Abstract: An electric potential fixing apparatus is provided that can prevent the combined total amount of electricity of a connection line between the first capacitance and the second capacitance from changing even when the electric potential of the connection line between the first capacitance and the second capacitance is fixed in the case where the first capacitance and the second capacitance are directly connected. This electric potential fixing apparatus has the first high resistance (3) and the second high resistance (4) and includes a voltage supply circuit (1) that preserves the combined total amount of electric charge of a measuring capacitance (14) and a fixed capacitance (15) and maintains constant the electric potential of a signal line (17) that connects the measuring capacitance (14) and the fixed capacitance (15). And an output terminal (5) of the voltage supply circuit (1) is connected to the signal line (17).

Abstract: A impedance-to-voltage converter for converting an impedance of a target to a voltage is described which comprises an operational amplifier (OP), a coaxial cable consisting a signal line and shielding element(s), and an AC signal generator. A feedback impedance circuit is connected between output and inverting terminals of the OP, and whereby a non-inverting terminal and the inverting terminal are an imaginal-short condition. One end of the signal line is connected to the inverting input terminal of the OP and the other end is connected to one electrode of the target and the AC signal generator is connected to the non-inverting input terminal of the OP. The shielding element comprises at least one shielding layer surrounding the signal line and is connected to the non-inverting input terminal of the OP, and thus the signal line and the shielding layer are the same voltage due to the imaginal-short of the input terminals of the OP, resulting in reduction of noise on the signal line.