Noise reduction unit

• US 10,630,281 B2
• Filed: 06/04/2018
• Issued: 04/21/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai RIKA Denki Seisakusho
• Inventors: Hanta, Yoshiki
• Primary Examiner(s): Edun, Muhammad N
• Application Number:
  US15/996,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20180358961A1
• Time in Patent Office: 687 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/16 Modifications for eliminating interference voltages or currents
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/164 using parallel switching arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/962 Capacitive touch switches
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 2217/960725 Charge-transfer

Abstract

A noise reduction unit includes a plurality of resistors arranged in parallel in a line connected to a device that is charged and discharged and having different resistance values. The noise reduction unit further includes a resistor switch that switches a resistor connected to the device between the plurality of resistors. When the device is discharged, the resistor switch first connects a first one of the plurality of resistors to the device and then connects a second one of the plurality of resistors to the device. The first resistor has a larger resistance value than the second resistor.

Claims

1. A noise reduction unit comprising:

a plurality of resistors arranged in parallel in a line connected to a device that is charged and discharged, wherein the plurality of resistors have different resistance values; and

a resistor switch that switches between the plurality of resistors such that when the resistor switch is connected to a first resistor of the plurality of resistors, no current flows through a second resistor of the plurality of resistors, and when the resistor switch is connected to the second resistor of the plurality of resistors, no current flows through the first resistor of the plurality of resistors, wherein

when the device is discharged, the resistor switch first connects the first resistor of the plurality of resistors to the device and then connects the second resistor of the plurality of resistors to the device, and

the first resistor has a resistance value that is larger than that of the second resistor.

2. The noise reduction unit according to claim 1, wherein the device includes a capacitor arranged to detect change in a capacitance of the capacitor.

3. The noise reduction unit according to claim 1, wherein when the device is charged for activation, the resistor switch validates the second resistor so that the device is charged by a current flowing through the second resistor.

4. The noise reduction unit according to claim 1, wherein

the resistor switch is included in a controller that monitors change in the output of the device, and

when charging of the device is completed, the resistor switch validates the second resistor so that the controller monitors change in output of the device through the second resistor.

5. The noise reduction unit according to claim 1, wherein

the resistor switch connects the first resistor to the device when the device starts to discharge, and

the resistor switch connects the second resistor to the device immediately before discharging of the device is completed.

6. An electronic device comprising:

a device that is charged and discharged;

a controller that monitors change in a physical parameter of the device;

a plurality of resistors arranged in parallel in a line that connects the device to the controller, wherein the plurality of resistors have different resistance values; and

a resistor switch that switches between the plurality of resistors such that when the resistor switch is connected to a first resistor of the plurality of resistors, no current flows through a second resistor of the plurality of resistors, and when the resistor switch is connected to the second resistor of the plurality of resistors, no current flows through the first resistor of the plurality of resistors, wherein

when the device is discharged, the resistor switch first connects the first resistor of the plurality of resistors to the device and then connects the second resistor of the plurality of resistors to the device, and

the first resistor has a resistance value that is larger than that of the second resistor.

7. The electronic device according to claim 6, wherein

the device includes a capacitor arranged to detect change in a capacitance of the capacitor, and

the electronic device is a touch sensor device.