Measuring and testing – Surface and cutting edge testing – Roughness
Reexamination Certificate
2008-06-17
2011-10-25
Larkin, Daniel (Department: 2856)
Measuring and testing
Surface and cutting edge testing
Roughness
C700S280000, C850S011000, C850S033000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08042383
ABSTRACT:
A digital system for controlling the quality factor in a resonant device. The resonant device can be any mechanically driven resonant device, but more particularly can be a device that includes a cantilever within its system, such as an atomic force microscope. The quality factor can be digitally controlled to avoid noise effect in the analog components. One of the controls can use a direct digital synthesizer implemented in a way that provides access to the output of the phase accumulator. That output is a number which usually drives eight lookup table to produce a cosine or sign output wave. The output wave is created, but the number is also adjusted to form a second number of the drives a second lookup table to create an adjustment factor. The adjustment factor is used to adjusts the output from the cosine table, to create an adjusted digital signal. The adjusted digital signal than drives a DA converter which produces an output drive for the cantilever.
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Bocek Dan
Cleveland Jason
Asylum Research Corporation
Larkin Daniel
Law Office of Scott C. Harris, Inc.
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