Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multiple capacitive (button) sensor with reduced pinout
- Patent Title (中): 多个电容(按钮)传感器,减少了引脚排列
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Application No.: US13353171Application Date: 2012-01-18
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Publication No.: US08653741B2Publication Date: 2014-02-18
- Inventor: Pascal Monney
- Applicant: Pascal Monney
- Applicant Address: US CA Camarillo
- Assignee: Semtech Corporation
- Current Assignee: Semtech Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Camarillo
- Agency: O'Melveny & Myers LLP
- Main IPC: H05B37/02
- IPC: H05B37/02 ; G06F3/041

Abstract:
A capacitive touch sensor and LED driver device achieves a reduction in pin count by multiplexing LED drive functionality and capacitive sense functionality on each input/output pin. A control circuit switches between LED drive mode and capacitive sense mode at a frequency of approximately 200 Hz, although other switching frequencies can be used. A bias driver functions as a current sink for LEDs in LED drive mode and can also be used to drive a bias voltage to the LEDs during capacitive sense mode to improve noise immunity.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120181943A1 MULTIPLE CAPACITIVE (BUTTON) SENSOR WITH REDUCED PINOUT Public/Granted day:2012-07-19
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