Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Inductive position sensing with single channel interface to multiple resonant sensors
- Patent Title (中): 感应位置感应与单通道接口到多个谐振传感器
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Application No.: US14486575Application Date: 2014-09-15
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Publication No.: US09404727B2Publication Date: 2016-08-02
- Inventor: Jonathan V. Baldwin , Murali Srinivasa
- Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Andrew Viger; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: G01B7/14
- IPC: G01B7/14 ; G01B7/30 ; G01B7/00 ; H03H5/02 ; H03M1/12 ; H03K17/95 ; H03K17/972 ; G01D5/20 ; H03K17/97

Abstract:
An inductive sensing system includes multiple resonant sensors interfaced to an inductance-to-digital conversion (IDC) unit through a single channel interface. IDC establishes an IDC control loop that incorporates resonant sensors as loop filters. The IDC control loop drives resonant sensors to a system resonance state in which each resonant sensor is driven to a resonant frequency state. Each resonant sensor is configured for a nominal resonant frequency state that differentiates it from the other resonant sensors. IDC senses changes in system resonance state representative of target-sensing conditions, and responds by driving a target-sensing system resonance state. IDC converts IDC loop (resonance) control signals resulting from a target-sensing condition into sensor data as representing the corresponding target-sensing resonant frequency state as an indication of target position (proximity or range) relative to a target-sensing resonant sensor. The sensor data can be provided to a data processor for proximity/range processing.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150077094A1 INDUCTIVE POSITION SENSING WITH SINGLE CHANNEL INTERFACE TO MULTIPLE RESONANT SENSORS Public/Granted day:2015-03-19
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