阅读说明：本技术 一种测量微弱信号的电阻传感器测量电路 (Resistance sensor measuring circuit for measuring weak signal ) 是由 吴远星 王晓琴 王洪超 宋军华 薄云峰 于 2019-11-17 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明提供一种测量微弱信号的电阻传感器测量电路,具体涉及传感器信号转换和测量技术领域,包括桥臂电阻R3、桥臂电阻R4、桥臂电阻R1,电阻传感器R2,直流激励电压源,运算放大器,所述桥臂电阻R3、桥臂电阻R4、桥臂电阻R1、电阻传感器R2和运算放大器构成平衡的差分式放大电路结构,电阻传感器R2同时作为运算放大器的反馈电阻,运算放大器的输出电压变化量正比于电阻传感器R2的相对变化率,该电路主要用于微弱信号的精密测量。(The invention provides a resistance sensor measuring circuit for measuring weak signals, and particularly relates to the technical field of sensor signal conversion and measurement, wherein the resistance sensor measuring circuit comprises a bridge arm resistor R3, a bridge arm resistor R4, a bridge arm resistor R1, a resistance sensor R2, a direct-current excitation voltage source and an operational amplifier, wherein the bridge arm resistor R3, the bridge arm resistor R4, the bridge arm resistor R1, the resistance sensor R2 and the operational amplifier form a balanced differential amplification circuit structure, the resistance sensor R2 is simultaneously used as a feedback resistor of the operational amplifier, the output voltage variation of the operational amplifier is in direct proportion to the relative variation rate of the resistance sensor R2, and the circuit is mainly used for precise measurement of the weak signals.)

1. A resistance sensor measurement circuit for measuring weak signals, comprising: the bridge arm resistance R3, the bridge arm resistance R4, the bridge arm resistance R1, the resistance sensor R2, a direct current excitation voltage source and the operational amplifier are characterized in that the bridge arm resistance R3, the bridge arm resistance R4, the bridge arm resistance R1, the resistance sensor R2 and the operational amplifier form a balanced differential amplification circuit structure, a measuring point of a reference bridge arm is connected with a non-inverting end of the operational amplifier, a measuring point of a bridge arm where the resistance sensor R2 is located is connected with an inverting end of the operational amplifier, the resistance sensor R2 is simultaneously used as a feedback resistance of the operational amplifier, and the output voltage variation of the operational amplifier is in direct proportion to the relative change rate of the resistance sensor R2.

2. The weak signal measuring circuit of claim 1, further comprising a post-stage inverting amplifier circuit at the output of the circuit, the post-stage inverting amplifier circuit further amplifying the variation signal of the resistance sensor R2 and making the variation direction of the resistance sensor R2 coincide with the final output variation direction of the circuit.

3. The circuit of claim 2, further comprising a zero circuit at the output of the circuit, the zero circuit being connected from the inverting terminal of the post-stage inverting amplifier circuit, wherein the zero circuit is manually adjusted to make the circuit output 0 when the resistance sensor R2 has no input.

4. The weak signal resistance sensor measuring circuit according to claim 3, further comprising a voltage reference offset circuit, wherein said reference offset circuit uses two series voltage dividing resistors R5, R6 to generate a voltage dividing point of an excitation voltage source, said voltage dividing point is connected to an input terminal of a voltage follower formed by an operational amplifier, and an output terminal of the voltage follower generates a DC bias voltage to replace an original reference point, thereby enabling the whole circuit to be powered by a single power supply.

5. The weak signal resistance sensor measuring circuit according to claim 1, further comprising an analog-to-digital converter having a reference voltage common to the bridge excitation voltage or a divided voltage from the bridge excitation voltage.

6. The circuit of claim 1, wherein the bridge arm resistor R3 and the bridge arm resistor R4 of the balanced bridge arm are made of the same material, and the bridge arm resistor R1 and the resistance sensor R2 are made of the same material.

