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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8848492
APP PUB NO 20120307602A1
SERIAL NO

13578929

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When recovering power from a motor driver, a forward voltage across a parasitic diode can reduce the recovery efficiency, and control of a power recovery operation can take an unnecessarily long time. In order to address this problem, the power recovery operation is performed as follows without being affected by a parasitic diode: near a peak position of a waveform of an induced current resulting from free oscillation of a rotor after a drive pulse is output, a recovery pulse having such a level that the rotor does not rotate is output from a terminal different from a motor driver terminal to which the drive pulse was output. Also, by adjusting the width and output timing of the recovery pulse based on a power supply voltage, the power recovery can be optimized for the power supply voltage.

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  • CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Namekawa, Masaaki Kiyose, JP 14 77
Takyo, Yu Nishitokyo, JP 7 18

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