Angular velocity detecting device

• US 8,327,706 B2
• Filed: 07/08/2010
• Issued: 12/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Jeong, Heewon, Goto, Yasushi
• Primary Examiner(s): MacChiarolo, Peter
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shah, Samir M
• Application Number:
  US12/832,965
• Publication Number:
  US 20100269589A1
• Time in Patent Office: 887 Days
• Field of Search: 735/040.1, 735/040.2, 735/040.3, 735/040.4, 735/041.2, 735/140.1, 735/140.2, 735/143.8, 735/041.4
• US Class Current: 73/504.14
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 19/5747 each sensing mass being connected to a driving mass, e.g. driving frames
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 19/5762 the sensing mass being connected to a driving mass, e.g. driving frames
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 3/22 transferred to the indicator by electric or magnetic means

Abstract

A high-performance angular rate detecting device is provided. A driving part including a drive frame and a Coriolis frame is levitated by at least two fixing beams which share a fixed end and are extending in a direction orthogonal to a driving direction, thereby vibrating the driving part. Even when a substrate is deformed by mounting or heat fluctuation, internal stress generated to the fixed beam and a supporting beam is small, thereby maintaining a vibrating state such as resonance frequency and vibration amplitude constant. Therefore, a high-performance angular rate detecting device which is robust to changes in mounting environment can be obtained.

Claims

1. An angular rate detecting device comprising:

a base layer;

an interlayer provided on the base layer,

a fixed part provided on the interlayer;

a drive frame provided on a same layer as the fixed part, suspended from the fixed part via a first beam, a second beam, and a third beam, and suspended from the fixed part via a fourth beam, a fifth beam, and a sixth beam;

a Coriolis frame provided on the same layer as the fixed part, and suspended from the fixed part via the drive frame and a seventh beam,

wherein, when a direction on a surface of the base layer is taken as an x-axis direction and a direction perpendicular to the x-axis direction on the surface of the base layer is taken as a y-axis direction,

the first beam, having one end connected to the fixed part and another end connected to the second beam, is extended in the y-axis direction,

the second beam is extended in the x-axis direction,

the third beam, having one end connected to the second beam and another end connected to the drive frame, is extended in the y-axis direction with a predetermined space from the first beam in the x-axis direction,

the fourth beam, having one end connected to the fixed part and another end connected to the fifth beam, is extended in the y-axis direction,

the fifth beam is extended in the x-axis direction,

the sixth beam, having one end connected to the fifth beam and another end connected to the drive frame, is extended in the y-axis direction with the predetermined space from the fourth beam in the x-axis direction, and

the second beam and the fifth beam are disposed to opposite sides of the fixed part in the y-axis direction.

2. The angular rate detecting device according to claim 1, wherein the drive frame is provided inside the Coriolis frame.

3. The angular rate detecting device according to claim 2,

wherein a plan shape of the Coriolis frame is a rectangular shape, and the fixed part, the first beam, the second beam, the third beam, the fourth beam, the fifth beam and the sixth beam are provided inside the rectangular shape.

4. The angular rate detecting device according to claim 1,

wherein a distance between the first beam and the third beam is smaller than a length of the first beam,

wherein a width of the second beam is larger than a width of the first beam,

wherein a distance between the fourth beam and the sixth beam is smaller than a length of the fourth beam, and

wherein a width of the fifth beam is larger than a width of the fourth beam.