Invention Grant
US07940017B2 Lock detection method and lock detection circuit for motor for power-folding mirror
有权
用于电动折叠镜的电机的锁定检测方法和锁定检测电路
- Patent Title: Lock detection method and lock detection circuit for motor for power-folding mirror
- Patent Title (中): 用于电动折叠镜的电机的锁定检测方法和锁定检测电路
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Application No.: US12123715Application Date: 2008-05-20
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Publication No.: US07940017B2Publication Date: 2011-05-10
- Inventor: Noriyuki Takemasa
- Applicant: Noriyuki Takemasa
- Applicant Address: JP Shizuoka
- Assignee: Murakami Corporation
- Current Assignee: Murakami Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Shizuoka
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2007-225855 20070831
- Main IPC: H02P1/00
- IPC: H02P1/00

Abstract:
The present invention is intended to, when rotation of a mirror rotation unit in a power-folding mirror is mechanically locked and its drive motor is thereby locked, make it possible to correctly detect this locked state. A motor 10 for a power-folding mirror is reversibly driven by an H-bridge drive circuit 12 formed of FETs 1 to 4. When the motor 10 is driven in normal rotation by turning the FETs 1 and 4 on and turning the FETs 2 and 3 off, the FET 1 is periodically turned off to detect a voltage of a terminal 10a of the motor 10 by means of a voltage detection circuit 14. When the FET 1 is turned off and the motor 10 is not locked, the motor 10 generates power by means of its inertial rotation, and when locked, the motor 10 generates no power, so the voltage detected by the voltage detection circuit 14 changes according to whether or not the motor 10 is locked. A CPU 20 determines whether or not the motor 10 is locked according to the voltage detected by the voltage detection circuit 14.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090058332A1 LOCK DETECTION METHOD AND LOCK DETECTION CIRCUIT FOR MOTOR FOR POWER-FOLDING MIRROR Public/Granted day:2009-03-05
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