7. A resistance sensor measurement circuit for measuring weak signals, comprising: the differential resistance sensor R3, the differential resistance sensor R4, the reference resistor R1, the reference resistor R2, a direct current excitation voltage source and an operational amplifier, wherein the change directions of the differential resistance sensor R3 and the differential resistance sensor R4 are opposite, and the differential resistance sensor R3, the differential resistance sensor R4, the reference resistor R1 and the reference resistor R2 form a balanced differential amplification circuit structure, the differential resistance sensor R3 and the differential resistance sensor R4 form a bridge arm, and the measuring point of the bridge arm is connected to the same-phase end of the operational amplifier; the reference resistor R1 and the reference resistor R2 form another bridge arm, one of which is used as a feedback resistor of the differential amplifier circuit, and when the bridge arm ratio is 1, the output of the operational amplifier is completely proportional to the change rate of the sensor.

8. A resistance sensor measurement circuit for measuring weak signals, comprising: the differential resistance sensor R4, the differential resistance sensor R2, the reference resistor R3, the reference resistor R1, a direct current excitation voltage source and an operational amplifier, wherein the change directions of the differential resistance sensor R4 and the differential resistance sensor R2 are opposite, the differential resistance sensor R4, the differential resistance sensor R2, the reference resistor R3 and the reference resistor R1, the operational amplifier forms a balanced differential amplification circuit structure, the reference resistor R3 and the differential resistance sensor R4 form a bridge arm, the reference resistor R1 and the differential resistance sensor R2 form another bridge arm, and measuring points of the two bridge arms are respectively connected to a same-phase end and an opposite-phase end of the differential amplification circuit.

9. A resistance sensor measurement circuit for measuring weak signals, comprising: the differential resistance sensor R1, the differential resistance sensor R2, the differential resistance sensor R3, the differential resistance sensor R4, a direct current excitation voltage source and an operational amplifier, wherein the differential resistance sensor R1 and the differential resistance sensor R2 have opposite change directions, the differential resistance sensor R3 and the differential resistance sensor R4 have opposite change directions, and the differential resistance sensor R3 and the differential resistance sensor R2 have the same change direction, the differential resistance sensor R1, the differential resistance sensor R2, the differential resistance sensor R3, the differential resistance sensor R4 and the operational amplifier form a balanced differential amplifier circuit structure, the differential resistance sensor R3 and the differential resistance sensor R4 form a bridge arm, and the measuring point of the differential resistance sensor R3 and the differential resistance sensor R4 is connected to the same phase end of the operational amplifier; the differential resistance sensor R1 and the differential resistance sensor R2 form another bridge arm, and a measuring point of the bridge arm is connected to the inverting end of the operational amplifier.

Technical Field

The invention relates to a resistance sensor measuring circuit for measuring weak signals, belongs to the micro signal measurement conversion technology of a bridge measuring circuit, and belongs to the technical field of sensor signal conversion and measurement.

Background

Many sensors can convert a certain physical quantity into the change of electrical parameters such as resistance or capacitance, and the physical quantity to be measured can be indirectly measured by measuring the corresponding change of the electrical parameters. In most cases, the change of the electrical parameters is extremely weak, and the precision and the accuracy of the common measurement method are difficult to guarantee. The bridge is an effective means for measuring the weak resistance and capacitance changes. The bridge is a comparative measuring instrument similar to a balance. The bridge puts the sensor itself in a certain balance, when the physical quantity to be measured has no input change, the bridge is in a balance state, when the physical quantity is input, the balance is broken. In unbalanced bridge applications, the circuit measures the change in the bridge arm parameters by measuring the magnitude of the amount of unbalance. In a balanced bridge application, the circuit measures changes in the bridge arm parameters by measuring the magnitude of the compensation that balances the bridge.

