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Patent No.:

US 8429971 B1

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Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013

Filed:

Nov. 14, 2007
Applicants:

Johannes Classen, Reutlingen, DE;

Axel Franke, Ditzingen, DE;

Dietrich Schubert, Reutlingen, DE;

Kersten Kehr, Zwota, DE;

Ralf Reichenbach, Esslingen, DE;

Inventors:

Johannes Classen, Reutlingen, DE;

Axel Franke, Ditzingen, DE;

Dietrich Schubert, Reutlingen, DE;

Kersten Kehr, Zwota, DE;

Ralf Reichenbach, Esslingen, DE;

Assignee:

Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01P 15/125 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A micromechanical acceleration sensor includes a substrate, an elastic diaphragm which extends parallel to the substrate plane and which is partially connected to the substrate, and which has a surface region which may be deflected perpendicular to the substrate plane, and a seismic mass whose center of gravity is situated outside the plane of the elastic diaphragm. The seismic mass extends at a distance over substrate regions which are situated outside the region of the elastic diaphragm and which include a system composed of multiple electrodes, each of which together with oppositely situated regions of the seismic mass forms a capacitor in a circuit. In its central region the seismic mass is attached to the elastic diaphragm in the surface region of the elastic diaphragm which may be deflected perpendicular to the substrate plane.


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