摘要:
The A/D converter realizes a high-rate and high-precision A/D conversion using amplifier circuits. Each amplifier circuit amplifies a difference between the voltage of an analog signal to be converted and a predetermined reference voltage. Each bank of holding circuits holds the output signals of an oscillator circuit, the levels of which signals are variable with the passage of time, when the output voltage of the associated amplifier circuit exceeds a predetermined value. The signals held in each said bank of holding circuits are output as a value representing the amplification time of the associated amplifier circuit. An operation means identifies a first amplifier circuit having a reference voltage higher than the analog signal voltage and a second amplifier circuit having a reference voltage lower than the analog signal voltage based on the values representing the amplification times, and determines a voltage, at a point interiorly dividing a difference between the reference voltages of the first and the second amplifier circuits by a ratio of the amplification time of the second amplifier circuit to the amplification time of the first amplifier circuit, as the analog signal voltage, thereby computing a digital value representing the analog signal.
摘要:
By making a folded waveform of a folding circuit sharp, the number of elements used in an ADC is reduced and less power consumption is achieved. A folding circuit is composed of a plurality of master-comparator latches, a pair of wiring means for master-to-slave connection, and a slave latch. By means of the wiring means, the non-inverted outputs and the inverted outputs of the master-comparators latches are alternately drawn in the order of magnitude of reference voltages, superimposed, and fed into a pair of inputs of the slave latch. A Gray code signal is directly encoded by an encoder according to the output of the slave latch. A folded signal, which is the output of the folding circuit, takes a sharp waveform. The number of slave latches can be reduced. No XOR gates are required.
摘要:
A parallel type analog to digital (A/D) converter in which an input signal and reference voltages are differentially amplified by differential converting circuits, interpolation resistors are inserted between the outputs and between the complementary outputs of the differential converting circuits, and a tap voltage between the interpolation resistors is A/D converted, so that the A/D converter can operate at a high accuracy and at a high speed.
摘要:
A piezoelectric motor includes a piezoelectric element having a piezoelectric layer, and a first and a second electrodes, the first electrode provided on one surface side of the piezoelectric layer, and the second electrode provided on the other surface side of the piezoelectric layer; a piezoelectric actuator having a vibrating member anchored to the first electrode of the piezoelectric element; and a rotational shaft with which the vibrating member makes contact and is rotated thereby. The piezoelectric layer includes a vertical vibration excitation region, provided toward the center of the piezoelectric layer in the widthwise direction, that elicits vertical vibrations, and two groups of bending vibration excitation regions, one group disposed on either side of the vertical vibration excitation region so that two opposing diagonal pairs are formed; and the polarization direction of the vertical vibration excitation region and one of the groups of the bending vibration excitation regions in the piezoelectric layer is inverted relative to the other group of the bending vibration excitation regions.
摘要:
Provided is a millimeter wavelength range transceiver device which can improve phase noise characteristics and which can also independently calibrate each respective local oscillator of a transmission unit and a reception unit. This millimeter wavelength range transceiver device comprises a transmission unit (10), a reception unit (20), and a reference frequency signal generator (30). The transmission unit (10) comprises a transmission-use local oscillator (11) comprising an injection-locked oscillator, a transmission-use mixer (12) for mixing the signal from the transmission-use local oscillator and a transmission baseband signal, and a transmission-use amplifier (13) for amplifying the signal from the transmission-use mixer to a transmission-use antenna (15). The reception unit (20) comprises a reception-use amplifier (25) for amplifying a signal from a reception-use antenna (24), a reception-use local oscillator (22) comprising an injection-locked oscillator, and a reception-use mixer (23) for mixing the signal from the reception-use local oscillator and the signal from the reception-use amplifier in order to output a reception baseband signal. A reference frequency signal generator (30) injects a reference frequency signal into the transmission-and-reception-use local oscillators (11 and 22).
摘要:
A piezoelectric motor includes a piezoelectric element having a piezoelectric layer, and a first and a second electrodes, the first electrode provided on one surface side of the piezoelectric layer, and the second electrode provided on the other surface side of the piezoelectric layer; a piezoelectric actuator having a vibrating member anchored to the first electrode of the piezoelectric element; and a rotational shaft with which the vibrating member makes contact and is rotated thereby. The piezoelectric layer includes a vertical vibration excitation region, provided toward the center of the piezoelectric layer in the widthwise direction, that elicits vertical vibrations, and two groups of bending vibration excitation regions, one group disposed on either side of the vertical vibration excitation region so that two opposing diagonal pairs are formed; and the polarization direction of the vertical vibration excitation region and one of the groups of the bending vibration excitation regions in the piezoelectric layer is inverted relative to the other group of the bending vibration excitation regions.
摘要:
A liquid jet head includes: a nozzle plate provided with a nozzle orifice for jetting a liquid; a passage-forming substrate provided with a pressure generating chamber communicating with the nozzle orifice and bonded to the nozzle plate with an adhesive agent; and a pressure generator that vibrates a vibration plate, the pressure generator disposed in a region opposite to the pressure generating chamber with the vibration plate interposed in between. The passage-forming substrate is provided with a concave portion formed in a joint surface to the nozzle plate. The concave portion has a wall surface inclined from a side adjacent to the nozzle plate to an inside of the concave portion. An angle between the joint surface and the inclined wall surface of the concave portion is smaller than an angle between the joint surface and a wall surface of the pressure generating chamber in a region contacting the joint surface. The inclined wall surface of the concave portion is provided with a plurality of protrusions.
摘要:
An A-D converter includes a plurality of comparators, each of which compares an analog input signal to analog threshold values; an upper field determination section which, during an upper determination phase, supplies in parallel to each of the plurality of comparators the plurality of analog threshold values expressing boundaries of ranges corresponding to each data value acquired from the upper field of a number of bits previously designated in the digital output signal, detects whether the analog input signal is associated with one of the ranges based on comparison results by the plurality of comparators, and narrows data values of the upper field to data values corresponding to a range between the largest analog threshold value less than or equal to the analog input signal and the smallest analog threshold value greater than or equal to the analog input signal; and a lower field determination section which, during the lower determination phase, determines values of conversion target bits based on a plurality of comparison results of the plurality of comparators.
摘要:
An A-D converter that outputs a digital output signal obtained by digitalizing an analog input signal includes a plurality of comparators that each compare the analog input signal and an analog threshold value based on designated digital threshold data, a high-order field determining section that narrows down a data value corresponding to a high-order field of a predetermined bit number in the digital output signal based on a plurality of comparison results obtained by supplying threshold data different from one another to the plurality of comparators, a low-order field computing section that computes a plurality of candidate values for a data value corresponding to a low-order field of a predetermined bit number located at a side lower than the high-order field, and a low-order field determining section that determines a data value corresponding to the low-order field based on the plurality of candidate values.
摘要:
A current driver generates an output current according to an input signal. The current driver includes R current copy circuits and an output current generator where R is a natural number. Each of the current copy circuits stores a current having a given current value and input from the outside in a storage mode and outputs the stored current in an output mode. The output current generator obtains a current or the sum of currents from a non-negative integer number of the current copy circuits selected in accordance with the input signal, and thereby generates an output current.