Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vibrator drive circuit
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Application No.: US15263545Application Date: 2016-09-13
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Publication No.: US10175045B2Publication Date: 2019-01-08
- Inventor: Hidekazu Ono , Nobuaki Tsuji , Tsuyoshi Okami , Takashi Mizota
- Applicant: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Nagaokakyo-Shi, Kyoto-Fu
- Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Nagaokakyo-Shi, Kyoto-Fu
- Agency: Arent Fox LLP
- Priority: JP2014-061258 20140325
- Main IPC: G01C19/5726
- IPC: G01C19/5726

Abstract:
A vibrator drive circuit is configured to drive a vibrator mass 3 in a prescribed vibration direction. The vibrator drive circuit includes a drive unit configured to drive a vibrator based on a reference signal SG1 of a predetermined frequency to cause the vibrator to vibrate in a vibration direction, a phase detector configured to detect a vibration waveform of the vibrator in the vibration direction and to output an output voltage Vcnt in accordance with a phase difference between reference signal SG1 and a vibration waveform thereof, and two capacitors each formed of a movable electrode provided in the vibrator and a fixed electrode provided to face the movable electrode, the output voltage Vcnt being applied to the fixed electrode. The phase detector is configured to adjust the output voltage Vcnt in accordance with the phase difference, thereby changing electrostatic force in each of the capacitors for controlling the phase difference to be 90 degrees.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160377435A1 VIBRATOR DRIVE CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2016-12-29
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