DIGITALIZED SENSOR SYSTEM

• US 20120119791A1
• Filed: 01/25/2011
• Published: 05/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Middleland Sensing Technology, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Middleland Sensing Technology, Inc.
• Inventors: HSIAO, Hsiung
• Application Number:
  US13/013,555
• Publication Number:
  US 20120119791A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 327/100
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 21/00 Measuring or testing not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/02 Details ; arrangements for supplying electrical power along data transmission lines systems for transmitting signals via power distribution lines H04B3/54

Abstract

A digitalized sensor system includes a portable electronic device, a sensor unit, a transmission unit and a signal converting unit. The portable electronic device has a first connection portion. The sensor unit is configured for measuring and/or monitoring physical and/or chemical parameters of a target object to generate a digital signal. The transmission unit includes a connecting wire and a second connection portion, the connecting wire adapted to be connected with the sensor unit and the second connection portion, the second connection portion adapted to connect to the first connection portion, and the second connection portion and the first connection portion forming a pluggable interface. The signal converting unit is configured on the transmission unit and adapted for converting the digital signal into a second signal, the second signal adapted to be transmitted to the portable electronic device by the transmission unit.

Claims

1. A digitalized sensor system, comprising:

a portable electronic device having a first connection portion;

a sensor unit configured for measuring and/or monitoring physical and/or chemical parameters of a target object to generate a digital signal;

a transmission unit comprising a connecting wire and a second connection portion, the connecting wire adapted to be connected with the sensor unit and the second connection portion respectively, the second connection portion adapted to connect to the first connection portion, and the second connection portion and the first connection portion forming a pluggable interface; and

a signal converting unit configured on the transmission unit and adapted for converting the digital signal into a second signal, the second signal adapted to be transmitted to the portable electronic device by the transmission unit.

2. The digitalized sensor system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second signal is a signal that conforms to USB standard.

3. The digitalized sensor system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the connecting wire and the sensor unit are connected with each other by applying UART, I²C or RS-232 standard.

4. The digitalized sensor system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the interface of the second connection portion and the first connection portion is a USB interface.

5. The digitalized sensor system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the signal converting unit is an integrated circuit.

6. The digitalized sensor system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the digitalized sensor system further comprises a third connection portion and a fourth connection portion, the third connection portion disposed on the sensor unit, the fourth connection portion disposed on connecting wire and corresponding to the third connection portion, and the third connection portion and the fourth connection portion forming a pluggable interface.

7. The digitalized sensor system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the sensor unit is detachable and exchangeable to the transmission unit.

8. The digitalized sensor system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transmission unit transmit power from the portable electronic device to the sensor unit.