Abstract: A rotation detecting device, which is compatible regardless of whether a process control device for processing an output signal of the rotation detecting device is standard one or new one having high input signal resolving power, and, also, a rotation detecting device equipped bearing assembly having such rotation detecting device, are provided. The rotation detecting device includes an encoder provided rotatably and having a plurality of circumferentially equidistantly arranged to-be-detected poles, and a sensor for detecting the to-be-detected poles. The use is made of a multiplying unit for multiplying the phase of the to-be-detected poles from an output of the sensor. The use is also made of a pulse outputting unit for receiving an output of the multiplying unit or both the output of the multiplying unit and an output of the sensor and output pulses having two multiplying powers different from each other.

Abstract: In an existing disconnection detection circuit for a bridge circuit, consideration is not taken into the fact that an offset voltage or temperature characteristic of a bridge output is degraded. Provided is a disconnection detection circuit for a bridge circuit capable of suppressing a change in a characteristic of a sensor to a minimal extent. A disconnection detection circuit 8a for a bridge circuit in accordance with the present invention comprises conducting means 9 and 10 each of which causes a current to flow from an output terminal of the bridge circuit to a predetermined potential, potential difference detecting means 12 and 13 each of which detects a potential difference between the potential at the output terminal of the bridge circuit and the predetermined potential, and a disconnection detecting means 14 that detects a disconnection on the basis of the outputs of the potential difference detecting means.

Abstract: This inductive position sensor includes: a primary winding, and at least two secondary windings (4, 6) each constituted by several turns (8) produced on two layers of a printed circuit board. A secondary winding has turns (8) each having substantially the same shape, aligned in a direction referred to as longitudinal, each time with an offset between them. The turns (8) each have a first globally concave part (12) disposed on one layer of the printed circuit board and a second globally concave part (14) disposed on the other layer of the printed circuit board, the first part of a turn is connected to the second part of the same turn by a first via (36a) passing through the printed circuit board, the first part of a turn is connected to the second part of an adjacent turn by a second via (36b) passing through the printed circuit board.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electronic apparatus, including an electric power receiving portion receiving an electric power from a power feeding apparatus by using a magnetic field, and a detecting portion detecting presence or absence of a foreign object between said power feeding apparatus and said detecting portion.

Abstract: Disclosed is a Hall sensor probe that configured to be coupled with one of a plurality of magnetic targets for measuring the thickness of a non-ferromagnetic wall. The probe comprises a magnetic field source, a Hall sensor, a concentrator and a main housing. The novel aspects of the probe include a wear tip that is exchangeably affixed onto the main-housing, leaving a permanent gap from and disjoined from the concentrator in a manner that transfers stress from the tip directly onto the main-housing. To serve every aspects of the primary objective, being it mechanical, thermal and operational, the material of the tip preferably has a fracture toughness higher than 20 MPa·m1/2, wear coefficient higher than 100, and a magnetic susceptibility lower than 0.001.

Abstract: An approach is provided in which a system under test is subjected to thermal cycling that include transferring the system under test between two different environments that generate two different ambient temperatures. In turn, a test system tests the electronic assembly in response to the electronic assembly being subjected to the thermal cycles.

Abstract: A voltage detection circuit includes: an amplifier which amplifies a voltage difference between first and second input signals input into non-inverting and inverting input terminals of the amplifier via first and second input portions; a first signal line which connects the first input portion to the amplifier; a second signal line which connects the second input portion to the amplifier; a first capacitor connected in parallel to the first signal line; a second capacitor connected in parallel to the second signal line; a first filter element which has an inductor component and a resistor component and is connected in series to the first signal line between the first capacitor and the amplifier; and a second filter element which has an inductor component and a resistor component and is connected in series to the second signal line between the second capacitor and the amplifier.

Abstract: A power measurement device for sampling current or voltage signals of a power system to produce a 1-bit delta-sigma bitstream. The power measurement device includes a frequency locked loop for determining the power system frequency directly from the 1-bit delta-sigma bitstream. The frequency locked loop includes a 1-bit rotate CORDIC that is configured to produce difference signals having a multi-bit word for each bit of the 1-bit delta-sigma bitstream, and a phase error calculator that determines the difference between the phase of the power system frequency and a phase ramp generated from a frequency measurement value in a frequency register. The phase error calculator feeds back a phase correction signal to the frequency register to lock the frequency measurement value to the power system frequency.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for the measurement of a power factor at points of interest, such as circuit breakers, machines, and the like. Accordingly, means are provided for measurement of a power factor for each electrical sub-network that is controlled by a circuit breaker. Each apparatus is enabled to communicate its respective data, in an environment of a plurality of such apparatuses, to a management unit which is enabled to provide finer granularity power factor profiles.

Abstract: A capacitive type touch sensor has optical functionality, low reflection and thin thickness as well as narrow frames. The capacitive type touch sensor includes a cover glass, and a capacitive type film sensor member adhered to a rear surface of the cover glass. The capacitive type touch sensor further includes a polarization plate between the cover glass and the film sensor member. The film sensor member includes a transparent base sheet having a ?/4 phase difference film, transparent conductive films so as to form electrode pattern s on the central windows and fine line routed circuit pattern on the peripheral frames on both sides of the base sheet, and light-blocking conductive films laminated on the fine line routed circuit patterns of the transparent conductive film.

