Mounting arrangement for acceleration detector element

• US 5,633,461 A
• Filed: 06/06/1995
• Issued: 05/27/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Atsugi Unisia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Atsugi Unisia Corporation
• Inventors: Kakizaki, Shinobu, Kasajima, Kimihisa
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, Hezron E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US08/468,312
• Time in Patent Office: 721 Days
• Field of Search: 73/493, 73/514.32, 73/514.33, 73/651, 73/431
• US Class Current: 73/493
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 1/023 for acceleration measuring devices
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 15/08 with conversion into electric or magnetic values
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 2015/0828 the mass being of the paddle type being suspended at one of its longitudinal ends
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/42 Piezoelectric device making
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/435 Solid dielectric type

Abstract

A semiconductor type acceleration sensor comprises a flexible printed circuit board on which a semiconductor type detector chip section is mounted. The detector chip is formed with openings therethrough overlapping an opening formed in a rear-side base plate of the flexible printed circuit board such that the detector chip section is supported only by a bridge portion. In case of excess input in an acceleration direction, elastic deformation of the bridge portion and a bending portion of the flexible printed circuit board provide absorption of the excess input for protecting the detector chip section.

Claims

1. An acceleration sensor comprising:

a housing;

a bottom portion connected with said housing and cooperating with said housing to define a space therebetween;

a hard-type printed circuit board having a plurality of corners;

a detector chip mounted on said printed circuit board;

signal processing circuits mounted on said printed circuit board;

a plurality of elastic mount spacers provided at said plurality of corners of said printed circuit board, respectively;

each of said elastic mount spacers being formed with a notch receiving a respective one of said plurality of corners of said printed circuit board;

each of said mount spacers being disposed between said housing and said bottom portion and having upper and lower positioning nodes contacting said housing and said bottom portion, respectively, such that said plurality of mount spacers elastically support said printed circuit board within said space defined by said housing and said bottom portion.