Semtech Corporation
Advanced capacitive proximity sensor

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Abstract:

A proximity sensor, and a portable device equipped therewith, with at least two sense electrodes, one influencing the other. By reading twice the capacity of one electrode, while either setting the potential of the counter-electrode to guard or letting it float, the sensor of the invention discriminates between a body part, or another electrically equivalent object, and low-permittivity objects.

Status:
Grant
Type:

Utility

Filling date:

21 May 2018

Issue date:

21 Sep 2021