TEMPERATURE INFORMATION GENERATION CIRCUIT, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION SYSTEM, AND TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION METHOD OF ELECTRONIC COMPONENT

• US 20130313332A1
• Filed: 05/20/2013
• Published: 11/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: ISOHATA, Kensaku, TERASAWA, Katsuyoshi
• Application Number:
  US13/897,710
• Publication Number:
  US 20130313332A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 236/1.F
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 7/021 Particular circuit arrangements G01K7/026, G01K7/12, G01K7/14 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03L 1/02 against variations of temperature only
• CPC Class Codes: H03L 1/025 and a memory for digitally storing correction values
• CPC Class Codes: H03L 1/027 by using frequency conversion means which is variable with temperature, e.g. mixer, frequency divider, pulse add/substract logic circuit H03L1/023, H03L1/026 take precedence

Abstract

A temperature information generation circuit includes a temperature sensor (a first temperature detection section), a high-sensitivity temperature sensor (one or plural second temperature detection sections) having higher sensitivity than that of the temperature sensor, an output selection circuit, and a control section. The output selection circuit and the control section select a detection signal of the high-sensitivity temperature sensor upon supply of a power supply voltage, and then perform switching so as to select a detection signal of the temperature sensor at a predetermined timing.

Claims

1. A temperature information generation circuit comprising:

a first temperature detection section;

one or plural second temperature detection sections having detection sensitivity higher than detection sensitivity of the first temperature detection section; and

a selection section adapted to select a detection signal of the one or plural second temperature detection sections upon supply of a power supply voltage, and then selecting a detection signal of the first temperature detection section at a predetermined timing.

2. The temperature information generation circuit according to claim 1, wherein

the selection section selects the detection signal of the one or plural second temperature detection sections until a predetermined time elapses from the supply of the power supply voltage, and selects the detection signal of the first temperature detection section after the predetermined time has elapsed.

3. The temperature information generation circuit according to claim 1, wherein

the selection section selects the detection signal of the one or plural second temperature detection sections until a variation of the detection signal of the one or plural second temperature detection sections falls within a predetermined range continuously for a predetermined time after the supply of the power supply voltage, and selects the detection signal of the first temperature detection section in a case in which the variation of the detection signal of the one or plural second temperature detection sections falls within the predetermined range continuously for the predetermined time.

4. The temperature information generation circuit according to claim 1, wherein

the selection section selects the detection signal of the one or plural second temperature detection sections until a variation of a difference between the detection signal of the first temperature detection section and the detection signal of the one or plural second temperature detection sections falls within a predetermined range continuously for a predetermined time after the supply of the power supply voltage, and selects the detection signal of the first temperature detection section in a case in which the variation of the difference between the detection signal of the first temperature detection section and the detection signal of the one or plural second temperature detection sections falls within the predetermined range continuously for the predetermined time.

5. The temperature information generation circuit according to claim 1, wherein

the plural second temperature detection sections have respective detectable temperature ranges different from each other.

6. The temperature information generation circuit according to claim 5, wherein

the selection section selects one of the detection signals of the plural second temperature detection sections in accordance with the detection signal of the first temperature detection section after supplying the power supply voltage and before selecting the detection signal of the first temperature detection section.

7. An oscillator comprising:

the temperature information generation circuit according to claim 1; and

an oscillator element.

8. An electronic apparatus comprising:

the temperature information generation circuit according to claim 1.

9. A temperature compensation system comprising:

an electronic component; and

a control device,

wherein the electronic component includes

a first temperature detection section, and

one or plural second temperature detection sections having detection sensitivity higher than detection sensitivity of the first temperature detection section, and

the control device performs temperature compensation of the electronic component based on a detection signal of the one or plural second temperature detection sections in a period from when supplying the electronic component with a power supply voltage to a predetermined timing, and performs temperature compensation of the electronic component based on a detection signal of the first temperature detection section after the predetermined timing.

10. A temperature compensation method of an electronic component, comprising:

performing, by a control device, temperature compensation of the electronic component based on a detection signal of one or plural second temperature detection sections having detection sensitivity higher than detection sensitivity of a first temperature detection section included in the electronic component in a period from when supplying the electronic component with a power supply voltage to a predetermined timing; and

performing, by the control device, the temperature compensation of the electronic component based on a detection signal of the first temperature detection section included in the electronic component after the predetermined timing.