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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 1993
Filed:
Jan. 31, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Junnosuke Kataoka, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
318696 ;
Abstract
In a stepping motor drive control mechanism, a step drive command is applied sequentially at irregular intervals to drive a stepping motor. When the step drive command is to the stepping motor the stepping motor is driven by one step angle. According to the response characteristic of the stepping motor, an inhibited period when the reception of the next step drive command is inhibited and a reception period when the reception is enabled are set up. If the next step drive command is applied during the inhibited period, the system waits until the reception period. Then, the stepping motor is driven by one step angle.