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MULTI-AXIAL LINEAR AND ROTATIONAL DISPLACEMENT SENSOR

  • US 20100257933A1
  • Filed: 07/15/2008
  • Published: 10/14/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A multiaxial inertial sensor of angular and linear acceleration, the sensor having at least four sensing elements integrated on a planar substrate, each of the sensing elements comprising a MEMS capacitance sensing comb drive in which a capacitance varies based on the force applied, wherein each comb drive comprises fingers which are laterally movable and movable deeper into or out of respective slots, such that each comb drive has an output responsive to displacement along a Z axis normal to a plane of the substrate, as well as responsive to a displacement parallel to the plane, the elements being located at different parts of the substrate on both sides of two perpendicular axes, an X axis and a Y axis, in the plane of the substrate, the sensing elements also being oriented in different directions in the plane, so that their outputs are also responsive to displacements along the X or Y axis, the outputs being suitable for subsequently deriving linear displacements along any of the X, Y or Z axes and angular displacements about any of the X, Y or Z axes by analyzing the variations in capacitance of the different sensing elements.

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