Radio control transmitter

• US 9,165,459 B2
• Filed: 02/07/2013
• Issued: 10/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Futaba Corporation
• Original Assignee: Futaba Corporation
• Inventors: Tanaka, Masahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): HOLLOWAY III, EDWIN C
• Application Number:
  US13/761,389
• Publication Number:
  US 20130207828A1
• Time in Patent Office: 985 Days
• Field of Search: 341/176, 340/12.22, 701/2, 446/456, 318/581
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 control target having a motor as a power unit by transmitting a steering signal to the control target, 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 corresponding to an operation amount of the rotational speed control manipulation member at which the motor starts to rotate;

a control unit configured to generate the steering signal such that, while the start-up manipulation member is in a start-up state, the motor does not start to rotate until the operation amount of the rotational speed control manipulation member is increased to reach the start position and 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; 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 constant rotational speed, without being stopped even if the operation amount of the rotational speed control manipulation member becomes 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 2, further comprising a rotational speed adjustment manipulation member configured to set a value of the constant rotational speed.

6. The transmitter of claim 4, further comprising a rotational speed adjustment manipulation member configured to set a value of the constant rotational speed.