Sensor device, and electronic apparatus

• US 8,960,000 B2
• Filed: 07/10/2012
• Issued: 02/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Yoshihiro, Kitamura, Shojiro, Chino, Taketo, Sakuma, Masayasu
• Primary Examiner(s): NOLAND, THOMAS
• Application Number:
  US13/545,075
• Publication Number:
  US 20130014578A1
• Time in Patent Office: 959 Days
• Field of Search: 734/31, 734/93, 735/10
• US Class Current: 73/431
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 19/5769 Manufacturing; Mounting; Housings
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/166 Mechanical, construction or arrangement details of inertial navigation systems
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 11/245 Housings for sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 11/30 Supports specially adapted for an instrument; Supports specially adapted for a set of instruments
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/72 coupling with the edge of the rigid printed circuits or like structures
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/148 Arrangements of two or more hingeably connected rigid printed circuit boards, i.e. connected by flexible means
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 2201/09163 Slotted edge

Abstract

A sensor device includes a mounting member having fixation surfaces inside, and at least one electronic component directly or indirectly fixed to the fixation surfaces of the mounting member, and the mounting member constitutes a part of a casing for housing the electronic component. Further, the fixation surfaces are perpendicular to each other.

Claims

1. A sensor device comprising:

a housing member having first through fourth walls and an inside space, the fourth wall facing the first wall and being continuously connected to the second and third walls;

first through third boards respectively provided at an interior of the first through third walls of the housing member, the first through third boards being perpendicular to each other, the first through third boards respectively having first through third fixation surfaces;

a through-hole provided in the fourth wall of the housing member; and

first through third angular velocity sensors respectively provided at the first through third fixation surfaces of the first through third boards, wherein

the first through third angular velocity sensors respectively have first through third detection axes intersecting with each other, and

a connector, which outputs signals from the first through third angular velocity sensors, is exposed through the through-hole provided at the fourth wall of the housing member.

2. The sensor device according to claim 1, wherein

the third wall of the housing member has a first recessed section opened toward the inside space, and the first recessed section is located between the third wall and the third board.

3. The sensor device according to claim 2, wherein

the third angular velocity sensor is provided at the third fixation surface of the third board, and the third angular velocity sensor is housed in the first recessed section.

4. The sensor device according to claim 2, further comprising

a fifth wall of the housing member, the fifth wall facing the third wall and being continuously connected to the first, second and fourth walls;

and

a fourth board provided at the fifth wall, wherein

the fifth wall has a second recessed section opened toward the inside space, and the second recessed section is located between the fifth wall and the fourth board.

5. The sensor device according to claim 4, wherein

the third angular velocity sensor is provided at the third fixation surface of the third board, and the third angular velocity sensor is housed in the first recessed section.

6. The sensor device according to claim 5, wherein

a direction sensor is provided at a fourth fixation surface of the fourth board, and the direction sensor is housed in the second recessed section.

7. The sensor device according to claim 1, wherein

the first through third boards are bendable.

8. An electronic apparatus comprising:

the sensor device according to claim 1.