Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Microelectromechanical gyroscope with calibrated synchronization of actuation and method for actuating a microelectromechanical gyroscope
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Application No.: US13886774Application Date: 2013-05-03
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Publication No.: US09234755B2Publication Date: 2016-01-12
- Inventor: Luciano Prandi , Carlo Caminada , Alessandra Maria Rizzo Piazza Roncoroni
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Agency: Seed IP Law Group PLLC
- Priority: ITTO2010A0106 20100215
- Main IPC: G01C19/56
- IPC: G01C19/56 ; G01C19/5726 ; G01C19/5762

Abstract:
A gyroscope includes a body, a driving mass, which is mobile according to a driving axis, and a sensing mass, which is driven by the driving mass and is mobile according to a sensing axis, in response to rotations of the body. A driving device forms a microelectromechanical control loop with the body and the driving mass and maintains the driving mass in oscillation with a driving frequency. The driving device comprises a frequency detector, which supplies a clock signal at the frequency of oscillation of the driving mass, and a synchronization stage, which applies a calibrated phase shift to the clock signal so as to compensate a phase shift caused by components of the loop that are set between the driving mass and the control node.
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