, and a driving control circuit that supplies a drive voltage to the first and second driving electrodes on the basis of an instruction signal and a detection output of the sensor. The driving control circuit applies a PWM drive voltage with a duty ratio corresponding to a difference between the instruction signal and the detection output of the sensor across the first driving electrode and the second driving electrode. | 10-20-2011 |
20110291603 | DRIVE CONTROL CIRCUIT AND FOCUS CONTROL CIRCUIT - An equalizer generates a control signal for adjusting, based on a difference between a target value for the state of an object and an actual measured value thereof, the state of the object to match the target value. A PWM modulation unit generates a PWM signal corresponding to the control signal generated by the equalizer. An H-bridge drive unit generates a drive current for driving a drive element that changes the state of the object in accordance with the PWM signal generated by the PWM modulation unit. A slew-rate control unit changes the current driving capability of the H-bridge drive unit in accordance with the control signal. | 12-01-2011 |
20120007538 | ROBOT - The drive control circuit for an electric motor is provided. The drive control circuit includes: an original drive signal generator that generates an original drive signal; an excitation interval setter that is able, for each half cycle of respective length π in each 2π excitation cycle of the original drive signal, to arbitrarily set excitation intervals during which to excite coils of the electric motor to any one of a plurality of intervals which include at least either one of a symmetrical interval centered on a center of each half-cycle and an unsymmetrical interval; and a drive signal shaping circuit that generates a drive signal for driving the electric motor, by validating the original drive signal during the excitation intervals and invalidating the original drive signal during non-excitation intervals other than the excitation interval. | 01-12-2012 |
20120326651 | Predictive Pulse Width Modulation For An Open Delta H-Bridge Driven High Efficiency Ironless Permanent Magnet Machine - Embodiments of the present method and system permit an effective method for determining the optimum selection of pulse width modulation polarity and type including determining machine parameters, inputting the machine parameters into a predicted duty cycle module, determining the optimum polarity of the pulse width modulation for a predicted duty cycle based on a pulse width modulation generation algorithm, and determining the optimum type of the pulse width modulation for a predicted duty cycle based on the pulse width modulation generation algorithm. | 12-27-2012 |
20130076288 | Motor Control Circuit And Servo Device Provided With The Same - When a servo device receives the frequency setting signal as a control signal through the receiver from the transmitter, it select the information in conformity with the received frequency setting signal among the driving frequency setting information as stored in advance. When the handling signal is input as the control signal by the transmitter, the servo device is configured to transform the difference data taken synchronously with the difference data timing signal from the pulse width comparison part into the selected driving frequency. The servo device is configured to generate the driving signal from the transformed difference data signal of the desired corresponding count value range, and to perform drive control the driving feature. | 03-28-2013 |
20130278199 | INTEGRATION OF SPINDLE EXTERNAL SENSE RESISTOR INTO SERVO IC WITH STABLE RESISTANCE CONTROL CIRCUIT - An apparatus, comprises three driver FETs coupled at their sources; note-driver circuit; a first sense FET coupled to the sources of the three driver FETs; a current mirror having the first sense FET and a mirror FET; wherein the first sense FET is coupled to the mirror FET; a first transconductance amplifier coupled to the first sense FET; a second amplifier coupled to the current mirror, and an output of the first transconductance amplifier is an input to the second amplifier. | 10-24-2013 |
20140002000 | Method and System for Powering and Measuring Positions of a Plurality of DC-Motors Over a Wire Interface | 01-02-2014 |
20140055073 | DYNAMIC PULSE-WIDTH MODULATION MOTOR CONTROL AND MEDICAL DEVICE INCORPORATING SAME - Apparatus are provided for motor control systems and related medical devices. In one embodiment, a control system includes a motor having a rotor, a sensor to obtain a measured displacement that is influenced by rotation of the rotor, and a control module coupled to the sensor. The control module adjusts a duty cycle for a modulated voltage applied to the motor in response to a difference between an expected displacement and the measured displacement. The expected displacement is influenced by or otherwise corresponds to a commanded rotation of the rotor. | 02-27-2014 |
20140346995 | Predictive Pulse Width Modulation for an Open Delta H-Bridge Driven High Efficiency Ironless Permanent Magnet Machine - Embodiments of the present method and system permit an effective method for determining the optimum selection of pulse width modulation polarity and type including determining machine parameters, inputting the machine parameters into a predicted duty cycle module, determining the optimum polarity of the pulse width modulation for a predicted duty cycle based on a pulse width modulation generation algorithm, and determining the optimum type of the pulse width modulation for a predicted duty cycle based on the pulse width modulation generation algorithm. | 11-27-2014 |
20150069948 | PULSE PROCESSOR OF SERVO MOTOR SYSTEM - A pulse processor includes a phase/pulse width sampler, a first calculator, a second calculator, a latching device, and a pulse width modulator. The phase/pulse width sampler generates an input direction signal, an input phase number and an input pulse width number according to a first signal and a second signal of the command pulse group. The first calculator is used for multiplying the input phase number by P/Q, thereby generating a target phase number, wherein P and Q are positive integers. The second calculator is used for multiplying the input pulse width number by Q/P, thereby generating a target pulse width number. The latching device receives the input direction signal and outputs a target direction signal. The pulse width modulator receives the target direction signal, the target phase number and the target pulse width number, and outputs a transferred pulse group. | 03-12-2015 |
20150333669 | HVAC ACTUATOR WITH SOFT STALL CONTROL - A actuator in a HVAC system includes a motor and a drive device driven by the motor. The drive device is coupled to a movable HVAC component for driving the movable HVAC component between multiple positions. The actuator further includes a main actuator controller that determines when the drive device is approaching an end stop and a pulse width modulation (PWM) speed controller that generates a PWM speed output for controlling a speed of the motor. The PWM speed controller sets the PWM speed output to zero in response to a determination that the drive device is approaching the end stop. The PWM speed controller then increases the PWM speed output until the end stop is reached, thereby causing the speed of the motor to increase as the drive device approaches the end stop. | 11-19-2015 |