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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a plurality of coaxial gyros, intended for reducing the noise and drift. SOLUTION: A MEMS-type gyro 2 includes a tuning-fork type oscillator 31 having a pair of oscillating legs 33; an oscillating device 34 disposed on the oscillator 31 for vibrating the oscillating legs 33; and a detection device 35, disposed on the oscillator 31 for determining an angular velocity by detecting the vibration of the oscillating legs 33. A plurality of the MEMS-type gyros 2 are arranged in the coaxial direction, and the respective angular velocities detected by the detection devices 35 of the MEMS-type gyros 2 are averaged. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an angular velocity sensor capable of surely removing a noise component, formed of a detuning frequency as the difference between the driving frequency and the detection frequency of an oscillator. SOLUTION: The angular velocity sensor is provided with noise removing means 33 in a detection circuit 27. The removing means 33 is constituted by connecting in series a Butterworth filter, constituted of an active low-pass filter 36 and a passive low-pass filter 37, and a Chebyshev filter 38. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a small angular velocity sensor, in which even if a resolution of correction data is raised, the capacity of a memory means will not increase, and then the sizes of the angular velocity sensor and a vehicle control device that receives the output signal of the sensor will not be enlarged. SOLUTION: The angular velocity sensor forms correction data for correcting an output signal from a detection circuit 37 by a calibration curve of at least second or higher in the order, and the coefficients of the calibration curve are stored in the memory means 50. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an analog circuit, electronic equipment, or the like, capable of making low noise and a low consumption power compatible. SOLUTION: The analog circuit 300 contains a first circuit 310 with a first-type operational amplifier OP1, having the frequency of a signal to be amplified as a first frequency and a second circuit 320 with a second-type operational amplifier OP2 having the frequency of the signal to be amplified as a second frequency which is lower than the first frequency. If the channel width of a differential-stage transistor for a differential section for the first-type operational amplifier OP1 is defined as W1a, a channel length by L1a, a bias current flowing through the differential section by Ia, the channel width of the differential-stage transistor for the differential section for the second-type operational amplifier OP2 by W1b, the channel length by L1b and the bias current flowing through the differential section by Ib, W1b×L1b>W1a×L1a and Ia>Ib hold. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a detection device equipped with a new amplifying circuit not using a feedback resistance, a gyro sensor and an electronic apparatus. SOLUTION: Each of the first and second charge-voltage conversion circuits 100A, 100B, into which each output signal of a positive phase and a reverse phase from a vibrator 10 is input, has an operation amplifier OPA, the first and second analog switches 110, 120, the first capacitor C1 provided on a feedback route of the operation amplifier OPA, and a switch control circuit 160 for controlling the first and second analog switches. The switching control circuit 160 switches each of the first and second charge-voltage conversion circuits into a sampling mode, a holding mode and a calibration mode, successively. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a detector or the like for materializing offset adjustment while preventing the scale of a circuit from enlarging. SOLUTION: This detector comprises a drive circuit and a detection circuit while the detection circuit comprises an amplification circuit amplifying an output signal from a vibrator. The amplification circuit comprises a differential amplification circuit 76 performing differential amplification on a differential signal corresponding to the output signal, and an offset adjustment circuit 78 performing offset adjustment by variably controlling the resistance value of at least one resistance the amplification circuit 76 has. The offset adjustment is performed by amplifying at least one of first and second unnecessary signals superposed, respectively, on first and second signals constituting the differential signal. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce variations in output level of the output of a physical quantity sensor due to variations in signal level of a reference signal, and to make sensitivity constant. SOLUTION: The physical quantity sensor 1 has: a drive circuit 4 for performing driving on the basis of the reference signal 9; a sensing element 3 for converting into an electric signal a physical quantity applied from outside by being driven by this drive circuit 4; and an amplifier circuit 7 for amplifying the output signal of this sensing element 3. The drive circuit 4 controls a drive signal for the sensing element on the basis of the reference signal so as to make the level of the drive signal constant. The amplifier circuit 7 has an amplification factor characteristic for amplifying the output signal in a reverse direction, against variations of the reference signal, or variations of the drive signal of the drive circuit. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an angular velocity sensor whose output characteristic is stable even if it is used under an environment with much temperature variation. SOLUTION: The angular velocity sensor has a sampling control means 45 for sampling, as a signal of angular velocity, an output signal from an output signal detecting circuit 40 when the monitor signal from a monitor signal detecting circuit 39 is a predetermined value. The variation of the output signal due to the temperature variation can be suppressed, therefore, so that the output characteristic is stable even if it is used under the environment with much temperature variation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a terminal with the function of electrically connecting itself to a circuit in a package in its not-yet mounted state and the function of preventing noise from coming into the circuit in the package with the package mounted on an external device, the terminal used for testing and adjusting the circuit to be built into the package. SOLUTION: The package with an electronic circuit includes an output terminal for outputting an output signal from the electronic circuit, a potential input terminal for setting prescribed potential in the electronic circuit, and a terminal for adjustment used to input/output an adjustment signal for performing circuit adjustment on the electronic circuit. The terminal for adjustment is set at the prescribed potential with the terminal connected to a terminal on the external device side. As to the terminal for adjustment, a signal or voltage for circuit adjustment is input through the terminal into the electronic circuit during the circuit adjustment of the electronic circuit. During actual operation, a power supply voltage and ground voltage are set at a prescribed stable potential without performing signal transfer for circuit adjustment to reduce the entrance of noise into the electronic circuit through the terminal for adjustment. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a body action sensing instrument capable of sensing user's body actions including evaluation information of a walk and rehabilitation of a cerebropathic patient, judging whether or not the actions are prescribed actions to display the information, and providing the person himself/herself or a observing person with the information for evaluation. SOLUTION: The body action sensing instrument has a function of judging types and strength of body actions based on a combination of the results of prescribed computation (e.g. dispersion of sensed waveform) on an acceleration output and rotational angular speed which are measured by a device at body side (e.g. wrist watch type) including an action sensor capable of sensing an acceleration in one direction (e.g. vertical direction) and a rotational angular speed in one surface (e.g. including forward/backward direction and vertical direction), and a function of displaying the results.