Finetek Co., Ltd.

Yin-Lun Huang

Chao-Kai Cheng

Yi-Liang Hou

I-Chu Lin

Chi-Fan Liao

A sensing apparatus includes a probe and a sensing module. The sensing module includes a material sensing circuit, an operation unit and a signal output circuit. The sensing module generates a frequency sweep signal and sends the frequency sweep signal to the probe to sense a status of a material. The frequency sweep signal is a plurality of signals having different frequencies from each other in a predetermined frequency range. When the frequency sweep signal touches the material, an equivalent capacitance of the material is utilized to generate a reflected signal. The material sensing circuit receives the reflected signal and sends the reflected signal to the operation unit. The operation unit operates the reflected signal to generate a waveform signal to determine the status of the material. The operation unit utilizes an impedance spectrum to determine the status of the material.

Sensing apparatus and material sensing method

A calibration method for a capacitance level sensing apparatus () is applied for a tank measurement. A measurement signal generating circuit () generates a measurement signal () to proceed with the tank measurement. According to a measurement result measured through the measurement signal (), a sensing circuit () transmits a sensing signal () to a control unit (). According to the sensing signal (), the control unit () determines whether the sensing signal () is in an effective range or not. If the sensing signal () is in the effective range, the control unit () sets a total capacitance in accordance with the sensing signal () as a measurement base value. If the sensing signal () is not in the effective range, the control unit () controls the measurement signal generating circuit () to adjust a measurement frequency of the measurement signal ().

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Yin-Lun Huang