Invention Application
- Patent Title: SENSOR CIRCUIT INTEGRATING STANDARD CMOS SENSORS WITH ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND SENSOR APPARATUS HAVING SAME
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Application No.: US17434560Application Date: 2019-06-12
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Publication No.: US20220120628A1Publication Date: 2022-04-21
- Inventor: Seong Hwan CHO , Su Jin PARK
- Applicant: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Applicant Address: KR Daejeon
- Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee Address: KR Daejeon
- Priority: KR10-2019-0023057 20190227
- International Application: PCT/KR2019/007063 WO 20190612
- Main IPC: G01L9/12
- IPC: G01L9/12 ; G01P15/125 ; G01N27/22

Abstract:
Disclosed are an environment information sensor circuit and an environment information measurement device which can sense various kinds of environment information, such as pressure, humidity, acceleration and the like, and simply reduce quantization noise by employing a dual quantization capacitance-to-digital converter structure. The environment information sensor circuit comprises: a switch capacitor that outputs one among pressure information, humidity information, and acceleration information on the basis of a first clock signal and a second clock signal that do not overlap; a single-bit first order delta-sigma converter that includes an integrator which integrates the output from the switch capacitor and outputs the integrated output as an analog value, and a single-bit quantizer which compares the output from the integrator and a preset threshold voltage and outputs a single-bit digital signal corresponding to a comparison result; and a multi-bit quantizer that is connected to an output end of the integrator via a sampling switch, and quantizes the output from the integrator at the moment the sampling switch is turned on according to a sampling signal.
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