INERTIA SENSING APPARATUS

• US 20130042686A1
• Filed: 08/17/2011
• Published: 02/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/17/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sitronix Technology Corporation
• Original Assignee: Sitronix Technology Corporation
• Inventors: LIN, CHIUNG-WEN, WENG, HUAN-HSIANG, WU, CHIA YU
• Application Number:
  US13/211,361
• Publication Number:
  US 20130042686A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 73/514.32
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 19/5733 Structural details or topology
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 19/5783 Mountings or housings not specific to any of the devices covered by groups G01C19/5607 - G01C19/5719
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/166 Mechanical, construction or arrangement details of inertial navigation systems
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 15/125 by capacitive pick-up
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 15/18 in two or more dimensions
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 2015/082 for two degrees of freedom of movement of a single mass
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 2015/084 the mass being suspended at more than one of its sides, e.g. membrane-type suspension, so as to permit multi-axis movement of the mass
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 2015/0845 using a plurality of spring-mass systems being arranged on one common planar substrate, the systems not being mechanically coupled and the sensitive direction of each system being different
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 2015/0848 using a plurality of mechanically coupled spring-mass systems, the sensitive direction of each system being different

Abstract

The invention relates to an inertia sensing apparatus, comprising a substrate, a first and second inertia sensing elements. The first inertia sensing element is connected to a substrate and has a containment space. The second inertia sensing element is connected to the substrate and is disposed in the containment space of the first inertia sensing element, wherein the first inertia sensing element and the second sensing element are connected to the substrate, and the first inertia sensing element and the second sensing element are not connected to each other, the first inertia sensing element and the second sensing element individually and independently detect at least one inertia motion of the inertia sensing apparatus. Therefore, the invention is based on the second inertia sensing element disposed in the containment space of the first inertia sensing element and they individually and independently detect at least one inertia motion of the inertia sensing apparatus, so as to decrease an area of the inertia sensing apparatus, thus reducing the chip size and prevent the two inertia sensing elements from coupling to result in decreasing the sensing precision.

Claims

1. An inertia sensing apparatus, comprising:

a substrate;

a first inertia sensing element, connected to the substrate and having a containment space; and

a second inertia sensing element, connected to the substrate and disposed in the containment space of the first inertia sensing element;

wherein the first inertia sensing element and the second inertia sensing element connected to the substrate and the first inertia sensing element and the second sensing element are not connected to each other, the first inertia sensing element and the second inertia sensing element detect at least one inertia motion of the inertia sensing apparatus individually and independently.

2. The inertia sensing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first and the second inertia sensing elements are acceleration sensing elements, and the inertia motion comprises accelerations in a first and a second directions of the inertia sensing apparatus, the acceleration in the first direction is detected by the first inertia sensing element and the acceleration in the second direction is detected by the second inertia sensing element.

3. The inertia sensing apparatus of claim 2, wherein the acceleration in the first direction detected by the first inertia sensing element is the acceleration in the Z direction and the acceleration in the second direction detected by the second inertia sensing element is the acceleration in the X direction or Y direction.

4. The inertia sensing apparatus of claim 2, wherein the acceleration in the first direction detected by the first inertia sensing element is the acceleration in the X direction and the acceleration in the second direction detected by the second inertia sensing element is the acceleration in the Y direction.

5. The inertia sensing apparatus of claim 2, wherein the acceleration sensing element comprising:

a proof mass, having at least one set of elastic device and the containment space, the proof mass is supported by the set of elastic device and the containment space is located in one side of the elastic device and the proof mass is on the substrate; and

at least one sensing capacitive plate, set on the substrate and detects the capacitive variation generated by the displacement of the proof mass to obtain the inertia motion of the inertia apparatus.

6. The inertia sensing apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a third inertia sensing element, disposed in the containment space of the first inertia sensing element and independently detects the inertia motion of the inertia sensing apparatus;

wherein the first inertia sensing element, the second inertia sensing element and the third inertia sensing element connected to the substrate, the first inertia sensing element, the second inertia sensing element and the third inertia sensing element are not connected to each other, the first inertia sensing element, the second inertia sensing element and the third inertia sensing element individually and independently detect the inertia motion of the inertia sensing apparatus.

7. The inertia sensing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the first and the second inertia sensing elements are acceleration sensing elements or angular rate sensing elements.

8. An inertia sensing apparatus, comprising:

a substrate;

a first inertia sensing element, connected to the substrate and having a containment space; and

a second inertia sensing element, used to detect a plurality of inertia motion of the inertia sensing apparatus and the second inertia sensing element is connected to the substrate and disposed in the containment space of the first inertia sensing element;

wherein the first inertia sensing element and the second inertia sensing element connected to the substrate and the first inertia sensing element and the second sensing element are not connected to each other, the first inertia sensing element and the second inertia sensing element individually and independently detect at least one inertia motion of the inertia sensing apparatus.

9. The inertia sensing apparatus of claim 8, wherein the first and the second inertia sensing elements are acceleration sensing elements or angular rate sensing elements.

10. The inertia sensing apparatus of claim 8, wherein the first and the second inertia sensing elements are an acceleration sensing elements, the inertia motion comprises an accelerations in a first, a second and a third directions of the inertia sensing apparatus, and the first inertia sensing element detects the acceleration in the first direction, and the second inertia sensing element detects the acceleration in the second direction, and the third inertia sensing element detects the acceleration in the third direction.

11. The inertia sensing apparatus of claim 10, wherein the acceleration in the first direction detected by the first inertia sensing element is the acceleration in the Z direction and the accelerations in the second and the third directions detected by the second inertia sensing element is the accelerations in the X direction and Y direction.