MEMS gyroscope with calibration of the scale factor in real time and calibration method thereof

    公开(公告)号:US11340069B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-24

    申请号:US16898339

    申请日:2020-06-10

    摘要: The MEMS gyroscope has a mobile mass carried by a supporting structure to move in a driving direction and in a first sensing direction, perpendicular to each other. A driving structure governs movement of the mobile mass in the driving direction at a driving frequency. A movement sensing structure is coupled to the mobile mass and detects the movement of the mobile mass in the sensing direction. A quadrature-injection structure is coupled to the mobile mass and causes a first and a second movement of the mobile mass in the sensing direction in a first calibration half-period and, respectively, a second calibration half-period. The movement-sensing structure supplies a sensing signal having an amplitude switching between a first and a second value that depend upon the movement of the mobile mass as a result of an external angular velocity and of the first and second quadrature movements. The first and second values of the sensing signal are subtracted from each other and compared with a stored difference value to supply information of variation of the scale factor.

    MEMS gyroscope having an improved rejection of the quadrature error

    公开(公告)号:US11965739B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-23

    申请号:US17868479

    申请日:2022-07-19

    IPC分类号: G01C19/5712

    CPC分类号: G01C19/5712

    摘要: The MEMS gyroscope is formed by a substrate, a first mass and a second mass, wherein the first and the second masses are suspended over the substrate and extend, at rest, in a plane of extension defining a first direction and a second direction transverse to the first direction. The MEMS gyroscope further has a drive structure coupled to the first mass and configured, in use, to cause a movement of the first mass in the first direction, and an elastic coupling structure, which extends between the first mass and the second mass and is configured to couple the movement of the first mass in the first direction with a movement of the second mass in the second direction. The elastic coupling structure has a first portion having a first stiffness and a second portion having a second stiffness greater than the first stiffness.

    MEMS gyroscope with improved rejection of a quadrature error

    公开(公告)号:US10775171B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-15

    申请号:US15956446

    申请日:2018-04-18

    摘要: A MEMS gyroscope is equipped with: at least a first mobile mass suspended from the top of a substrate by means of elastic suspension elements coupled to anchor points rigidly fixed to the substrate, in such a manner as to be actuated in an actuating movement along a first axis of a horizontal plane and to carry out a measurement movement along a vertical axis, transverse to the horizontal plane, in response to a first angular velocity acting about a second axis of the horizontal plane, transverse to the first axis. The elastic suspension elements are configured in such a manner as to internally compensate unwanted displacements out of the horizontal plane along the vertical axis originating from the actuating movement, such that the mobile mass remains in the horizontal plane during the actuating movement.

    Microelectromechanical sensor device with reduced stress sensitivity

    公开(公告)号:US10274512B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-30

    申请号:US15182317

    申请日:2016-06-14

    摘要: A MEMS sensor device provided with a sensing structure, having: a substrate with a top surface extending in a horizontal plane; an inertial mass, suspended over the substrate; elastic coupling elements, elastically connected to the inertial mass so as to enable inertial movement thereof with respect to the substrate as a function of a quantity to be detected along a sensing axis belonging to the horizontal plane; and sensing electrodes, capacitively coupled to the inertial mass so as to form at least one sensing capacitor, a value of capacitance of which is indicative of the quantity to be detected. The sensing structure moreover has a suspension structure, to which the sensing electrodes are rigidly coupled, and to which the inertial mass is elastically coupled through the elastic coupling elements; the suspension structure is connected to an anchorage structure, fixed with respect to the substrate, by means of elastic suspension elements.

    Inertial measurement circuit, corresponding device and method

    公开(公告)号:US11906306B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-20

    申请号:US17750074

    申请日:2022-05-20

    IPC分类号: G01C19/5776 G01C19/5712

    CPC分类号: G01C19/5712 G01C19/5776

    摘要: In an embodiment a circuit includes an inertial measurement unit configured to be oscillated via a driving signal provided by driving circuitry, a lock-in amplifier configured to receive a sensing signal from the inertial measurement unit and a reference demodulation signal which is a function of the driving signal and provide an inertial measurement signal based on the sensing signal, wherein the reference demodulation signal is affected by a variable phase error, phase meter circuitry configured to receive the driving signal and the sensing signal and provide, as a function of a phase difference between the driving signal and the sensing signal, a phase correction signal for the reference demodulation signal and a correction node configured to apply the phase correction signal to the reference demodulation signal so that, in response to the phase correction signal being applied to the reference demodulation signal, the phase error is maintained in a vicinity of a reference value.

    MEMS gyroscope with calibration of the scale factor in real time and calibration method thereof

    公开(公告)号:US11808573B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-07

    申请号:US17728635

    申请日:2022-04-25

    摘要: The MEMS gyroscope has a mobile mass carried by a supporting structure to move in a driving direction and in a first sensing direction, perpendicular to each other. A driving structure governs movement of the mobile mass in the driving direction at a driving frequency. A movement sensing structure is coupled to the mobile mass and detects the movement of the mobile mass in the sensing direction. A quadrature-injection structure is coupled to the mobile mass and causes a first and a second movement of the mobile mass in the sensing direction in a first calibration half-period and, respectively, a second calibration half-period. The movement-sensing structure supplies a sensing signal having an amplitude switching between a first and a second value that depend upon the movement of the mobile mass as a result of an external angular velocity and of the first and second quadrature movements. The first and second values of the sensing signal are subtracted from each other and compared with a stored difference value to supply information of variation of the scale factor.