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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2007
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2006
Kiyoshi Okamoto, Ibaraki, JP;
Yuji Yamanaka, Ibaraki, JP;
Kiyoshi Watanabe, Chiba, JP;
Yuichi Yamamoto, Ibaraki, JP;
Yoshiyuki Nakajima, Ibaraki, JP;
Hiroyuki Sekine, Aichi, JP;
Kiyoshi Okamoto, Ibaraki, JP;
Yuji Yamanaka, Ibaraki, JP;
Kiyoshi Watanabe, Chiba, JP;
Yuichi Yamamoto, Ibaraki, JP;
Yoshiyuki Nakajima, Ibaraki, JP;
Hiroyuki Sekine, Aichi, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A driving apparatus includes a plurality of driving devices; a plurality of malfunction detectors for detecting a malfunction of the driving devices; a plurality of electric current setting devices for setting electric currents through the driving device; and a controller for controlling the plurality of driving devices, malfunction detectors and the electric current setting devices. The controller is effective to set standard electric currents, maximum tolerable electric currents, standard speeds, minimum rotatable speeds and maximum tolerable speeds of the plurality of driving devices, and a total current applied to the plurality of driving devices, wherein the driving devices are given priorities depending on influential ranges of functions of the driving devices.