Onera (office National D'etudes Et De Recherches Aerospatiales)

Office National D'etudes Et De Recherche Aerospatiales (onera)

Onera

Onera (office National D'eudes Et De Recheres Aerospatiales)

Office Nationale D'etudes Recherches Aerospatiales Onera

Compagnie D'electronique Et De Piezo-electricitie C.e.p.e

Serge Muller

Denis Janiaud

Olivier Le Traon

Bernard Lecorre

Marc Pernice

Jean-Pierre Aubry

Bernard Le Corre

Jean-Charles Craveur

Marc Fragneau

A sensor comprises two identical vibrating members operating with a common working frequency and joined to each other by a mechanical decoupling device. The device comprises a frame and two connecting bridges each supporting one member. The frame comprises a succession of mass portions and thinned portions so that the frequency of one mode of structural resonance of the frame is substantially equal to the common working frequency, and each connecting bridge is disposed in a node of vibration of the frame at the common working frequency. Thus, the vibrations of the two vibrating members are decoupled from each other.

Mechanical decoupling device for monolithic differential vibrating sensor

The invention concerns a transducer constituting the sensitive member of a sensor whose frequency varies as a function of the intensity of force applied to it. The force transducer comprises a beam having length and rectangular cross-section with thickness and width and flexionally vibrating. The beam has a thickness reduced over a central portion of its length, its width remaining constant.

Force transducer having a central portion of reduced thickness

A vibrating rate gyro structure machined in a plate of material and comprising a fixed part, a resonator, and a mechanical system connecting the resonator to the fixed part. The mechanical system comprises a first mobile mass part connected to one end of the resonator, a second mobile mass part ( ) connected to the resonator and situated in the vicinity of the other end of the resonator, two flexible arms situated on both sides of the resonator and each connecting the first mobile mass part to the second mobile mass part, and two other flexible arms situated on both sides of the resonator and connecting the second mobile mass part to the fixed part.

Monolithic vibrating rate gyro structure

A monolithic miniature accelerometer machined in a plate of material, comprising a fixed part, two first mobile mass parts referred to as inertial masses, two hinge blades each having one end fastened to one of the two mobile mass parts, and two resonators each having one end fastened to one of the two mobile mass parts, a third mobile mass part fastened to the other end of each of the two resonators and of each of the two hinge blades, and a flexible stem situated between the first two mobile mass parts and connecting the third mobile mass part to the fixed part.

Monolithic miniature accelerometer

A monolithic accelerometric transducer comprises a fixed part, two mobile mass parts and a resonator having ends fastened to said mobile parts, a flexible frame around the two mobile parts, and two connecting members connecting the frame to the second mobile part and to the fixed part. The frame provides a mechanical filter between the resonator and the fixed part which is not affected by the vibrations of the resonator. The quality factor Q of the resonator is not degraded and the measurement provided by the transducer is more accurate. In a differential output accelerometer, the position of the transducer is deduced from that of another, identical transducer by rotation of 180.degree. about an axis parallel to the resonator, the fixed parts of the transducers being fastened together.

Monolithic accelerometric transducer

Disclosed is a suspension spring for a vibrating piezoelectric plate including a first part fixed on a base and a second part for supporting the vibrating plate, the second part a tongue having a first and second end, the second end of the tongue supporting the vibrating plate, the spring being designed so that the end of the tongue which is the closest to the fixing point of the first part to the base is that which supports the vibrating plate.

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Ollainville, France

Serge Muller