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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1997
Makoto Izawa, Kariya, JP;
Katsuhiro Nanba, Okazaki, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A linear motor apparatus includes a stator extending in a predetermined direction and having a field magnet for driving; a movable piece having an armature coil opposed to the field magnet, and being reciprocatable along the stator; a Hall element disposed at a portion on the movable piece opposed to the field magnet for outputting a voltage signal depending on an intensity and a direction of a magnetic field formed by the field magnet as well as a Hall element reference input voltage supplied thereto; a correction circuit for producing an output signal by correcting an output signal issued from the Hall element to have a cycle equal to that of the Hall element output signal and a constant maximum amplitude depending on the Hall element reference input voltage; and a current supply circuit for supplying a current, depending on the output voltage issued from the correction circuit, to the armature coil for producing a driving force of the movable piece.