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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2016
Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd., Hitachinaka, JP;
Masatoshi Kanamaru, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Maeda, Tokyo, JP;
Masahide Hayashi, Hitachinaka, JP;
Masashi Yura, Hitachinaka, JP;
Akihiro Okamoto, Hitachinaka, JP;
HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD., Hitachinaka, JP;
Abstract
To provide a physical quantity sensor having excellent reliability by reducing the influence of a force applied from the outside. Disclosed is a physical quantity sensor, which has a weight or a movable electrode formed on a device substrate, and an outer peripheral section that is disposed to surround the weight or the movable electrode, said weight or movable electrode being displaceable in the rotation direction in a plane. When the weight or the movable electrode is displaced in the rotation direction in the plane, the physical quantity sensor is provided with a rotation space at the outer peripheral section of an end portion of the weight or the movable electrode, said end portion being in the direction viewed from the center position of the weight or the movable electrode.