MEMS TRIAXIAL MAGNETIC SENSOR WITH IMPROVED CONFIGURATION

    公开(公告)号:US20190195964A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-27

    申请号:US16290778

    申请日:2019-03-01

    摘要: A MEMS triaxial magnetic sensor device includes a sensing structure having: a substrate; an outer frame, which internally defines a window and is elastically coupled to first anchorages fixed with respect to the substrate by first elastic elements; a mobile structure arranged in the window, suspended above the substrate, which is elastically coupled to the outer frame by second elastic elements and carries a conductive path for flow of an electric current; and an elastic arrangement operatively coupled to the mobile structure. The mobile structure performs, due to the first and second elastic elements and the arrangement of elastic elements, first, second, and third sensing movements in response to Lorentz forces from first, second, and third magnetic-field components, respectively. The first, second, and third sensing movements are distinct and decoupled from one another.

    MEMS GYROSCOPE HAVING QUADRATURE COMPENSATION ELECTRODES AND METHOD FOR COMPENSATING A QUADRATURE ERROR

    公开(公告)号:US20230135941A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-04

    申请号:US18048370

    申请日:2022-10-20

    IPC分类号: G01C19/5712 B81B3/00

    摘要: The present disclosure is directed to a MEMS gyroscope formed by a substrate and a movable mass suspended on the substrate and configured to carry out a movement in a driving direction and in a detection direction perpendicular to each other. The movable mass has a first face and a second face opposite to the first face. The gyroscope also has a first and a second quadrature compensation electrode group, fixed to the substrate and capacitively coupled to the movable mass. The first quadrature compensation electrode group faces the first face of the movable mass, and the second quadrature compensation electrode group faces the second face of the movable mass. The first and the second quadrature compensation electrode groups each have a respective variable facing area on the movable mass as a result of the movement of the movable mass in the driving direction and are configured to exert an electrostatic force on the movable mass during the movement of the movable mass in the driving direction.

    PIEZOELECTRIC MICROMACHINED ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCER

    公开(公告)号:US20210276044A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-09

    申请号:US17191475

    申请日:2021-03-03

    IPC分类号: B06B1/06 H01L41/22

    摘要: A method for manufacturing a PMUT device including a piezoelectric element located at a membrane element is provided. The method includes receiving a silicon on insulator substrate having a first silicon layer, an oxide layer, and a second silicon layer. Portions of a first surface of the second silicon layer are exposed by removing exposed side portions of the first silicon layer and corresponding portions of the oxide layer, and a central portion including the remaining portions of the first silicon layer and of the oxide layer is defined. Anchor portions for the membrane element are formed at the exposed portions of the first surface of the second silicon layer. The piezoelectric element is formed above the central portion, and the membrane element is defined by selectively removing the second layer and removing the remaining portion of the oxide from under the remaining portion of the first silicon layer.

    MEMS INCLINOMETER HAVING A REDUCED VIBRATION RECTIFICATION ERROR

    公开(公告)号:US20210261403A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-08-26

    申请号:US17179157

    申请日:2021-02-18

    IPC分类号: B81B3/00 G01P15/00

    摘要: A MEMS inclinometer includes a substrate, a first mobile mass and a sensing unit. The sensing unit includes a second mobile mass, a number of elastic elements, which are interposed between the second mobile mass and the substrate and are compliant in a direction parallel to a first axis, and a number of elastic structures, each of which is interposed between the first and second mobile masses and is compliant in a direction parallel to the first axis and to a second axis. The sensing unit further includes a fixed electrode that is fixed with respect to the substrate and a mobile electrode fixed with respect to the second mobile mass, which form a variable capacitor.

    MEMS GYROSCOPE WITH ENHANCED ROBUSTNESS AGAINST VIBRATIONS AND REDUCED DIMENSIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20240003685A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-04

    申请号:US18339084

    申请日:2023-06-21

    摘要: MEMS gyroscope, having a first movable mass configured to move with respect to a fixed structure along a first drive direction and along a first sense direction, transverse to the first drive direction; a first drive assembly, coupled to the first movable mass and configured to generate a first alternate drive movement; a first drive elastic structure, coupled to the first movable mass and to the first drive assembly, rigid in the first drive direction and compliant in the first sense direction; a second movable mass, configured to move with respect to the fixed structure in a second drive direction parallel to the first drive direction and in a second sense direction parallel to the first sense direction; a second drive assembly, coupled to the second movable mass and configured to generate a second alternate drive movement in the second drive direction; and a second drive elastic structure, coupled to the second movable mass and to the second drive assembly, rigid in the second drive direction and compliant in the second sense direction.

    MICROMECHANICAL DEVICE FOR ENHANCED ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20230266357A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-24

    申请号:US18169142

    申请日:2023-02-14

    IPC分类号: G01P15/125 B81B3/00

    摘要: Micromechanical device comprising: a semiconductor body; a movable structure configured to oscillate relative to the semiconductor body along an oscillation direction; and an elastic assembly with an elastic constant, coupled to the movable structure and to the semiconductor body and configured to deform along the oscillation direction to allow the oscillation of the movable structure as a function of an acceleration applied to the micromechanical device. The movable structure and the semiconductor body comprise a control structure for the capacitive control of the oscillation of the movable structure: when the control structure is electrically controlled in a first state the micromechanical device is in a first operating mode wherein a total elastic constant of the micromechanical device has a first value, and when it is electrically controlled in a second state the micromechanical device is in a second operating mode wherein the total elastic constant has a second value lower than, or equal to, the first value.

    LONG STROKE MEMS ACTUATOR RESILIENT TO THE PULL-IN AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20230253895A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-10

    申请号:US18161740

    申请日:2023-01-30

    IPC分类号: H02N1/00 B81B3/00

    摘要: MEMS actuator including: a substrate; a first and a second semiconductive layer; a frame including transverse regions formed by the second semiconductive layer, elongated parallel to a first direction and offset along a second direction, the frame being movable parallel to the second direction. The MEMS actuator includes, for each transverse region: corresponding front rotor regions, which are fixed to the transverse region and are suspended above the substrate; a first and a second stator region, which are formed by the first semiconductive layer in such a way that, when the frame is in rest position, the transverse region is laterally offset with respect to the first and the second stator regions and a first front rotor region partially faces the first stator region, and in such a way that, during a translation of the frame along the second direction, the first and/or a second front rotor region at least partially face the second stator region, when the transverse region begins to superimpose on the first stator region.

    Z-AXIS RESONANT ACCELEROMETER WITH IMPROVED-PERFORMANCE DETECTION STRUCTURE

    公开(公告)号:US20230082421A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-16

    申请号:US17930689

    申请日:2022-09-08

    摘要: The present disclosure is directed to a detection structure for a vertical-axis resonant accelerometer. The detection structure includes an inertial mass suspended above a substrate and having a window provided therewithin and traversing it throughout a thickness thereof. The inertial mass is coupled to a main anchorage, arranged in the window and integral with the substrate, through a first and a second anchoring elastic element of a torsional type. The detection structure also includes at least a first resonant element having longitudinal extension, coupled between the first elastic element and a first constraint element arranged in the window. The first constraint element is suspended above the substrate, to which it is fixedly coupled through a first auxiliary anchoring element which extends below the first resonant element with longitudinal extension and is integrally coupled between the first constraint element and the main anchorage.