• Patent Title: Piezoelectric sensor, a device and a method of using a piezo channel
  • Application No.: US15525470
    Application Date: 2015-11-10
  • Publication No.: US10665771B2
    Publication Date: 2020-05-26
  • Inventor: Jukka Riihiaho
  • Applicant: AITO INTERACTIVE OY
  • Applicant Address: NL Amsterdam
  • Assignee: AITO BV
  • Current Assignee: AITO BV
  • Current Assignee Address: NL Amsterdam
  • Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@8418ba6
  • International Application: PCT/EP2015/076193 WO 20151110
  • International Announcement: WO2016/075131 WO 20160519
  • Main IPC: H01L41/08
  • IPC: H01L41/08 H01L41/04 H03K17/96 G06F3/01 G06F3/041 G06F3/048 H01L41/113
Piezoelectric sensor, a device and a method of using a piezo channel
Abstract:
A piezoelectric sensor comprises a microcontroller, a plurality of piezoelectric sensor elements of which at least two are useable for producing a haptic signal by a voltage (HV) generated by a boost converter connected to each piezoelectric sensor element, and connected to a piezo channel of the microcontroller. A multiplexer individually controls each of the switches if an enable a signal is present. The microcontroller is configured to use each of the piezo channels as a sensor channel for reading sensor input from the respective piezoelectric sensor element and in response to detecting a sensor input in at least one of the piezo channels to set the enable signal at the increase voltage pin and/or the enable signal pin, and to set a signal to at least one piezo channel in which the sensor input was detected.
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