Potentiometer system and method
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorsJoy Prabhakaran, Jyothi Setty
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Abstract
A potentiometer network includes a first main terminal, a second main terminal, a plurality of resistive elements connected in parallel between the first main terminal and the second main terminal, and means for embedding calibration of said resistive elements in said potentiometer network.
Claims36
A potentiometer network comprising:
- a first main terminal;
- a second main terminal;
- a plurality of resistive elements connected in parallel between the first main terminal and the second main terminal;
- and
- means for embedding calibration of said resistive elements in said potentiometer network.
A potentiometer network comprising:
- a first main terminal;
- a second main terminal;
- a first group of resistive elements;
- a second group of resistive elements connected in parallel to the first group of resistive elements between the first main terminal and the second main terminal;
- and
- a storage module for storing resistance values associated with a resistance value from the first group of resistive elements, and a resistance value from the second group of said resistive elements.
A machine-readable medium that provides instructions for operating a potentiometer network including a first main terminal, a second main terminal, a first group of resistive elements and a second group of elements connected in parallel to the first group of resistive elements, the first group of resistive elements and the second group of resistive elements including various tap locations, the instructions, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
- acquire the resistance value associated with the first group of resistive elements;
- acquire the resistance value associated with the second group of resistive elements;
- determine the resistance value associated with the resistance value of the first group and the resistance value of the second group.
A method for calibrating a potentiometer network comprising:
- retrieving a first resistive element value associated with a first tap position within a first group of resistive elements, the first resistive element value stored in a first storage location;
- retrieving a second resistive element value associated with a second tap position within a second group of resistive elements, the second resistive element value stored in a second storage location, the first group of resistive elements connected in parallel with the second group of resistive elements;
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- calculating the resistance associated with the first tap position within the first group of resistive elements and with the second tap position within the second group of resistive elements.
A method for calibrating a potentiometer network having a pre-determined resistance range and step size comprising:
- inputting a first resistance associated with one or more step sizes in the potentiometer;
- inputting a second resistance associated with one or more step sizes in the potentiometer;
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- calibrating an associated resistance associated with the first resistance and the second resistance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.