Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Taga Engineering, Ltd.

Kunio Miyashita

Hiroshi Kimura

Shigeki Morinaga

Hiroshi Hayashida

Kazuo Tahara

Syooichi Kawamata

Seizi Yamashita

Haruo Koharagi

Yoshitaro Ishii

Fumio Jyoraku

Hisanori Toyoshima

Fumio Tajima

Tsunehiro Endo

Syuji Watanabe

Koujirou Yamashita

Wakichiro Hishi

Hiroshi Katayama

Yasuyuki Sugiura

Kohichi Saito

Hironori Okuda

Seiichi Narushima

Tunehiro Endo

Kosho Ishizaki

Kouichi Saito

Shoji Tanabe

Takeshi Abe

Toshiyuki Ajima

Hideki Nihei

Takeo Maeda

Hiroshi Sugai

Hisao Suka

Mitsuhisa Kawamata

Atusi Hosokawa

Ryoso Masaki

Noboru Sugiura

Mitsuru Watabe

Motoo Futami

Hiroshi Watanabe

Keiichi Mashino

Yasuo Matsuda

Shotaro Naito

Kanji Kawakami

Yoshikazu Hoshi

Hiroshi Kanazawa

Katsuji Marumoto

Motoya Ito

Hiroshi Nagase

Atsushi Kanke

Nobuyoshi Mutoh

Hirohisa Yamamura

Hideki Asano

Akihiro Saito

Kazuo Honda

Shigeru Horikoshi

Teizo Tamura

Kenichi Iizuka

Kouzou Watanabe

Shoichi Ito

Toshiyuki Koterazawa

Yasuo Noto

Ichiro Hashimoto

Kenichi Hironaka

Sumio Kobayashi

Susumu Kashiwazaki

Jun Matsubayashi

Seiji Yamashita

Syoichi Kawamata

Jun Ohya

Sadao Sekizawa

Junshiro Inamura

Kazuaki Takada

Kuniaki Kubokura

Tadao Shimotsu

Syouichi Kawamata

Akira Tamura

Kiyoshi Yamamuro

Eiji Toyoda

Rika Oue

Izuru Yasuda

Tadao Shimozu

Hiroshi Sento

Makio Sei

Syoji Tanabe

Yosimi Sekita

Takuro Kawano

Kouichi Saitoh

Stunehiro Endo

Nicolas Samman

Kouchi Saito

Shuichi Nakano

A controlling apparatus controls a suction performance of a blower motor which is installed into a cleaner main body. The controlling apparatus increases the suction performance when a suction nozzle is operated and decreases the suction performance when the suction nozzle is stopped. Corresponding to a floor use suction nozzle and a crevice use suction nozzle, at a predetermined air flow amount range, the most suitable operation control being suited to a discriminated suction nozzle can carried out automatically. Plural kinds of the suction nozzles at an actual use scope are set beforehand. When the suction nozzle is exchanged the flow amount range is changed over and selected with a respective suction nozzle. Plural kinds of the suction nozzles are selected and changed over automatically according to the dimension of a change amount of an operation condition. A brushless direct motor is used as the blower motor and has a domain being operated at a chopper control duty of factor 100%.

Vacuum cleaner

Method and apparatus for operating a vacuum cleaner in which by detecting a rotational speed of a variable speed fan motor adapted to give a suction force to the cleaner and its change range, the choking state of the filter and the state of the cleaned surface are discriminated, and a speed command of the fan motor is corrected on the basis of the result of the discrimination, and the comfortable cleaning can be performed by the optimum suction force.

Method and apparatus for operating vacuum cleaner

In a vacuum cleaner, both static pressure H.sub.data and a variation width .DELTA.H in the static pressure appearing when a suction port is operated are detected from a pressure sensor provided at a rear side of a filter within a main body of the vacuum cleaner; a current variation width .DELTA.pbi appearing when the suction port is operated is detected from a current of a nozzel motor for driving a rotary brush stored in a power brush suction port; an air quantity at the suction port is calculated from the current, rotational speed of a fan motor and static pressure; command values are newly obtained by performing a fuzzy calculation with the variation width .DELTA.pbi, static-pressure command value Hcmd; the variation width .DELTA.H and the static-pressure command value Qcmd; the variation width .DELTA.pbi and static-pressure command value Hcmd; and also the variation width .DELTA.H and static-pressure command value Qcmd as the input thereto; the rotational speeds of the fan motor and nozzel motor are controlled from the result of the command values; and further optimum air suction force is automatically obtained, depending upon the suction port under use and cleaning floor plane.

Vacuum cleaner with fuzzy logic control

Device for detecting rotation of rotary shaft and rotation controlling

A control device for an electric generator for use with a vehicle engine includes an armature winding (stator) and a field winding (rotor) driven by the vehicle engine. A chopper is provided for controlling the field current of the field winding and a pulse width modulator is provided for controlling the duty cycle of the chopper in response to the operating conditions of the engine. A voltage feedback loop is provided from a normally provided battery which loop incorporates a detector for detecting the actual battery voltage and a comparator for comparing the battery voltage with a predetermined set voltage so that the difference in voltage is rendered to zero. The invention additionally provides a current feedback loop for controlling a deviation between a current command value determining the duty of the chopper and an actual current flowing through the field winding so as to be substantially zero. There is also disclosed means for adaptively modifying the current command signal and means for controlling the current demanded by the field winding to reduce the torque demanded by the generator at times, inter alia, of acceleration and engine knocking.