The bridge has many forms and the single arm bridge has significant drawbacks, firstly an undesirable linear output and secondly a low sensitivity. In addition, the initial resistance of the sensor is easy to change along with the temperature change, and the bridge without external input is gradually unbalanced, so that additional zero output is caused. These disadvantages greatly limit the use of single-arm bridges. The double-arm bridge ingeniously overcomes almost all the disadvantages of the single-arm bridge: the nonlinearity is changed into linearity, the sensitivity is doubled, and the temperature drift is compensated. Following the same idea, the two-arm bridge is changed into a four-arm bridge, and the bridge in the form can further improve the measurement sensitivity without losing the advantages of linear output and temperature drift suppression. However, the cost of the above improvement is the introduction of additional sensors, which results in increased cost of the circuitry. In many cases, it is difficult to obtain two sensors that vary inversely with external physical excitation, such as a barometric pressure sensor and a thermal resistance sensor, and in such cases, a two-arm bridge or a four-arm bridge cannot be used. Whether the single-arm bridge, the double-arm bridge or the four-arm bridge is adopted, the voltage amplitude directly output by the bridge circuit is very small, and the bridge circuit is very easily submerged in noise. The bridge signal needs to be further amplified by the subsequent stage circuit. In addition, the inconsistency of the bridge internal resistances further increases the resistance matching error of the differential operational amplifier, thereby reducing the common mode rejection capability of the whole circuit.

As mentioned above, the bridge is very widely used in the field of weak signal measurement. There are several typical bridge variations depending on the number of legs. The single-arm bridge has the defects of non-linearity of input and output and low sensitivity, and the double-arm bridge and the four-arm bridge overcome the defects at the expense of the number of sensors, but in some obvious cases, the double-arm bridge or the four-arm bridge cannot be constructed.

Therefore, a resistance sensor measuring circuit for measuring weak signals is needed to solve the above problems, in the case of a single arm (i.e., a single sensor), the problems of non-linearity of input and output of a bridge and low sensitivity of the bridge, and the problem of temperature drift of the corresponding single arm bridge.

Disclosure of Invention

Technical problem to be solved

The invention aims to provide a resistance sensor measuring circuit for measuring weak signals, which solves the technical problems of non-linearity of input and output of a single-arm bridge and low sensitivity of the bridge. Meanwhile, as a further extension of the basic circuit form, a double-arm bridge circuit and a four-arm bridge circuit which are higher in sensitivity and simpler in circuit form compared with the traditional bridge circuit are also sequentially provided.

(II) technical scheme

In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides a resistance sensor measurement circuit for measuring a weak signal, including: the bridge arm resistance R3, the bridge arm resistance R4, the bridge arm resistance R1, the resistance sensor R2, a direct current excitation voltage source and the operational amplifier, wherein the bridge arm resistance R3, the bridge arm resistance R4, the bridge arm resistance R1, the resistance sensor R2 and the operational amplifier form a balanced differential amplification circuit structure, a measuring point of a reference bridge arm is connected with a same-phase end of the operational amplifier, a measuring point of a bridge arm where the resistance sensor R2 is located is connected with an opposite-phase end of the operational amplifier, the resistance sensor R2 is used as a feedback resistance of the operational amplifier at the same time, and the output voltage variation of the operational amplifier is in direct proportion to the relative change rate of the resistance sensor R2.

Preferably, the circuit further comprises a post-stage inverting amplification circuit, the post-stage inverting amplification circuit is arranged at the output end of the circuit, and the post-stage inverting amplification circuit is used for further amplifying the change signal of the resistance sensor R2 and enabling the change direction of the resistance sensor R2 to be consistent with the final output change direction of the circuit.

Preferably, the circuit further comprises a zero setting circuit, the zero setting circuit is arranged at the output end of the circuit and is connected from the inverting end of the later stage inverting amplifying circuit, and the zero setting circuit is manually adjusted to enable the circuit output of the resistance sensor R2 to be 0 when no input is input.

Preferably, the circuit further comprises a voltage reference offset circuit, the voltage reference offset circuit uses two series-connected voltage dividing resistors R5 and R6 to generate a voltage dividing point of an excitation voltage source, the voltage dividing point is connected to an input end of a voltage follower formed by an operational amplifier, and an output end of the voltage follower generates a direct current bias voltage to replace an original reference point, so that the whole circuit can be powered by a single power supply.

