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7363814 Multi-axial angular velocity sensor  
An angular velocity sensor for detecting angular velocity about a Z-axis in an XYZ coordinate system has a substrate oscillator, a flexible member for connecting the oscillator to a casing, a...
7363717 System and method for using rotation sensors within a borehole  
A system and method for using a survey tool within a borehole is provided. The survey tool includes a plurality of rotation sensors each having a sensing axis and a direction of least acceleration...
7340954 Method for measurement of rotation rates/accelerations using a rotation rate coriolis gyro, as well as a coriolis gyro which is suitable for this purpose  
A Coriolis gyro includes a first and a second resonator, each in the form of a coupled system comprising first and second linear oscillators. The first resonator can be caused to oscillate in...
7334491 Sensor arrangement, in particular a micro-mechanical sensor arrangement  
A sensor array, in particular a micromechanical sensor array, and methods for manufacturing the sensor array are provided, which sensor array includes a sensor section for supplying certain sensor...
7331212 Sensor module  
A sensor module is provided having a compact housing containing a sensor. A low temperature co-fired ceramic substrate is located on the housing. The sensor and signal processing circuitry are...
7325451 Oscillating micro-mechanical sensor of angular velocity  
The present invention relates to measuring devices used in measuring angular velocity and, more specifically, to oscillating micro-mechanical sensors of angular velocity. In the sensors of angular...
7305880 Resonant micro-electro-mechanical system with analog driving  
A resonant micro-electro-mechanical system includes a microstructure having a mass which is free to oscillate in accordance with a predetermined degree of freedom, and a driving device coupled to...
7284408 Sensor system  
An inertia sensor system incorporates a vibration-type angular-speed sensor unit and an acceleration sensor unit provided separately. The inertia sensor system also includes a second-type...
7281406 Sensor system  
In a sensor system, a detection waveform-forming unit detects a vibration component and forms a waveform of a detected angular velocity based on the vibration component. Components of the waveform...
7274002 Heating element induction of time-varying thermal gradient in elongated beam to cause one or more elongated beam oscillations  
One or more heating elements comprise a heating element. One or more elongated beams comprise an elongated beam. The heating element is coupled with the elongated beam and induces a time-varying...
7258008 Micro-electro-mechanical gyroscope having electrically insulated regions  
An Integrated gyroscope includes a suspended mass; mobile actuation electrodes extending from the suspended mass; and a sensing mass connected to the actuation mass through coupling springs. The...
7250773 Circuit for detecting difference in capacitance  
A circuit for detecting a difference in capacitance between a first capacitor and a second capacitor provided in a sensor includes an oscillator configured to generate an oscillating signal, a...
7243542 Closed loop analog gyro rate sensor  
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for measuring the angular rotation of a moving body. The apparatus comprises an upper sensor layer, a lower handle layer substantially...
7237169 Cross-monitoring sensor system and method  
Cross-monitoring sensor system and method in which a plurality of sensors each having a sensing element, circuitry for processing signals from the sensing element, an output interface for...
7225550 System and method for using microgyros to measure the orientation of a survey tool within a borehole  
A system and method for determining an orientation of the survey tool within a borehole utilizes a survey tool including a plurality of rotation sensors each having a sensing axis and a direction...
7222533 Torsional rate sensor with momentum balance and mode decoupling  
Rate sensor having a plurality of generally planar masses, a drive axis in the planes of the masses, an input axis perpendicular to the drive axis, and sense axes perpendicular to the drive axis...
7219548 Pickoff sensor obtaining of value of parameter from substantially zero net dampening torque location of pendulous sensor component  
A pendulous sensor component of an apparatus in one example reacts to a parameter. One or more pickoff sensors that obtain a value of the parameter from a substantially zero net dampening torque...
7197930 Gyro sensor  
The gyro sensor uses a clock signal as a timing signal or synchronous signal for reading various data stored in a built-in memory for its yaw rate sensing operation. The gyro sensor is configured...
7197928 Solid-state gyroscopes and planar three-axis inertial measurement unit  
The present invention relates to a z-axial solid-state gyroscope. Its main configuration is manufactured with a conductive material and includes two sets of a proof mass and two driver bodies...
7168317 Planar 3-axis inertial measurement unit  
The present invention relates to a z-axial solid-state gyroscope. Its main configuration is manufactured with a conductive material and includes two sets of a proof mass and two driver bodies...
7159461 Vibrating rate gyro with slaving of detection frequency to excitation frequency  
The invention relates to a gyroscope comprising at least one mass capable of vibrating along an x axis at a resonant excitation frequency F x capable of vibrating along a y axis perpendicular to...
7159441 Cloverleaf microgyroscope with electrostatic alignment and tuning  
A micro-gyroscope ( 10 ) having closed loop output operation by a control voltage (V ty ), that is demodulated by a drive axis (x-axis) signal V thx of the sense electrodes (S 1 , S 2 ), providing...
7155976 Rotation sensing apparatus and method for manufacturing the same  
The invention provides a rotation sensing apparatus and method for manufacturing the same, in which the rotation sensing apparatus comprises at least a pair of vibration parts and a sensing...
7140255 Devices and method of measuring a mass  
A device 1 for measuring a mass comprises a vibrator 2, driving means 3 A, 3 B, 3 C, 3 D for exciting a basic vibration in the vibrator 2, detecting means 4 A, 4 B for detecting a...
7117605 System and method for using microgyros to measure the orientation of a survey tool within a borehole  
A system and method for determining an orientation of the survey tool within a borehole utilizes a survey tool including a plurality of rotation sensors each having a sensing axis and a direction...
7112793 One-chip compass implemented using magnetoresistive (MR) sensor temperature compensation and magnetic cross-term reduction techniques  
A measurement technique for normalizing the sensitive-axis output of a magnetoresistive (MR) sensor which greatly reduces both temperature effects and magnetic contributions from the...
