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Control system for actuators which can be separately energized and deenergized

US4199690A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 15, 1977
Grant dateApr 22, 1980
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Expiry dateAug 15, 1997

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG05D23/1912
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A control system for actuators which can be separately energized. The controller of the system has a two-position control unit and a three-position control unit and is followed by constant current source circuits, a stepping switch unit with threshold switches having a stepped reference voltage, as well as a logic circuitry interconnecting the stepping switch unit and the two-position control output. Prevention of overshoot or undershoot is achieved by means of additional logic circuitry interconnecting the switches at the positive and negative output of said three-position control unit, said two-position control output, and said first mentioned logic circuitry between the stepping switch unit and two-position control output. In this manner overshoot can be prevented by quickly de-energizing the actuator, which was last energized, when the actual value in the controlled system closely approaches the set-point or reference value.

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