The L9705 circuit compares the input current with
the current through the internal reference resistor.
The device is designed to work with an external
input series resistor of R
IN1-8
=1KΩ. With this in-
put resistor the contact current, when the contact
is closedand the deviceactivated (EN =LOW)is:
I
IN
=
V
S
− 2V
1KΩ
,for GND contacts, (1)
I
IN
=
V
BAT
+∆V
BAT
−2V
1KΩ
, for V
BAT
contacts, (2)
For this calculation the limit value of the V
S
to V
IN
and VINsaturation voltage of 2V was considered
so that the lowestlimit value of I
IN
is calculated in
(1)and (2)
Figure4: The output voltage as a functionof theinput resistance at the correspondingsense input.
The function of the circuit can be demonstrated
with the transfer characteristics,showing the output status as a function of the input resistor R
I
,
shown in figure 4. The input resistor is a sum of
the R
IN
and the contact resistance R
CON
or
R
COFF
, for the closed contact:
R
I=RIN+RCON
, (3)
and for the opencontact:
R
I=RIN+RCOFF
,(4)
The output goes HIGH when the input resistance
increases above 5.3KΩ (GND contacts) or 6.5KΩ
(V
BAT
contacts) and goes LOW, when the input
resistance decreases below 4KΩ (GND contacts)
or 4.8KΩ (V
BAT
contacts);these values are typical
values for the switching thresholds.The limit values of R
I
= 1.8KΩ (GND contacts) and RI=
1.8KΩ (V
BAT
contacts) for LOW and RI= 20KΩ
(GND contacts) and 29KΩ (V
BAT
contacts) for
HIGHimplies that a contactwithR
CON
=100Ω(at
I
IN
= 10mA) will be recognized as ON = LOW and
a contact with R
COFF
= 19KΩ (GND contacts) or
28KΩ (V
BAT
contact) will be recognizedas OFF =
HIGH.
These limits are valid within the supply voltage
range 6V < V
S
< 16V, the ground potential differ-
ence of ∆V
GND
=0.1VS, the battery voltage poten-
tial difference of ∆V
BAT
< 0.1V
BAT
and the variation of the reverse battery protection diode D1
voltagefrom 0.5V to 1V.
The internal clamping diodes at the contactmonitoring inputs together with the external contacts
series resistors R
IN
allows to withstand the transients at the contact connection.The contact seriesresistor R
IN
limits the input current at the tran-
sient.
The dynamic behaviour of the circuit is defined
with the times t
do
and t
dTS
. When the contact is
open, the input capacitor C
IN
must be charged
through the resistor R
IN
. In this case the total de-
lay time t
do
may be influenced also with the time
constantR
INCIN
.
The delay time t
dTS
, when disablingthe device, is
defined only with the internal circuitry. In both
cases, output external capacitance less than
50pF is assumed, the internal output capacitance
of the tristatebuffers are less than 5pF.
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