Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Capacitive in-plane accelerometer
- Patent Title (中): 电容式平面加速度计
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Application No.: US608144Application Date: 1996-02-28
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Publication No.: US5817942APublication Date: 1998-10-06
- Inventor: Paul Greiff
- Applicant: Paul Greiff
- Applicant Address: MA Cambridge
- Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
- Current Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: MA Cambridge
- Main IPC: G01P15/02
- IPC: G01P15/02 ; G01P15/08 ; G01P15/125 ; G01P15/13 ; G01P15/18 ; G01P15/00
Abstract:
An accelerometer having one or more flexure stops for increasing the stiffness of the flexures when the accelerometer is subjected to relatively high acceleration. A wrap-around proof mass is suspended over a substrate by anchor posts and a plurality of flexures. In one embodiment, the proof mass has a rectangular frame including top and bottom beams extending between left and right beams and a central crossbeam extending between the left and right beams. Proof mass sense electrodes are cantilevered from the top, bottom and central beams and are interleaved with excitation electrodes extending from adjacent excitation electrode supports. Each of the flexure stops includes a pair of members extending along a portion of a respective flexure. Also described is a three axis accelerometer triad device and a dissolved wafer process for fabricating the devices described herein.
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