Abstract: Isolated capacitance line voltage sensing is provided that avoids metal-to-metal contact for voltage sensing of a power signal present on a power wire. An external conductor is positioned by the power wire, creating a capacitor with the power wire conductor, insulation, and external conductor. The capacitance is used to measure the electric field, indicating a voltage level for the powered wire. The impedance mismatch caused by the capacitance is transformed. The impedance transformation circuit may be integrated with the external conductor, allowing voltage sensing by a voltage meter having a lower input impedance. A manual or automatic calibration circuit may be provided to ensure the measured voltage represents the actual voltage on the power wire.

Abstract: A battery monitoring system includes a battery sensor mounted between a plurality of batteries in a battery system for a vehicle using the plurality of batteries. The battery sensor according to an aspect of the present invention, which uses an ammeter resistor connected in series between a first battery and a second battery, includes: a first integrated circuit configured to receive voltages of both electrodes of the first battery and voltages of both terminals of the ammeter resistor to measure a first battery voltage and a one-directional current of the first and second batteries; and a second integrated circuit configured to receive voltages of both electrodes of the second battery to measure a second battery voltage, and receive the first battery voltage and the one-directional current of the first and second batteries from the first integrated circuit through a serial communication interface.

Abstract: Provided is a pulse detection apparatus and a pulse detection method less susceptible to movement of a subject and less susceptible to noise. An oscillation frequency controller is configured to cause a frequency variable oscillator to oscillate at a predetermined oscillation frequency, which is a frequency within a range assumed as a resonance frequency of a molecule of a predetermined constituent constituting the blood flowing through a human body. The oscillation frequency controller also controls an oscillation frequency based on a phase difference signal and an amplitude signal, wherein the phase difference signal indicates the phase difference between a transmission signal transmitted from an antenna to the human body and a reception signal received by the antenna, and the amplitude signal indicates the magnitude of the amplitude of the received signal. A pulse detector detects the change of the amplitude signal in an amplitude direction as a pulse signal.

Abstract: A test assembly system protects a user from potentially energized equipment. Aspects of the system provide access to the equipment through a socket connection and a test probe assembly that is configured to interface with the socket connection to read voltage or continuity across a bus of the equipment being inspected. The probe assembly shields the user from the equipment to prevent energy or arc flashes from projecting out to contact the user.

Abstract: An insulation resistance measuring device including a positive electrode test resistor connected to a positive electrode node of a battery assembly, a negative electrode test resistor connected to a negative electrode node of the battery assembly, a first switch connecting the positive electrode node of the battery assembly to the positive electrode test resistor, a second switch connecting the negative electrode node of the battery assembly to the negative electrode test resistor, a voltage measurement unit that measures a first voltage applied to the positive electrode test resistor and a second voltage applied to the negative electrode test resistor, and a voltage estimation unit that estimates a final convergence value of the first and second voltages.

Abstract: A directional bridge for characterizing a signal reflected from an RF device under test (DUT) the bridge comprising: a differential signal source with two antipodal outputs wherein the first output is connected to a reference termination, and the second output is connected to the DUT, and at least one equal-ratio resistive divider wherein one side of the resistive divider is attached to the first output, and the second side of the resistive divider is connected to the second output and the middle point of the resistive divider is connected to a receiver, wherein the at least one equal-ratio resistive divider is configured to provide a separated forward and reverse signals by canceling a differential mode of a transmitted signal at the bridge.

Abstract: A test fixture has a flexible plastic cable that acts as a waveguide. The Device-Under-Test (DUT) is a small transceiver and antenna that operate in the Extremely High-Frequency (EHF) band of 30-300 GHz. The size of the DUT transceiver is very small, limiting the power of emitted electromagnetic radiation so that close-proximity communication is used. The envelope for reception may only extend for about a centimeter from the DUT transceiver, about the same size as the test socket. A slot is formed in the test socket very near to the antenna. The slot receives one end of the plastic waveguide. The slot extends into the envelope by the DUT transceiver so that close-proximity radiation is captured by the plastic waveguide. The waveguide has a high relative permittivity and reflective metalized walls so that the radiation may be carried to a receiver that is outside the envelope.

