JPS5886711A - Malfunction detection method - Google Patents

Malfunction detection method

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Publication number
JPS5886711A
JPS5886711A JP18574081A JP18574081A JPS5886711A JP S5886711 A JPS5886711 A JP S5886711A JP 18574081 A JP18574081 A JP 18574081A JP 18574081 A JP18574081 A JP 18574081A JP S5886711 A JPS5886711 A JP S5886711A
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solenoid
time
drive circuit
output
voltage
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Hiroshi Takahashi
浩 高橋
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Canon Inc
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Canon Inc
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H01ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01FMAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
    • H01F7/00Magnets
    • H01F7/06Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets
    • H01F7/08Electromagnets; Actuators including electromagnets with armatures
    • H01F7/18Circuit arrangements for obtaining desired operating characteristics, e.g. for slow operation, for sequential energisation of windings, for high-speed energisation of windings
    • H01F7/1844Monitoring or fail-safe circuits

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  • Electromagnetism (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Power Engineering (AREA)
  • Accessory Devices And Overall Control Thereof (AREA)
  • Impact Printers (AREA)

Abstract

(57)【要約】本公報は電子出願前の出願データであるた
め要約のデータは記録されません。
(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

【発明の詳細な説明】 本発明はブリ/ター等に用いられるソレノイド駆動回路
が正常に動作したか、否かを、検出する為の誤動作方式
に関する。
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a malfunction method for detecting whether or not a solenoid drive circuit used in a burr/tar etc. is operating normally.

従来、多数のソレノイドを有する装置、例えばプリンタ
等のソレノイド駆動回路が正常に動作したか、否かを判
別する為に、駆動回路の出力トランジスタのON 、 
OFFを論理的に検出する方法があったoしかしこの従
来方式によっては、駆動回路までの動作は確認できるが
、実際にソレノイドに電流が流れたか、否か、までの判
断は出来なかった。
Conventionally, in order to determine whether or not a solenoid drive circuit of a device having a large number of solenoids, such as a printer, is operating normally, it is necessary to turn on the output transistor of the drive circuit.
There was a method to logically detect OFF.However, with this conventional method, although it was possible to check the operation of the drive circuit, it was not possible to determine whether or not current actually flowed through the solenoid.

本発明は、係る点に鑑みて成されたものであり、駆動回
路、ソレノイドコイル、電源等の構成要素のいずれが原
因であっても誤動作を検出する事の出来る、極めて有効
な方式を提供出来るものである。
The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and can provide an extremely effective method that can detect malfunctions caused by any component such as the drive circuit, solenoid coil, or power supply. It is something.

以下一実施例に基すき本発明の詳細な説明するO 第1図は、本発明に係るソレノイド駆動装置のブロック
図であり CPUは制御装置であって、ソレノイドの駆動タイミン
グ信号を発生させ、又、誤動作検出の一部をも兼ねてお
り、誤りを検出するとエラーランプBを点灯させる。
The present invention will be described in detail based on one embodiment below. Figure 1 is a block diagram of a solenoid drive device according to the present invention, and the CPU is a control device that generates a drive timing signal for the solenoid. , also serves as a part of malfunction detection, and lights up error lamp B when an error is detected.

OMPはコンパレータであり一人力v8と十入力孔を比
較しv8よりV。が高いとき、出力Tを1にする08Q
Lは多数のソレノイドとその駆動回路等の総称であり、
制御装置OPUの出力R1〜R4によって目的のソレノ
イドを駆動すべく構成されており、その詳細を第2図に
よって説明する。
OMP is a comparator and compares the single power v8 and the ten input hole, and it is more V than v8. 08Q which sets output T to 1 when is high
L is a general term for a large number of solenoids and their drive circuits, etc.
It is configured to drive a target solenoid by outputs R1 to R4 of the control device OPU, and its details will be explained with reference to FIG.

L、〜L4は4コのソレノイドコイルであり、各ソレノ
イドコイルの駆動回路側には各々、ダイオードD、〜D
4がつながり各ダイオードの一方は、共通出力線V0に
つながる。
L and ~L4 are four solenoid coils, and diodes D and ~D are respectively connected to the drive circuit side of each solenoid coil.
4 are connected, and one of each diode is connected to the common output line V0.

