Detecting device and electronic apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorGakuji Yamamoto
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Abstract
A detecting device includes a pyroelectric element that generates charge by a pyroelectric effect in a first detection terminal and a second detection terminal, a chopper amplifier circuit that generates an amplified signal in response to the charge generated in the first detection terminal and the second detection terminal by chopping, and an initialization switch that controls electrical connection between the second detection terminal and a power source for generating an initialized voltage, and the initialization switch is turned on before a start of an amplification operation by the amplifier circuit and is off during the amplification operation.
Claims6
A detecting device comprising:
- a pyroelectric element that generates a voltage between a first detection terminal and a second detection terminal by a pyroelectric effect;
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- a chopper amplifier circuit that generates an amplified signal in response to the voltage by chopping, wherein the chopper amplifier circuit outputs to a first output terminal and a second output terminal an amplified signal in response to the voltage generated between a first input terminal connected to the first detection terminal and a second input terminal connected to the second detection terminal, and the chopper amplifier circuit includes:
- a fully differential operational amplifier including a first amplification input terminal, a second amplification input terminal, a first amplification output terminal, and a second amplification output terminal;
- a first capacity between the first input terminal and the first output terminal;
- a second capacity between the second input terminal and the second output terminal;
- a modulation circuit that switches electrical connection between the first input terminal and the second input terminal and the first amplification input terminal and the second amplification input terminal;
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- a demodulation circuit that switches electrical connection between the first amplification output terminal and the second amplification output terminal and the first output terminal and the second output terminal.
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