US Patent Issued to CANON on April 14 for "Image forming apparatus that detects stopping position of rotor of motor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,997, issued on April 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image forming apparatus that detects stopping position of rotor of motor" was invented by Shigeru Kameyama (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The image forming apparatus includes a motor including at least three coils, first terminals of which are connected to one another; and a motor control unit. The motor control unit detects a stopping position of the motor by executing measuring processing including performing control so that a coil current flows from a first coil to a second coil and measuring a current value. The motor control unit is configured to per...