Abstract: A single chip referenced bridge type magnetic field sensor for high-intensity magnetic field, the sensor comprises a substrate, a reference arm, a sense arm, shielding structures and attenuators. Wherein the reference arms and the sense arms comprise at least two rows/columns of reference element strings and sense element strings which comprise one or more identical electrically interconnected magnetoresistive sense elements; the reference element strings and the sense element strings are mutually interleaved, each reference element string is designed with a shielding structure on top of it, and each sense element string is designed with an attenuator on top of it. The magnetoresistive sensor elements can be AMR, GMR or TMR sensor elements. The shielding structures and attenuators are arrays of long rectangular bars composed of a soft ferromagnetic material, such as permalloy.

Abstract: A circuit includes a Wheatstone bridge and a correction circuit operable to correct an output voltage offset of the Wheatstone bridge. The correction circuit includes a supply module configured to supply the Wheatstone bridge with a voltage and output a first current applied to the Wheatstone bridge and output a second current proportional to the first current. A digital/analog current converter outputs a correction current to the outputs of the Wheatstone bridge circuit in response to a digital correction signal and the second current.

Abstract: A magnetic field sensor includes built-in self-test coils in a configuration to provide magnetic field stimulation along three axes, with a high field factor, and thus, reduce a power budget of the sensor and physical size of the self-test coils. The magnetic field sensor comprises a first bridge circuit including a plurality of sense elements configured to sense a magnetic field. The magnetic field sensor further comprises re-configurable self-test current lines coupled to a self-test source to perform high field, high power wafer and die level testing and trim, as well as low power in-situ characterization and calibration of the sensor. The self-test current lines may be routed to form a coil with multiple turns around the TMR elements.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an arrangement for providing a testing environment for the testing of test objects. The testing environment includes a first test object receiving apparatus and a second test object receiving apparatus, each of which are configured to receive a test object. The testing environment also includes a connection interface configured to connect the first test object receiving apparatus and the second test object receiving apparatus to the testing environment. In one embodiment, the first test object receiving apparatus has a first external connection interface, and the second test object receiving apparatus has a second external connection interface, wherein said first and second external connection interfaces are configured to be selectively coupled with the connection interface of the testing environment.

Abstract: A device and a method used to measuring a real power transmitted by the power line are provided. The device comprises a detecting unit and a calculating unit, for obtaining the power factor and the real power according to a sensing voltage signal and a sensing current signal. The device is characterized by: the detecting unit having an electric field detector and a magnetic field detector, two electrodes of the electric field detector respectively disposed adjacent to the power wires, the sensing voltage signal being the voltage difference between the two electrodes, two coils with metal cores of the magnetic field detector respectively disposed adjacent to the power wires, the winding directions of the two coils being contrary, the two coils being coupled in series based on the same sensing current direction for obtaining the sensing current signal.

Abstract: A method for monitoring a civil engineering construction including a first metal reinforcement and a reference conductor element. The first metal reinforcement and the reference conductor being separated by dielectric material and each having a first end that is electrically accessible. The method including injecting an incident electrical signal which is applied differentially between the first ends of the first reinforcement and of the reference conductor element collecting reflected signals returning along the conductors in return, and analyzing the reflected signals by comparing them against reference signals in order to determine any potential structural defect in the first reinforcement.

Abstract: A probe calibration device that includes a first offset element having a substantially rectangular first aperture. The probe calibration device includes a tuned pass element disposed adjacent to the first offset element. The tuned pass element has a non-rectangular second aperture. The probe calibration device includes a second offset element disposed adjacent to the tuned pass element and on a side opposite the first offset element. The second offset element has a substantially rectangular third aperture. The probe calibration device includes a backing element disposed adjacent to the second offset element. The first offset element, the tuned pass element, the second offset element and the backing element form a cavity.

