Stable and precise control make stepper motors sutiable for applications such as printers, office appliances and industrial equipment.
To avoid stalling and achieve stable operation sufficient current margin is needed. To improve efficiency and suppress excess heat generation torque margin control is highly desirable. This could require complicated current adjustment by real-time monitoring of motor torque and current feedback, using additional sensors and microcontrollers. To solve these problems, Toshiba has developed Active Gain Control (AGC) technolgoy. AGC automatically optimizes the motor current depending on the torque needed. It prevents motors from stalling and provides the optimum efficient motor control solution.
To provide sufficient margin for the motor torque required, motor control drivers (MCDs) generally supply a motor drive current greater than the peak current at the maximum load. This means that extra current continues flowing all the time. In order to minimize unnecessary current consumption, a sensor or a microcontroller is used to monitor the changes in load conditions, thereby adjusting the motor drive current according to the load conditions. This feedback process requires extremely complicated control. Toshiba offers motor driver ICs incorporating Active Gain Control (AGC) technology, which sense a motor's load torque and automatically optimizes the motor drive current. This makes it possible to prevent a motor from going out of step while simplifying high-efficiency motor control.
Active Gain Control (AGC) technology automatically adjusts a motor drive current according to a motor's load conditions in order to reduce extra current, thereby considerably reducing the amount of heat generated by the motor driver IC and the motor. This helps reduce overall heat generation in a system and the resulting degradation.
Toshiba offers various stepping motor drivers that deliver the substantial benefits of Active Gain Control (AGC). Stepping motor drivers with a clock input and those with a phase input are both available. If you want to evaluate your product plan or design using a stepping motor incorporating AGC technology, reference designs are available for download.
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Toshiba offers an extensive lineup of stepping motor drivers fabricated using a BiCD process that provides high accuracy and high-current capability. Toshiba's stepping motor drivers are available in bipolar and unipolar configurations.
*1 The TB67S105 and TB67S145 do not support micro-stepping.
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Toshiba's original ADMD technology tracks input current more closely than the conventional mixed-decay mode, making highly efficient motor control possible at high rpm.
Products incorporating the ADMD technology:
TB67S101A TB67S102A TB67S103A TB67S105 TB67S109A TB67S261 TB67S265 TB67S269
Toshiba's original ACDS technology enables motor drive with highly accurate constant current without requiring external current-sensing resistors.
The reduced part count also helps reduce the board area and the bill-of-material (BOM) cost.
Products incorporating the ACDS technology:
TB67S141 TB67S142 TB67S145 TB67S149 TB67S179
Fabricated using a state-of-the-art high-voltage analog process (130-nm BiCD process), Toshiba's stepping motor drivers combine low-voltage control circuitry with high-voltage DMOS output drivers on the same monolithic structure. Consequently, high-voltage motor drivers rated at 84 V can be housed in the small WQFN48 (7 mm × 7 mm) package, which helps reduce the solution size.
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