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Servo system

Assignee: Panasonic Holdings Corp
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Filing: 1985-10-09
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Granted: 1987-01-13
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Expires: 2005-10-09
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Abstract

Abstract A servo system for controlling the rotational speed of a rotating body or the moving speed of a moving body to be a desired speed. The system comprises a voltage source which generates at least two predetermined voltages, a comparator which compares a voltage of an AC signal containing a speed information of the moving body with each of the voltages generated by the voltage source and outputs at least two output signals in each half period of the AC signal, a counter for counting reference clock signals, a memory for storing a count value of the counter when the comparator outputs each of the output signals, a processor for producing a speed error signal from the count value stored in the memory, and a driver for supplying a driving power to the moving body in accordance with the speed error signal thereby to keep a desired speed of the moving body. Further, an error compensator may be provided for compensating a voltage shift of the predetermined voltages.

Inventors

  • 👤 Hiroshi Minakuchi
  • 👤 Tadashi Kunihira
  • 👤 Yoshiaki Igarashi

Bibliographic Details

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Last Synchronized 2026-10-23 18:01
CPC Classifications
G; G05; G05D; G05D13/00; G05D13/62; H; H02; H02P; H02P23/00; H02P23/16; Y; Y10; Y10S; Y10S388/00; Y10S388/90; Y10S388/902; Y10S388/907; Y10S388/912

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim 77 words
A servo system for controlling moving speed of a moving body comprising: discriminating means for measuring a period of an AC signal which contains a speed information of said moving body, setting at least two reference points within a half period of said AC signal, and generating an error information corresponding to a deviation value from a desired value at each reference point; and drive means for driving said moving body in accordance with said error information.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 77 words
A servo system for controlling moving speed of a moving body comprising: discriminating means for measuring a period of an AC signal which contains a speed information of said moving body, setting at least two reference points within a half period of said AC signal, and generating an error information corresponding to a deviation value from a desired value at each reference point; and drive means for driving said moving body in accordance with said error information.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 140 words
A servo system for controlling moving speed of a moving body comprising: a voltage source which generates at least two kinds of predetermined voltages; a comparator for comparing a voltage of an AC signal which contains a speed information of said moving body with each of said predetermined voltages generated by said voltage source and generating at least two output signals within a half period of said AC signal; a counter for counting reference clock signals; a memory for storing a count value of said counter when said comparator generates each of said output signals; a processor for calculating a speed error value from said count value stored in said memory; and drive means for supplying a driving power to said moving body in accordance with said speed error value thereby to keep a desired speed of said moving body.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 140 words
A servo system for controlling moving speed of a moving body comprising: a voltage source which generates at least two kinds of predetermined voltages; a comparator for comparing a voltage of an AC signal which contains a speed information of said moving body with each of said predetermined voltages generated by said voltage source and generating at least two output signals within a half period of said AC signal; a counter for counting reference clock signals; a memory for storing a count value of said counter when said comparator generates each of said output signals; a processor for calculating a speed error value from said count value stored in said memory; and drive means for supplying a driving power to said moving body in accordance with said speed error value thereby to keep a desired speed of said moving body.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 64 words
The system according to claim 2, wherein said processor subtracts each count value of said counter from a previous count value of said counter to obtain a time interval between times at which said comparator generates said output signals and calculates a deviation value of said time interval from a predetermined time interval value, said deviation value being outputted as said speed error value.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 41 words
The system according to claim 3, further comprising error compensation means which obtains a voltage shift of said predetermined voltages from count values of said counter stored in said memory and compensates said speed error value according to said voltage shift.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 113 words
The system according to claim 4, further comprising a channel selector for selecting an address for said memory in response to each of said output signals of said comparator, and a timing controller for controlling said processor and said error compensation means in such a way that said processor obtains said time interval and stores said time interval into said memory each time said channel selector renews said address and that said error compensation means, when time intervals in at least a half period of said AC signal have been stored in said memory, detects said voltage shift by comparing said time intervals stored in said memory and compensates said speed error value.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 60 words
The system according to claim 3, further comprising error compensation means which corrects said deviation value so that each said time interval is equal to another said time interval within a half period of said AC signal in accordance with a half period of said AC signal and said predetermined time interval value, thereby to compensate said speed error value.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 113 words
The system according to claim 6, further comprising a channel selector for selecting an address for said memory in response to each of said output signals of said comparator, and a timing controller for controlling said processor and said error compensation means in such a way that said processor obtains said time interval and stores said time interval into said memory each time said channel selector renews said address and that said error compensation means, when time intervals in at least a half period of said AC signal have been stored in said memory, detects said voltage shift by comparing said time intervals stored in said memory and compensates said speed error value.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim 67 words
The system according to claim 3, further comprising error compensation means which obtains a reference deviation value from a time interval in a time including a zero-cross point of said AC signal and said predetermied time interval value, and compensates said speed error value according to a difference between said deviation value and said reference deviation value, said difference representing a voltage shift of said predetermined voltages.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim 127 words
The system according to claim 8, further comprising a channel selector for selecting an address for said memory in response to each of said output signals of said comparator, and a timing controller for controlling said processor and said error compensation means in such a way that said processor obtains said time interval and stores said time interval into said memory each time said channel selector renews said address and that said error compensation means, when time intervals in at least a time period of said AC signal including said time including said zero-cross point have been stored in said memory, detects said voltage shift by comparing said deviation value with said reference deviation value which are stored in said memory and compensates said speed error value.

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