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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 05, 2018
Applicant:

Melexis Technologies NV, Tessenderlo, BE;

Inventors:

Carl Van Buggenhout, Aalst, BE;

Ben Maes, Lommel, BE;

Karel Vanroye, Sint-Truiden, BE;

Stijn Reekmans, Beverlo, BE;

Assignee:

MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES NV, Tessenderlo, BE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 5/06 (2006.01); G01J 5/10 (2006.01); G01J 5/04 (2006.01); G01J 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01J 5/06 (2013.01); G01J 5/045 (2013.01); G01J 5/10 (2013.01); G01J 2005/0048 (2013.01); G01J 2005/065 (2013.01); G01J 2005/067 (2013.01); G01J 2005/106 (2013.01);
Abstract

An infrared sensor assembly for sensing infrared radiation comprises infrared sensing elements and the infrared sensing compensation elements that are different so that, for a same flux on the infrared sensing elements and the infrared sensing compensation elements, the radiation responsive element of the infrared sensing elements absorbs more radiation than the radiation responsive element of the infrared sensing compensation elements, as to receive substantially more radiation than the radiation responsive element of the infrared sensing compensation elements. An output of the sensor array is a subtractive function of a sum of the signals of the plurality of infrared sensing elements and a sum of the signals of the plurality of the infrared sensing compensation elements such that at least linear and/or non-linear parasitic thermal fluxes are at least partly compensated for.


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