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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.: US13733374Application Date: 2013-01-03
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Publication No.: US09075094B2Publication Date: 2015-07-07
- Inventor: Christophe Entringer , Sylvain Grosjean
- Applicant: EM MICROELECTRONIC-MARIN SA
- Applicant Address: JP Marin
- Assignee: EM MICROELECTRONIC-MARIN SA
- Current Assignee: EM MICROELECTRONIC-MARIN SA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Marin
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: EP12151951 20120120
- Main IPC: G01R27/26
- IPC: G01R27/26 ; G01P15/125 ; G01L5/16 ; G01D5/24

Abstract:
The method is for measuring a physical parameter by an electronic circuit connected to a two differential capacitor sensor having two fixed electrodes and a common moving electrode. The electronic circuit supplies first and second digital measuring signals. Each measuring cycle consists on biasing the electrodes by the measuring voltage based on the first digital signal, connecting the fixed electrodes to a supply voltage source for a first biasing, biasing the electrodes by the measuring voltage based on the second digital measuring signal, and inversely connecting the fixed electrodes to a supply voltage source for a second biasing. In first successive measuring cycles, the first and second digital signals are adapted to each cycle by a large step value. In second successive measuring cycles, the first and second digital signals are adapted to each cycle by a small step value until the end of the conversion.
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