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Circuit arrangement of an ultrasonic-presence motion detector, particularly for a non-contact control of a water faucet

  • US 4,213,197 A
  • Filed: 04/13/1978
  • Issued: 07/15/1980
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/13/1978
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a circuit arrangement suitable for ultrasonic-presence motion detection to operate an electromechanical valve of a water faucet, and being of the type having an ultrasonic transducer as a transmitting transducer and as a receiving transducer, in which an oscillator produces an AC voltage for the transmitting transducer and a gate circuit is provided in order to chronologically control the feeding of wave trains of the oscillator AC voltage to the transducer, and wherein a receiving circuit is connected to the transducer and obtains a received signal therefrom, and wherein an evaluation circuit is provided, the improvement therein comprising:

  • means connected to said gate circuit and operable to produce a gate pulse to feed the oscillator AC voltage to the transducer for a period of time determined by the length of the gate pulse which defines the length of a distance range over which said circuit arrangement is responsive to motion;

    a phase discriminator in the receiver circuit connected to said gate circuit to receive the oscillator AC voltage and connected to said transducer for receiving the respective received signal;

    an electronic storage circuit including a sample and hold circuit connected to said phase discriminator for storing the output signal thereof at prescribably periodically recurring time points which are determined by read-out signals applied to said sample and hold circuit;

    means connected to said sample and hold circuit for generating the read-out pulse signals; and

    a comparator circuit in said evaluation circuit connected to said sample and hold circuit for comparing signal values stored by said sample and hold circuit, said comparator circuit having a threshold function and means operable to provide an output signal to the electromechanical valve of the water faucet indicative of the presence phenomenon in response to comparison in which the compared values differ from one another by more than a predetermined value.

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