Shaft angle encoder with a symmetrical code wheel
    91.
    发明公开
    Shaft angle encoder with a symmetrical code wheel 失效
    带有对称代码轮的SHAFT角度编码器

    公开(公告)号:EP0423988A3

    公开(公告)日:1993-04-21

    申请号:EP90310918.9

    申请日:1990-10-04

    IPC分类号: H03M1/30 G01D5/36

    摘要: A shaft angle encoder is provided with a symme­trical code wheel and pattern of photodetectors for providing an index pulse indicative of shaft angular position. The code wheel has two concentric index tracks each of which is symmetrical in a circumferential direction and are symmetrical with respect to each other and also with respect to a data track for indicating increments of angular position. In an exemplary embodiment there is a pair of windows of unit width in the one index track with a spoke therebetween with a width of at least two units. A pair of lateral windows extend away from each other more than a unit width along the second track. An opaque area at least two units wide is provided between the lateral windows in the second track. The photodetectors are arranged so that when the code wheel is in the index pulse position, a pair of photodetectors for the inner track are illuminated through the windows in the inner track, and two photodetectors for the outer track are both occulted by the opaque area between the lateral windows in the second track. Such an arrangement provides symmetry of the code wheel so that it can be inverted either accidentally or intentionally during assembly and yet side lobes of photocurrent from the photodetectors on the separate tracks are not coincident, thereby avoiding false index pulse triggers.

    Optical encoder with inactive photodetectors
    93.
    发明公开
    Optical encoder with inactive photodetectors 失效
    光学编码器与非激活光电转换器

    公开(公告)号:EP0376538A3

    公开(公告)日:1992-10-21

    申请号:EP89312949.4

    申请日:1989-12-12

    IPC分类号: H03M1/22 G01D5/244

    摘要: An optical shaft angle encoder has a plurality of active photodiodes (26) in an array on a semiconductor chip. A rotating code wheel (3) has alternating areas (13, 15) for alternately illuminating or not illuminating the active photodiodes (26) in response to the rotation of the wheel (3). Errors in the duty cycle involving the end active photodiodes (26) in the array are largely avoided by having a plurality of inactive photodiodes (27) at each end of the array with width and electrical properties effectively the same as the active photodiodes (26) so that leakage current to each end active photodiode (26) of the array is substantially equal to the leakage current to active photodiodes (26) remote from the end of the array. Similarly, leakage current which may affect the duty cycle of individual photodiodes (26) may be minimized by surrounding the individual photodiodes with a reverse biased photodiode junction.

    DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERTERS
    94.
    发明公开
    DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERTERS 失效
    数字模拟转换器。

    公开(公告)号:EP0477293A1

    公开(公告)日:1992-04-01

    申请号:EP90910639.0

    申请日:1990-06-11

    IPC分类号: H03M1

    CPC分类号: H03M1/0678 H03M1/785

    摘要: Un convertisseur numérique/analogique de multiplication comprend des pattes de dérivation, dans lesquelles un commutateur (15) comporte une borne commune connectée à un noeud respectif (12) dans le chemin en série ainsi que deux bornes commutables connectées chacune à une résistance respective. Chaque branche de la série se compose d'un commutateur fictif (28) en série avec une résistance intercalée (13) ayant la moitié de la valeur de résistance de chacune des résistances de dérivation (14', 14''). Les commutateurs, mis en oeuvre de préférence en technologie MOS complémentaire sont physiquement appareillés et les commutateurs se trouvant dans les branches sont configurés pour être fermés, de sorte que la résistance de chaque commutateur fictif représente la moitié de celle du commutateur se trouvant dans la patte de dérivation respective. L'agencement permet de conserver la relation R-2R entre la série et les résistances de dérivation, et améliore ainsi sensiblement la linéarité dudit convertisseur.

    Integrated circuit comprising capacitances of different capacitance values
    95.
    发明授权
    Integrated circuit comprising capacitances of different capacitance values 失效
    包含不同电容值电容的集成电路

    公开(公告)号:EP0186239B1

    公开(公告)日:1991-03-20

    申请号:EP85202045.2

    申请日:1985-12-11

    IPC分类号: H01L27/10

    摘要: An integrated circuit includes capacitances of different capacitance values, this circuit having rows of basic capacitances, while the capacitances have different numbers of basic capacitances connected in parallel between a first connection electrode and an associated second connection electrode. Plural rows have the same number of n basic capacitances and in different ones of these rows different numbers of basic capacitances form part of the capacitances, all the remaining basic capacitances of the relevant rows being dummy capacitances. The second capacitance electrodes are connected to one or more further connection electrodes.