67results about "Using electrical means" patented technology

Apparatus for monitoring structural health conditions of structures. The apparatus includes a piezoelectric device that has a bottom cover plate, piezoelectric rings concentrically disposed with respect to an axis and positioned on the bottom cover plate, and concentric filler rings made from an electrically insulating material. Each of the piezoelectric rings is interposed between two adjacent filler rings. The piezoelectric device also includes electrical connection means for communicating electrical signals to the piezoelectric rings and a top cover plate that is positioned over the piezoelectric rings and filler rings. The electrical connection means are operative to transmit electrical signals that cause one or more of the piezoelectric rings to generate waves or transmit electrical signals developed by one or more of the piezoelectric rings in response to the waves.

The invention discloses an analog circuit for detecting the wire breaking of a displacement sensor LVDT, which comprises a displacement sensor LVDT, wherein a primary coil of the displacement sensor LVDT is connected with an excitation signal source. The analog circuit for detecting the wire breaking of the displacement sensor LVDT is characterized in that the output ends of the secondary coils of the displacement sensor LVDT are respectively connected with a test signal and are respectively connected with a multi-channel selection switch through a filter and rectifier circuit, and predetermined different groups and combinations of wire breaking voltages which are output when an LVDT is disconnected are simultaneously connected with the multi-channel selection switch; the two output end voltages of the secondary coils of the LVDT are respectively combined with a group of comparison voltages to be connected with each comparator, and each comparator is connected with the output control end of the multi-channel selection switch through an arithmetic logic OR unit, and the multi-channel selection switch is simultaneously connected with a servo amplifier. The invention can directly achieve the detection of wire breaking state only by a hardware circuit, and the method is simple and reliable.

Measurement circuit components are included in an integrated circuit fabricated on a semiconductor substrate. These measurement circuits are connected to a voltage regulation circuit that provides the integrated circuit voltage source. These measurement circuits provide signals to control the voltage regulation circuit to adjust the voltage output to the integrated circuit based upon a measurement values obtained on the semiconductor device. These measurements include temperature and IR drop at locations on the semiconductor substrate, along with the frequency response of integrated circuit.

A sealed capacitive sensor includes a substrate having a diaphragm forming a first plate of a capacitor; a second fixed plate of the capacitor spaced from the diaphragm and defining a predetermined dielectric gap and a sealing medium connecting together the substrate and fixed plate in an integrated structure and hermetically sealing the gap.

The invention discloses a satellite ground micro-vibration test system. The satellite ground micro-vibration test system comprises a high-sensitivity sensor used for extracting vibration signals near a disturbance source or a load, an anti-aliasing filter used for performing anti-aliasing filtering on the vibration signals extracted by the high-sensitivity sensor to form piezoelectric signals, a high-modulus conversion rate acquirer used for generating the piezoelectric signals into digital signals and a high-precision controller used for controlling display, storage and analysis of the digital signals. According to the invention, the high-sensitivity sensor realizes small-magnitude acquisition of the vibration signals, digital signals are generated through a high-precision data acquisition card after the vibration signals are subjected to the anti-aliasing filtering, and subsequent process is performed to provide efficient input for the subsequent satellite vibration reduction or vibration isolation and environmental test and also realize verification of vibration reduction or vibration isolation performance. Therefore, the satellite ground micro-vibration test system, disclosed by the invention, has the advantages of satisfying demands on acquisition and analysis of micro-vibration signals and being of great importance in improving control precision and stability of a satellite platform.

A rotational angle detection device enables rotational angle detection for rotational angles ranging from 0° to 360° with an extremely simple configuration. The rotational angle detection device includes: a rotating magnet 12, which is mounted on one end of a rotating shaft 11; a four-pole auxiliary magnet 14, which is mounted on a substrate 13 opposed to the rotating magnet 12 without contact; and a magnetic sensor 15, which is mounted on the opposite side of the substrate 13. The four-pole auxiliary magnet 14 converts one rotating magnetic field of 0° to 360° provided by the rotating magnet 12 in a region where the magnetic sensor 15 is positioned into another rotating magnetic field of 0° to 180°.

A temperature sensing circuit using CMOS switch-capacitor includes a PNP BJT, a hysteresis comparator, a transconductance amplifier, two current sources, two capacitors, and six switches. A voltage complementary to the absolute temperature (CTAT) is generated according to the PNP BJT, and a voltage proportional to the absolute temperature (PTAT) is generated according to two capacitors and the transconductance amplifier. When the voltage proportional to absolute temperature is greater than the voltage complementary to absolute temperature as the temperature rising, the hysteresis comparator outputs a high level signal.

The invention relates to a tiled grating displacement error monitoring system, which comprises a grating tiling device for mounting a tiled grating, wherein a fine adjuster platform of the grating tiling device is provided with a piezoceramics driver; two polar plates of a first digital capacitance micro-displacement sensor are oppositely arranged on positions in the horizontal direction of a coarse adjuster platform and a lower platform of the fine adjuster respectively; two polar plates of a second digital capacitance micro-displacement sensor are oppositely arranged on positions perpendicular to the lower platform and an upper platform of the fine adjuster respectively; output ends of the first and second digital capacitance micro-displacement sensors are connected with the input end of a signal sample circuit; the output end of the signal sample circuit is connected with the input end of a controller of a singlechip; the output end of the singlechip is connected with a PC through a serial port communication circuit; and the output end of the PC is connected with the control end of the piezoceramics driver through a D/A converter.

