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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2002
Filed:
May. 04, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01P 9/04 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01P 9/04 ;
Abstract
The invention provides a gyroscope that brings about the miniaturization of a device, improvement of detection sensitivity, and reduction of driving voltage. A gyroscope of the present invention is provided with a tuning fork formed of conductive material having a plurality of legs and a support, a top glass substrate and a bottom glass substrate for holding the tuning fork in-between, a plurality of driving electrodes for driving the plurality of legs in capacitance coupling with the legs, and a plurality of detecting electrodes, each detecting electrode is disposed so as to face to the end face of each leg in the extending direction correspondingly to each leg.