Abstract: A capacitive sensor device for approach and/or contact detection can be coupled with an electric circuit (10) and has a sensor electronics (20) and a device for potential separation (30), which with the sensor electronics (20) is coupled and by which the capacitive sensor device can be coupled with the electric circuit (10). In a method for operating a capacitive sensor device which has a sensor electronics, the sensor electronics can be coupled with an electric circuit and the sensor electronics is coupled with the electric circuit in a separable way with respect to the potential.

Abstract: A stroke sensor system includes a vehicle-body-side member, a wheel-side member, and a movement-amount deriving section. The movement-amount deriving section derives a movement amount of relative movement between the vehicle-body-side member and the wheel-side member. At least a part of one of the vehicle-body-side member and the wheel-side member is a conductor, and the other is provided with a coil. The movement-amount deriving section includes an even number of capacitors and an even number of exciting sections. The even number of capacitors are electrically coupled to the coil and configure an LC resonance section. The even number of exciting sections are for exciting an oscillation waveform output by the LC resonance section. The even number of capacitors and the even number of exciting sections are divided into equal numbers to configure a balanced circuit. The movement-amount deriving section derives the movement amount based on the oscillation waveform.

Abstract: A capacitive fingerprint sensor includes an array of capacitive sensing elements, readout circuitry electrically coupled to the array of capacitive sensing elements, a block first digital to analog converter (DAC), at least one second DAC, and at least one summing junction electrically coupled to the readout circuitry, the first DAC, and the at least one second DAC. The readout circuitry is adapted to read out pixel voltages from a group of each block of capacitive sensing elements. The first DAC is adapted to provide a block baseline voltage for each block of capacitive sensing elements. The second DAC is adapted to provide a pixel baseline voltage difference for one capacitive sensing element of each group of each block. The summing junction is adapted to subtract the received block baseline voltage and the received pixel baseline voltage difference from the corresponding pixel voltage of each row of each block.

Abstract: A method of detecting a fault of a semiconductor device including a power device mounted on a metal base and a drive circuit for driving the power device, the method detecting a fault of the semiconductor device beforehand based on an increase in thermal resistance between the metal base and the power device. A state of the power device is measured immediately before and after the power device is driven by the drive circuit. A temperature difference of the power device before and after driving is calculated according to the result of measurement. An increase in thermal resistance between the metal base and the power device is detected based on the temperature difference and an amount of electricity inputted to the power device in the driving period, and a fault of the semiconductor device is detected beforehand according to the increase.

Abstract: A sensor system with performance compensation testing capability includes a sensor device, a resistance bridge, a signal conditioning circuit, a first test connector, and a second test connector. The resistance bridge circuit is disposed on the sensor device and includes an excitation terminal, a circuit common terminal, and two output terminals, and is configured, upon being energized, to supply a bridge output voltage across the two output terminals. The signal conditioning circuit is electrically coupled to the excitation terminal, the circuit common terminal, and the two output terminals, and is configured to supply a sensor output signal representative of bridge output voltage. The first test connector is electrically coupled to one of the two output terminals and is configured to be coupled to an impedance test device. The second test connector is electrically coupled to the circuit common terminal and is configured to be coupled to the impedance test device.

Abstract: Provided are an atomic magnetometer and an operating method of the same. The atomic magnetometer includes a vapor cell receiving a circularly polarized pump beam and a linearly polarized probe beam and containing an alkali metal vapor, a detector adapted to receive the probe beam passing through the vapor cell to measure magneto-optical rotation of the probe beam, a feedback coil to establish a negative feedback magnetic field signal orthogonal to a first plane defined by traveling directions of the probe beam and the pump beam and provide the negative feedback magnetic field signal to the vapor cell, and a feedback amplifier adapted to provide feedback current to the feedback coil such that the negative feedback magnetic field proportional to a measurement magnetic field is established. The measurement magnetic field of a measurement target provides magneto-optical rotation of the probe beam in the vapor cell.