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Title:
SIGNAL DETECTING CIRCUIT FOR RAIN SENSOR AND SIGNAL DETECTING METHOD
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2004340709
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To provide a signal detecting circuit for a rain sensor equipped with a resolving power enhancing circuit for increasing resolving power, and to provide a signal detecting method using it.

The signal detecting circuit for the rain sensor is constituted so that the windshield of a vehicle is irradiated with pulse light from an LED in order to automatically control a wiper for excluding raindrops on the windshield of the vehicle and the reflected light from the windshield is detected by a light receiving element while the pulse signal from the PD is processed to be inputted to an arithmetic processor. This signal detecting circuit is equipped with a current-voltage conversion circuit 24 for converting the pulse signal from the PD 20 into a voltage signal, a band pass filter circuit/amplifying circuit 26 for reducing the noise of the output signal of the current-voltage conversion circuit and amplifying the output signal and a resolving power enhancing circuit 38 for increasing resolving power with respect to the output signal of the band pass filter circuit/amplifying circuit.


Inventors:
KOKURYO KAZUTO
IGUCHI KEITARO
MAKINO YOSHIAKI
Application Number:
JP2003136870A
Publication Date:
December 02, 2004
Filing Date:
May 15, 2003
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
NIPPON SHEET GLASS CO LTD
International Classes:
G01N21/17; B60S1/08; G01W1/14; H03K17/78; (IPC1-7): G01N21/17; B60S1/08; G01W1/14; H03K17/78
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Yoshiyuki Iwasa
Takeshi Nakamura