Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Reiji Mitarai

Hiroaki Takeishi

Isao Iwai

Kenichi Nagasawa

Youzou Fukagawa

Hideaki Miyakawa

Haruhiko Tanami

Kenji Hisamoto

Masaichi Satoh

A recording apparatus can improve stability of the speed of a carriage without increasing the production cost. The recording apparatus for performing recording by discharging ink from a recording device onto a recording medium includes a carriage adapted to convey a recording head, and a conveying member adapted to drive the carriage using a belt stretched between pulleys connected to corresponding ones of two motors. A driving force for the carriage by the two motors is differently distributed.

Printing apparatus

A sound signal from an audio amplifier is converted to a speed signal by a drive circuit, and a cone sheet which forms a diaphragm is driven by a supersonic wave motor driven by a travelling vibration wave through a link and a leaf spring.

Speaker and drive device therefor

A positioning apparatus includes a movable member, an actuator for driving the movable member in a moving direction, a gravity guide having a reference surface for supporting the movable member in a gravity direction, a yaw guide for guiding the movable member from one side thereof in the moving direction by means of a guide surface perpendicular to the reference surface, and a measuring device for measuring a position of the movable member in the moving direction. A distance from a measuring position at which the measuring device measures the position of the movable member to the guide surface is longer than a distance from a driving position at which the actuator drives the movable member to the guide surface.

Positioning apparatus, information recording/reproducing apparatus, and inspection apparatus

A vibration driven motor including a plurality of polarized piezo-electric elements disposed on a vibrator, in which cyclic signals different in phase selectively are applied to the respective elements to form standing waves to drive a moved body. A direction of polarization of each of the piezo-electric elements in the motor is identical. A plurality of consecutive elements are grouped, and cyclic signals of predetermined phase selectively are applied to predetermined element groups.

Wave driven motor

A master-slave synchronization control system is constructed having two drive systems for driving respective ones of two controlled objects capable of being operated individually, wherein the drive system having the slower response is adopted as the master and the drive system having the higher response is adopted as the slave. The drive system of the master, which has the elements of a velocity control system that operates to follow up an entered velocity command value, outputs velocity information and position information of its controlled object. The drive system of the slave has a velocity control system in which the velocity information is adopted as the velocity command value, and a position compensating loop in which the position information is adopted as a position command value. The position compensating loop adds the position compensation value to the velocity command value as a correction signal. Both drive systems are driven at a velocity conforming to the input velocity command value, with the positions of these drive systems being changed in synchronized fashion.

Synchronization control apparatus and method

An energy quantity control method usable with a pulse energy producing source for successively emitting energy pulses of an energy quantity variable with time, wherein a control parameter for the pulse energy producing source is adjustable to control an energy quantity of an energy pulse, the method including determining, on the basis of a difference between a desired value for integrated energy quantity of energy pulses and an actually measured value for the integrated energy quantity, a desired value for a subsequent energy quantity to be provided subsequently by a subsequent energy pulse, and adjusting the control parameter on the basis of a difference between the desired value for the subsequent energy quantity to be provided subsequently by the subsequent energy pulse and an actually measured energy quantity provided by a last-emitted energy pulse.

Energy quantity control method

A control device for an ultrasonic motor includes a control calculation circuit for calculating position, i.e., the rotation amount and speed of the motor, a linearization function generation circuit for receiving the output signal from the control calculation circuit and outputting the amplitude information of a stator constituting the motor and the phase difference information of two driving signals for driving the stator, and a driving circuit responsive to the output signal from the generation circuit to supply the driving signals to the stator.

Control device for a vibration driven motor

A vibration type motor apparatus including a control system for applying a cyclic signal to an electro-mechanical energy conversion element to drive a vibration member, and obtaining a driving force therefrom. The system solves the problem of a dead band in the motor apparatus and provides a motor having good response characteristics and good controllability.

Vibration type motor apparatus

This invention relates to a vibration wave motor which forms a vibration wave on a vibrating member by applying frequency signals having a phase difference therebetween to electro-mechanical energy conversion elements, and uses the vibration wave as a driving force. This invention provides a motor apparatus in which a disturbance component input to the motor apparatus is estimated based on input and output signals to the motor, and the estimated disturbance component is negatively fed back, thereby eliminating the influence of a disturbance.

Vibration wave motor

A high-performance feedback controller having both a target value followability and a disturbance suppression characteristic is provided, and its characteristic arrangement is as follows. In a feedback controller, which receives a target value r and a controlled variable y and supplies a manipulated variable u as a calculation output to a control object which has at least one input u as a manipulated variable and at least one output y as a controlled variable, a compensator G.sub.c (s), whose internal calculation arrangement is given by G.sub.c (s)=.alpha./{G.sub.n (0)-G.sub.n (s)} using a nominal model G.sub.n (s) as an approximate characteristic of the control object and an arbitrary positive parameter .alpha., performs a compensation of a comparison deviation (e=r-y) between the target value r and the controlled variable y.

Feedback controller

In a travelling wave driven motor and its driving apparatus, the absolute value of a speed is controlled using a vibration amplitude value as a main manipulation variable. A plurality of frequencies are selectively generated as sub manipulation variables, and are used as the driving frequencies of the motor. In a precision positioning operation (precision operation mode), an electric signal, which has a first selected frequency separated by a predetermined value from a resonance point of a stator of the motor, and has a predetermined amplitude value, is supplied to a piezoelectric element. In a high-speed feed operation (coarse operation mode), an electric signal, which has a second selected frequency near the resonance point of the stator, and has a predetermined amplitude value, is supplied to the piezoelectric element.

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