SENSOR

• US 20160084870A1
• Filed: 04/17/2014
• Published: 03/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Imanaka, Takashi, Nakatsuka, Hiroshi, Kek, Khai Jun, Okamoto, Rie, Sakaue, Tsuyoshi
• Application Number:
  US14/785,605
• Publication Number:
  US 20160084870A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: G01L 19/06 Means for preventing overload or deleterious influence of the measured medium on the measuring device or vice versa
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 19/0618 Overload protection
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 15/08 with conversion into electric or magnetic values
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 15/123 by piezo-resistive elements, e.g. semiconductor strain gauges
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 15/125 by capacitive pick-up
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 2015/0828 the mass being of the paddle type being suspended at one of its longitudinal ends
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 2015/0871 using stopper structures for limiting the travel of the seismic mass

Abstract

A sensor includes a first substrate, a supporter connected to the first substrate, a weight facing the first substrate, a beam of which first end is connected to the supporter and of which second end is connected to the weight, a second substrate facing the weight, and a first projection disposed on the first substrate. This senor allows effectively preventing the beam from a breakage caused by the beam twisted due to a rotation of the weight when an impact is applied to the sensor. The sensor thus can improve anti-impact property.

Claims

1. A sensor comprising:

a first substrate;

a supporter connected to the first substrate;

a weight facing the first substrate;

a beam having a first end and a second end, the first end being connected to the supporter, the second end being connected to the weight;

a second substrate facing the weight;

a first projection disposed on the first substrate;

a second projection disposed on the first substrate;

a third projection disposed on the second substrate; and

a fourth projection disposed on the second substrate,

wherein an interval between the first projection and the second projection is smaller than an interval between the third projection and the fourth projection.

2. The sensor according to claim 1, wherein, in a top view, the first projection and the second projection are not exposed from the weight.

3. The sensor according to claim 1, wherein, in the top view, a portion of the third projection and a portion of the fourth projection are exposed from the weight.

4. The sensor according to claim 3, wherein a thickness of the third projection and a thickness of the fourth projection are larger than a thickness of the first projection and a thickness of the second projection.

5. The sensor according to claim 4, wherein the interval between the first projection and the second projection is larger than a width of the beam.

6. The sensor according to claim 4, wherein the interval between the third projection and the fourth projection is larger than a width of the beam.

7. The sensor according to claim 1, wherein, in a top view, the first projection has an edge crossing an edge of the weight.

8. The sensor according to claim 7,

wherein the edge of the weight inclines with respect to an extending direction of the beam, and

wherein the edge of the first projection extends in the extending direction.

9. The sensor according to claim 1,

wherein the beam extends from the first end to the second end in an extending direction, and

wherein a width of the weight in a width direction parallel to the first substrate and perpendicular to the extending direction is larger than an interval between the first projection and the second projection in the width direction, and is larger than an interval between the third projection and the fourth projection in the width direction.

10. The sensor according to claim 9, wherein the interval between the first projection and the second projection in the width direction is smaller than the interval between the third projection and the fourth projection in the width direction.

11. A sensor comprising:

a substrate;

a supporter connected to the substrate;

a beam having a first end and a second end opposite to the first end, the first end being connected to the supporter, the beam extending from the first end in an extending direction;

a weight facing the substrate; and

a first projection disposed on the substrate,

wherein the weight has an edge inclining with respect to the extending direction,

wherein the first projection has an edge extending in the extending direction, and

wherein, in a top view, the first projection includes a portion exposed from the weight and a portion not exposed from the weight.

12. The sensor according to claim 11, further comprising

a second projection disposed on the substrate,

wherein the second projection has an edge extending in a direction different from a direction in which the edge of the weight extends, and

wherein the second projection includes a portion exposed from the weight and a portion not exposed from the weight.

13. A sensor comprising:

a first substrate;

a supporter connected to the first substrate;

a weight facing the first substrate;

a beam having a first end and a second end, the first end being connected to the supporter, the second end being connected to the weight;

a second substrate facing the weight;

a first projection disposed on the first substrate; and

a second projection disposed on the second substrate,

wherein a thickness of the first projection is different from a thickness of the second projection.

14. A sensor comprising:

a substrate;

a supporter disposed on an upper surface of the substrate;

a weight facing the upper surface of the substrate;

a beam having one end and another end, the one end being connected to the supporter, the another end being connected to the weight; and

a first projection, a second projection, and a third projection which are disposed on the upper surface of the substrate or on a lower surface of the weight,

wherein the weight has a width larger than a width of the beam,

wherein an interval between the first projection and the second projection is larger than the width of the beam, and is smaller than the width of the weight,

wherein the third projection is disposed between the first projection and the second projection, and is closer to the supporter than the first projection and the second projection, and

wherein a border between the weight and the beam is located above the third projection.

15. The sensor according to claim 14, wherein a projection gap ratio H2/H1 which is a ratio of a distance H2 between the lower surface of the weight and each of an upper surface of the first projection and an upper surface of the second projection to a distance H1 between the upper surface of the substrate and the lower surface of the weight ranges from 0.3 to 0.5.

16. The sensor according to claim 14, wherein the first projection and the second projection are closer to the supporter than a center of gravity of the weight.

17. The sensor according to claim 14, wherein in a top view from above an upper surface of the weight, a portion of the first projection and a portion of the second projection are exposed from the weight.

18. The sensor according to claim 14, further comprising:

an upper substrate facing an upper surface of the weight; and

a fourth projection and a fifth projection which are disposed on a lower surface of the upper substrate or on the upper surface of the weight,

wherein an interval between the fourth and the fifth projections is larger than the width of the beam, and yet, smaller than the width of the weight.

19. The sensor according to claim 18, further comprising

a sixth projection,

wherein the sixth projection is disposed between the fourth projection and the fifth projection, and is closer to the supporter than the fourth projection and the fifth projection.

20. The sensor according to claim 18, wherein the fourth projection and the fifth projection are closer to the supporter than a center of gravity of the weight.

21. The sensor according to claim 18, wherein, in a top view from above the upper surface of the weight, a portion of the fourth projection and a portion of the fifth projection are exposed from the weight.