Abstract: An R/D conversion method includes a step of removing a frequency band including a frequency component that is twice an excitation frequency of excitation signals of a resolver (30) from a digital angle value (?). The R/D conversion method further includes a step of outputting, by the resolver (30), the resolver signals having a phase difference that corresponds to an angle of the resolver with respect to the excitation signals, respectively, and a step of feeding back the digital angle value (?) includes feeding back the digital angle value (?) to the resolver signals.

Abstract: This invention is concerning easily installing an encoder main unit to a disk unit disposed on a shaft, without contacting a light-receiving element and an LED. An encoder installing structure and method using a spigot unit according to this invention are a configuration and method including: a shaft end which is a spigot inserting portion of a motor shaft of a motor; a disk unit which is fitted in an outer periphery of the shaft end so as to be fitted as a first spigot fitting portion and includes a disk; a screw hole which is formed at a shaft center of the shaft end along a shaft direction of the motor shaft.

Abstract: The present invention realizes an improvement in the moldability of a resin portion that is injection-molded to an annular stator. A plurality of collar portions formed integrally with a peripheral edge of the insulating cover so as to project beyond the outer diameter of the annular stator, and a resin pin molded integrally with one of the collar portions, wherein a collar resin portion of the collar portion and a resin pin resin portion of the resin pin are integrated with each other when seen from above, and a first outer diameter of the collar resin portion is larger than a second outer diameter of the resin pin resin portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnet wire bonding method and a bonding structure, and more particularly to a new improvement for ultrasonically bonding a longitudinal outer peripheral surface of a magnet wire having no entangling part to a flat surface of a flat part of a terminal pin. A magnet wire bonding method and structure, comprising: using a terminal pin (11) having a flat plate part (40) provided in a pin part (11a) as a terminal pin holding part (3); placing a magnet wire (13) in a longitudinally spread state on a flat surface (40a) of the flat plate part (40) without being entangled; and ultrasonically bonding an outer peripheral surface (13E) of the magnet wire (13) onto the flat surface (40a) with an ultrasonic horn (50).

Abstract: A trigonometric function calculating device includes: an address generator that generates an address signal that is formed from plural bit strings and corresponds to a phase; a trigonometric function table that stores first sines and first cosines that respectively correspond to phases expressed by upper bits of the address signals, and second sines and a second cosines that respectively correspond to phases expressed by lower bits of the address signals; a calculation circuit that outputs, as a calculated value, a sine that corresponds to the address signal by calculating processing using the first sine, the first cosine, the second sine and the second cosine that correspond to the address signal and have been extracted by referring to the trigonometric function table; and a correcting section that corrects the calculated value on the basis of a correction value corresponding to the address signal.

Abstract: A trigonometric function calculating device includes: an address generator that generates an address signal that is formed from plural bit strings and corresponds to a phase; a trigonometric function table that stores first sines and first cosines that respectively correspond to phases expressed by upper bits of the address signals, and second sines and a second cosines that respectively correspond to phases expressed by lower bits of the address signals; a calculation circuit that outputs, as a calculated value, a sine that corresponds to the address signal by calculating processing using the first sine, the first cosine, the second sine and the second cosine that correspond to the address signal and have been extracted by referring to the trigonometric function table; and a correcting section that corrects the calculated value on the basis of a correction value corresponding to the address signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a phase modulation-type redundant two-phase-output resolver, an excitation signal (100) is applied to an excitation winding (50) of an annular stator (21) having a VR-type rotor (20) disposed therein, and a two-phase output signal (101) is outputted from first and second output windings (43, 44) that are provided in the annular stator (21), the excitation winding (50) is made up of first and second excitation windings (40, 41) of mutually different phases, and the excitation signal (100) has two phases, and even in a case where a break occurs in only any one winding from among the first and second excitation windings (40, 41) and the first and second output windings (43, 44), at least a one-phase output signal can be obtained.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a trackball device provided for an operation panel of a predetermined computer, the device includes a first casing including a housing portion, a ball rotatably housed in the housing portion, a detector provided in the housing portion and configured to detect input information based on rotation of the ball, and a second casing including an opening portion and mounted on the first casing to restrain the ball in the housing portion while part of the ball is exposed from the opening portion, wherein the second casing further comprises a ring portion which is provided along the opening portion and exposed from the operation panel when the trackball device is provided on the operation panel, and is configured to be detachable from the first casing upon application of a dynamic action to the ring portion.

Abstract: An actuator control system includes a controlling controller and one or more driving controllers connected to the controlling controller via a power line, wherein the controlling controller generates a serial signal that composites a power-supply voltage to be supplied to an actuator and a command signal generated in order to control driving of the actuator and transmits the generated serial signal to the driving controllers via the power line, and the driving controllers separate and retrieve the power-supply voltage and the control signal. Due to the configuration described above, the driving controllers supply a drive voltage and a drive control signal to actuators connected thereto. Accordingly, an actuator control system can be provided whose amount of installed wiring has been significantly reduced.

Abstract: To provide an inertia sensor and a method for reducing an operation error of the inertia sensor, the sensor and the method being configured such that complicated means is not required, and such that, even at the initial use stage in which the temperature characteristic of the sensor is not learned, and even in the case where the sensor is used in an ambient temperature different from the ambient temperature during the previous use of the sensor, an operation error due to an output change caused by a temperature change can be reduced in a relatively simple and highly accurate manner. An inertia sensor 10 is configured by including at least a sensor element 1 for sensing inertia, a signal processing circuit 2, and a memory 3, and is configured such that memory data 8 for estimating a characteristic of the inertia sensor 10 is stored in the memory 3. An angular velocity sensor and an acceleration sensor are included in the category of the inertia sensor 10.

