Abstract:
A printed circuit board having conductor tracks formed on one side of a substrate. The substrate is able to be cohesively bonded at a contact face to a cover for protecting the conductor tracks. In this case, the substrate includes a step, which forms a barrier with respect to an auxiliary material for promoting the cohesive bond, in order to prevent any wetting of the conductor tracks with the auxiliary material. A sensor having a printed circuit board for use in a fuel filling level measurement system of a vehicle.
Abstract:
A scanning potentiometer adapted to a hatch edge prevents buckling of an insulating cover (2) which has a contact strip (10) and a resistor strip (14) during bending and prevents undesired contact. The insulating cover (2) has two profiles (3, 4), with a reinforcing device provided in at least one of the profiles (3, 4). In a preferred embodiment, the reinforcing device has tubular conduits (5, 6) that are integrated into one of the profiles (3, 4), namely the profile (3) that includes an actuation surface (7) of the scanning potentiometer.
Abstract:
Objects contacted by mechanical fingers cause shunts that are touched at a position to contact resistance strips. Sensing resistance remaining between the shunt contact and one end of the resistance strip indicates position of contact along the finger. Shapes and alignments of objects are sensed by comparing positional information along several fingers.
Abstract:
A plurality of resistors are series coupled with the free ends forming the end points of the potentiometer. A plurality of electronic switches have each of their inputs coupled to a predetermined point in the resistor array. The output from the switches are connected in common, thus forming the tap to the potentiometer. Activation of the switches is determined by control logic comprising an up/down counter, the outputs from which couple to the switches, an astable multivibrator for incrementing the counter and gating circuitry for selectively coupling the astable to the counter. The control logic is arranged to respond to received command signals for causing the tap to sequentially increment towards either end of the pot and to stop incrementing at a desired point. Further, the control logic causes the sequential tap incrementing to reverse once the tap reaches either end point of the pot.
Abstract:
AN ELECTRICAL COMPONENT INCLUDING A CIRCUIT MODULE COMPRISING A PAIR OF FIXED RESISTORS, A RESISTANCE PATH FOR A VARIABLE RESISTANCE CONTROL, AND A PAIR OF COLLECTORS IN SPACED RELATIONSHIP TO THE RESISTANCE PATH DISPOSED ON A SINGLE SUBSTRATE. ONE OF THE FIXED RESISTORS IS ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED BETWEEN ONE END OF THE RESISTANCE PATH AND ONE OF THE COLLECTORS AND THE OTHER FIXED RESISTOR IS ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED BETWEEN THE TWO COLLECTORS. CONTACTOR MEANS WIPABLY ENGAGE THE RESISTANCE PATH. SINCE THE PAIR OF FIXED RESISTORS AND THE RESISTANCE PATH ARE SIMULTANEOUS-
LY FORMED ON THE SAME SUBSTRATE THEY HAVE THE SAME RELATIVE ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND, THEREFORE, ARE INTRINCIALLY EQUALIZED.
Abstract:
An integrated circuit system, and a method of manufacture thereof, includes: an integrated circuit substrate; and a discretized tunable precision resistor having a total resistance including: a resistor body over the integrated circuit substrate, interconnects directly on the resistor body, metal taps directly on the interconnects and at opposing sides of the resistor body, and conductive metal strips over the interconnects, wherein the total resistance is a function of an active resistor length of the resistor body between a pair of the metal taps in contact with two of the conductive metal strips.