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Driving device and driving method of capacitive load and liquid jet printing apparatus

US7746127B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 1, 2008
Grant dateJun 29, 2010
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Expiry dateJan 19, 2029

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03K7/08
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A driving device of a capacitive load includes a modulator that executes pulse modulation on a drive waveform signal. An inductor performs low-pass filtering on the modulated drive waveform signal and outputs the low-pass filtered signal as a drive signal towards a load capacitor as the capacitive load. A load selection control circuit selects a load capacitor and a dummy load capacitor to be connected to the inductor so that a sum of the capacitances of the selected load capacitor and dummy load capacitor is kept within a predetermined range. A feedback circuit executes a filtering process on the drive signal so that a frequency characteristic of a passing band of the drive signal becomes substantially flat. The resulting signal is provided to the modulator as a feedback signal. The modulator executes the pulse modulation on a difference value between the drive waveform signal and the feedback signal.

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