Rotation detector and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11990856B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-21

    申请号:US17854777

    申请日:2022-06-30

    IPC分类号: H02P21/18 H02P6/16 H02P21/22

    CPC分类号: H02P6/16 H02P21/22

    摘要: A rotation detector includes a motor, a current detector and a hardware processor. The motor includes coils of two or more phases and a rotor. The current detector detects currents flowing in coils of at least two phases among the coils of two or more phases. The hardware processor estimates an initial position of the rotor based on current values of the currents detected by the current detector to start the motor, controls an energization pattern on the phases to rotate and start the motor based on the estimated initial position, and determines whether the rotor stops or is rotating before completing the estimation of the initial position.

    Motor control device, method of estimating initial position of magnetic pole of rotor, and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11152879B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-19

    申请号:US16785959

    申请日:2020-02-10

    摘要: In a motor control device, when estimating an initial position of a magnetic pole of a rotor of a motor, a drive circuit continuously or intermittently applies a voltage to a stator winding at each of a plurality of energization angles while sequentially changing the energization angles, and at a voltage value and for an energization time period, the voltage value and the energization time period being set such that the rotor does not rotate. An initial position estimation unit calculates an estimated initial position of the magnetic pole of the rotor based on a phase angle of a trigonometric function curve that approximates a change of a γ-axis current Iγ with respect to each of the energization angles. The trigonometric function curve has a cycle equal to one electrical cycle of the motor.

    Controller for permanent magnet synchronous motor, control method, and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10141877B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-27

    申请号:US15784347

    申请日:2017-10-16

    摘要: A method for controlling a permanent magnet synchronous motor having a rotor using a permanent magnet, the rotor rotating by a rotating magnetic field caused by a current flowing through an armature is provided. The method includes: presuming, based on a target speed and an estimated speed that is an estimated value of a rotational speed of the rotor, whether or not a step-out occurs; correcting, when it is presumed that a step-out occurs, an estimated angle that is an estimated value of a position of magnetic poles of the rotor; and controlling, based on a post-correction estimated angle that is the estimated angle after the correction, a current flowing through the armature to cause the rotating magnetic field rotating at the target speed.

    CONTROL DEVICE OF PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR AND IMAGE FORMING DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20190372490A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-05

    申请号:US16401416

    申请日:2019-05-02

    摘要: A control device of a permanent magnet synchronous motor that is a control device of a sensorless-type permanent magnet synchronous motor in which a rotor using a permanent magnet rotates by a rotating magnetic field caused by a current flowing in an armature includes: a driver that applies a voltage to the armature and drives the rotor; an initial position estimator that estimates an initial position which is a magnetic pole position of the rotor that is stopped; and a controller that controls the driver so as to apply a pulse train including a voltage pulse for searching the initial position for each of n angle positions dividing a search range of an electrical angle of 360 degrees to the armature, wherein the pulse train includes a first pulse and a second pulse.

    Image forming apparatus having variable developing roller voltage change

    公开(公告)号:US09632447B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-04-25

    申请号:US15041613

    申请日:2016-02-11

    IPC分类号: G03G15/02 G03G15/06

    CPC分类号: G03G15/0266 G03G15/065

    摘要: An image forming apparatus includes: a photosensitive member rotated in a predetermined direction; a charging unit configured to charge a circumferential surface of the photosensitive member; a developing unit carrying a developer including toner and carriers, and including a developer bearing member configured to apply toner charged in a first polarity to the circumferential surface of the photosensitive member; a first voltage applying unit configured to apply a first voltage of the first polarity to the charging unit; a second voltage applying unit configured to apply a second voltage of the first polarity to the developer bearing member; a first voltage detecting unit configured to detect the first voltage; a second voltage detecting unit configured to detect the second voltage; and a controller, wherein the controller determines whether or not to make a second rate lower than a first rate according to the second voltage at a first timing.

    Motor controller, image forming apparatus and motor controlling method

    公开(公告)号:US10651765B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-12

    申请号:US15888934

    申请日:2018-02-05

    摘要: A motor controller includes: a velocity calculation unit for obtaining an angle θ(n), which shows a rotation position, and an angular velocity ω(n) of a rotor at a time point n; a compensation amount calculation unit for calculating a compensation angle Δθ by which the rotor advances from the time point n to a (n+1)th control cycle (a control cycle starting from a time point n+1), based on an angular acceleration a(n) of the rotor, an angular velocity ω(n) of the rotor at the time point n and a time length T of the control cycle; and a PWM inverter for controlling a voltage to be applied to a coil such that a rotating magnetic field based on a rotation position of the rotor advanced by the compensation angle Δθ from the rotation position of the rotor at the time point n is formed in the (n+1)th control cycle.