IP Library Granted Patent US 8,519,658
Granted Patent B2
US 8,519,658 · App. 13/086,495 · Granted Aug 27, 2013

Electromechanical device

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Patent No.
US 8,519,658
App. No.
13/086,495
Granted
Aug 27, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electromechanical device includes: a magnet coil; a PWM driving circuit; and a control unit, wherein the control unit performs a first control of setting an excitation interval which is an interval in which a PWM drive signal is supplied to the magnet coil and a second control of changing a duty ratio of the PWM drive signal, and wherein the control unit performs an advance angle control of putting the phase of the center of the excitation interval earlier than the phase in which a counter-electromotive force generated in the magnet coil has the maximum value in the first control, and increases the duty ratio of the PWM drive signal in the second control so that a gain is greater than 100% when the gain is 100% at the time of generating the PWM drive signal so as to have a sinusoidal shape.

Claims (9)

1. An electromechanical device comprising:

a magnet coil;

a PWM driving circuit that supplies a PWM drive signal to the magnet coil; and

a control unit that controls the PWM driving circuit,

wherein the control unit performs a first control of setting an excitation interval which is an interval in which the PWM drive signal is supplied to the magnet coil and a second control of changing a duty ratio of the PWM drive signal, and

wherein the control unit performs an advance angle control of putting the phase of the center of the excitation interval earlier than the phase in which a counter-electromotive force generated in the magnet coil has the maximum value in the first control, and increases the duty ratio of the PWM drive signal in the second control so that a gain is greater than 100% when the gain is 100% at the time of generating the PWM drive signal so as to have a sinusoidal shape.

2. The electromechanical device according to claim 1 , wherein the magnitude of an advance angle in the advance angle control is set to be greater as the length of the excitation interval becomes smaller.

3. The electromechanical device according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit performs a control of further narrowing the excitation interval in the first control as the electromechanical device operates at a higher speed.

4. The electromechanical device according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit regenerates energy while performing a control of widening the excitation interval in the first control as the deceleration increases at the time of decelerating the electromechanical device.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 14, 2016
From: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
To: GODO KAISHA IP BRIDGE 1
Reel/Frame 040030/0262 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 14, 2011
From: TAKEUCHI, KESATOSHI
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 026125/0156 →