Physical quantity detecting device

Details Physical quantity detecting device Physical quantity detecting device

1997-04-28

2000-07-04

Williams, Hezron

Measuring and testing

Speed, velocity, or acceleration

Acceleration determination utilizing inertial element

G01P 1514

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060821965

ABSTRACT:
A physical quantity detecting is capable of easily adjusting sensitivity and an offset of a detected output without being increased in size. In a signal processor for driving a sensor element in which fixed electrodes are disposed on both sides of a movable electrode displaced in response to acceleration, a signal generator generates PWM signals PA and PB in which an invalid control period during which the fixed electrodes are both deenergized only during a period corresponding to data M3 stored in a memory, is, at a predetermined ratio, inserted into a valid control period during which the fixed electrodes are alternately energized and their energization ratio is controlled so that the movable electrode is placed in position. Since the sensitivity of the sensor element to the acceleration changes according to the length of the invalid control period which does not contribute to control of the position of the movable electrode, its sensitivity can be easily adjusted by simply changing the value set in the memory.

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