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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. 12, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P 5/42 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P 5/42 ;
Abstract
There is provided a DC motor control system and method which is capable of carrying out an accurate rotation control of a DC motor even when the power supply voltage thereof is reduced. A detection signal indicative of a detected number of rotations of the DC motor is delivered. Stop control is carried out for stopping the DC motor by braking rotation of the DC motor when the number of rotations of the DC motor indicated by the detection signal has reached a predetermined number of rotations.