Invention Application
- Patent Title: MAGNETIC INERTIAL SENSOR AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THE SAME
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Application No.: US15081507Application Date: 2016-03-25
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Publication No.: US20160209440A1Publication Date: 2016-07-21
- Inventor: Giulio RICOTTI , Alberto PAGANI , Fulvio Vittorio FONTANA , Ubaldo MASTROMATTEO
- Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
- Priority: ITTO2012A000290 20120402
- Main IPC: G01P15/11
- IPC: G01P15/11 ; G01P15/097 ; G01C19/5783

Abstract:
An inertial sensor having a body with an excitation coil and a first sensing coil extending along a first axis. A suspended mass includes a magnetic-field concentrator, in a position corresponding to the excitation coil, and configured for displacing by inertia in a plane along the first axis. A supply and sensing circuit is electrically coupled to the excitation coil and to the first sensing coil, and is configured for generating a time-variable flow of electric current that flows in the excitation coil so as to generate a magnetic field that interacts with the magnetic-field concentrator to induce a voltage/current in the sensing coil. The integrated circuit is configured for measuring a value of the voltage/current induced in the first sensing coil so as to detect a quantity associated to the displacement of the suspended mass along the first axis.
Public/Granted literature
- US09618532B2 Magnetic inertial sensor and method for operating the same Public/Granted day:2017-04-11
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