Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Electric Engineering Company, Limited

Masaya Hara

Mitsumasa Murakami

The invention provides a temperature-compensating circuit which comprises first degree and second degree temperature-coefficient-generating circuits respectively comprising an operational amplifier and a plurality of resistors each having different temperature coefficient, a sign-inverting circuit, and first degree and second degree temperature-coefficient-adjusting circuits. Resistance values of the resistors of the first degree and second degree temperature-coefficient-generating circuits are decided so that voltage amplification factors are linearly or quadratically changed as a temperature changes. The sign-inverting circuit inverts signs of temperature coefficients generated by the first degree and second degree temperature-coefficient-generating circuits and the first degree and second degree temperature-coefficient-adjusting circuits adjust temperature coefficients generated by the first degree and second degree temperature-coefficient-generating circuits to predetermined values. The temperature-compensating circuit generates any temperature coefficients necessary for temperature compensation to cancel an offset drift constant in the temperature characteristic of a sensor output and fluctuation components due to span-shift first degree and second degree temperature coefficients.

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Tokyo, Japan

Masaya Hara