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Document Number
US Patent 7026972
Issued Date
April 11, 2006
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A voltage-to-time conversion circuit compares a ramp-wave voltage, which steps up at a certain gradient, with each of a reference voltage, an input voltage, and a reference voltage, and produces a PB pulsating signal representing the times which the voltages require for having a predetermined relationship to the ramp-wave voltage. An encoder circuit converts the times into coded data items according to the ratios of the times to a common unit time. A normalization circuit determines a conversion characteristic curve on the basis of the coded data items, into which the times required by the reference voltages are converted, and A/D-converted values predefined for the reference voltages, and fits the coded data, into which the time required by the input voltage is converted, to the characteristic curve. Thus, the A/D-converted value of the input voltage Vin is calculated.
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Owner
Denso Corporation (Kariya,JP)
Published
April 11, 2006
Application Number
11/059,371
Filed
February 17, 2005
US Classification
341/155   341/162
Int'l Classification
H03M   1/12   (20060101)  
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Feb 27, 2004 [JP] 2004-053803
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341/155  
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