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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2006
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2004
Steven A. Foote, Issaquah, WA (US);
Paul H. Collins, Issaquah, WA (US);
J. Christopher Milne, Issaquah, WA (US);
Steven A. Foote, Issaquah, WA (US);
Paul H. Collins, Issaquah, WA (US);
J. Christopher Milne, Issaquah, WA (US);
Honeywell International, Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for flexibly suspending a sensing mechanism between a pair of cover plates, including a sensing mechanism formed in a crystalline silicon substrate; a pair of cover plates formed in crystalline silicon substrates; a first plurality of complementary interfaces in fixed relation between the sensing mechanism and a first one of the cover plates; and a second plurality of complementary interfaces flexibly suspended between the sensing mechanism and a second one of the cover plates with one or more of the flexibly suspended interfaces being a complementary male and female interface.