Positioning apparatus

• US 5,941,359 A
• Filed: 08/21/1997
• Issued: 08/24/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Printe Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Printe Company Limited
• Inventors: Naito, Yoshikatsu
• Primary Examiner(s): Herrmann, Allan D.
• Application Number:
  US08/915,983
• Time in Patent Office: 733 Days
• Field of Search: 192/146, 318/369, 318/467, 318/600
• US Class Current: 192/146
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/238 the positional error is only used to control speed in steps according to distance left, or to give a stop signal when error reaches zero
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/43001 Speed, feed, infeed, acceleration, stopping problems
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/43006 Acceleration, deceleration control
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/43194 Speed steps, switch over as function of position

Abstract

A control object can be stopped at a target position with high precision by decelerating braking performed by decreasing a control speed of a speed controller and by decelerating braking performed by braking operation of a brake device. A positioning apparatus includes a rotation detecting sensor S coupled to a rotary shaft for rotating or rectilinearly driving a control object. A normal-reverse rotation discriminating circuit DD for discriminating normal rotation of the rotary shaft from reverse rotation thereof. A first decelerating position memory B1 for holding at least one decelerating position where low-speed driving operation is to be started, and second decelerating position memory B2 for holding at least one decelerating position where braking operation is to be started. First and second decelerating position comparators CP1 and CP2 for comparing counted values with first and second decelerating positions in the first and second decelerating position memories B1 and B2. A rotation speed controller for rotating the rotary shaft of the rotation driving source at a constant speed. Driving controller DR for outputting a decelerating signal for changing a control speed to the rotation speed controller on the basis of a result of comparison output from the first decelerating position comparator, a brake device decreasing at least the rotation speed as a result of comparison output from the second decelerating position comparator, and brake control means BR for outputting a brake signal to the brake device.

Claims

1. A positioning apparatus comprising:

a rotation detecting sensor coupled to a rotary shaft for rotating or rectilinearly driving a control object for outputting two or more pulses having a phase difference with rotation of the rotary shaft;

normal-reverse rotation discriminating means for discriminating normal rotation of the rotary shaft from reverse rotation thereof on the basis of a relationship between phases of the two or more pulses output from the rotation detecting sensor;

pulse counting means for adding or subtracting the pulses output from the rotation detecting sensor in response to a discriminating signal output from the normal-reverse rotation discriminating circuit;

first decelerating position storing means for holding at least one decelerating position where low-speed driving operation is to be started;

second decelerating position storing means for holding at least one decelerating position where braking operation is to be started;

first and second decelerating position comparing means for comparing a value counted by the pulse counting means with first and second decelerating positions held by the first and second decelerating position storing means;

a rotation driving source for rotating the rotary shaft;

a rotation speed controller for rotating the rotary shaft of the rotation driving source at a constant speed by inverter control;

driving control means for outputting a decelerating signal for changing a control speed to the rotation speed controller on the basis of a result of comparison output from the first decelerating position comparing means;

a brake device capable of decreasing at least the rotation speed on the basis of a result of comparison output from the second decelerating position comparing means; and

brake control means for outputting a brake signal to the brake device.

2. The positioning apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the pulse counting means is formed by cycle counting means using, as a cycle, a target value previously given as a count quantity of the pulse counting means corresponding to a rotation angle of a drive shaft from a current position to a target position where the control object is to be driven.

3. The positioning apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the pulse counting means includes first pulse counting means for performing addition by the normal rotation of the rotary shaft and performing subtraction by the reverse rotation of the rotary shaft, and second pulse counting means for performing the subtraction by the normal rotation of the rotary shaft and performing the addition by the reverse rotation of the rotary shaft,

the positioning apparatus further comprising;

code discriminating means for deciding whether the relationship between the position of the control object and the target position is that the control object has passed the target position, or that the control object has not passed the target position in response to the discriminating signal output from the normal-reverse rotation discriminating circuit and a zero coincidence signal of the count value of the second pulse counting means; and

display means for displaying a displacement of the control object from the target position on the basis of a result of discrimination of the code discriminating means and results of count of the first and second pulse counting means.