CAPACITIVE DYNAMIC QUANTITY SENSOR ELEMENT AND DYNAMIC QUANTITY SENSOR

• US 20110221457A1
• Filed: 11/20/2009
• Published: 09/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Makoto Takahashi, Takano Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Makoto Takahashi, Takano Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Takahashi, Makoto, Kashiwabara, Takeshi
• Application Number:
  US13/130,171
• Publication Number:
  US 20110221457A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 324/686
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 1/142 using capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 5/165 using variations in capacitance

Abstract

In order to make it possible to have a simple structure and a small size, to deform flexibly, and to be used for various applications without restricting usage, a capacitive dynamic quantity sensor element includes a base material 2 that has an electric insulating property and dynamic elasticity and has at least a pair of facing surfaces, four electrodes 4 that are disposed on one surface of the pair of surfaces of the base material 2, and four electrodes 4 that are disposed on the other surface of the pair of surfaces to face the four electrodes 4 on said one surface respectively, and detects capacitance between the electrodes 4 of each combination of two electrodes selected from the electrodes 4.

Claims

1. A capacitive dynamic quantity sensor element, comprising:

a base material that has an electric insulating property and dynamic elasticity and has at least one pair of facing surfaces;

at least one electrode that is disposed on one surface of the pair of surfaces of the base material; and

at least one electrode that is disposed on the other surface of the pair of surfaces,

wherein capacitance between the electrodes is detected for each combination of the two electrodes selected one by one from the electrode disposed on one surface and the electrode disposed on the other surface.

3. The capacitive dynamic quantity sensor element of claim 1,

wherein the electrodes are configured by a flexible print circuit board.

4. The capacitive dynamic quantity sensor element of claim 1,

wherein an entire surface of the capacitive dynamic quantity sensor element is sealed by a protective film.

2. A capacitive dynamic quantity sensor element, comprising:

a base material that has an electric insulating property and dynamic elasticity and has at least one pair of facing surfaces;

four electrodes that are disposed on one surface of the pair of surfaces of the base material; and

four electrodes that are disposed on the other surface of the pair of surfaces at positions facing the four electrodes of one surface,

wherein capacitance between the electrodes is detected for each combination of the two electrodes selected one by one from the four electrodes disposed on one surface and the four electrodes disposed on the other surface.

7. The capacitive dynamic quantity sensor element of claim 2,

wherein the electrodes are configured by a flexible print circuit board.

8. The capacitive dynamic quantity sensor element of claim 2,

wherein an entire surface of the capacitive dynamic quantity sensor element is sealed by a protective film.

5. A dynamic quantity sensor, comprising:

an operation device,

wherein the operation device includes a means for receiving capacitance value data measured and output by a capacitive dynamic quantity sensor element which includes a base material that has an electric insulating property and dynamic elasticity and has at least one pair of facing surfaces, at least one electrode that is disposed on one surface of the pair of surfaces of the base material, and at least one electrode that is disposed on the other surface of the pair of surfaces, and detects capacitance between the electrodes for each combination of the two electrodes selected one by one from the electrode disposed on one surface and the electrode disposed on the other surface;

a means for calculating the position of the electrode disposed on the other surface with respect to the electrode disposed on one surface using the capacitance value data;

a means for calculating the middle position of the electrodes disposed on the other surface, on the basis of the position of the electrode disposed on the other surface;

a means for calculating a rotation angle of the other surface with respect to one surface, on the basis of the position of the electrode disposed on the other surface;

a means for calculating the stress of the base material using the middle position; and

a means for calculating the twisting moment of the base material using the rotation angle.

6. A dynamic quantity sensor, comprising:

an operation device,

wherein the operation device includes a means for receiving capacitance value data measured and output by a capacitive dynamic quantity sensor element which includes a base material that has an electric insulating property and dynamic elasticity and has at least one pair of facing surfaces, four electrodes that are disposed on one surface of the pair of surfaces of the base material, and four electrodes that are disposed on the other surface of the pair of surfaces at positions facing the four electrodes of one surface, and detects capacitance between the electrodes for each combination of the two electrodes selected one by one from the four electrodes disposed on one surface and the four electrodes disposed on the other surface;

a means for calculating the positions of the four electrodes disposed on the other surface of the pair of surfaces with respect to the four electrodes disposed on one surface of the pair of surfaces using the capacitance value data;

a means for calculating the middle position of the four electrodes, on the basis of the positions of the four electrodes;

a means for calculating a rotation angle of the other surface with respect to one surface, on the basis of the positions of the four electrodes;

a means for calculating the stress of the base material using the middle position of the four electrodes; and

a means for calculating the twisting moment of the base material using the rotation angle.