Electricity: motive power systems inventions 07/07

20070170877 - Actuator: An actuator includes a casing, a stationary member having a coil member and mounted in the casing and a movable member having a moving element and supported by the casing. The moving element has a shaft and is supported by the casing so as to be moved in an axial... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070170878 - Reduced hardware control circuit device, with current loop for broad band hard disk drive applications: A reduced hardware control circuit device includes a current loop for broad band Hard Disk Drive applications. The current loop detects the value of the current flowing on the coils of a voice coil electric motor incorporated in the Hard Disk Drive. A sensing resistance is connected in series with... Agent: Jenkens & Gilchrist, PC

20070170879 - Method of controlling the speed of an electric motor: A method of controlling the speed of an electric motor, said method being a digital method designed to control the speed of an induction motor that is powered by a triac device to a preset speed, in which the speed of the motor is measured and a digital numerical value... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070170880 - Control systems and methods for starting permanent magnet rotating machines: Systems and methods for controlling a rotating electromagnetic machine. The rotating machine, such as a permanent magnet motor or hybrid switched reluctance motor, includes a stator having a plurality of phase windings and a rotor that rotates relative to the stator. A drive is connected to the phase windings for... Agent: Harness, Dickey, & Pierce, P.l.c

20070170881 - Phase change materials, phase change random access memories having the same and methods of operating phase change random access memories: A phase change memory device includes a switch and a storage node connected to the switch. The storage node includes a first electrode, a phase change layer and a second electrode. The phase change layer is formed of an InSbTe compound doped with Ge. In a method of operating a... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070170882 - Method of configuring a control unit of an actuator: a phase for supplying the motor during which at least one characteristic quantity (MV1, MV2, MZ1, MZ2) of the movement of the movable element is obtained with the aid of a measurement procedure comprising at least one step of integrating a physical quantity supplied by an accelerometer (ACC), at least... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20070170883 - Multichannel pulse train transmitting apparatus: In the multi-shaft driving apparatus, position command pulse trains for servomotors are generated from a motor controller and supplied to motor drivers for the respective servomotors via a multichannel pulse train transmitting apparatus. The multichannel pulse train transmitting apparatus converts the position command pulse trains supplied from the motor controller... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070170884 - Switch array for use in motor control: An switch array for use in a motor control circuit with a power source, controller and a motor includes a plurality of bidirectional switches positioned between the power source and the motor, wherein the bidirectional switches are PWM controlled by high speed control signals from the controller to provide power... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen

20070170885 - Motor control apparatus and method for generating modulation wave instruction of pwm inverter of the same motor control apparatus: An upper limit value calculation unit 105 and a modulation wave limiter unit 4 are provided, and an upper limit value 14 of a modulating wave, which is equal to or smaller than the maximum value of the carrier wave and equal to or larger than the minimum value of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070164691 - System and method for attenuating noise associated with a back electromotive force signal in a motor: A method for attenuating switching noise from back electromotive force (EMF) observations in a motor is described. The motor is controlled by pulse width modulation (PWM) signals provided at a PWM frequency. The method comprises sampling back EMF observed in the motor at a sampling frequency at least two times... Agent: Mccarthy Tetrault LLP

20070164692 - Wireless systems and methods for controlling a telescope: Wireless control systems and methods for adjusting the position and/or alignment of a telescope. In one example, a wireless handheld controller enables a user to adjust a corresponding telescope from a remote location. The controller preferably communicates motion commands via radio frequency to a transceiver coupled to the telescope. The... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070164693 - Vehicle propulsion system: A vehicle propulsion includes an alternating current (AC) traction drive, a first energy storage system electrically coupled to the traction drive through a direct current (DC) link, a second energy storage system electrically coupled to the traction drive such that the voltage output from the second energy storage system is... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (12552)

20070164694 - Method for determining the back electromotive force induced in a voice-coil motor driven in discontinuous mode: A method to determine a back electromotive force induced in a coil of a voice-coil motor by its motion. The motor is driven in a discontinuous mode by commanding alternating on-phases and off-phases (tristate). A drive current flowing in the coil or a drive voltage on the coil at an... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070164695 - Control apparatus of robot: A robot control apparatus capable of largely reducing a calculation amount to be capable of lowering a load of a CPU is provided. A control apparatus of a robot includes: a plurality of shafts interfering with each other; each of the shafts including a motor (8), (18), an arm (9),... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070164696 - Control system and teach pendant for an industrial robot: A live handle switch in the form of a hand operated safety switch for an industrial robot or a machine is described. The live handle comprises a safety certified switch for operating a robot or other machine safely while under manual control. The live handle switch may be comprised in... Agent: Venable LLP