Abstract: An angle detection device of the present invention includes: a stator which includes a plurality of salient pole portions which are formed on a flat sheet made of a magnetic material and are raised by bending, each salient pole portion constituting a winding magnetic core on which a winding member for excitation and a winding member for detection are mounted; and a rotor which is made of a magnetic material and is provided rotatably relative to the stator such that gap permeance between the rotor and each salient pole portion is changed due to the rotation of the rotor about a rotational axis of the rotor. According to the angle detection device of the present invention, it is possible to provide the angle detection device which can largely reduce the number of parts and can realize the reduction of cost and the enhancement of reliability.

Abstract: An angle detection system of the present invention includes: a stator 200 which includes a plurality of salient pole portions which are formed on a flat sheet made of a magnetic material and are raised by bending, each salient pole portion constituting a winding magnetic core on which a winding member for excitation and a winding member for detection are mounted; and a rotor 300 which is made of a magnetic material and is configured to be rotatable relative to the stator such that gap permeance between the rotor and each salient pole portion is changed due to the rotation thereof about a rotational axis thereof. According to the angle detection device of the present invention, it is possible to provide the angle detection device which can largely reduce the number of parts and can realize the reduction of cost and the enhancement of reliability.

Abstract: A sensor accuracy adjustment program for an analog angle sensor used in an AC servomotor control. A step (S3) of applying an adjustment value update processing to adjustment values in adjustment areas in an adjustment table depending on the result of the comparison of the value of a command rate with the value of the rate of an adjustment processing target by using the adjustment table in which changeable adjustment values used for adjustment calculation are arranged for each of the adjustment areas in which the range of a motor shaft rotation angle is divided for use as a unit of an adjustment processing, a step (S0) of applying the adjustment calculation to the target rate value by using the adjustment values after the update, and a step (S4) for judging the state in which the step (S4) is implemented in order to apply the step (S3) to all the adjustment areas of the adjustment table are functioned to the servo driver.

Abstract: An actuator control system 1 includes a controlling controller 2 and one or more driving controllers 3 connected to the controlling controller 2 via a power line 9, wherein the controlling controller 2 generates a serial signal that composites a power-supply voltage to be supplied to an actuator 30 and a command signal generated in order to control driving of the actuator 30 and transmits the generated serial signal to the driving controllers 3 via the power line 9, and the driving controllers 3 separate and retrieve the power-supply voltage and the control signal. Due to the configuration described above, the driving controllers 3 supply a drive voltage and a drive control signal to actuators 30 connected thereto. Accordingly, an actuator control system can be provided whose amount of installed wiring has been significantly reduced.

Abstract: An angle detection system of the present invention includes: a stator 200 which includes a plurality of salient pole portions which are formed on a flat sheet made of a magnetic material and are raised by bending, each salient pole portion constituting a winding magnetic core on which a winding member for excitation and a winding member for detection are mounted; and a rotor 300 which is made of a magnetic material and is configured to be rotatable relative to the stator such that gap permeance between the rotor and each salient pole portion is changed due to the rotation thereof about a rotational axis thereof. According to the angle detection device of the present invention, it is possible to provide the angle detection device which can largely reduce the number of parts and can realize the reduction of cost and the enhancement of reliability.

Abstract: An apparatus for azimuth measurements is provided. The apparatus comprises a housing and a plurality of gyro sensors aligned in the housing. Each of the plurality of gyro sensors has an input axis for angular velocity measurements. There is provided a drive unit for rotating each of the plurality of gyro sensors about a rotation axis. Each of the plurality of gyro sensors changes orientation of the input axis with the drive unit.

Abstract: An angular velocity sensor includes: a package housing a vibrator to sense an angular velocity; a mounting portion mounting the package, the mounting portion having a first terminal for making a connection with the package; a second terminal for making an external connection, and a resin portion covering the first and second terminals so that a part of the first terminal and a part of the second terminal are exposed; and a cover having a joint portion made of a metal and covering the package, the cover being fixed to the mounting portion by joining the joint portion to a joint terminal made of a metal and provided to the mounting portion.

Abstract: An angle detection device of the present invention includes: a stator which includes a plurality of salient pole portions which are formed on a flat sheet made of a magnetic material and are raised by bending, each salient pole portion constituting a winding magnetic core on which a winding member for excitation and a winding member for detection are mounted; and a rotor which is made of a magnetic material and is provided rotatably relative to the stator such that gap permeance between the rotor and each salient pole portion is changed due to the rotation of the rotor about a rotational axis of the rotor. According to the angle detection device of the present invention, it is possible to provide the angle detection device which can largely reduce the number of parts and can realize the reduction of cost and the enhancement of reliability.

Abstract: As shown in FIG. 1, a position detector (10) includes: an object to be detected having a pattern (2) formed for generating a position signal; and a sensor (3) for detecting the position signal according to the pattern (2) by receiving an electromagnetic wave generated on the object (1) by light irradiation. The pattern (2) is formed in a gradation shape visibly or invisibly so that an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength continuously different depending on the position on the object (1) can be sent to the sensor (3). This enables detection of an absolute angle of a rotary object and an absolute position on an XY plane with a simpler configuration, simplifies the device assembly, and reduces the device size.

Abstract: A resolver fixing structure which does not cause distortion at a resolver stator is provided. The resolver fixing structure arranged between coil ends of a stator constituting a rotating electrical machine includes a ring portion as a base member having a hole, and a resolver stator press-fitted into the hole. The resolver stator has an outer circumferential portion provided with a shield member coming into contact with the hole.