Abstract: In order to provide a speed control apparatus for a movable equipment having small torque ripples and speed variation, the present invention has a speed control means which comprises a driver for providing a current or a voltage having a magnitude corresponding to the instructed speed, a speed detection circuit for detecting a speed on the basis of a signal from the speed detector and a microcomputer for driving the driver by comparing the speed instruction signal with a speed signal obtained from the speed detection circuit. The microcomputer includes a harmonic wave component detecting means for detecting a harmonic wave component contained in a speed variation mode which is obtained from the speed detection circuit and has a function of making the gain of a speed control system variable by the harmonic wave component detected by the harmonic wave component detecting means.

Abstract: A counter/timer device includes a plurality of registers each capable of performing the function of any of a counter/timer register, a capture register and a compare register, in accordance with a command from a central processing unit, and a plurality of task registers corresponding to tasks which are to be carried out by using the above registers. Each of the task registers stores a task instruction for specifying a counter/timer register and a capture/compare register which are used in a task, and for specifying the operation mode of each of the specified registers. The task registers are scanned to successively read out the task instructions, and each of the read-out task instructions controls the operation of each of registers used in a corresponding task. Thus, tasks corresponding to the task instructions are all carried out at once.

Abstract: Disclosed is a position detecting method and apparatus which are suitable for detecting the position of a moving body on the basis of the output of a position detector for generating two-phase periodic waves having a phase difference of a quarter period, the method comprising the steps of: comparing either one of the two-phase periodic waves with a predetermined reference value having hysteresis to thereby obtain a roughly estimated position for every half period of the one periodic wave; analog-to-digital converting the two-phase periodic waves and a zero-cross value for every sampling period to thereby obtain a finely estimated position; and detecting the position of the moving body on the basis of the roughly estimated position and the finely estimated position while correcting an error due to the hysteresis at the starting point of the roughly estimated position, by use of the relationship between the roughly estimated position and the finely estimated position.

Abstract: A function arithmetic unit which performs elementary operations at high speeds and which enables required memory capacity to be reduced. The function arithmetic unit includes a constant memory which stores a constant that corresponds to the number of successive iterative operations; a controller which causes addition or subtraction in the successive iterative operations; and arithmetic units which receive, as initial values, an argument of an elementary function value to be found and two constants determined depending upon the elementary functions to be found, and which subject these initial values to n iterative operations to produce elementary function values. A further arithmetic unit subjects the elementary function values to multiplication, addition, subtraction, or division, or a combination thereof, thereby to produce the thus obtained value.

Abstract: A computer and an input/output device are connected via an interface bus. The input/output device has registers. The computer and the input/output device operate upon the basis of a pair of clock signals. When the input/output device accesses the registers via read and write buses, the buses are precharged during a first period of first clock signal of the pair and controlled by data during a first period of second clock signal of the pair. When the computer accesses the registers via the interface bus, the bus is precharged during the first period of the second clock signal of the pair and controlled by data during the first period of the first clock signal of the pair.

Abstract: In an I/O pulse processing apparatus associated with a microcomputer, an I/O processing task is required by the microcomputer in the form of the combination of task microinstructions, each of which includes an instruction code specifying one of basic I/O processing operations and a code for specifying one or two registers necessary for executing the basic I/O processing operation. The apparatus includes an I/O task register part having a task register group consisting of plural task registers, which store the task microinstructions supplied from the microcomputer and necessary for executing the task required thereby, and a task signal generator for producing address signals for the task register group, according to which the task microinstructions are read out successively from the task register group.

Abstract: A pulse width control apparatus and method for controlling motor speed wherein the number of pulses relating to more speed feedback data is counted so as to control the speed of the motor in accordance with a speed command data and a pulse width modulation signal based on the counted number of pulses. A free-running hardware timer and a soft-timer on a program controlled by an instruction execution time of a microcomputer are arranged so that ON-time data and OFF-time data of the pulse width modulation signal are selectively set in one and the other of the hardware and soft-timers in dependence on values of the ON and OFF times, respectively. The ON and OFF states of the pulse width modulation signal are changed when the contents of the hardware and soft-timers reach predetermined values so as to control the pulse width thereof.

Abstract: A method for detecting the position and the velocity by using an encoder mounted directly on a moving body wherein original signals of the encoder are pulse-width modulated by using a sampling carrier wave and the position is detected by measuring the width of the pulses thus obtained. An apparatus for implementing the method comprises a carrier wave generation circuit, a pulse width modulation circuit which pulse-width modulates the original signals coming from the encoder by using the carrier wave, a pulse width timer which measures the width of the pulses thus modulated, and a microcomputer connected to the pulse width timer.

Abstract: A position/speed detection method and apparatus employing an encoder mounted on the rotary shaft of a motor in order to control the position and speed, wherein the coarse position and fine position are simultaneously detected by an encoder pulse and an encoder original signal, respectively and the detected results are combined to detect the position and speed of the motor with high precision.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting the position of a moving member comprising a moving member having a magnetic substance with magnetical signals recorded thereon, and a stationary magnetic sensor confronting the moving member and having a plurality of magnetoresistive elements, wherein the magnetoresistive elements are disposed in the magnetic sensor such that the elements have a phase difference of .pi./m in electrical angle, where m is an even number larger than or equal to four, for obtaining the positional signal of the moving member.