Preferably, the circuit further comprises an analog-to-digital converter, a reference voltage of which shares a voltage source with the bridge excitation voltage or is derived from a divided voltage of the bridge excitation voltage.

Preferably, the arm resistor R3 and the arm resistor R4 in the balance arm are resistors made of the same material, and the arm resistor R1 and the resistor sensor R2 are resistors made of the same material.

In order to make the basic form of the above circuit applicable to the measurement of a differential resistance sensor and further improve the sensitivity and maintain the input-output linearity, the present invention also provides a resistance sensor measurement circuit for measuring a weak signal, comprising: the differential resistance sensor R3, the differential resistance sensor R4, the reference resistor R1, the reference resistor R2, a direct current excitation voltage source and an operational amplifier, wherein the change directions of the differential resistance sensor R3 and the differential resistance sensor R4 are opposite, the differential resistance sensor R3, the differential resistance sensor R4, the reference resistor R1 and the reference resistor R2 form a balanced differential amplification circuit structure, the differential resistance sensor R3 and the differential resistance sensor R4 form a bridge arm, and the measuring point of the bridge arm is connected to the same-phase end of the operational amplifier; the reference resistor R1 and the reference resistor R2 form another bridge arm, one of which is used as a feedback resistor of the differential amplifier circuit, and when the bridge arm ratio is 1, the output of the operational amplifier is completely proportional to the change rate of the sensor.

In order to make the basic form of the above circuit usable for measurement of a differential resistance sensor and further improve the sensitivity, the present invention provides another resistance sensor measurement circuit for measuring a weak signal, comprising: the differential resistance sensor R4, the differential resistance sensor R2, the reference resistor R3, the reference resistor R1, a direct current excitation voltage source and an operational amplifier, wherein the change directions of the differential resistance sensor R4 and the differential resistance sensor R2 are opposite, the differential resistance sensor R4, the differential resistance sensor R2, the reference resistor R3 and the reference resistor R1 form a balanced differential amplification circuit structure, the reference resistor R3 and the differential resistance sensor R4 form a bridge arm, the reference resistor R1 and the differential resistance sensor R2 form another bridge arm, and measuring points of the two bridge arms are respectively connected to the in-phase end and the anti-phase end of the differential amplification circuit.

In order to make the basic form of the above circuit usable for the measurement of differential resistance sensors and further improve the sensitivity, the present invention also provides a fourth sensor measurement circuit comprising: the differential resistance sensor R1, the differential resistance sensor R2, the differential resistance sensor R3, the differential resistance sensor R4, the direct current excitation voltage source and the operational amplifier, wherein the change directions of the differential resistance sensor R1 and the differential resistance sensor R2 are opposite, the change directions of the differential resistance sensor R3 and the differential resistance sensor R4 are opposite, the change directions of the differential resistance sensor R3 and the differential resistance sensor R2 are the same, the differential resistance sensor R1, the differential resistance sensor R2, the differential resistance sensor R3, the differential resistance sensor R4 and the operational amplifier form a balanced differential amplification circuit structure, the differential resistance sensor R3 and the differential resistance sensor R4 form a bridge arm, and the measuring points of the bridge arm are connected to the same phase end of the operational amplifier; the differential resistance sensor R1 and the differential resistance sensor R2 form another bridge arm, and a measuring point of the bridge arm is connected to the inverting end of the operational amplifier.

All the preferred measures for the circuit of the first embodiment are applicable to the circuits of the other embodiments of this patent.

Drawings

FIG. 1 shows a circuit schematic 1 of a first embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 2 shows a circuit schematic of a first embodiment of the present invention FIG. 2;

FIG. 3 shows a circuit schematic 3 of a first embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 shows a circuit schematic of a second embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 shows a circuit schematic of a third embodiment of the invention;

fig. 6 shows a circuit schematic of a fourth embodiment of the invention.

Detailed Description

The following detailed description of embodiments of the present invention is provided in connection with the accompanying drawings and examples. The following examples are intended to illustrate the invention but are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.