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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2020
Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Reginald D. Bean, Center Point, IA (US);
Nathaniel P. Wyckoff, Marion, IA (US);
Jeremiah Wolf, Atkins, IA (US);
Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Abstract
A chip-scale gyrometric apparatus is disclosed. In embodiments, the chip-scale gyrometric apparatus includes a dielectric substrate and an antenna element attached thereto for receiving an inbound signal having an initial phase. The apparatus includes a splitter for splitting the inbound signal into two equivalent signals, and two coils connected to the splitter. The first coil carries one of the split signals in a clockwise (CW) path relative to a rotational axis, while the second coil carries the other split signal in a counterclockwise (CCW) path relative to the same axis. An integrated circuit (IC) on the substrate and connected to the first and second coils measures a phase shift between the first and second signals (e.g., deviation from the initial phase) based on their respective CW and CCW paths and determines, based on the measured phase shift, a degree of rotation relative to the common rotational axis.