Abstract: An arrangement for use in an electricity meter includes a sensor and a processing circuit. The sensor is supported directly or indirectly by a meter housing. The sensor is configured to measure a magnetic field in proximity to a current sensor of the electricity meter. The sensor is also configured to generate a measurement signal representative of, at least in part, a magnitude of the magnetic field. The processing circuit is operably coupled to receive first information representative of the measurement signal. The processing circuit is configured to obtain a first value representative of the magnetic field based on the first information, and determine a first adjustment value responsive to a determination that the first value exceeds the first threshold value. The processing circuit is further configured to generate energy consumption information based at least in part on the first adjustment value.

Abstract: A probe head of vertical probe card and a manufacturing method of a composite board thereof are provided. The probe head includes guide plate, composite board, and probe pin. The composite board includes first board layer and second board layer which are laminated together by joining operation. The composite board further includes through hole which is made by drilling and passed all the way through the first board layer and the second board layer. The friction coefficient of the first board layer is less than that of the second board layer, and the thermal expansion coefficient of the second board layer is less than that of the first board layer. The probe pin is penetrated all the way through the through hole of the composite board. By this, friction between the probe pin and composite board is reduced so as to stabilize the position of the probe pin.

Abstract: An equipment for inspecting the thickness of fiber cloth and a method therefor. The method includes disposing a fiber cloth on a metal backboard; sensing an eddy current responding from the fiber cloth and the metal backboard by an eddy current sensing device to obtain a multilayer thickness value; and comparing the multilayer thickness value with a single-layer thickness value to obtain a cloth thickness value corresponding to the thickness of the fiber cloth, wherein the single-layer thickness value is obtained by sensing an eddy current responding from the metal backboard, thereby the thickness of fiber cloth can be obtained.

Abstract: Disclosed is an advanced detector system and method using a forward three-dimensional induced polarization method for a TBM (Tunnel Boring Machine) construction tunnel. A narrow detection space of a full-face excavated tunnel is fully used, a controller controls doors of a source and measuring electrode compartment and a shielding electrode compartment to open and controls a corresponding hydraulic delivery device to automatically and quickly arrange a source electrode system, a measuring electrode system and a shielding electrode system. Under the action of a shielding current system, tomography detection supply current is directed ahead of the working face.

Abstract: A testing and repairing apparatus of through silicon via (TSV) disposed between a first and a second chips is provided. First terminals of a first and a second switches are coupled to a first terminal of the TSV. First terminals of a third and a fourth switches are coupled to a second terminal of the TSV. A first terminal of a first resister is coupled to a first voltage. A first selector is coupled between second terminals of the second switch and the first resister. A second selector is coupled between a second terminal of the fourth switch and a second voltage. A first control circuit detects the second terminal of the second switch, and controls the first switch, the second switch and the first selector. A second control circuit controls the third switch, the fourth switch and the second selector.

Abstract: Implementations are presented herein that include a plurality of on-chip monitor circuits and a controller. Each of the plurality of on-chip monitor circuits is configured to measure a parameter of a semiconductor chip. The controller is coupled to the plurality of on-chip monitor circuits. The controller is configured to receive a measurement result from at least one of the plurality of on-chip monitor circuits and to control a calibration of another one of the plurality of on-chip monitor circuits in accordance with the measurement result.

Abstract: A detecting circuit for pixel electrode voltage of a flat panel display device, the flat panel display device having a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines crossing with the plurality of scanning lines, the plurality of scanning lines and data lines define a plurality of pixel units, and each of the pixel units including a pixel switching element and a pixel electrode. The detecting circuit for pixel electrode voltage includes at least one detecting sub-circuit for pixel electrode voltage. The detecting sub-circuit for pixel electrode voltage includes: a signal amplifying unit connected with the pixel electrode in the pixel unit, for amplifying a voltage signal of the pixel electrode; and a signal detecting unit connected with the signal amplifying unit, for detecting the voltage signal of the pixel electrode that has been amplified by the signal amplifying unit, and outputting a variation in the voltage signal of the pixel electrode with time.

Abstract: A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a plurality of dies, wherein each of the dies is configured to enable a power circuit provided therein according to a power control signal, in a state in which the die was determined to be a good die or a fail die.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided that includes a touch sensor. The touch sensor includes a plurality of drive electrodes made of conductive material, a plurality of sense electrodes made of conductive material, and a plurality of edges. Each of the drive electrodes and each of the sense electrodes are coupled to at least one track. The tracks are located along only one of the plurality of edges of the touch sensor.

Abstract: In a resolver for determining the relative angular position between two subassemblies, each subassembly includes a winding, the winding being situated inside a housing made up of two housing shells. The housing shells have tabs which are oriented with an axial directional component and joined in interlocking manner with axial overlap at a mutual offset in the circumferential direction.