Patents Assigned to Canon Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
  • Patent number: 4237394
    Abstract: An improved frequency generator is disclosed. The frequency generator includes such a permanent magnet that is magnetized in the direction of the axis of a rotary shaft with which the rotor of the generator is rotated. Between the second magnetic pole side of the permanent magnet and the rotor, there is disposed a flanged cylindrical frame member comprising a flange part and a cylinder part. At the side of the second magnetic pole, the permanent magnet is connected with the flange part of the frame member. The cylinder part of the frame member is arranged so as to surround the circumferential surface of the rotor. The flanged cylindrical frame member disposed in this manner is magnetically conductive so that the area through which the magnetic flux flows between the second magnetic pole side of the permanent magnet and the rotor is effectively increased as compared with the conventional one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1980
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kanemasa Aoki
  • Patent number: 4130769
    Abstract: A brushless motor has a rotor composed of a permanent field magnet, an armature functioning as stator and a position detecting element for detecting the positions of magnetic poles of said permanent magnet rotor and accordingly switching the electric current to an armature coil body of said stator thereby causing rotary motion of said permanent magnet rotor. Said armature coil body contains plural coils of given number of turns in a polygonal form of which at least two sides are placed parallel to the rotary axis of motor. Said coils are mutually arranged in a partially overlapping relationship to form a cylindrical body with one of said two sides being located at the internal surface of said cylindrical body while the other side is located at the external surface thereof so as to compose a coreless cylindrical armature body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1978
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yukuo Karube
  • Patent number: 4088914
    Abstract: An electric motor of a construction, wherein conductive wires are wound around the outer periphery of an armature core substantially in parallel with a rotor shaft and in such a manner that the terminal connection part of the winding may be provided in the axial direction of the rotor shaft, and, at the same time, a commutator is disposed inwardly at a position nearer to the core than the projected end of the terminal connection part of the winding which projects outwardly in the same direction as the axial direction of the core, whereby the length of the rotary armature in the axial direction thereof is shortened to flatten the motor per se in the axial direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1978
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kanemasa Aoki
  • Patent number: 4080540
    Abstract: A low-powered stepping motor is rotated and controlled by a driving circuit generating a pulsating current has a fixed field system formed by a permanent magnet, a soft magnetic material, etc. and a rotor disposed within the fixed field system, and forming armature windings in which the windings perform stepping motion in response to a pulsating current from the driving circuit to cause stepping rotation of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1978
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Yukuo Karube
  • Patent number: 4080544
    Abstract: A flattened DC motor, in which a rotary armature having a coil assembly comprising a combination of at least two disc-shaped coils, each having radial segments, is disposed in the field of a fixed field permanent magnet. The brushes are in contact with an area of a cylindrical commutator where the fixed field permanent magnet overlaps, the commutator being electrically connected to the coil assembly and secured on the rotary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1978
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kanemasa Aoki
  • Patent number: 4051420
    Abstract: This specification discloses a Hall motor control system in which Hall elements detect the position of a rotor comprising a permanent magnet to switch over driving currents flowing to driving coils. Induced voltages produced in the driving coils or the voltage detecting coils by rotation of the motor are synthesized by a diode, and the resultant voltage is level-shifted by a level shift circuit including a transistor, and then compared with a reference speed voltage. To control the input to the Hall elements by the comparison output and provide a constant speed of rotation, there are provided temperature compensating means formed by diodes in the base circuit of the transistor of the level shift circuit and in the reference speed voltage circuit, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1977
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kinji Tanikoshi
  • Patent number: 4039911
    Abstract: A DC motor is controlled by a Hall generator provided in a control circuit which detects the voltage equivalent to the terminal voltage of a driving means connected to the flux-producing windings positioned in torque-producing relation to the rotor, and regulates to always keep the terminal voltage of the driving means constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1977
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kinji Tanikoshi
  • Patent number: 4037125
    Abstract: A small-sized direct current rotary electric appliance comprises a stator provided with a cylindrically shaped permanent magnet. A rotary armature rotates in the magnetic field of said permanent magnet, and brushes are fixedly provided on a part of said stator. The rotary armature is constructed with a rotor shaft, a soft magnetic core being fixedly provided on the rotor shaft with a plurality of winding continuously wound for a predetermined number of turns around the core in such a way that the portions of the windings located at both end surfaces of the core in the axial direction thereof constitute terminal connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1977
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kanemasa Aoki
  • Patent number: 4023082
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a comparator circuit for a control circuit of a Hall motor having a compensation function for correcting variation in reference voltage and in temperature and power source voltage, etc. by impressing an induction voltage which corresponds to the rotation speed of a motor and a reference voltage which corresponds to the reference number of rotation to the both input terminal of a differential type circuit in a control circuit for a Hall motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1974
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1977
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kinji Tanikoshi
  • Patent number: 4019075
    Abstract: An ironless rotor of high accuracy is provided readily and simply by coiling an elongated conductor into a plurality of hexagonal windings with a predetermined thickness, wrapping the windings around a cylindrical core member in such a manner that any overlap of the windings does not exceed two layers, and shaping the windings into an integral cylindrical form. Such ironless rotor is applicable to miniature electric motors to enhance the efficiency of the latter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1977
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Isao Kagami
  • Patent number: 4015181
    Abstract: In a DC motor is provided with a revolving armature with an armature core having a plurality of salient poles and formed of soft magnetic material. Armature windings are coiled on the salient poles of the core, a commutator having a plurality of segments is electrically connected to the windings, and a centrifugal governor device is electrically connected in the current flow path to the windings. The governor switches of the governor device for controlling the speed of revolution of the revolving armature are provided between the salient poles of the armature core. A governor base for holding the governor switches has connecting terminal members for the governor switches and is disposed with respect to the armature windings on the same side that the commutator is disposed. Thereby, during assembly of the revolving armature, the procedures of connecting the governor switches to the current flow path of the windings are pronouncedly simplified as compared with the prior art motors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1977
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Yukuo Karube, Koji Suzuki, Ryoichi Ezaki
  • Patent number: 3999108
    Abstract: A speed regulation system for DC motors of the type comprising a rotor having magnetic poles of opposite polarities, a stator having at least one pair of flux-producing windings positioned in torque producing relation with the rotor, and Hall generators positioned in fixed relation to the stator and angularly spaced apart from each other in magnetic relation to the rotor so as to sense the magnitude of the rotor flux density as a function of the angular position of the rotor. The speed regulation system comprises a circuit for detecting the frequency of the output signals of the Hall generators so as to generate the pulse signals representing the peak values of the output signals, a phase shifter for shifting the phase of the pulse signals, and a wave shaping circuit for generating the signals with a desired waveform in response to the output signal of the phase shifter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1976
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kinji Tanikoshi
  • Patent number: 3946292
    Abstract: A driving system for reversibly rotating a D.C. brushless motor is disclosed. The system comprises Hall generators for detecting positions of a rotor, and a drive circuit for controlling conduction and interruption of current applied to stator windings making use of output of said Hall generators. The system further comprises an inversion control circuit including a switch for reversibly switching polarities of an applied power source in order to reversibly rotate the D.C. motor thereby reversibly inverting the D.C. motor in response to signals from the power source whose polarities vary alternately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1976
    Assignees: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Canon Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kinji Tanikoshi