Gain and mismatch calibration for a phase detector used in an inductive sensor

    公开(公告)号:US12085525B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-10

    申请号:US18470066

    申请日:2023-09-19

    CPC classification number: G01N27/025 G01N27/028

    Abstract: A system may include a resonant sensor configured to sense a physical quantity, a measurement circuit communicatively coupled to the resonant sensor and configured to measure one or more resonance parameters associated with the resonant sensor and indicative of the physical quantity using an incident/quadrature detector having an incident channel and a quadrature channel and perform a calibration of a non-ideality between the incident channel and the quadrature channel of the system, the calibration comprising determining the non-ideality by controlling the sensor signal, an oscillation signal for the incident channel, and an oscillation signal for the quadrature channel; and correcting for the non-ideality.

    Minimizing transient artifact of position estimate in inductively-sensed electromagnetic actuator system with shared inductive sensor

    公开(公告)号:US11948739B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-02

    申请号:US17568248

    申请日:2022-01-04

    CPC classification number: H01F7/1844 H01F2007/185

    Abstract: A system may include an electromagnetic actuator, a first coil configured to drive mechanical displacement of the electromagnetic actuator, a second coil configured to drive mechanical displacement of the electromagnetic actuator, and an inductance sensing subsystem having an inductance sensing path coupled to the first coil and the second coil. The inductance sensing subsystem may be configured to select one of the first coil and the second coil for driving mechanical displacement of the electromagnetic actuator, select the other of the first coil and the second coil as a sensing coil for sensing displacement of the electromagnetic actuator, determine a displacement of the electromagnetic actuator based on a measurement of estimated inductance of the sensing coil, and when switching selection of the sensing coil from the first coil to the second coil determine the displacement of the first coil based on a measured inductance of the first coil at approximately the time of switching selection, estimate state variables of the inductance sensing path to be used with the second coil based on the displacement, and apply the state variables to the inductance sensing path after switching selection of the sensing coil from the first coil to the second coil.

    Maximizing dynamic range in resonant sensing

    公开(公告)号:US11821761B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-21

    申请号:US17215157

    申请日:2021-03-29

    CPC classification number: G01D5/202

    Abstract: A system may include a resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor configured to sense a physical quantity, and a measurement circuit communicatively coupled to the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor and configured to measure one or more resonance parameters associated with the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor and indicative of the physical quantity and, in order to maximize dynamic range in determining the physical quantity from the one or more resonance parameters, dynamically modify, across the dynamic range, either of reliance on the one or more resonance parameters in determining the physical quantity or one or more resonance properties of the resistive-inductive-capacitive sensor.

    Sensor signal correction
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11520436B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-06

    申请号:US17097384

    申请日:2020-11-13

    Abstract: A correction unit for use in a sensor system, the sensor system comprising a force sensor configured to output a sensor signal indicative of a temporary mechanical distortion of a material under an applied force, the correction unit configured, based on the sensor signal, to: estimate an effect of the applied force on how the material will return towards an undistorted form upon a substantial reduction or removal of the applied force; and generate a corrected signal based on the estimation.

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