これ等のダイオードはソレノイドコイル駆動トランジス
タQ、−Q、がONからOFFに変化した時、ソレノイ
ドに蓄えられたエネルギーを放出させる為に用いるもの
であり、従来はダイオードのコモン側の線■。はソレノ
イドの電源v8oLに直接つなげるものであるが、本発
明に於いては、ソレノイドの磁気エネルギーを単純に電
源に戻すのではなく、このエネルギーを一度コモン線v
oと電源v80L間に入れたコンデンサOTに蓄えた後
抵抗RTを通して電源焉。1に流す様に構成した。尚、
駆動トランジスタQ1〜Q4のペースにはそれぞれベー
ス抵抗RBと入力抵抗RIが接続され1人力抵抗−には
それぞれ前記制御回路CPUの出力信号、R1−R4が
つながっている。
These diodes are used to release the energy stored in the solenoid when the solenoid coil drive transistors Q and -Q change from ON to OFF, and conventionally, the common side line of the diode is connected to the line ■. is connected directly to the solenoid's power supply v8oL, but in the present invention, instead of simply returning the magnetic energy of the solenoid to the power supply, this energy is once connected to the common line v8oL.
After storing it in the capacitor OT inserted between o and the power supply v80L, the power supply is terminated through the resistor RT. It was configured to flow in 1. still,
A base resistor RB and an input resistor RI are connected to the paces of the driving transistors Q1 to Q4, respectively, and the output signals R1 to R4 of the control circuit CPU are connected to each of the resistors.

以上の如く構成した一実施例の動作について第3図のタ
イミングチャートに従って説明する〇崗タイミング泌ヤ
ードは制御装置がL2を駆動した後、つづいてり、とり
、を同時に駆動する場合についてのものである。
The operation of the embodiment configured as described above will be explained according to the timing chart shown in FIG. be.

まず制御回路はソレノイドIj2を駆動する為に出力R
1をlにすると、駆動回路のトランジスタQ、がONI
、てソレノイドL、に電流を流す、次に所望の時間径制
御回路CPUが鴫出カ信号1゜にする。するとソレノイ
ド駆動回路のトランジスタQ、がOFFになる。この後
、駆動トランジスタQ、がONの時に蓄えられた磁気エ
ネルギーq工。
First, the control circuit outputs R to drive solenoid Ij2.
When 1 is set to l, the transistor Q of the drive circuit becomes ONI.
, a current flows through the solenoid L, and then the desired time diameter control circuit CPU sets the output signal to 1°. Then, the transistor Q of the solenoid drive circuit is turned off. After this, the magnetic energy q is stored when the drive transistor Q is turned on.

は、電流となつ−CダイオードD、を通りコンデンサ叫
に流れ込み、コンデンサcTの両端には電圧Vを発生す
る。この時の電圧Vはコンデンサqの容量をC2流れ込
んだ電荷量をq。とすnばυ=qo10であり、共通線
V。には、v8o、1.+υノ電圧が表われる。即ち、
第3図V。の波形のようになる。その後コンデンサC1
に蓄えられた電荷Qaは、抵抗RTを通り電荷量q。に
よって決まる時間をかけて電源v8゜1に放出される。
becomes a current and flows into the capacitor through the diode D, generating a voltage V across the capacitor cT. The voltage V at this time is the amount of charge flowing into C2 through the capacitance of capacitor q. and n=qo10, and the common line V. includes v8o, 1. +υ voltage appears. That is,
Figure 3 V. The waveform will look like this. Then capacitor C1
The charge Qa stored in passes through the resistor RT and becomes the charge amount q. It is discharged to the power supply v8°1 over a period of time determined by .

一方共通線V。は第1図に示した様に電圧比較器OMP
の+側入力に接続されており、又−個入力には基準電圧
としてv8が加えられている。この基準電圧はソレノイ
ドの電源電圧v8oI、より少し高めに設定されている
On the other hand, common line V. is the voltage comparator OMP as shown in Figure 1.
It is connected to the + side input of , and v8 is applied as a reference voltage to the - input. This reference voltage is set slightly higher than the solenoid power supply voltage v8oI.

即ち、第3図に示した如く共通線V。が基準電圧VBを
上まわった時、比較器OMFの出力Tが1となる。この
出力Tが1になっている時間は、前記したコンデンサO
TK蓄えられた電荷量q。によって決まる時間、【、で
ある0又、比較器の出力Tは、制御装置OPUに入力さ
れる。制御装置OP[Jはこの信号Tが1になっている
時間を計る。
That is, the common line V as shown in FIG. When the voltage exceeds the reference voltage VB, the output T of the comparator OMF becomes 1. The time during which this output T is 1 is the time when the above-mentioned capacitor O
TK The amount of charge stored q. The output T of the comparator is input to the control unit OPU. The control device OP[J measures the time during which this signal T is 1.

そして、その時間が予め設定された時間と違わないかを
判別するものである。予め設定されたの式によって決ま
る時間である。崗、式中のnは、何個のソレノイドを駆
動したかの数である。
Then, it is determined whether the time is different from a preset time. The time is determined by a preset formula. n in the formula is the number of solenoids driven.

今制御回路はソレノイドコイル個を駆動【7たのでn=
1である。又判別の結果、時間が一致しなければ、例え
ば、比較器の出力Tが1の時間が零であればソレノイド
や配線に断線があった、又は駆動回路がこわれていた等
、何等かの理由でソレノイドに電流が流れなかった事に
なる。
Now the control circuit drives solenoid coils [7, so n=
It is 1. If the times do not match as a result of the determination, for example, if the time when the output T of the comparator is 1 is 0, there may be some reason such as a break in the solenoid or wiring, or a broken drive circuit. This means that no current flows through the solenoid.

