Acceleration sensor circuit
AssigneesAkebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd., Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation
InventorsTakashi Kunimi, Toru Sekine
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Abstract
An acceleration sensor circuit 1 of the invention includes an acceleration sensor 11 having a first capacitor C1 whose capacitance changes according to a position of a first movable electrode and a second capacitor C2 whose capacitance changes as opposed to the first capacitor according to a position of a second movable electrode moved together with the first movable electrode, a first circuit 15A for generating a sinusoidal AC signal of a predetermined frequency, a second circuit 12 for generating a signal according to the positions of the movable electrodes, and an arithmetic circuit 14 for analyzing data in which a signal generated by the second circuit 12 is encoded and outputting data of acceleration.
Claims4
An acceleration sensor circuit comprising:
- an acceleration sensor including a first capacitor whose capacitance changes according to a position of a first movable electrode, and a second capacitor whose capacitance changes as opposed to the first capacitor according to a position of a second movable electrode moved together with the first movable electrode;
- a first circuit for generating a sinusoidal AC signal of a predetermined frequency for being applied to the first capacitor and the second capacitor in mutually opposite phases;
- a second circuit for generating a signal according to the positions of the first movable electrode and the second movable electrode based on a difference between a capacitance of the first capacitor and a capacitance of the second capacitor and the sinusoidal AC signal applied to the first capacitor and the second capacitor;
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- an arithmetic circuit for analyzing data in which a signal generated by the second circuit is encoded, extracting a signal of a frequency component of substantially the same frequency as the predetermined frequency from the data, and outputting data of acceleration based on the extracted signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.