Abstract: To provide a motor control circuit that variably controls the speed of a motor, in which an appropriate advance angle value corresponding to the speed of the motor that is set can be automatically set. The motor control circuit according to the present invention includes an advance angle setting means that adds a reference advance angle value to an advance angle correction value obtained by multiplying a proportional coefficient by a correction amount and outputs an advance angle setting signal, and an advance angle setting correction means that uses a ratio of a correction reference period relative to a period of a reference signal input from the outside as a correction amount and corrects the reference advance angle value by an advance angle correction value obtained by multiplying the correction amount by a predetermined proportional coefficient of the advance angle setting means.

Abstract: A motor control apparatus includes a target acceleration setting unit, a control unit, an acceleration upper limit estimation unit, a mode switching unit, a detection unit and a trajectory setting unit, wherein the mode switching unit controls the target acceleration setting unit to execute a first setting processing, in which the target acceleration at each time point is set corresponding to a first target acceleration trajectory in which the target acceleration at each time point is set corresponding to a first target acceleration trajectory, a second setting processing in which a target acceleration is set corresponding to the acceleration upper limit, or a third setting processing in which the target acceleration is set corresponding to the second target acceleration trajectory, based on the acceleration upper limit, the target acceleration, the speed of the motor.

Abstract: A fan control system includes first and second adjacent fans, first and second motors configured to rotate the first and second fans, and a control unit configured to control rotational speeds of the first and second motors in order to control rotational speeds of the first and second fans. The first and second motors are energized such that the rotational speeds of the first and second fans reach target rotational speeds prior to increasing the rotational speeds of the first and second fans to required rotational speeds. The target rotational speeds are lower than the required rotational speeds. The first and second motors are energized such that the rotational speeds of the first and second fans reach the required rotational speeds after the rotational speeds of the first and second fans reach the target rotational speeds.

Abstract: To provide an attitude-angle detecting apparatus, which detects an attitude angle of a mobile object during movement with good accuracy by correcting an output value from an acceleration sensor, and to provide a method for the same. It is characterized in that it comprises an acceleration sensor for measuring an acceleration being applied to a mobile object, a yaw-rate sensor for measuring a yaw rate of the mobile object, a speed sensor for measuring a speed of the mobile object, a mobile-component acceleration calculating means for calculating an actual acceleration from the speed, calculating a centrifugal force from the yaw rate and the speed and calculating a mobile-component acceleration, a resultant force of the actual speed and the centrifugal force, and an attitude-angle calculating means for calculating an attitude angle from a gravitational acceleration, which is obtainable by correcting the acceleration with the mobile-component acceleration.

Abstract: A variable frequency transformer including: a first parallel circuit including at least two of the rotary transformers arranged in parallel and having an isolating circuit breaker connected to a rotor winding of each of the rotary transformers, and a separate synchronizing circuit breaker connected to a stator winding in each of the rotary transformers in the first parallel circuit; a first main transformer having a first winding connectable to a first power grid and a secondary winding connectable to the isolating circuit breaker in the first parallel circuit; a second main transformer having a first winding connectable to a second power grid and a secondary winding connectable to each of the synchronizing circuit breakers in the first parallel circuit, and a control system operatively connected to each of the synchronizing circuit breakers, the isolating circuit breakers and the drive motors for each of the rotary transformers.

Abstract: A synchronous control device which is provided with drive motors and a central control unit generating a synchronous reference signal and with which the drive motor is controlled to rotate synchronously with the synchronous reference signal supplied from the central control unit, which is provided with: device motor brakes for braking a rotation of the drive motor; machine home position detectors for detecting a rotation phase of the drive motor; and drive controlling means for controlling a drive motor in such a manner that the drive braking means is activated depending on a stop instruction supplied from the central control unit and a required rotation phase of the drive motor is stored; a comparison between the required rotation phase of the drive motor and the rotation phase thereof is performed at the time of re-start; and a home position alignment of the drive motor is performed at a start time of a subsequent operation.

Abstract: A numerical controlling unit that accelerates or decelerates a feeder-driving system includes; an acceleration setting part that can set a volume and a timing of an acceleration that should be supplied to the feeder-driving system, based on a predetermined target condition; and a controlling part that can supply the acceleration set by the acceleration setting part to the feeder-driving system. The acceleration setting part is adapted to set: a first acceleration that starts to be supplied at a timing of starting to accelerate; and a second acceleration that has a volume and that starts to be supplied overlappedly with the first acceleration at a timing, the volume and the timing being determined so as to damp vibration of the feeder-driving system that is generated by starting to supply the first acceleration.

