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- Patent Title: Method of measuring a physical parameter and electronic interface circuit for a capacitive sensor for implementing the same
- Patent Title (中): 测量电容传感器的物理参数和电子接口电路的实现方法
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Application No.: US13733608Application Date: 2013-01-03
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Publication No.: US09448266B2Publication Date: 2016-09-20
- Inventor: Sylvain Grosjean , Christophe Entringer
- Applicant: EM MICROELECTRONIC-MARIN SA
- Applicant Address: CH Marin
- Assignee: EM MICROELECTRONIC-MARIN SA
- Current Assignee: EM MICROELECTRONIC-MARIN SA
- Current Assignee Address: CH Marin
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: EP12151949 20120120
- Main IPC: G01P15/125
- IPC: G01P15/125 ; G01R27/26 ; G01L5/16 ; G01D5/24

Abstract:
The method is for measuring a physical parameter via an electronic circuit connected to a two differential capacitor sensor having two fixed electrodes and a common moving electrode. The circuit supplies first and second digital measuring signals. Each measuring cycle consists on biasing fixed electrodes by a first biasing and a second biasing reverse of the first biasing, alternated with biasing the electrodes by the measuring voltage based on first and second digital signals. Each conversion starts by a small step value added to or subtracted from each digital signal in each cycle. If the successive identical amplifier output states counted or counted down by a counter is higher than a threshold, a large step value is added to or subtracted from the digital signals in each cycle. Re-adaptation to the small step value occurs when a sign change is detected in the counter, until the conversion end.
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