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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 1976
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1975
Robert P Pearson, St. Paul, MN (US);
Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Abstract
Strain gauge transducer apparatus including circuitry for balancing current through a pair of strain sensitive semiconductor resistors is disclosed. A current source supplies constant electric current to a voltage divider and a first strain sensitive resistor which are connected to noninverting and inverting input terminals respectively of an operational amplifier. A second strain sensitive resistor is connected between the output and inverting input terminals of the amplifier to provide a feedback signal which balances the current through the strain sensitive resistors. Temperature compensation may be provided by forming the voltage divider of resistors having temperature coefficients matching those of the strain sensitive resistors, or by means of a temperature sensitive resistor in parallel with voltage divider.