Control apparatus for electric generator

Motor control apparatus for an electric vacuum cleaner

An actuator in which, when the reduction ratio of a reduction gear unit is 1/N, the number of pulses of a second encoder is set to be equal to N times (the number of pulses of a first encoder), whereby a pulse processing circuit for detecting a torsion angle is made remarkably simple.

Electric motor actuator

A rotor of a permanent magnet type synchronous motor facing a stator having a number of slots comprises a rotor core fixed to a motor shaft and an even number of permanent magnets in a circumferential direction of the rotor core. Projecting portions are formed in the shape of a protruding portion of the rotor core over each permanent magnet. The width (A) of each projecting portion is different from the pitch (B) of the slots of the stator. A position detector for detecting the permanent magnet position of the rotor comprises detectors of the normal rotation and other detectors of the reverse rotation. These detectors are arranged having predetermined phase differences (.alpha., .beta.) to a center line. A pattern generating circuit is provided for switching the conducting position to the stator winding corresponding to the phase differences.

Permanent magnet reversible synchronous motor

In order to provide a speed control apparatus for a movable equipment having small torque ripples and speed variation, the present invention has a speed control means which comprises a driver for providing a current or a voltage having a magnitude corresponding to the instructed speed, a speed detection circuit for detecting a speed on the basis of a signal from the speed detector and a microcomputer for driving the driver by comparing the speed instruction signal with a speed signal obtained from the speed detection circuit. The microcomputer includes a harmonic wave component detecting means for detecting a harmonic wave component contained in a speed variation mode which is obtained from the speed detection circuit and has a function of making the gain of a speed control system variable by the harmonic wave component detected by the harmonic wave component detecting means.

Speed control apparatus for movable equipment

An apparatus for magnetically detecting a positional relation between first and second members the positions of which change relative to each other comprises a magnetic recording medium carried on the first member and a magnetic sensor substrate supported by the second member. Two or more tracks each including a multiplicity of magnetic poles arranged at a predetermined pitch are provided on the magnetic recording medium, corresponding to the respective phases of two or more detection signals to be detected by the apparatus and in a direction in which the positional relation between the first and second members changes. The magnetic poles in any one of the tracks are shifted with respect to the magnetic poles in the other track by an amount corresponding to a phase difference between the detection signal for the phase which corresponds to the one track and the detection signal for the phase which corresponds to the other track. The magnetic sensor substrate includes a plurality of magnetoresistive elements which are respectively provided corresponding to the tracks and the electrical resistance value of each of which changes in response to a magnetic field originating from the corresponding track. The magnetoresistive elements are combined to generate electric signals as the detection signals. Each of the magnetoresistive elements corresponding to any one of the tracks and the corresponding one of the magnetoresistive elements corresponding to the other track are placed at the same position when viewed in the direction in which the positional relation between the first and second members changes.

Magnetic position detection apparatus having two magnetic recording

Sine wave signals generated from a position detector are used as analog values to detect a fine position of a rotating or moving body, a rise or fall edge of the sine wave signal is used to detect a coarse position of the rotating or moving body, and the position or speed of the rotating or moving body is detected based on a signal indicative of the detected coarse position when the rotating or moving body is at high speed and based on a signal indicative of the detected fine position when the rotating or moving body is at low speed to thereby provide optimal control from high speed to low speed. Especially at extremely low driving, speed detection with superhigh resolution is effected using the analog value to decrease an uneven rotation of the rotating body.

Method and apparatus for detecting positions and/or speed of a moving

An actuator has a stepping motion function with a high stopping accuracy and resolution. The actuator includes a fixed portion and a movable portion constructed in combination so as to be movable relative to each other, a coil for imparting a moving force to the movable portion, a magnetic recording medium mounted on one of the fixed portion and the movable portion and recording magnetic signals, and a plurality of magnetic sensors mounted on the other thereof for detecting said magnetic signals in said magnetic recording medium, and wherein signals different in phase and output from said respective sensors are used by themselves, or signals inversely converted from the former signals are additionally used, and the coil is supplied with a driving force command by sequentially selecting and changing those signals.

Actuator with stepping motion function

Method and apparatus for operating a vacuum cleaner in which by detecting a rotational speed of a variable speed fan motor adapted to give a suction force to the cleaner and its change range, the choking state of the filter and the state of the cleaner surface are discriminated, and a speed command of the fan motor is corrected on the basis of the result of the discrimination, and the comfortable cleaning can be performed by the optimum suction force.

A speed control apparatus is provided for controlling a speed of a movable equipment in such a way that the speed of the movable equipment is detected, calculates a deviation value between a detected speed of the movable equipment and a speed instruction signal, and controls the speed of the movable equipment based on the deviation value. The speed control equipment detects harmonic wave components included in the detected speed and reduces the harmonic wave components from the speed instruction signal so as to control the speed of the movable equipment.

Speed control apparatus of movable equipment

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Kunio Miyashita