Displacement detection device
    21.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10352681B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-16

    申请号:US15546789

    申请日:2016-01-28

    Inventor: Takumi Yoshiya

    Abstract: To provide a displacement detection device that detects a displacement of a measuring object housed in a casing without changing the design of the casing or while suppressing the design change of the casing.A displacement detection device includes a pair of magnets arranged outside an injector body housing a needle with a space between the magnets and forming a magnetic field in the space, a soft magnetic material connected to the needle inside the injector body and displaced in accordance with the displacement of the needle and disposed in the magnetic field formed by the pair of magnets, and a sensor disposed outside the injector body and in the magnetic field formed by the pair of magnets, and detecting a change in magnetic flux density in accordance with the displacement of the soft magnetic material.

    Semiconductor pressure sensor
    22.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10317297B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-11

    申请号:US14735369

    申请日:2015-06-10

    Abstract: A semiconductor pressure sensor for measuring an external pressure exerted on the sensor, including: a membrane; a first resistor connected between a first bias node and a first output node; a second resistor connected between the first bias node and a second output node; a first and second current source connected to the first resp. second output node for generating a differential voltage signal indicative of the external pressure to be measured. The resistors including piezo-resistive strips arranged in particular crystallographic directions. The circuit may have a third and four resistor pair for compensating package stress. The Piezo-resistive strips may be formed as p-doped regions within an n-well, the biasing node being electrically connected to the n-well.

    Rotation detection device
    23.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10302461B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-28

    申请号:US15550041

    申请日:2016-02-18

    Inventor: Takumi Yoshiya

    Abstract: To provide a rotation detection device that has a miniaturized sensor IC in comparison with a prior art.A rotation detection device includes: a magnet that forms a magnetic field toward a tooth surface of a gear; and a sensor disposed between the magnet and the gear, the sensor including: at least a pair of magnetic detection elements x1 and x2 that outputs signals according to a magnetic flux density in a radial direction of the gear; and a magnetic concentrator that induces, in the radial direction of the gear, a component in a circumferential direction of the gear in the magnetic flux density on detection surfaces of the magnetic detection elements x1 and x2, the sensor detecting a variation in a magnetic flux density accompanying the rotation of the gear.

    METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CALIBRATING LED LIGHTING

    公开(公告)号:US20190132919A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-02

    申请号:US16173157

    申请日:2018-10-29

    Abstract: A method for calibrating a light emitting diode (LED) of a red-green-blue type is arranged for setting a pulse width modulation duty cycle and for supplying to the LED either a current having a first value or a current having a second value higher than the first value.

    Method for image noise reduction and image device

    公开(公告)号:US10178331B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-08

    申请号:US15101051

    申请日:2014-12-02

    Abstract: A method for noise reduction in an imaging device comprises a 4T pixel in operation, whereby the 4T pixel comprises a pinned photodiode and a floating diffusion node. The method includes the steps of: detecting a signal impinging on the 4T pixel of the imaging device and integrating the charge of the detected signal simultaneously in the photodiode potential well and the potential well of the floating diffusion node; deriving a linear signal proportional to the detected signal from the charge in the photodiode potential well; deriving a compressed signal from the charge in the potential well of the floating diffusion node, while keeping the compressed signal separate from the linear signal, and the compressed signal being a non-linear function of the detected signal; and summing the linear signal and a linearized version of the compressed signal and performing a non-linear conversion on the summation signal to fit the imaging device's output range.

    Integrated LED device
    26.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10165639B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-25

    申请号:US15846704

    申请日:2017-12-19

    Abstract: The present invention relates to an integrated-LED device having a housing, whereby the housing comprises a multi-LED device comprising a transparent substrate and a plurality of light emitting diodes, LEDs, arranged for emitting light and disposed on said transparent substrate, an integrated circuit in connection with said LEDs and arranged for controlling said LEDs, a base comprising one or more base extensions, on which at least said multi-LED device is mounted, with said one or more base extensions so arranged or so shaped that a first opening is created to let pass LED light emitted through said transparent substrate by said plurality of LEDs.

    ACTIVE PIXEL CIRCUIT FOR A TIME-OF-FLIGHT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20180306909A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-25

    申请号:US15952706

    申请日:2018-04-13

    CPC classification number: G01S7/4861 G01S7/4914 G01S7/493 G01S17/36 G01S17/89

    Abstract: A pixel circuit for performing Time of Flight measurements comprises at least one optical sensor arranged for receiving a reference modulation signal and a light signal and arranged for outputting a photocurrent signal depending on the light signal and on a phase shift corresponding to a phase difference between the light signal and the reference modulation signal, and an integrator circuit comprising an integration capacitor, an amplifier, and switching mean. The switching means is arranged for resetting the integration capacitor in a reset mode, for connecting the integration capacitor between the at least one optical sensor and a voltage reference signal in a passive mode. The negative feedback loop is fed with the photocurrent signal of the at least one optical sensor, and for connecting a signal output by the integrator circuit to an output bus in a readout mode.

    Relative and absolute pressure sensor combined on chip

    公开(公告)号:US10031003B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-24

    申请号:US14956770

    申请日:2015-12-02

    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a system in a wafer for measuring an absolute and a relative pressure includes etching a shallow and a deep cavity in the wafer. A top wafer is applied and the top wafer is thinned for forming a first respectively second membrane over the shallow respectively deep cavity, and for forming in the top wafer first respectively second bondpads at the first respectively second membrane resulting in a first respectively second sensor. Back grinding the wafer results in an opened deep cavity and a still closed shallow cavity. The first bondpads of the first sensor measure an absolute pressure and the second bondpads of the second sensor measure a relative pressure. The etching in the first step defines the edges of the first membrane and of the second membrane in respectively the sensors formed from the shallow and the deep cavity.

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