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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:
May. 16, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2005
Applicants:
Toshiyuki Nozoe, Kyoto, JP;
Takeshi Uemura, Osaka, JP;
Masami Tamura, Kyoto, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01P 19/00 (2006.01); G01P 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An angular velocity sensor of the present invention includes a driving part for stably vibrating a driving part of a sensor element and a detector part for detecting an angular velocity of the sensor element and obtains a self diagnosis signal for a malfunction by detecting a mechanical coupling signal obtained at the detection part.