又、比較器の出力Tが1の時間が長すぎた場合は配線の
ショート等、何等かの理由で2つ以上のソレノイドがO
N l、てしまった事がわかる。
Also, if the comparator output T is 1 for too long, two or more solenoids may be turned off due to some reason such as a short circuit in the wiring.
N l, I know what happened.

この様な時制御回路CPUは、う/プEを点灯させ誤動
作を知らせる。
In such a case, the control circuit CPU lights up the U/P E to notify the malfunction.

さて、制御装置はつづいてソレノイドL3. I’1を
同時にONさせる為、出力R,,R,にlを出力する。
Now, the control device continues with solenoid L3. In order to turn on I'1 at the same time, l is output to outputs R,,R,.

これによって駆動回路のトランジスタQ、。This causes the transistor Q of the drive circuit.

Q4がONとなりソレノイドL3t L4に電流を流す
Q4 turns ON and current flows through solenoids L3t and L4.

制御装置CPUは再び一定時間経過後、出力”!+R4
を0にする。従って、駆動トランジスタQstQ4がO
FFとなり、ソレノイドに蓄えられた磁気エネルギーq
IJは、それぞれダイオードD8.及びD4を通りコ/
デンナCTに蓄えられる。この時コンデンサCTの両端
には、前記ソレノイドL、を駆動した時と同様に電圧ν
が表われるが、今度はソレノイドL、 、 L、の2つ
を同時にONさせていたので、  u = 2 X q
c / Oとなる。つづいてこの電荷2 X q、は抵
抗臀を通して、電荷量2Xqcに基ずく時間で放出され
第3図のV。の如き電圧変化を示し、その電圧に基すき
比較器OMPの出力Tは”1′′を出力する。制御回路
CPUは、こ・のTが”1″の時間を計り、前記時間の
式tと比鰐し、違っていないかを判定する。
The control device CPU outputs “!+R4” again after a certain period of time has elapsed.
Set to 0. Therefore, drive transistor QstQ4 is O
becomes FF, and the magnetic energy q stored in the solenoid
IJ are diodes D8. and through D4/
Stored in denna CT. At this time, a voltage ν is applied across the capacitor CT in the same way as when driving the solenoid L.
appears, but this time two solenoids L, , and L were turned on at the same time, so u = 2 X q
c/O. Subsequently, this charge 2Xq, is discharged through the resistor in a time based on the amount of charge 2Xqc, and becomes V in FIG. Based on the voltage, the output T of the plow comparator OMP outputs "1".The control circuit CPU measures the time when this T is "1", and calculates the time expression t. Compare the two and determine if there is a difference.

以上、説明した様に本発明は、駆動回路のみならず、駆
動回路以降の配線やソレノイドそのものに不具合があっ
ても、それを検出する事が出来るElその構成が極めて
シンプルであり安価に出来るため、極めて有効な検出方
式を提供し得るものである。
As explained above, the present invention is capable of detecting defects not only in the drive circuit but also in the wiring after the drive circuit or the solenoid itself.The structure of the element is extremely simple and can be made at low cost. , which can provide an extremely effective detection method.

【図面の簡単な説明】[Brief explanation of drawings]

第1図は本発明の一実施例を示すブロック図であり、O
PU ・・・制御装置、OMP・・電圧比較器。 SQL・・・ソレノイド、及び駆動回路、図 第2図はソレノイド、駆動回へ、第3図は、各部の波形
及びタイミングを示すタイミングチャート図である。 出M  人  キャノン株式会社 C」社−−1 v、ot
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.
PU: Control unit, OMP: Voltage comparator. SQL... Solenoid and drive circuit, Figure 2 shows the solenoid and drive circuit, and Figure 3 is a timing chart showing the waveforms and timing of each part. Person from Canon Co., Ltd. C”--1 v, ot

Claims (1)

【特許請求の範囲】[Claims] に抵抗を接続し、前記コンデンサの両端に発生する電圧
を検出し、基準電圧と比較することによりソレノイドの
誤動作を検出することを特徴とする誤動作検出方式。
A malfunction detection method characterized in that a resistor is connected to the capacitor, a voltage generated across the capacitor is detected, and a malfunction of a solenoid is detected by comparing it with a reference voltage.
JP18574081A 1981-11-19 1981-11-19 Malfunction detection method Pending JPS5886711A (en)

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Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
JPS62290111A (en) * 1986-06-09 1987-12-17 Mitsubishi Electric Corp Fault detection circuit for inductive-load drive circuit
JPH05152127A (en) * 1991-11-29 1993-06-18 Yamaha Corp Solenoid abnormality detection circuit

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
JPS62290111A (en) * 1986-06-09 1987-12-17 Mitsubishi Electric Corp Fault detection circuit for inductive-load drive circuit
JPH05152127A (en) * 1991-11-29 1993-06-18 Yamaha Corp Solenoid abnormality detection circuit

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