Control system, and medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11813857-B2
Application number	US-202217678618-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 23, 2022
Priority date	Feb 24, 2021
Publication date	Nov 14, 2023
Grant date	Nov 14, 2023

Abstract

There is provided control system including: movement mechanism configured so that the movement mechanism is driven by motor; detector configured to detect position and speed of the movable member; and controller. The controller is configured to: control the motor so that the movement mechanism reciprocatively moves the movable member; and in a course to move the movable member to a returning point, control the movement of the movable member by controlling the motor based on the speed of the movable member so that the movable member is moved at a constant speed until a deceleration start point of time, and control the movement of the movable member by controlling the motor based on the position of the movable member so that the movable member is decelerated from the deceleration start point of time and stops at the returning point in accordance with a target position locus.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control system comprising:
a movement mechanism configured so that the movement mechanism is driven by a motor to move a movable member;
a detector configured to detect a position and a speed of the movable member; and
a controller configured to control movement of the movable member by controlling the motor based on the position and the speed of the movable member detected by the detector, wherein:
the controller is configured to:
control the motor so that the movement mechanism reciprocatively moves the movable member; and
in a course to move the movable member to a returning point, control the movement of the movable member by controlling the motor based on the speed of the movable member so that the movable member is moved at a constant speed until a deceleration start point of time before the movable member arrives at the returning point, and control the movement of the movable member by controlling the motor based on the position of the movable member so that the movable member is decelerated from the deceleration start point of time and stops at the returning point in accordance with a target position locus, the controlling of the motor based on the position of the movable member being started at the deceleration start point of time.

2. The control system according to claim 1 , wherein:
the movable member is configured to process an object in a course of movement; and
the controller is configured to:
switch a control mode for the course to move the movable member to the returning point among a plurality of control modes based on an execution schedule of a processing action performed by the movable member;
in a first control mode of the plurality of control modes, control the movement of the movable member by controlling the motor based on the speed of the movable member so that the movable member is moved at the constant speed until the deceleration start point of time, and the movable member is decelerated from the deceleration start point of time and stops at the returning point in accordance with a target speed locus; and
in a second control mode of the plurality of control modes, control the movement of the movable member by controlling the motor based on the speed of the movable member so that the movable member is moved at the constant speed until the deceleration start point of time, and control the movement of the movable member by controlling the motor based on the position of the movable member so that the movable member is decelerated from the deceleration start point of time and stops at the returning point in accordance with the target position locus.

3. The control system according to claim 2 , wherein in a case that the processing action is not scheduled for a course to move the movable member to a next returning point which follows the course to move the movable member to the returning point, the controller is configured to control the motor in the first control mode in the course to move the movable member to the returning point, and in a case that the processing action is scheduled for the course to move the movable member to the next returning point, the controller is configured to control the motor in the second control mode in the course to move the movable member to the returning point.

4. The control system according to claim 2 , wherein the movable member includes a discharge head configured to process a sheet as the object by discharging an ink to form an image on the sheet, and the processing action includes discharging the ink from the discharge head.

5. The control system according to claim 4 , wherein the discharge head is configured not to discharge the ink in one of an outward route and a homeward route in the course of the reciprocative movement of the movable member, and is configured to form the image on the sheet by discharging the ink in other one of the outward route and the homeward route in the course of the reciprocative movement of the movable member.

6. The control system according to claim 4 , wherein in the second control mode, in a case that the discharging of the ink in a course to move the discharge head to the returning point has been terminated at the deceleration start point of time, the controller is configured to control a position of the discharge head in accordance with the target position locus from the deceleration start point of time, and in a case that the discharging of the ink in the course to move the discharge head to the returning point has not been terminated at the deceleration start point of time, the controller is configured to control a speed of the discharge head so that the discharge head is decelerated in accordance with the target speed locus from the deceleration start point of time and is configured to control the position of the discharge head, after a point of time at which the discharging of the ink is terminated, so that the discharge head is decelerated and stops at the returning point in accordance with the target position locus.

7. The control system according to claim 1 , wherein, in a case that the processing action in the course to move the movable member to the returning point has been terminated at the deceleration start point of time, the controller is configured to control the position of the movable member in accordance with the target position locus from the deceleration start point of time, and in a case that the processing action in the course to move the movable member to the returning point has not been terminated at the deceleration start point of time, the controller is configured to control the speed of the movable member so that the movable member is decelerated in accordance with the target speed locus from the deceleration start point of time and is configured to control the position of the movable member, after a point of time at which the processing action is terminated, so that the movable member is decelerated and stops at the returning point in accordance with the target position locus.

8. The control system according to claim 4 , wherein the controller is further configured to control the motor so that the movement mechanism moves the discharge head to a capping position and stop the discharge head at the capping position by executing, every time the discharge head is moved by a predetermined amount, such control that a driving electric power for the motor is returned to a reference value and the driving electric power is thereafter increased.

9. The control system according to claim 4 , wherein the discharge head is configured to discharge the ink by using an ink supplied via an ink supply tube connected to the discharge head.

10. The control system according to claim 1 , wherein in a case that the controller starts the control of the movement of the movable member in accordance with the target position locus, the controller is configured to set an initial value of a target position to a present position of the movable member detected by the detector, and control the position of the movable member in accordance with the target position locus from the initial value.

11. The control system according to claim 2 , wherein the controller is configured to control the position of the movable member in accordance with a target position locus in which an initial value of a target position is set to a present position of the movable member detected by the detector when the controller starts the control based on the position of the movable member and which is defined by integrating the target speed locus.

12. The control system according to claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured so that:
in a case that the controller controls the movement of the mov

Assignees

• Brother Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Takahashi Eisuke
• Kiriyama Sachie

Classifications

• B41J19/202 Primary

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• B41J25/005

  for serial printing movements superimposed to character- or line-spacing movements · CPC title

• B41J19/207 Primary

  Encoding along a bar · CPC title