Abstract: Verification system logic operates PWM motor drivers for DC motors of a tape drive, and verifies the on time duty cycle period and offset of the PWM motor drivers; verifies DAC current reference and amplifier sense signals against thresholds; and verifies Hall sensor state sequence of the DC motors during rotation. If the verifications are successful, the logic rotates the DC motors, and, for each motor, verifies the time of acceleration at a desired torque; verifies a computed velocity based on a measured velocity to a reference velocity; and verifies an actual rotation rate to a computed velocity.

Abstract: A control device for driving a self-starting motor for an engine is provided with a control means 4. If a starting switch 7 is switched ON when a start enabling signal of a start limiting means 5 and a non-start signal of a start detecting means 6 are in an output condition, the control means 4 puts a starting relay 3 which supplies a starting motor 1 with electricity in the ON-state for a predetermined time, only when the start enabling signal and the non-start signal are in the output condition.

Abstract: Two motors are used to provide motion control in a transport drive system. A primary motor, or a primary and secondary motor, provides primary power for accelerated motion. PWM signals are used to drive the motors according to predetermined fixed functions related to acceleration, deceleration and hold of a load. Alternatively, during onset of large or high speed moves, the primary and secondary motors are on in tandem. During deceleration of a move, the torque provided by the secondary motor is reversed, providing active braking and ensuring the drive train remains loaded wherein backlash is eliminated. During a driver hold phase, the primary and secondary motor push against each other to actively control positioning.

Abstract: A brushless motor driving device is so configured to control excitation of each phase armature coil an the basis of starting patterns supplied from a start circuit in a starting operation and a rotator position signal obtained from an induced voltage generated between opposite ends of each phase armature coil after completion of the starting operation, thereby to rotate a rotator. The start circuit includes a main counter generates a pulse at each time the main counter counts a clock signal to a variable full count value, a sub counter counts the pulse generated by the main counter, the variable full count value being subtracted by a count value of the sub counter, and a star pattern generating circuit generating a starting pattern in response to the pulse generated by the main counter.

Abstract: A method and system that provides for simultaneous or independent start-up of two or more three-phase AC motors with reduced starting current. Two AC motors have their stator windings connected in series across the power network. If more than two AC motors are to be started, the stator windings of the additional motors are connected in parallel with the stator windings of one or both of the first two motors and the phase leads of the additional motors are connected to the power network. The voltage result vector is less than the sum of the rated voltage of each motor. After a preset time delay or when the motors reach a certain speed, the rated voltage is applied to each motor by disconnecting the stator windings from the series connection and connecting the stator windings of each motor in a delta configuration.

Abstract: A stage system includes a stage movable along a path, a first driving mechanism for accelerating or decelerating the stage on the basis of a resilience force of a resilient member, a first holding mechanism for holding a resilience force being accumulated through compression of the resilient member of the first driving mechanism, and a second holding mechanism for holding a resilience force being accumulated through extension of the resilient member of the first driving mechanism, wherein resilience energy of the resilient member is used for stage acceleration, which is very effective to prevent large heat generation, and wherein resilient energy accumulated in the resilient member during deceleration is used for subsequent stage acceleration, which is very effective for energy efficiency and for heat generation suppression.

Abstract: A machine tool has a spindle with a tooling body mounted thereon, a detector for detecting an acceleration time for the tooling body to reach from a rotation start to a predetermined rpm, a controller for controlling an rpm of the spindle under a lowered limit when the acceleration time is longer than a reference time. Another detector detects an asymmetricity of radial forces acting on the spindle, and the controller controls the rpm of the spindle under a lowered limit when the asymmetricity of radial forces exceeds a reference degree.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling a multiple motor drive arranged to drive printing cylinders of a printing machine sychronously decelerates each of the drives upon a failure or defect occurring in one or more of the components of the drive system such that the individual printing cylinders are decelerated in a manner synchronized with one another with respect to rotation angle. The apparatus includes a main control device which detects a failure in one of the drive system components and controls the drive units to decelerate the drive units to a standstill in accordance with a time function. The time function is determined by the rotation of the drive unit which contains the component that failed.

Abstract: An installation of sound converters (e.g., speakers) in an enclosure having mechanical fasteners such that the transmission of solid-borne sound from the speakers to the enclosure is prevented.

Abstract: A control system is described for use in a web transport in which a web is advanced from a supply spool to a take-up spool by a pair of drive motors, the latter of which are actuated by a servo control. The system includes a variable gain network which enhances the gain of the servo system at very low speeds without sacrificing system stability at higher speeds, and a circuit for adding a hold-back torque to the motor driving the take-up spool to smooth its rotation under low torque conditions. In addition, the system includes a device for inhibiting the rotation of the spools when an operator has removed the web from the spools, thereby preventing the servo control from rotating the spools in an uncontrolled manner in response to inadvertent operator movement of one of the spools.