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Brushless DC motor driving circuit

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In this article, a brushless DC motor with a plurality of stator windings and a rotor made of a magnet is driven by energizing the stators successively, and signals induced in the plurality of windings resulting from the rotation of the rotor are detected as position signals of a rotor and at least one of stators which corresponds to the position signal is supplied with a driving signal.
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A brushless DC motor having a plurality of stator windings and a rotor made of a magnet is driven by energizing the stator windings successively, and in which signals induced in the plurality of stator windings resulting from the rotation of the rotor are detected as position signals of the rotor and at least one of the stator windings which corresponds to the position signal is supplied with a driving signal.

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