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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 1997
Filed:
May. 12, 1995
John R Vig, Colts Neck, NJ (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A crystal resonator in an electrodeless configuration is electrically levitated by a resonant circuit. A quartz plate (or other piezoelectric substrate) is levitated by a resonant circuit which includes an inductor that is external to a housing and a parallel plate capacitor that is inside the housing. The parallel plate capacitor consists of three plates, two of which are mounted edge to edge on a nonconductive housing with a small space between them and the third of which is a conducting surface on the quartz plate being levitated. This is an open circuit configuration which requires no feedback sensor circuitry. The resonator, after being levitated, is then electrically addressed in any number of electrodeless configurations.