Position sensing device and method using self-capacitance

A technology for sensing equipment and sensing methods, applied in the direction of transmitting sensing components, electronic switches, and measuring devices using electric/magnetic devices, which can solve the problems of unreliable sensors, late warnings, and difficulty in monitoring pollution with capacitive position sensors. problem, achieving a simple and economical absolute measurement system with low additional costs

Inactive Publication Date: 2016-02-10
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[0009] Finally, a common drawback of capacitive position sensors is that it is difficult to monitor contamination (which in most cases can only be detected when the measured electrofusion or its changes exceed a certain threshold)
The warning will be too late as the sensor will most likely become unreliable long before the threshold is reached

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[0031] The position sensor described here is based on the measurement of the self-capacitance of the electrodes to use a microcontroller with integrated touch sensing electronics, of course any suitable circuit can be used to measure the self-capacitance instead. The circuit must be capable of measuring self-capacitance on one or more sense pads or sense pins by switching the one or more sense pads or pins to a capacitance that is linear enough for the required accuracy- digitizer while simultaneously switching it and the sense pad to ground to achieve the measurement.

[0032] An example of a capacitive sensing microcontroller that meets these requirements is the Silicon Labs (Silicon Labs) C8051F99x, which operates by connecting the sense pads, or any group of up to 14 sense pads, to a continuous approximation of capacitance - Digitizers (of the type disclosed in US Patent 8'193'822 to Welland) to measure their self-capacitance. The converter's most sensitive range is about...

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The invention provides a position sensing device and method using self-capacitance. A capacitive position sensing system has a pickup electrode, a shield electrode partially enclosing the pickup electrode, and an essentially grounded relatively movable target near the pickup electrodes; a capacitance-to-digital converter, and switching means for connecting each electrode in turn to the converter input or to ground. Aiming at different switch arrangement, the input self-capacitance of the converter is measured, mutual capacitance between the pickup electrode and the target is calculated according to the measurement, and the position of the target is obtained according to the mutual capacitance. The mutual capacitance between electrodes can be obtained through calculation according to the measurement. Perferably, a capacitive position sensing device uses an incremental position sensing device's scale as a target in order to detect the position through the movement of the scale, thereby enabling an absolute position determination over a range larger than the incremental sensor's pitch.

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[0001] Cross References to Related Applications [0002] This application claims priority to US Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 968,456, filed March 21, 2014, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference. technical field [0003] The present invention relates to capacitive position sensing devices and methods based on the measurement of self-capacitance of electrodes. Background technique [0004] Existing capacitive position sensors directly measure the mutual capacitance between relatively movable electrodes to avoid or at least reduce the influence of parasitic capacitance. ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) have been the only way to implement such sensors, but only some applications (such as digital calipers and spirit levels) have a market large enough to bear the high R&D costs of ASICs. [0005] More recently, mass-produced microcontrollers have emerged that integrate capacitive touch sensing electronics. They can also be us...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G01D5/12
CPCH03K17/955H03K2217/960705H03K2217/960765G01D5/2415
Inventor 汉斯·U·迈耶
Owner MELIUS
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