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Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 1994

Filed:

Mar. 25, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:

Jin-Shown Shie, Hsinchu, TW;

Ping-Kuo Weng, Hsinchu, TW;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
73755 ; 73708 ;
Abstract

A new structure of a vacuum meter with good designs of temperature compensation and stabilization, The structure comprises a floating plate made by a micro-machining technique and a thermal sensitive element installed on the floating plate, The floating plate has a number of suspending arms extending outward to supporting the floating plate in a cavity of a semiconductor substrate for good heat isolation. The area of the floating plate and the length and width of the suspending arm has a specific ratio for an optimized sensitivity. A dummy resistor for temperature compensation is composed by a serial connection of a constant resistor with almost zero temperature coefficient and the thermal sensitive elements in a specific ratio. The vacuum meter further overlap on a temperature-controlled thermoelectric cooling device and is covered by a thermal shield so that the temperatures on and circumferential to the floating plate can be maintained stably.


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