Drive control device for a stepper motor and drive control method of the stepper motor

Abstract

A stepper motor control device includes a sensor that detects physical quantities and a control device that operates a stepper motor based on data corresponding to the physical quantities sent from the sensor in which the said control device implements a target rotational angle computation process that calculates a target rotational angle of a drive shaft of the stepper motor based on data corresponding to the physical quantities sent from the sensor, a target rotational angle change computation process that calculates a target rotational angle change which is a difference between a present rotational angle of the drive shaft of the stepper motor and the target rotational angle and a divisional target rotational angle computation process that equally divides the target rotational angle change by a first divisional target rotational angle within a range not exceeding a rotational limit for loss of synchronism of the stepper motor whereby the said control device is a drive control device of the stepper motor that drives the stepper motor by supplying to the stepper motor a second divisional target rotational angle which is a value calculated by the divisional target rotational angle computation process as a rotational angle per one control period.

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