Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110140792 | COMPENSATED MICRO/NANO-RESONATOR WITH IMPROVED CAPACITIVE DETECTION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - The resonator comprises an oscillating element and first and second excitation electrodes of the oscillating element. An AC signal generator is connected to the first and second excitation electrodes and delivers first and second signals of the same amplitudes and in antiphase on the first and second electrodes. A first DC voltage source is connected to a third electrode. A second DC voltage source is connected to a fourth electrode. An additional electrode is electrically connected to the oscillating element. A signal representative of oscillation of the oscillating element is provided by the additional electrode formed by an anchoring point of the oscillating element and biased by a third DC voltage. | 06-16-2011 |
20110274184 | ESTIMATION OF THE IMPULSE RESPONSE OF A SYSTEM ON THE BASIS OF BINARY OBSERVATIONS - A method of identifying an electronic or electromechanical system includes: applying at least one noise signal (u) as input to the system, applying an output signal of the system to a one-bit analog digital converter, acquiring a signal at the output of the converter, carrying out an estimation of the output of the system with aid of performing an estimation (ĥ) of the impulse response of the system. The estimation (ĥ) of the impulse response includes: iterative calculation of a plurality of nh elements (J | 11-10-2011 |
20120154065 | OSCILLATING CIRCUIT WITH GIANT MAGNETORESISTANCE EFFECT JUNCTIONS - An oscillator including two groups of elementary junctions having giant magnetoresistance effect traversed by electric currents, the junctions of each of the two groups being in series and energized by respective main currents and the voltages across the terminals of the groups being added together to provide a voltage on an output of the oscillating circuit. The voltage across the terminals of one or more junctions of a first group is applied to a first input of a phase comparator and the voltage across the terminals of one or more junctions of the other group is applied to another input of the phase comparator, the phase comparator providing on two outputs secondary currents of the same amplitude and of opposite signs, which are dependent on the mean phase difference between the voltages applied to the inputs, the secondary currents each being added to a respective main current. | 06-21-2012 |
20120206177 | DEVICE FOR GENERATING CLOCK SIGNALS FOR ASYMMETRIC COMPARISON OF PHASE ERRORS - A device for generating a clock signal, including a phase-locked loop including: a controlled oscillator to deliver a clock signal; plural phase comparators to compare a phase of the clock signal delivered by the controlled oscillator with plural clock signal phases applied at an input of the phase-locked loop; a mechanism for weighted summation of output signals of the plural phase comparators such that one or more of the weighting coefficients applied to one of the output signals has an absolute value that overrides the absolute values of the other weighting coefficients applied to the other output signals; and a mechanism filtering the weighted sum of the output signals of the plural phase comparators, to deliver at an output a control signal to the controlled oscillator. | 08-16-2012 |
20130192372 | RESONANT SENSOR MEASUREMENT DEVICE - Device for the measurement of at least one physical variable, comprising at least:
| 08-01-2013 |
20140013848 | MEASURING SYSTEM HAVING ELECTROMECHANICAL RESONATORS, METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SUCH A SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR READING AT LEAST TWO ELECTROMECHANICAL RESONATORS - A measuring system including: at least two electromechanical resonators each having a resonant frequency varying around an offload resonant frequency according to a physical quantity to be measured; at least one reading device connected to inputs of the resonators and configured to supply an excitation signal on the inputs; and a memory in which is recorded, for each resonator, offload resonance information relating to the offload resonant frequency of the resonator. Each reading device is configured to determine the resonant frequency of one or more resonators selected for reading by configuring at least one element of the reading device using the offload resonance information stored for each selected resonator. | 01-16-2014 |
20150204827 | GAS ANALYSIS SYSTEM COMPRISING A GAS SPECTROMETER EQUIPPED WITH A MICRO-REFLECTRON - The invention relates to a gas analysis system comprising, from upstream to downstream:
| 07-23-2015 |
20150300999 | MEASUREMENT SYSTEM INCLUDING A NETWORK OF NANOELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM RESONATORS - The invention relates to a measurement system including a network of nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) resonators, characterized in that: each one of said resonators includes: an electrostatic activation device capable of generating a vibration of a beam exposed to said excitation signal, at least one piezoresistive stress gauge made of a doped semiconducting material, extending from the beam so as to detect a movement of said beam, the variation in the electrical resistance of said at least one gauge supplying an output signal; said network includes at least two groups of resonators, each group including at least two resonators having an identical empty resonance frequency, each group of resonators having an empty resonance frequency different from that of each other group; the resonators forming each group are connected in parallel; the groups of resonators forming said network are connected in parallel; said system includes a reading device designed to supply an excitation signal at the network input and to determine the resonance frequency of a group of resonators which is selected by injecting, into said excitation signal, a frequency component corresponding to the empty resonance frequency of each selected group of resonators, and by identifying, in the output signal of the network, a resonance frequency component of the selected group of resonators. | 10-22-2015 |