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Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 22, 2014
Applicant:

Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Kentaro Seo, Minowa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01P 21/00 (2006.01); G01P 15/00 (2006.01); G01C 19/5726 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01P 21/00 (2013.01); G01C 19/5726 (2013.01); G01P 15/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A detection circuit (physical quantity detection circuit) includes a ΔΣ modulator (A/D converter) that digitizes a detection signal corresponding to a physical quantity and outputs detection data, an arithmetic operating portion that includes at least one of adders and a multiplier, a main sequence counter (counter) that counts the number of clocks of a clock signal and initializes a count value periodically, and a control circuit (control portion) that causes the arithmetic operating portion to perform a plurality of arithmetic operation processes, having types different from each other, for generating arithmetic operation data according to a magnitude of the physical quantity on the basis of the detection data, in accordance with the count value.


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