Clutch - Mitsubishi Electric Q172CPU Programming Manual

7 TRANSMISSION MODULE

7.2 Clutch

The clutch is used to transmit/disengage the command pulse from drive module side to
output module side, and to control the operation/stop of servomotor.
There are two types for clutch: smoothing clutch and direct clutch.
These two clutches operate in the same way, but these have the difference in whether
the acceleration/deceleration processing by the smoothing processing is executed or
not at the switching of the clutch on/off.
(1) Smoothing clutch and direct clutch
(a) Smoothing clutch
When the clutch is switched on/off, output to the output axis with the
acceleration/deceleration processing (smoothing processing) set in the
clutch parameters.
There are following three systems for smoothing clutch.
1) Time constant system
2) Slippage system
• Exponential function system • Linear acceleration/deceleration system
(Note): Refer to Section 1.3.4 of the "Q173CPU(N)/Q172CPU(N) Motion
controller (SV13/SV22) Programming Manual (Motion SFC)" for
correspondence software version.
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