7104129 Vertically integrated MEMS structure with electronics in a hermetically sealed cavity  
A MEMS assembly having a MEMS subassembly sandwiched between and bonded to a cap and a base is provided. The MEMS subassembly includes at least one MEMS device element flexibly connected to the...
7100445 Rotation rate sensor comprising a vibration gyroscope  
In a rotation rate sensor having a vibrational gyroscope which is part of at least one control loop which excites the vibrational gyroscope by supplying an excitation signal at its natural...
7093488 Vibrating resonator inertial rotation sensor  
The inertial rotation sensor comprising a vibrating resonator associated with transducers defining a pair of control channels and a pair of detection channels, preferably comprises a single...
7059188 Angular velocity sensor  
A flexible substrate ( 110 ) having flexibility and a fixed substrate ( 120 ) disposed so as to oppose it are supported at their peripheral portions by a sensor casing ( 140 ). An oscillator ( 130...
7057173 Magnetoresistive (MR) sensor temperature compensation and magnetic cross-term reduction techniques utilizing selective set and reset gain measurements  
A measurement technique for normalizing the sensitive-axis output of a magnetoresistive (MR) sensor which greatly reduces both temperature effects and magnetic contributions from the...
7051590 Structure for attenuation or cancellation of quadrature error  
A movable microstructure includes a first finger set comprising two or more first fingers affixed to a substrate and extending substantially parallel to a defined displacement axis towards a...
7043985 High-resolution in-plane tuning fork gyroscope and methods of fabrication  
A microstructure comprising an in-plane solid-mass electrically conductive tuning fork gyroscope and fabrication methods. The gyroscope is formed using substrate material having lower and upper...
6981414 Coupled micromachined structure  
A suspended, coupled micromachined structure including two proof masses and multiple support arms configured to suspend the masses above a substrate and a coupling spring element having two ends....
6966224 Micromachined vibratory gyroscope with electrostatic coupling  
Micromachined vibratory gyroscope having two or more coplanar movable masses suspended over a planar substrate. Two perpendicular axes (x and y) are defined within the substrate plane, while a...
6938483 Phase-locked mechanical resonator pair and its application in micromachined vibration gyroscope  
This invention is related to a phase-locked mechanical resonator pair that comprises at least two mechanical resonators wherein the resonance of the second mechanical resonator is phase-locked to...
6934665 Electronic sensor with signal conditioning  
A method for extracting components from signals in an electronic sensor ( 50 ) having a sensing element ( 52 ). The sensing element ( 52 ) generates a first signal ( 60 ) and a second signal ( 62...
6928873 Silicon dual inertial sensors  
A silicon dual inertial sensor made of a ( 110 ) silicon chip comprises at least a proof-mass, which is connected to a corresponding inner frame with a plurality of sensing resilient beams to make...
6928872 Integrated gyroscope of semiconductor material with at least one sensitive axis in the sensor plane  
An integrated gyroscope, including an acceleration sensor formed by: a driving assembly; a sensitive mass extending in at least one first and second directions and being moved by the driving...
6907782 Micromechanical inertial sensor  
A micromechanical inertial sensor that includes three component planes, namely a bottom part, a center part and a cover part. The center part is a silicon wafer in which a cardan-type (i.e. gimbal)...
6906849 Micro-mirror element  
A micro-mirror element includes a micro-mirror substrate, a wiring substrate and an electroconductive spacer disposed between the two substrates. The micro-mirror substrate is formed integral with...
6894576 Temperature compensation mechanism for a micromechanical ring resonator  
A time base including a resonator ( 4 ) and an integrated electronic circuit ( 3 ) for driving the resonator into oscillation and for producing, in response to the oscillation, a signal having a...
6892575 X-Y axis dual-mass tuning fork gyroscope with vertically integrated electronics and wafer-scale hermetic packaging  
An angular velocity sensor has two masses which are laterally disposed in an X-Y plane and indirectly connected to a frame. The two masses are linked together by a linkage such that they...
6889550 Planar mechanical resonator sensitive along an axis perpendicular to its plane  
The invention concerns a mechanical resonator with a planar monolithic vibrating structure extending along a closed contour whereof the axis of sensitivity is substantially perpendicular to the...
6848304 Six degree-of-freedom micro-machined multi-sensor  
A six degree-of-freedom micro-machined multi-sensor that provides 3-axes of acceleration sensing, and 3-axes of angular rate sensing, in a single multi-sensor device. The six degree-of-freedom...
6845665 Micro-machined multi-sensor providing 2-axes of acceleration sensing and 1-axis of angular rate sensing  
A micro-machined multi-sensor that provides 2-axes of acceleration sensing and 1-axis of angular rate sensing. The multi-sensor includes a rigid accelerometer frame, a first proof mass, and a...
6843126 Triaxial angular rate and acceleration sensor  
A triaxial sensor substrate is adapted for use in measuring the acceleration and angular rate of a moving body along three orthogonal axes. The triaxial sensor substrate includes three individual...
6777857 Piezoelectric gyroscope system, and method of use  
Disclosed are coriolis force driven piezoelectric gyroscope systems which each comprise two substantially orthogonally oriented elements projecting from a mass. Each substantially orthogonally...
6766689 Integrated gyroscope of semiconductor material  
The gyroscope is formed by a driving system including a driving mass having an open concave shape; an accelerometer including a sensing mass and comprising mobile sensing electrodes; a linkage...
6752017 Rotation speed sensor  
A yaw-rate sensor is proposed having a first and a second Coriolis element ( 100, 200 ) which are arranged side-by-side above a surface ( 1 ) of a substrate. The Coriolis elements ( 100, 200 ) are...
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