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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2012
Axel Heim, München, DE;
Artem Ivanov, Lundshut, DE;
Roland Aubauer, Wessling, DE;
MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY GERMANY GMBH, Gilching, DE;
Abstract
A capacitive measuring device for a hand-held device, particularly an electric hand-held device for the detection of an approach to the hand-held device, has a switching device, wherein the ground of the capacitive measuring device is galvanically connectable with an electrically conductive structure of the hand-held device by a switching device, and wherein the capacitive measuring device has a ground electrode structure with at least one ground electrode that can be arranged on the hand-held device, wherein the ground of the capacitive hand-held device is galvanically connectable with the at least one ground electrode by the switching device.