The invention discloses a microelectronic temperature sensor and a preparation method thereof. Specifically, the sensor is a graphene oxide capacitive temperature sensor based on a post-COMS MEMS micro-processing technology. A graphene oxide material is a new type nano-material which has a high dielectric constant, and a dielectric constant value can be changed rapidly along with the change of a temperature. Compared with the temperature sensors such as a common Pt resistor and a PN junction, the microelectronic temperature sensor has the advantages that because a current does not pass through a device, the influence of self-heating effect on a measurement process is avoided when the measurement is carried out, the measurement error is low, the heat loss is low and the dynamic response time is short. Because the dielectric constant of the graphene oxide can be increased rapidly along with the rise of the temperature at the low temperature, a method for detecting a required high-sensitivity temperature sensor at the low temperature is realized. Through combination of the post-COMS MEMS micro-processing technology, the temperature sensor is small in size, low in cost and short in response time.

A rotational sensing system is adaptable to sensing motor rotation based on eddy current sensing. An axial target surface is incorporated with the motor rotor, and includes one or more conductive target segment(s). An inductive sensor is mounted adjacent the axial target surface, and includes one or more inductive sense coil(s), such that rotor rotation rotates the target segment(s) laterally under the sense coil(s). An inductance-to-digital converter (IDC) drives sensor excitation current to project a magnetic sensing field toward the rotating axial target surface. Sensor response is characterized by successive sensor phase cycles that cycle between L_MIN in which a sense coil is aligned with a target segment, and L_MAX in which the sense coil is misaligned. The number of sensor phase cycles in a rotor rotation cycle corresponds to the number of target segments. The IDC converts sensor response measurements from successive sensor phase cycles into rotational data.

A method of determining an angle by an encoder includes generating a first angle data based on a rotation of a bipolar magnet and a second angle data based on a rotation of the multipolar magnet; determining a first waveform signal based on the first angle data and a second waveform signal based on the second angle data; converting the first waveform signal into a third waveform signal having a cycle similar to the second waveform signal; calculating an angle result value as a function of the second angle data and a determined value about a location of a rotation cycle of the multipolar magnet based on a difference between the second waveform signal and the third waveform signal; and determining an absolute angle corresponding to the calculated angle result value based on stored angle data.

The invention discloses a monolithic integration composite range vector hydrophone. The current vector hydrophone can not measure various kinds of frequency signals in one test process because of mutual restriction of sensitivity and an effective work frequency band. By using the vector hydrophone of the invention, the above problem can be solved. The vector hydrophone comprises: a field-shaped support, elastic beams and mass blocks which are suspended on middle parts of four little box bodies of the field-shaped support respectively. Four sides of the each mass block are fixed with the field-shaped support through one elastic beam respectively. A terminal and a root of the each elastic beam are integrated with piezoresistors with a same resistance respectively. The middle parts of the four mass blocks are vertically provided with cilia cylinders with a same diameter respectively. The four cilia cylinders have different lengths. In the invention, through the four cilia cylinders with different lengths, sound signals in different measuring range scopes can be detected. The vector hydrophone can be used for determining a variable frequency value. And the effective work frequency band can be widened.

A method for measuring an integrated circuit (IC) structure by measuring an imprint of the structure, a method for preparing a test site for the above measuring, and IC so formed. The method for preparing the test site includes incrementally removing the structure from the substrate so as to reveal an imprint of the removed bottom surface of the structure in a top surface of the substrate. The imprint can then be imaged using an atomic force microscope (AFM). The image can be used to measure the bottom surface of the structure.

In some embodiments, a method may be provided for calibrating integrated circuit temperature sensors. The method may include sensing a first temperature using a first temperature sensor and a second temperature using a second temperature sensor. The first temperature sensor may be calibrated and is external to a package of the integrated circuit. The second temperature sensor may be included in the integrated circuit. The method may include increasing a temperature of the integrated circuit. The method may include allowing the integrated circuit and the package to thermally equilibrate over a first period of time. The method may include sensing a first slope of a temperature decay by the first temperature sensor. The method may include sensing a second slope of a temperature decay by the second temperature sensor. The method may include calibrating the second temperature sensor responsive to a difference between the first and second temperatures and the first and second slopes.

A sensor includes a stretchable substrate having a stretching property, and a plurality of wires provided to the stretchable substrate, and the plurality of wires includes a first wire, and a second wire larger in resistance value variation due to extension of the stretchable substrate than the first wire. Further, the sensor includes a detection section adapted to correct a resistance value of the second wire in accordance with a resistance value of the first wire, and detect the extension of the stretchable substrate based on the resistance value of the second wire which has been corrected. Further, the detection section detects deterioration of the plurality of wires in accordance with the resistance value of the first wire.