Abstract: An endless counting apparatus comprises a first memory for storing a code of a first predetermined number of bits sufficient to represent the maximum value of each coded input expressed according to the binary notation, a second memory for storing an endless-making code of a second predetermined number of bits of higher order than and contiguous to the less and least significant bits stored in the first memory, and a control circuit for adding or subtracting the value of the coded input to or from the contents of the first and second memories depending on the input value to be counted and applying the result of addition or subtraction to the first and second memories.

Abstract: A motor speed control method and system allow the motor to be accelerated to the steady state in the minimum time even under conditions of varying load torque, varying load inertia and varying power voltage. The motor is controlled by a voltage including a component of proportional term which is a function of a difference between a command speed and a detected speed, and a component of integral term which is summed during an acceleration phase. The acceleration of the motor during the starting process is measured and the integral term is modified basing on the result. The integral term may be memorized so that it is used as the integral term when the subsequent starting phase is completed. The integral term may be obtained from the acceleration and deceleration in the starting process.

Abstract: An apparatus for driving a polyphase brushless motor with a resulting torque ripple effectively suppressed. The apparatus comprises a rotor position sensor, a controller responsive to the output of the sensor for generating a control signal and an inverter serving to conduct electric current to each phase of the motor as a result of commutation under control of the control signal from the controller. The controller is particularly provided with a device for increasing the value of integration of the electric current for each phase of the motor with respect to time as measured from the instant of switching among motor phase currents effected with the control signal.

Abstract: This invention relates to a motor control method and a control apparatus therefor in which an electric motor driven by a pulse width modulation inverter is digitally controlled by a digital arithmetic and logic circuit. Register file means including reference register groups, instantaneous register groups, comparison circuits and comparison output latch groups controlled in a time division mode by a stage signal is composed of a plurality of register files and the number of processing frequencies in response to the stage signal is increased, so that the motor can be controlled by a pulse width modulation signal having a fundamental wave frequency ensuring a higher resolution.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the angular position of a motor by controlling the revolution of the motor in response to a given positioning command value commanding a predetermined angular position of the motor shaft so as to stop the motor shaft at the predetermined angular position, wherein the acceleration of the motor being accelerated in the initial acceleration stage of the motor position control operation is calculated, and on the basis of the calculated acceleration and a commanded maximum velocity, the remainder angular distance between the deceleration starting angular position and the desired angular position of the motor and the deceleration command value in the deceleration stage are calculated so as to control the deceleration of the motor on the basis of the calculated values.

Abstract: A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a plurality of sensors for producing signals indicative of operating conditions of the engine, an input/output unit adapted to receive sensed signals and to deliver control signals to actuators which control an energy conversion function of the engine and a central-processor unit coupled with the input/output unit and adapted to execute an arithmetic operation for producing data to be sent to the input/output unit. The input/output unit includes a first register file having a plurality of registers for storing constants and data produced by the central processor unit and a second register file having a plurality of registers for storing signals indicative of conditions of the engine as of a selected instant in time during which the engine is operative.

Abstract: A pulse width modulation inverter in which a staircase wave signal is used as the modulating wave. The number M of the stair steps of the staircase wave signal is set at a given integer in a range defined by 2.ltoreq.M.ltoreq.(N-3)/2 where N represents the number of the carrier waves appearing during a half period of the staircase wave and an odd integer not smaller than 7.

Abstract: A rotary cylinder apparatus comprises a rotary drum mounted thereon with a magnetic head, a brushless motor for driving the rotary drum, a stationary drum housing the brushless motor and which is disposed opposing the rotary drum, and a revolution-rate detector for detecting the number of revolutions of the rotary drum. The brushless motor comprises a permanent magnet rotor connected to the rotary drum, a driving coil mounted on the stationary drum, and a position detector for detecting the position of the permanent magnet rotor in order to control current to be supplied to the driving coil. The detecting coil of the revolution-rate detector and the brushless motor are housed in the stationary drum and wiring of the driving coil and revolution-rate detecting coil is performed on a common wiring board. Thus, the driving section of the rotary cylinder apparatus is small-sized and made light in weight, and the number of processes of assembling the rotary cylinder apparatus can be decreased.

Abstract: An electronic engine control apparatus in which the timing of the ignition and the fuel injection are calculated from a negative pressure in the intake manifold of the engine or the flow rate of suction air and the rotational speed of the engine. A reference register group is constituted of registers for storing the result of the calculation while an instantaneous register group is made up of registers for storing the instantaneous states of actuators. One of the registers of the reference register group and one of the registers of the instantaneous register group are selected according to a stage timing signal so that the contents of the two registers selected are compared with each other.

Abstract: An electronic control apparatus includes a digital processor which receives data from sensors indicating conditions of the engine and supplies output control data for operating various actuators which control the engine operation. The interfacing of data between the sensors, the digital processor and the actuators is effected through a set of registers and a controlled incrementing device. The set of registers includes a plurality of reference registers which store engine control data supplied from the digital processor. Another set of registers store respective sets of codes the values of which are sequentially and selectively incremented in accordance with a prescribed timing signal pattern during the rotation of the engine crankshaft.