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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:
Feb. 28, 1989

Filed:

Feb. 01, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:

Donald O Myers, Elgin, IL (US);

Gregory D Stamm, La Grange, IL (US);

Assignee:

Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01L / ; G01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73708 ;
Abstract

The undesired temperature variation of a capacitive pressure sensing element (10) having a positive temperature coefficient of capacitance (TCC) is compensated by a series resistor R and compensating capacitor (C.sub.c) connected in parallel to the pressure sensing capacitor (C.sub.x). The compensating capacitor and presssure sensing element have opposite polarity temperature coefficients of capacitance, and the magnitude of the resistor is selected such that its resistive impedance is nonnegligible and is comparable to the magnitude of the capacitive reactance of the pressure sensing capacitor or compensating capacitor at a predetermined operative frequency of an electrical signal applied to and/or determined by the pressure sensing and compensating capacitors.


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