A sensor device is provided with a voltage detection type sensor unit for converting a physical quantity into a voltage value and outputting a voltage signal indicating the voltage value; a chopper amplifier unit for generating a modulation signal by chopping the voltage signal output from the sensor unit with a predetermined chopping frequency, amplifying the modulation signal into an amplification signal, then demodulating the amplification signal and outputting it as an output signal; an integration unit including an operational amplifier, an input resistor connected to the inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier and a capacitor connected between the inverting input terminal and an output terminal of the operational amplifier; and a digital conversion unit for converting the output signal integrated by the integration unit into a digital signal.

The invention provides a transformer substation monitoring device, method and system and relates to the technical field of electric power. The device comprises a sedimentation acquisition unit, a horizontal displacement acquisition unit, a data processor and a display device, wherein the sedimentation acquisition unit is arranged at an underground position of a monitoring point and is used for acquiring sedimentation data of the monitoring point; the horizontal displacement acquisition unit is arranged at a ground surface position of the monitoring point and is used for acquiring horizontal displacement data of the monitoring point; the data processor is used for obtaining the sedimentation data and the horizontal displacement data and displaying the sedimentation data and the horizontal displacement data through the display device, and is also used for sending the sedimentation data and the horizontal displacement data to a remote terminal through a wireless manner so as to carry out analysis and early warning on the sedimentation data and the horizontal displacement data by the remote terminal. According to the transformer substation monitoring device, method and system, the sedimentation data and the horizontal displacement data of a transformer substation foundation can be acquired in real time and the analysis and early warning on the data are carried out by the remote terminal, and hidden dangers can be found in time so that operation safety of an electric power system is ensured.

The invention discloses a temperature acquisition circuit of a thermistor and a self-checking method of the temperature acquisition circuit. The acquisition circuit comprises an MCU, a voltage dividing branch, a self-checking branch and a sampling filter capacitor. After the MCU controls the self-checking branch to be conducted, the acquisition circuit begins to execute a self-checking function; and when the condition that a difference value between actual sampling voltage and theoretical sampling voltage output by the voltage dividing branch is not in a preset difference value range is determined, a failure of the acquisition circuit is judged. Compared with a traditional acquisition circuit, the self-checking function is added to the acquisition circuit disclosed by the invention, and the failure of a sampling circuit can be timely found out through self-checking of the acquisition circuit, so that a technician can timely take effective measures, and the sampling error caused by the failure of the sampling circuit is avoided.

The invention provides a high-temperature miniaturized resonant gyroscope. The gyroscope comprises a harmonic oscillator, a circuit board, piezoelectric elements, a supporting base, a shell and binding posts, wherein the harmonic oscillator is arranged in the shell and connected with the supporting base, and the piezoelectric elements are connected with the binding posts through a metal conductor.Key process points of internal elements of the gyroscope are fixedly connected by adopting a high-temperature material and a high-temperature process, and the gyroscope is a small-size gyroscope capable of working at a high temperature. The invention also provides an inertial navigation system. The system comprises a three-axis gyroscope, a three-axis accelerometer and a shock absorber, wherein the gyroscope is fixedly connected with the shock absorber, and the gyroscope adopts the high-temperature resonant gyroscope. The invention further provides a drilling measurement system and a drillingmeasurement method. The system has the environmental adaptability under high temperature, strong vibration and large impact and has the advantage of small volume of drilling measurement. The method is used in the measurement system, and underground position measurement can be accurately carried out.

A measurement-while-drilling servo-actuator for use in mud-pulse telemetry, which determines linear position of a poppet valve therein without counting revolutions of a stepper motor which positions said poppet valve. A sensor senses a magnetic field intensity value, or an inductance value, which is proportional to the position of the poppet valve relative to the sensor. A look-up table of reference outputs corresponding to known position of the poppet valve is used to determine the position of the poppet valve. A method of determining a position of a poppet valve in a mud pulser is further disclosed.

The invention discloses a wide-range inductive frequency-modulation type displacement measurement device and a method. The device comprises a shell, a spiral coil, a measuring rod, a pipe body and a data processing module, wherein the spiral coil is arranged on the rear section of the pipe body in a sleeving manner; the data processing module is arranged on the shell; the front-end part of the measuring rod is formed by butting n sections of magnetic cores and can stretch into the pipe body; the magnetic conductivity of the ith magnetic core is 1.5-2 times that of the magnetic conductivity of the (i+1)th section of the magnetic core; i and n refer to integers; n is more than or equal to 2; i is equal to n-1; the length of each section of the magnetic core is smaller than the length of the spiral coil, so that two ends of a single section of the magnetic core stretch in the length range of the spiral coil; and the lengths of the tube body and the measuring rod are larger than the length of the spiral coil. The metal spiral coil with mature and stable process is used, the mode of continuously measuring by virtue of the multi-section measuring rod is adopted, the precision is guaranteed, the range can be widened, and the device is low in cost and easy to implement and can be widely applied to wide-range displacement deformation monitoring in the fields of civil engineering, geological disasters and industries.