RADIO CONTROL TRANSMITTER

• US 20130207828A1
• Filed: 02/07/2013
• Published: 08/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Futaba Corporation
• Original Assignee: Futaba Corporation
• Inventors: TANAKA, Masahiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,165,459 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 341/176
• CPC Class Codes: A63H 30/04 using wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 19/00 Electric signal transmission systems G08C17/00 takes precedence

Abstract

A transmitter for controlling a target to be controlled having a motor, the transmitter includes: a start-up manipulation member to control starting and stopping of the motor; a rotational speed control manipulation member to control a rotational speed of the motor according to an operation amount; a control unit to generate the steering signal such that the motor is rotated according to the operation amount of the rotational speed control manipulation member when the operation amount of the rotational speed control manipulation member is equal to or greater than a preset start position while the start-up manipulation member is in a start-up state; and a transmitting unit to transmit the steering signal.

Claims

1. A transmitter for controlling a target to be controlled having a motor as a power unit by transmitting a steering signal, the transmitter comprising:

a start-up manipulation member to control starting and stopping of the motor;

a rotational speed control manipulation member to control a rotational speed of the motor according to an operation amount thereof;

a storage unit to store a start position that is an operation amount of the rotational speed control manipulation member at which the motor starts to rotate;

a control unit to generate the steering signal such that the motor is rotated according to the operation amount of the rotational speed control manipulation member when the operation amount of the rotational speed control manipulation member is equal to or greater than the start position while the start-up manipulation member is in a start-up state; and

a transmitting unit to transmit the steering signal.

2. The transmitter of claim 1, wherein the control unit generates the steering signal such that the motor is rotated at a low rotational speed without being stopped even if the operation amount of the rotational speed control manipulation member is less than the start position while the motor is rotating.

3. The transmitter of claim 1, further comprising a setting unit to set the start position.

4. The transmitter of claim 2, further comprising a setting unit to set the start position.

5. The transmitter of claim 1, further comprising a rotational speed adjustment manipulation member which can set the rotational speed of the motor being rotated at a low rotational speed.

6. The transmitter of claim 2, further comprising a rotational speed adjustment manipulation member which can set the rotational speed of the motor being rotated at a low rotational speed.

7. The transmitter of claim 3, further comprising a rotational speed adjustment manipulation member which can set the rotational speed of the motor being rotated at a low rotational speed.

8. The transmitter of claim 4, further comprising a rotational speed adjustment manipulation member which can set the rotational speed of the motor being rotated at a low rotational speed.