20070164697 - Lithographic apparatus having a controlled motor, and motor control system and method: A lithographic apparatus includes an illumination system to condition a radiation beam. A patterning support holds a patterning device that imparts the radiation beam with a pattern to form a patterned radiation beam. A substrate support holds a substrate. A projection system projects the patterned radiation beam onto the substrate.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070164698 - Method and device for controlling motors: An electronic device is provided for controlling a motor having three phases driven by a motor driver. In one implementation, the electronic device includes a detection means and a control circuit. The detection means includes three high-gain differential amplifiers and three A/D converters. The detection means detects back EMF voltages... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070164699 - Apparatus and method for varying speed of hybrid induction motor: An apparatus and method for varying a speed of a hybrid induction motor (HIM). The apparatus comprises a starting capacitor; a driving capacitor; at least one speed varying capacitor for varying a speed of a HIM by a control signal; and a controlling unit for analyzing a user's commands and... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070164700 - Starting system for a single-phase induction motor: A starting system for a single-phase induction motor, comprising: a stator having a running coil (11) and a starting coil (12); a power source (F) which supplies current to said running coil (11) and said starting coil (12); a running switch (S1) and a starting switch (S2), respectively connecting the... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20070164701 - Three-phase ac speed adjustable motor: A three-phase AC speed adjustable motor relates to the motor speed adjusting technique in the field of electrical engineering. Said three-phase AC speed adjustable motor is composed of an AC motor body and an inverse electromotive force generator which is connected with ends of the three stator windings of the... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20070159119 - Power system: A power system includes a power source with a rotary output member. The power system may also include an electric machine having a rotor and a stator. The rotor of the electric machine may be drivingly connected to the rotary output member of the power source. Additionally, the power system... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20070159120 - Deployable deflector for outside mirror: An exterior mirror system for a motor vehicle includes a housing and a coupling arm. The coupling arm is adapted to couple the housing to a body of the motor vehicle. The exterior mirror system also includes a deployable panel substantially resident in the housing in a stowed position and... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20070159121 - Electric power converter, electric power converter controlling method and electric power converting system: An electric power converter, electric power converter controlling method and electric power converting system for converting multi-phase alternating-current inputted from a generator and outputting multi-phase alternating current for controlling a drive of a motor. An input power factor commanding section outputs a command value of an input power factor according... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.

20070159122 - Universal motor speed controller: Moderately accurate closed loop speed control of a universal motor is attained without the need for any type of speed sensor. Motor armature (across the brushes) voltage is sensed and supplied to a control circuit for processing along with sensed motor current and zero-crossing information. Integration of the motor armature... Agent: Stmicroelectronics, Inc.

20070159124 - Electric motor with adjustable timing: An electrically commutated motor includes a first module to measure a current in a coil of the motor, and a second module to adjust timing of commutation of the motor based on the current measurement.... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070159123 - Single-sensor based commutation of multi-phase motor: System, method, and apparatus for commutating and controlling a multi-phase motor using one output rotor sensor and circuitry that measures time between rotor pole-to-pole transitions is disclosed. The exemplary system, method, and apparatus may utilize the polarity of the single-output rotor sensor and the measured time between the polarity transitions... Agent: Bourque & Associates Intellectual Property Attorneys, P.A.

20070159125 - Motor control system: A motor control system capable of outputting motor control data contained in a numeric control device and inputting motor control data to the numeric control device as required, without using a proprietary connector and/or a switching unit. The control system has a numeric control device, a plurality of motor amplifiers... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20070159126 - Bilateral servo controller: A position (or angle, in a rotary motion) sensor and a force (or torque, in a rotary motion) sensor of a master that are required for the construction a conventional force-feedback or parallel bilateral servo are used as mutually redundant sensors. In the force-feedback or parallel bilateral servo, a target... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070159127 - Arrangement for determining and controlling the position of a convertible top: An arrangement for determining and controlling the position of a convertible top includes a potentiometer, a control unit and a top kinematic system motor. The potentiometer is able to register signals that are transmitted to the control unit, and the top kinematic system motor can be adjusted by the control... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070159128 - Linear motor, a linear compressor, a method of controlling a linear compressor, a cooling system, and a linear compressor controlling a system: A linear motor (10), a linear compressor (100), a method of controlling a linear compressor (100), a cooling system (20) and a system of controlling a linear compressor (100) to operate a linear compressor (100) in resonance in it's the greatest possible efficiency throughout its operation are described. One of... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20070159129 - Variable speed drive for a chiller system with a switched reluctance motor: A variable speed drive with a boost converter is provided for a chiller system driven by a switched reluctance motor. The boost converter can be a diode or thyristor rectifier followed by a boost DC/DC converter or a three-phase pulse width modulated boost converter. The boost converter provides a boosted... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick, LLC

