Aac Kaitai Technologies (wuhan) Co., Ltd

Aac Acoustic Technologies (shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

Zhan Zhan

Hui Zhang

Kahkeen Lai

Shan Yang

Zhao Ma

Xiao Kan

Veronica Tan

Hongtao Peng

Shitao Yan

Yan Hong

Rui Guo Zhang

Lian Duan

Xiaohui Zhong

Bei Tong

Yuwei Liu

Qiuyu Tan

Wooicheang Goh

Ze Tao

A three-axis MEMS gyroscope includes a substrate, a sensing unit connected with the substrate, and a driving unit driving the sensing unit to move. The substrate includes anchor point structures and coupling structures connected with the anchor point structures. The driving unit includes driving pieces. One ends of each of the driving pieces are elastically connected with an adjacent coupling structure. The sensing unit includes X and Y mass blocks and Z mass blocks. Each of the X and Y mass blocks is arranged in a corresponding avoiding space. The X and Y mass blocks are respectively connected with adjacent coupling structures to form a rectangular frame. The Z mass blocks are connected with the driving pieces and separately arranged on one side of each driving piece away from each anchor point structure. The three-axis MEMS gyroscope is differentially driven, which realizes differential detection and reduces quadrature error.

Three-axis MEMS gyroscope

The invention discloses a MEMS gyroscope, including a substrate, a first unit and a second unit, and the first unit and the second unit are relatively arranged on the substrate along the first direction. The first unit is connected to the second unit through a coupling spring, and the substrate is also provided with a driving electrode and a detection electrode. The first unit includes a first weight and a second weight. The second unit includes the third weight and the fourth weight set oppositely along the second direction. The second set of coupling structures are connected to the third weight and fourth weight. Compared with the prior art, the beneficial effect of the present invention is that the MEMS gyroscope adopts a symmetrical layout, which facilitates the realization of differential detection and improves the sensitivity.

MEMS gyroscope

Provided is a fully decoupled MEMS gyroscope, including an anchor point unit, a sensing unit elastically connected to the anchor point unit, and a driving unit configured to drive the sensing unit to move. The anchor point unit includes a center anchor point subunit located at a center of a rectangle and four side anchor points. The driving unit includes four driving members located on four sides of the rectangle. The sensing unit includes two X mass blocks symmetrically arranged in two avoiding intervals, two Y mass blocks symmetrically arranged in the other two avoiding intervals, four Z mass blocks respectively located at an outer side of each driving member, and four Z detection decoupling members respectively located at an outer side of each Z mass block. The X mass blocks and the Y mass blocks are respectively connected to each side anchor point.

Fully decoupled three-axis MEMS gyroscope

A micromachined gyroscope and an electronic product are provided. The micromachined gyroscope includes a driving component, a detecting component, first connecting components, and second connecting components. The driving component includes first driving pieces, second driving pieces, and driving devices driving the first driving pieces and the second driving piece to move. The detecting component includes first detecting pieces arranged along a third direction, second detecting pieces arranged along a fourth direction, and detecting devices for detecting movement distances of the first detecting pieces and/or the second detecting pieces along a fifth direction. Each of the first connecting pieces and the second connecting pieces rotates around a center thereof, so the second detecting pieces and the first detecting pieces respectively reciprocate along the third direction and the fourth direction. The micromachined gyroscope and the electronic product realize differential detection and effectively avoid influence of acceleration shock and quadrature error.

Micromachined gyroscope and electronic product

A MEMS gyroscope for three-axis detection relates to the technical field of gyroscope and includes a substrate, a sensing unit elastically connected with the substrate, and a driving unit coupled with the sensing unit and driving the sensing unit to move. The substrate includes anchor point structures respectively located at four corners of the substrate and four coupling structures respectively elastically connected with the four anchor point structures. An avoiding space is formed between two adjacent coupling structures. The driving unit includes two driving pieces separately elastically connected with adjacent coupling structures. The two driving pieces are symmetrically arranged and are frame-shaped. The sensing unit includes four X and Y mass blocks, two Z mass blocks elastically connected with the driving pieces, and two decoupling mass blocks. The two decoupling mass blocks are elastically connected. The MEMS gyroscope is differentially driven, which realizes differential detection and reduces quadrature error.

MEMS gyroscope for three-axis detection

A micromechanical gyroscope and an electronic device are related. The micromechanical gyroscope includes a first movement member, a second movement member, many drive members and a detection member, the first movement member has a first center, with two ends along a second direction oscillating around the first center along a first and a third directions, the second movement member has a second center, with two ends along the first direction oscillating around the second center along the second and third directions. The drive members can drive oscillations of the first and second movement members. The detection member is located above or below the first and second movement members in the third direction, to detect moving distances of the first and second movement members along the third direction. The micromechanical gyroscope can detect angular velocities in two directions simultaneously and perform differential detection to reduce errors, thus expanding application scenarios.

Micromechanical gyroscope and electronic device

The invention provides a micromachined gyroscope. The micromachined gyroscope includes a driving structure, a detection structure and a connection component. The driving structure includes a first moving component and a driving component. The driving component is used to drive the movement of the first moving component. The detection structure includes a second moving component and a detection component installed in the second moving component. The detection component is used to detect the movement distance of the second moving component along the third or fourth direction. The driving component is installed inside the first moving component, and the detection component is installed inside the second moving component. Greater drive of amplitude can be achieved at the same drive voltage, thereby increasing the sensitivity of the micromachined gyroscope.

