# US 4,393,340 A · Motor speed control device

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- Number: US 4,393,340 A
- Document ID: US4393340A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 06/272,378
- Filed: 1981-06-10
- Granted: 1983-07-12
- Earliest claimed: 1980-06-11
- Assignees: Olympus Optical Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Teruo Iwasama; Hitomi Tojiki
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US4393340A

## CPC

- H02P 6/08: Arrangements for controlling the speed or torque of a single motor (H02P6/10, H02P6/28 take precedence)
- G11B 15/54: by stroboscope; by tachometer
- H02P 5/00: Arrangements specially adapted for regulating or controlling the speed or torque of two or more electric motors (H02P6/04, H02P8/40 take precedence)
- H02P 23/16: Controlling the angular speed of one shaft (H02P23/18 takes precedence)
- Y10S 388/93: Load or torque
- H02P: CONTROL OR REGULATION OF ELECTRIC MOTORS, ELECTRIC GENERATORS OR DYNAMO-ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; CONTROLLING TRANSFORMERS, REACTORS OR CHOKE COILS
- G11B: INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER (recording measured values in a way that does not require playback through a transducer G01D9/00; recording or playback apparatus using mechanically marked tape, e.g. punched paper tape, or using unit records, e.g. punched or magnetically marked cards G06K; transferring data from one type of record carrier to another G06K1/18; circuits for coupling output of reproducer to radio receiver H04B1/20; gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers or circuits therefor H04R)
- Y10S: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS

## Abstract

A motor speed control device comprises means for generating pulse output corresponding to the revolution speed of the motor, means for generating saw-tooth wave output in synchronization with the pulse output, means for generating reference voltage, a current mirror load differential amplifier including a first amplifier element having a first current mirror circuit connected as load and supplied with the saw-tooth wave output and a second amplifier element having a second current mirror circuit connected as load and supplied with the reference voltage and for supplying current to the first or second current mirror circuit corresponding to the result of comparing the reference voltage with the saw-tooth wave output, an integrating circuit to be charged or discharged by the charging current flowing through one of the first and second current mirror circuits and the discharging current flowing through the other of both circuits, and means for driving the motor by output of the integrating circuit. The motor speed control device is used for electronic apparatuses such as a tape recorder.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A motor speed control device, comprising:
means for generating pulse output corresponding to the revolution speed of the motor;
means for generating saw-tooth output in synchronization with the pulse output;
means for generating reference voltage;
a current mirror load differential amplifier including a first amplifier element having a first current mirror circuit connected as load and supplied with the saw-tooth wave output and a second amplifier element having a second current mirror circuit connected as load and supplied with the reference voltage, and supplying current to the first or second current mirror circuit corresponding to the result of comparing the reference voltage with the saw-tooth wave output;
an integrating circuit to be charged or discharged by the charging current flowing through one of the first and second current mirror circuits and the discharging current flowing through the other of both current mirror circuits; and
means for driving the motor by output of the integrating circuit.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A motor speed control device according to claim 1, wherein said current load differential amplifier has the second current mirror circuit composed of a pair of transistors, emitter area of one transistor is N times as large as that of other transistor, and emitter area of the second amplifier element is N times as large as that of the first amplifier element.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

A motor speed control device according to claim 2, wherein emitter area of one transistor in a pair of transistors in said second current mirror circuit is three times as large as that of other transistor, and emitter area of the second amplifier element is three times as large as that of the first amplifier element.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1, 2, 3)

A motor speed control device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein MOS transistors are used in said transistors and the device is constituted by IC elements.