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Patent No.:

US 6441579 B1

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Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2002

Filed:

Jan. 26, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:

Curt Van Lydegraf, Eagle, ID (US);

Steve Gothard, Boise, ID (US);

Steve Kranz, Eagle, ID (US);

Gary T. Brown, Middleton, ID (US);

Assignee:

Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P 8/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02P 8/00 ;
Abstract

An available input of to a motor controller is used to measure the motor power supply voltage. Typically, a scaled down version of the voltage is sensed. The microprocessor is used to calculate the motor control current, in that case, is then calculated from the scaled down version. A scale factor that depends upon the sensitivity of the motor current to the motor supply voltage is calculated by the microprocessor. Driving parameters in the controller are then adjusted to account for the scale factor. In a preferred embodiment, the driving parameters are PWM parameters, and the microprocessor multiplies the measured power supply voltage to obtain a scale factor that can then be multiplied by the nominal PWM values to obtain the new PWM values.


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Van Lydegraf, Curt. (2002). Current magnitude variation correction for open loop stepper motor driver circuit (U.S. Patent No. 6441579). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6441579

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