Micromachined gyroscope and electronic product using same

A MEMS gyroscope includes an anchor point, at least two driving structures connected with the anchor point; a mass group connected with the driving structures, and coupling beams connected with adjacent driving structures. The mass group includes two detecting components arranged on opposite sides of the driving structures and connected with the driving structures. Each of the detecting components includes two mass blocks arranged at intervals and detecting transducers arranged below or above the mass blocks. The mass blocks are connected with the driving structures. At least portions of the mass blocks extend to outsides of the driving structures. The mass blocks and the detecting transducers are symmetrically arranged, which is convenient for realizing differential detection. In an out-plane oscillation mode, most portions of the mass blocks sense an angular velocity. By adopting detecting transducers, electromechanical coupling coefficient of detection is effectively improved, and sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio are improved.

A MEMS gyroscope includes an anchor point, a resonator, and a transducer. The resonator includes eight resonating blocks arranged at equal intervals and a coupling beam connecting each two adjacent resonating blocks. The resonating blocks are connected with the anchor point through anchoring beams. The anchoring beams decouple radial motion and circumferential motion of the resonating blocks. The resonating blocks include first resonating blocks, second resonating blocks, third resonating blocks, and fourth resonating blocks. In a vibration mode, the transducer drives the first and second resonating blocks to vibrate along a first axis and a second axis respectively, so the third and fourth resonating blocks are driven to vibrate along the fourth axis and the third axis respectively. In a detection mode, the transducer detects vibration of the third resonating blocks along the third axis and the vibration of the fourth resonating blocks along the fourth axis.

A MEMS single-axis gyroscope includes an anchor point structure, a sensing unit elastically connected with the anchor point structure, and a driving decoupling structure elastically connected with the anchor point structure and the sensing unit. The sensing unit includes a plurality of mass blocks arranged side by side and rocker connecting pieces. Each of the rocker connecting pieces is connected between corresponding two adjacent mass blocks. Connecting positions between each of the rocker connecting pieces and the corresponding two adjacent mass blocks are located on a same side of the line connecting the centers of the plurality of mass blocks. The MEMS single-axis gyroscope is able to perform differential detection, which resists interference of external electrical and mechanical noise, and improves a signal-to-noise ratio. By adjusting the rocker connecting pieces arranged between each two adjacent mass blocks, a total vector displacement of the plurality of mass blocks is zero.

MEMS single-axis gyroscope

A MEMS accelerometer includes a base, proof mass, at least one pair of seesaw structures, and an out-of-plane displacement detection component. The at least one pair of the seesaw structures are oppositely disposed and fixed on the base through anchor points, and the out-of-plane displacement detection component is configured to detect rotation of the at least one pair of the seesaw structures or out-of-plane linear motion of the proof mass. Linear displacement of the MEMS accelerometer is not only beneficial to improve linearity of a capacitive displacement detection, but also to other non-capacitive detection methods, such as optical displacement detection. In addition, a double coupling structure is adopted to jointly couple rotation of seesaws, and remaining translational and rotational modes of the seesaw structures are suppressed.

MEMS accelerometer

A MEMS gyroscope includes an anchor point unit, a sensing unit elastically connected with the anchor point unit, and a driving unit elastically connected with the anchor point unit and the sensing unit. The anchor point unit includes four corner anchor point structures arranged at four corners of the MEMS gyroscope and four central anchor points. The sensing unit includes four first mass blocks elastically connected with the corner anchor point structures and the central anchor points to form avoiding spaces, four second mass blocks arranged within the avoiding spaces, and four decoupling mass blocks. The driving unit includes four driving pieces respectively connected with outer sides of the second mass blocks. The MEMS gyroscope realizes independent detection of angular velocities of three axes and realizes differential detection and balance of vibration moment, which immune to influence of acceleration shock and quadrature error and improves detection accuracy.

The present invention provides a motion control structure and a actuator. The motion control structure includes a motion platform, a first actuator having a first execution unit arranged on opposite sides of the motion platform along an X-axis direction and a second execution unit arranged on opposite sides of the motion platform along a Y-axis direction. The first execution unit includes a first actuating element displaced along the X-axis direction. The second execution unit includes a second actuating element displaced along the Y-axis direction. A second actuator surrounds an inner periphery of the motion platform and includes a third execution unit having an assembly portion displaced along the Z-axis direction. The motion control structure of the invention has the advantages that the motion platform can be driven to realize motion in six degrees of freedom.

Motion control structure and actuator

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide a three-axis micromachined gyroscope which improves the detection sensitivity for detecting angular velocity. Accordingly, the present invention provides a three-axis micromachined gyroscope, including: a base; a vibration part suspended by the base, including a vibration assembly for receiving Coriolis force and generating a position change; a drive electrode for driving the vibration part; a detection part connected with the vibration part for detecting position change of the weights after receiving Coriolis force, and converting the position change of the weight into an electrical signal for outputting; and a swing center of each weight being outside the corresponding weight. When the three-axis micromachined gyroscope receives an angular velocity, the swinging weight is subjected to Coriolis force and a corresponding position change occurs.

Three-axis micromachined gyroscope

The invention provides an acceleration sensor, including a sensing unit, a sensing unit includes a ring-shaped outer coupling unit; seesaw structures, including at least two and arranged on an inner side of the outer coupling unit; an inner coupling unit, including an inner coupling elastic beam connecting two adjacent seesaw structures; proof mass blocks fixed on the outer coupling unit or the inner coupling unit or the seesaw structures; an in-plane coupling elastic member elastically connecting the seesaw structures to the outer coupling unit; in-plane displacement detection devices arranged on the proof mass blocks and configured to detect movements of the proof mass blocks along the first direction and/or along the second direction; and out-of-plane displacement detection devices arranged on the outer coupling unit and/or the seesaw structures and/or the inner coupling unit configured to detect movements of the seesaw structures along the third direction.

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