BACKGROUND

Field

The present disclosure relates to a board including a motor driver control circuit that controls the operation of a motor, and an electronic device including the board.

DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART

Some electronic devices, such as printers, are sold as different models; the models include a common driver board for controlling loads, and some of the loads are removed or modified.

For example, a motor (e.g., a stepper motor) controlled by a driver board in a color printer and a motor (e.g., a direct current (DC) motor) controlled by a driver board in a monochrome printer may be different from each other. If the motor driver board of the color printer and the motor driver board of the monochrome printer are remodeled, the cost increases. Thus, the motor in the color printer and the motor in the monochrome printer need to be controlled on a common board. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2009-176785 discusses an engine board in which the number of ports and the wiring structure are elaborated such that the engine board can connect to both a main board of a color printer and a main board of a monochrome printer.

In an engine board discussed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2009-176785, a port for connecting to a main board of an apparatus A including a color scanner and a wire that connects a second communication unit and the port are provided. This engine board can also connect to a main board of an apparatus B including a monochrome scanner, but the port and the wire are not used in a case where the engine board is connected to the main board of the apparatus B. In Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2009-176785, the port and the wire are provided such that the engine board can connect to both the apparatuses A and B, but a single motor driver control circuit cannot drive different types of motors in this configuration.

SUMMARY

The present disclosure is directed to providing a board capable of controlling different types of motors with a single motor driver control circuit.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a board includes a motor driver control circuit including a first H-bridge and a second H-bridge, a first connector to which an output from the first H-bridge and an output from the second H-bridge are to be input, a first wire and a second wire configured to input the output from the first H-bridge to the first connector, a third wire and a fourth wire configured to input the output from the second H-bridge to the first connector, and a fifth wire connected to the first wire and configured to output the first H-bridge output to another connector, and a sixth wire connected to the second wire and configured to output the first H-bridge output to the other connector.

Further features of the present disclosure will become apparent from the following description of exemplary embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.

