Toshiba Motor Controller & Driver ICs
Toshiba Motor Controller and Driver ICs offer a wide range of products that optimize the control of brushed, brushless, and stepper motors in various applications, including consumer, industrial, and automotive. With over four decades of experience in motor control driver ICs, Toshiba provides fully integrated drivers that simplify motor control designs and are loaded with numerous advanced features, making motors operate efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively.
Toshiba motor drivers are ideal for driving brushed motors for straightforward motion controls, brushless motors for high-speed, low-noise, and efficient operations, and stepper motors for precision applications typically found in industrial, consumer, healthcare, and automotive spaces.
Brushed Motor Driver ICs (H-Bridge Drivers)
Toshiba offers a range of robust and cost-effective Brushed motor driver ICs for various workhorse applications. Applications include printers, actuators, dispensers, shades and blinds, and robotics, among others. Brushed motor drivers are H-Bridge devices that also drive latching relays and bi-directional solenoids. Toshiba offers drivers with up to 4 channels, featuring many package options and several pin-to-pin compatible popular Brushed motor drivers on the market.
Brushless Motor Controller/Driver ICs
Toshiba offers a broad range of fully integrated drivers that simplify many low-power designs, semi-integrated controllers with gate drivers for medium-power applications, and highly configurable controllers for a wide range of voltage and power designs with flexibility. Toshiba solutions are suitable for sensorless motors typically found in low-inertia rotational devices such as fans, pumps, and vacuums. Toshiba solutions also control sensor-based motors, including those used in robotics, mixers, shredders, grinders, power tools, garage door openers, exercise equipment, and agricultural equipment.
Toshiba introduces various brushless motor control technologies, including Intelligent Phase Control for optimal efficiency, closed-loop speed control for automatic speed regulation, a current monitoring function, sensorless sinewave drive, and three-phase driving with a single Hall sensor.
Stepping Motor Driver ICs
Toshiba offers stepper motor driver ICs for precision applications commonly found in printers, scanners, actuators, automations, robotics, sorting machines, and many other industrial applications. Toshiba’s technologies include Active Gain Control (AGC), which adjusts the current on demand with respect to the load, minimizing the power loss; Advanced Dynamic Mixed Decay (ADMD), which optimizes the current switching; and advanced microstepping, which optimizes the motor driving precision as well as offloads the CPU resource. Toshiba Stepper Motor Drivers cover 1.8V to 50V and 0.8A to 5.0A operation and are offered in a variety of package options.