Patents Assigned to New England Photoconductor Corp.
  • Patent number: 5747805
    Abstract: A sensor circuit and method for detecting the current output by one or more resistive detectors by connecting a respective integrating capacitor and a respective switch connected to each detector. Each detector charges the respective integrating capacitor until the switch allows the stored charge in the integrating capacitor to be transferred to the feedback capacitor of a shared operational amplifier which converts the stored charge to a voltage. In this way, current, not voltage is multiplexed and each sensor can be operated, that is, collect charge, virtually all the time. Thus, fewer components are required to monitor a large number of resistive detectors with little or no degradation in the signal to noise ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: New England Photoconductor Corp.
    Inventor: Robert C. Youngquist