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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 27, 2016
Applicant:

Northrop Grumman Litef Gmbh, Freiburg, DE;

Inventors:

Stefan Koenig, Staufen, DE;

Peter Leinfelder, Ehrenkirchen, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01P 15/125 (2006.01); G01P 15/13 (2006.01); B81B 3/00 (2006.01); G01P 15/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01P 15/125 (2013.01); B81B 3/0054 (2013.01); B81B 3/0059 (2013.01); G01P 15/131 (2013.01); B81B 2201/0235 (2013.01); B81B 2203/0163 (2013.01); B81B 2203/04 (2013.01); B81B 2203/051 (2013.01); G01P 2015/0814 (2013.01); G01P 2015/0862 (2013.01); G01P 2015/0882 (2013.01);
Abstract

The invention relates to an acceleration sensor () having a sensor material () which is mounted by means of spring elements () so as to be movable along a movement axis (x) over a substrate (), first trim electrodes () which are connected to the sensor material (), and second trim electrodes () which are connected to the substrate () and are associated with the first trim electrodes (). When the sensor material is deflected along the movement axis, a spring force acting on the sensor material () is generated by the spring elements (), and when the sensor material () is deflected, an electrostatic force acting on the sensor material (), which counteracts the spring force, is generated by application of an electrical trim voltage between the first trim electrodes () and the second trim elements ().


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