Patent ID: 8310178

Claim:
A motor control apparatus for controlling a direct current (DC) motor, the apparatus comprising: a detection unit configured to detect an angular speed of the DC motor; a generation unit configured to gradually increase a third control value from a first control value corresponding to an angular speed lower than a target angular speed to a second control value corresponding to an angular speed higher than the target angular speed; a feedback control unit configured to calculate a fourth control value based on the target angular speed and the detection result of the detection unit and generate a sixth control value based on the fourth control value and a fifth control value corresponding to the target angular speed, the fifth control value being higher than the first control value and being lower than the second control value; and a control unit configured to, when the DC motor is accelerated to target angular speed, control a driving of the DC motor based on the third control value, and switch the third control value to the sixth control value in response to the detection result of the detection unit reaching the target angular speed.