Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130031950 | MICROELECTROMECHANICAL GYROSCOPE WITH SELF-CALIBRATION FUNCTION AND METHOD OF CALIBRATING A MICROELECTROMECHANICAL GYROSCOPE - A microelectromechanical gyroscope having a supporting structure; a mass capacitively coupled to the supporting structure and movable with a first degree of freedom and a second degree of freedom, in response to rotations of the supporting structure about an axis; driving components, for keeping the mass in oscillation according to the first degree of freedom; a read interface for detecting transduction signals indicating the capacitive coupling between the mass and the supporting structure; and capacitive compensation modules for modifying the capacitive coupling between the mass and the supporting structure. Calibration components detect systematic errors from the transduction signals and modify the capacitive compensation modules as a function of the transduction signals so as to attenuate the systematic errors. | 02-07-2013 |
20130033274 | MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SENSOR WITH DIFFERENTIATED PERFORMANCES AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING A MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SENSOR - A microelectromechanical sensor includes a supporting structure and a sensing mass, which is elastically coupled to the supporting structure, is movable with respect thereto with one degree of freedom in response to movements according to an axis and is coupled to the supporting structure through a capacitive coupling. A sensing device senses, on terminals of the capacitive coupling, transduction signals indicative of displacements of the first sensing mass according to the degree of freedom. The sensing device includes at least one first reading chain, having first operative parameters, one second reading chain, having second operative parameters different from the first operative parameters, and one selective electrical connection structure that couples the first reading chain and the second reading chain to the first terminals. | 02-07-2013 |
20130180331 | READING CIRCUIT FOR A MULTI-AXIS MEMS GYROSCOPE HAVING DETECTION DIRECTIONS INCLINED WITH RESPECT TO THE REFERENCE AXES, AND CORRESPONDING MULTI-AXES MEMS GYROSCOPE - A multi-axis gyroscope includes a microelectromechanical structure configured to rotate with respective angular velocities about respective reference axes, and including detection elements, which are sensitive in respective detection directions and generate respective detection quantities as a function of projections of the angular velocities in the detection directions. The gyroscope including a reading circuit that generates electrical output signals, each correlated to a respective one of the angular velocities, as a function of the detection quantities. The reading circuit includes a combination stage that combines electrically with respect to one another electrical quantities correlated to detection quantities generated by detection elements sensitive to detection directions different from one another, so as to take into account a non-zero angle of inclination of the detection directions with respect to the reference axes. | 07-18-2013 |
20130239651 | MICROELECTROMECHANICAL GYROSCOPE WITH CONTINUOUS SELF-TEST FUNCTION - A microelectromechanical gyroscope includes a body and a sensing mass, which is movable with a degree of freedom in response to rotations of the body about an axis. A self-test actuator is capacitively coupled to the sensing mass for supplying a self-test signal. The capacitive coupling causes, in response to the self-test signal, electrostatic forces that are able to move the sensing mass in accordance with the degree of freedom at an actuation frequency. A sensing device detects transduction signals indicating displacements of the sensing mass in accordance with the degree of freedom. The sensing device is configured for discriminating, in the transduction signals, spectral components that are correlated to the actuation frequency and indicate the movement of the sensing mass as a result of the self-test signal. | 09-19-2013 |
20130249642 | MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICE HAVING AN OSCILLATING MASS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICE HAVING AN OSCILLATING MASS - A microelectromechanical device includes a body, a movable mass, elastically connected to the body and movable in accordance with a degree of freedom, and a driving device, coupled to the movable mass and configured to maintain the movable mass in oscillation at a steady working frequency in a normal operating mode. The microelectromechanical device moreover includes a start-up device, which is activatable in a start-up operating mode and is configured to compare a current oscillation frequency of a first signal correlated to oscillation of the movable mass with a reference frequency, and for deciding, on the basis of the comparison between the current oscillation frequency and the reference frequency, whether to supply to the movable mass a forcing signal packet so as to transfer energy to the movable mass. | 09-26-2013 |
20130285767 | SWITCHED-CAPACITOR BAND-PASS FILTER OF A DISCRETE-TIME TYPE, IN PARTICULAR FOR CANCELLING OFFSET AND LOW-FREQUENCY NOISE OF SWITCHED-CAPACITOR STAGES - A band-pass filter made up by an operational amplifier and by an input circuit. The input circuit is formed by a capacitive filtering element, connected to the input of the operational amplifier; a coupling switch, coupled between an input node and the capacitive filtering element; a capacitive sampling element, coupled between the input of the filter and the input node; and a sampling switch, coupled between the input node and a reference-potential line. The coupling switch and the input sampling switch close in phase opposition according to a succession of undesired components sampling and sensing steps, so that the capacitive sampling element forms a sampler for sampling the undesired component in the undesired components sampling step, in the absence of the component of interest, and forms a subtractor of the undesired components from the input signal in the sensing step. | 10-31-2013 |
20130307581 | DIGITAL NOISE PROTECTION CIRCUIT AND METHOD - A method of protection from noise of a digital signal generated by a comparator, including the steps of generating an output signal that switches from a first logic state to a second logic state at a first switching of logic state of the digital signal; detecting a change from the first logic state to the second logic state of the output signal; and inhibiting further switchings of the output signal for a first time interval after the change from the first logic state to the second logic state. | 11-21-2013 |
20140300415 | INPUT COMMON MODE CONTROL USING A DEDICATED COMPARATOR FOR SENSOR INTERFACES - Various embodiments of the invention allow for low-noise, high performance input common mode voltage control in capacitive sensor front end amplifiers. In certain embodiments overcome the shortcomings of the prior art by implementing a full voltage swing common mode voltage comparator in a parallel feed-forward path to compensate large common mode input signal variations. | 10-09-2014 |