Output-current detection chip for diode sensors, and diode sensor device
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Jan 9, 2018
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Nov 17, 2016
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Jan 7, 2015
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The present invention relates to an output-current detection IC chip for diode sensors and a diode sensor device, which reduce the influence by a leak current of a protection circuit. The present invention is equipped with a sensor unit in which anodes of N (N being an integer of 2 or more) diode sensors are connected to each other, a common terminal connected to a connection portion where the anodes are connected to each other, N input terminals connected to cathodes of the diode sensors, N+1 protection circuits connected to the input terminals and the common terminal, an I-V conversion circuit which converts an output current of each diode sensor into a voltage, a chopper circuit which switches the polarity of the output current and inputs the same to the I-V conversion circuit, and a dummy protection circuit connected to the input of the I-V conversion circuit.
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