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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2018
Applicant:
Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Takahide Takahashi, Tagata Shizuoka, JP;
Assignee:
TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P 8/12 (2006.01); B41J 23/02 (2006.01); B41J 25/00 (2006.01); B41J 11/42 (2006.01); B41J 19/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P 8/12 (2013.01); B41J 11/42 (2013.01); B41J 19/202 (2013.01); B41J 23/025 (2013.01); B41J 25/001 (2013.01);
Abstract
A motor control device includes a motor driver and a control unit. The motor driver supplies a drive current to a stepping motor. The control unit is configured to control the motor driver to start a supply of the drive current to the stepping motor in response to a start instruction, and increase the drive current to the stepping motor from zero to a predetermined current value stepwise over a predetermined time period.