20070159130 - Driving apparatus and driving system for electric motor: An apparatus for controlling the drive of an electric motor, having a current detector for detecting the current through an externally connected electric motor; a controller for generating a control signal to control the electric motor on the basis of the current detected by the current detector and the speed... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20070159131 - Vector controller for induction motor: An object is to provide a vector control apparatus for an induction motor which is capable of correcting a set value of a mutual inductance so as to match an actual value thereof by addition of software processing without addition of any particular device. A vector control apparatus (1) for... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070152611 - Magnetizing motor and magnetizing method thereof: A magnetizing motor having a permanent magnet body covering an outer circumferential surface of a rotor body, includes a speed detecting unit that detects a speed of the magnetizing motor; and a controlling unit that compares the speed detected by the speed detecting unit with a reference speed, and outputs... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070152612 - Motor controller: A motor controller includes a power source unit providing a direct current output, a drive unit including a drive coil, first and second transistor units, a voltage drop component, and a processor. The transistor units are coupled to the power source unit and the drive unit, and enable electricity to... Agent: Davidson Berquist Jackson & Gowdey LLP

20070152614 - Electrically operated power steering controller and adjusting method of driving electric current offset in this controller: The invention proposes an electrically operated power steering controller for inputting a driving electric current offset value of higher accuracy and being able to make an offset correction of a driving electric current by using this driving electric current offset value of higher accuracy, and an adjusting method of this... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070152613 - Motor, a method of operating a motor, and a system including a motor: An air movement system including a blower and an external controller operable to receive signals from a sensing device and generate a command based on the received signals. The command includes an address. The system also includes a communication channel coupled to the external controller and configured to communicate the... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070152615 - Vehicle panel control system: A control system for a vehicle includes a controller, an object sensor, and a motor. The motor receives power from a power source upon receiving a panel control signal. The motor moves a movable panel of the vehicle along a path between opened and closed positions when the motor receives... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20070152617 - Robot control system: A robot control system including a servo amplifier supplying power to a robot, a processor controlling the operation of the robot, and a servo power connection/cutoff circuit connected to the same, issuing excitation/nonexcitation commands to a charging relay and a main circuit connection electromagnetic contactor provided in the circuit from... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070152616 - Robot system and method for cathode selection and handling procedures after the harvest: As a final stage of the current copper production process, the cathodes are inspected and sampled to determine its quality. Based on the inspection and the sampling the cathodes are selected and arranged according to the different qualities. Currently the inspection and selection of the cathodes in the loading site... Agent: Hugo Salamanca P.

20070152618 - Angular velocity measuring device and leg-moving robot: An angular velocity measuring device (1) includes a first sensor (2) (vibratory gyroscope) and a second sensor (3) (gas rate gyroscope). A detected output of the first sensor (2) is input to a highpass filter (4) and an output of this filter (4) is stored in the time series into... Agent: Arent Fox PLLC

20070152619 - Autonomous mobile robot and goods carrying method of using the same: The autonomous mobile robot having an openable and closable gripper for gripping goods, cameras, an autonomous mobile means, and a control means for making the robot carry the goods to a destination from an acquisition source, the control means comprising: a grip position recognition means configured to recognize a predetermined... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070152620 - Control device for mobile body: Ground contact portions 10 are classified into a tree structure such that each of the ground contact portions 10 of a mobile body 1 (mobile robot) equipped with three or more ground contact portions 10 becomes a leaf node and that an intermediate node exists between the leaf node and... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20070152621 - Turret servo control device with overriding and control method thereof: Disclosed herein is a turret servo control device with an overriding function and control method thereof. The turret servo control device comprises: a feed information-generating means for generating at least one of feed information of a turret as a control command to output the generated control command, the feed information... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070152622 - Drive control method, drive control device, belt apparatus, image forming apparatus, image reading apparatus, computer product: Driving of a pulse motor is controlled in such a manner that a rotating body driven by the pulse motor rotates at a uniform angular velocity. Angular displacement of the rotating body is detected, a difference between a detection value of the angular displacement and a target value of angular... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070152623 - Variable reluctance electric power system: A variable reluctance electric power system which comprises an alternator and a motor having a rotor with longitudinal lobes and no windings, commutators, slip rings, magnets, or laminations. The alternator and the motor have stators which have conventional windings and laminations and a rotor which is polarized using a static... Agent: Gene R. Woodle

20070152624 - Motor system, control method thereof, and compressor using the same: A motor system includes a BLDC (brushless direct current) motor; an inverter driving the BLDC motor; a current detector detecting a direct current of the inverter; an induced voltage detector detecting an induced voltage of the BLDC motor; and a controller controlling at least one of an output voltage and... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070152625 - Apparatus and method for controlling the number of rotations per unit time of brushless dc motor: Disclosed is an apparatus, controlling the number of rotations per minute of a brushless DC motor, the apparatus comprising: a brushless DC motor that rotates at a constant speed when a rotation current is applied, and stops rotating when a stop current is applied; a pulse applying unit that outputs... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP