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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2011
Takeshi Arai, Gunma-ken, JP;
Akira Suzuki, Gunma-Ken, JP;
Takeshi Arai, Gunma-ken, JP;
Akira Suzuki, Gunma-Ken, JP;
Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Abstract
A motor-drive circuit includes: a filter circuit to attenuate a frequency band including a resonance frequency of an actuator in a target-current signal, the target-current signal corresponding to a digital signal indicative of a target value of a driving current; a digital-analog converter to convert an output signal of the filter circuit into an analog signal, to be outputted as a current-control signal; and a driving circuit to supply the driving current to the voice-coil motor in accordance with the current-control signal, the filter circuit including: a digital notch filter; and a digital low-pass filter, wherein either one of the digital notch filter and the digital low-pass filter configured to be inputted with the target-current signal, the other one of the digital notch filter and the digital low-pass filter configured to be inputted with an output signal of the one of the digital notch filter or the digital low-pass filter.