Motor-driven appliance

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9543871-B2
Application number	US-201414449456-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 1, 2014
Priority date	Aug 7, 2013
Publication date	Jan 10, 2017
Grant date	Jan 10, 2017

Abstract

A motor-driven appliance of one aspect of the present disclosure includes a motor and a controller. The controller includes a physical quantity detector, a variation deriving portion, a loaded condition detector, and driving output portion. The physical quantity detector detects a physical quantity related to an operating state of the motor. The variation deriving portion derives a variation in the physical quantity based upon the physical quantity detected by the physical quantity detector. The loaded condition detector detects that the motor is under a loaded condition in which the motor is applied with a load based upon the variation derived by the variation deriving portion. The driving output portion generates the driving output corresponding to whether the loaded condition is detected by the loaded condition detector.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A motor-driven appliance comprising:
a motor;
an appliance element configured to be driven by the motor; and
a controller configured to control a driving output to drive the motor, the controller comprising:
a physical quantity detector configured to detect a physical quantity related to an operating state of the motor;
a variation deriving portion configured to derive a variation in the physical quantity based upon the physical quantity detected by the physical quantity detector;
a loaded condition detector configured to detect that the motor is under a loaded condition in which the motor is applied with a load based upon the variation derived by the variation deriving portion; and
a driving output portion configured to generate the driving output corresponding to whether the loaded condition is detected by the loaded condition detector, the driving output portion being configured to generate the driving output capable of driving the motor to drive the appliance element at a first speed when the loaded condition is not detected by the loaded condition detector and to generate the driving output capable of driving the motor to drive the appliance element at a second speed when the loaded condition is detected by the loaded condition detector, the first speed being a predetermined constant speed, and the second speed being higher than the first speed.

2. The motor-driven appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the loaded condition detector is adapted to detect that the motor is under the loaded condition at least one of when the variation derived by the variation deriving portion is a positive value indicative of an increase in the physical quantity or when the variation is greater than a predetermined positive threshold value.

3. The motor-driven appliance according to claim 2 , wherein the physical quantity detector is configured to detect the physical quantity at every predetermined detection time, the variation deriving portion is configured to derive at the every predetermined detection time a variation between a previous physical quantity detected by the physical quantity detector at a previous detection time of the every predetermined detection time and a current physical quantity detected by the physical quantity detector at a current detection time of the every predetermined detection time,
wherein the controller comprises: an increase determination portion configured to determine at the every predetermined detection time whether the variation derived by the variation deriving portion is a positive value; and a counter configured to count a frequency of increase that is the number of times that the increase determination portion determines that the variation derived by the variation deriving portion is the positive value within a detecting period of time between a detection time a predetermined period of time before a current detection time and the current detection time, and
wherein the loaded condition detector is configured to detect that the motor is under the loaded condition when the frequency of increase counted by the counter is greater than a predetermined threshold number of times.

4. The motor-driven appliance according to claim 2 , wherein the physical quantity detector is configured to detect the physical quantity at every predetermined detection time, the variation deriving portion is configured to derive at the every predetermined detection time a variation between a previous physical quantity detected by the physical quantity detector at a previous detection time of the every predetermined detection time and a current physical quantity detected by the physical quantity detector at a current detection time of the every predetermined detection time,
wherein the controller comprises a sum calculator configured to calculate at the every predetermined detection time a sum of the variation derived by the variation deriving portion within a detecting period of time between a detection time a predetermined period of time before a current detection time and the current detection time, and
wherein the loaded condition detector is configured to detect that the motor is under the loaded condition when the sum calculated by the sum calculator is greater than a predetermined sum threshold value.

5. The motor-driven appliance according to claim 3 ,
wherein the controller comprises a sum calculator configured to calculate at the every predetermined detection time a sum of the variation derived by the variation deriving portion within a detecting period of time between a detection time a predetermined period of time before a current detection time and the current detection time, and
wherein the loaded condition detector is configured to detect that the motor is under the loaded condition when the frequency of increase counted by the counter is greater than the predetermined threshold number of times and when the sum calculated by the sum calculator is greater than a predetermined sum threshold value.

6. The motor-driven appliance according to claim 2 , wherein the controller further comprises a threshold number of times setting portion configured to switch the threshold number of times from a value used from the start of the motor driving by the driving output generated by the driving output portion until a predetermined time elapses to a value used after the predetermined time has elapsed, wherein these two values are different.

7. The motor-driven appliance according to claim 3 , wherein the controller further comprises a sum threshold value setting portion configured to switch the sum threshold value from a value used from the start of the motor driving by the driving output generated by the driving output portion until a predetermined time elapses to a value used after the predetermined time has elapsed, wherein these two values are different.

8. The motor-driven appliance according to claim 4 , wherein the controller further comprises a sum threshold value setting portion configured to switch the sum threshold value from a value used from the start of the motor driving by the driving output generated by the driving output portion until a predetermined time elapses to a value used after the predetermined time has elapsed, wherein these two values are different.

9. The motor-driven appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the physical quantity detector is adapted to detect a current flowing to the motor as the physical quantity, and the variation deriving portion is adapted to derive a variation in the current detected by the physical quantity detector as the variation.

10. The motor-driven appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the motor-driven appliance is a power saw and the appliance element is used in the power saw.

11. The motor-driven appliance according to claim 1 , wherein the driving output portion is configured to generate the driving output having a predetermined constant duty ratio when the loaded condition is not detected by the loaded condition detector.

12. A motor-driven appliance comprising:
a motor;
an appliance element configured to be driven by the motor;
an operating portion configured to be operated by a user of the motor-driven appliance; and
a controller configured to control a driving output to drive the motor, the controller comprising:
a physical quantity detector configured to detect a physical quantity related to an operating state of the motor;
a variation deriving portion configured to derive a variation in the physical quantity based upon the physical quantity detected by the physical quantity detector;
a loaded condition detector configured to detect that the motor is under a loaded condition in wh

Assignees

• Makita Corp

Inventors

• Kato Itsuku

Classifications

• H02P7/2913

  whereby the speed is regulated by measuring the motor speed and comparing it with a given physical value · CPC title

• H02P31/00

  Arrangements for regulating or controlling electric motors not provided for in groups H02P1/00 - H02P5/00, H02P7/00 or H02P21/00 - H02P29/00 · CPC title

• H02P7/06 Primary

  for regulating or controlling an individual DC dynamo-electric motor by varying field or armature current · CPC title

• G05B6/02

  electric · CPC title

• H02P27/08 Primary

  with pulse width modulation · CPC title