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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 1/900 ;
Abstract
An angular velocity sensor includes a vibrator. A differential amplifier circuit outputs a differential signal including a Coriolis component from the vibrator. The differential signal is converted into a digital signal by an A/D converter. A Hilbert transformer shifts the differential signal by &pgr;/2. Two multipliers squares the original differential signal and the &pgr;/2-phase-shifted differential signal, respectively, and an adder computes the sum of the squares. A square root circuit computes the square root of the sum and outputs a magnitude signal proportional to Coriolis force.