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Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013

Filed:

Apr. 09, 2012
Applicant:

John A. Geen, Tewksbury, MA (US);

Inventor:

John A. Geen, Tewksbury, MA (US);

Assignee:

Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01P 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In an inertial sensor having a resonator and an accelerometer, acceleration signals are induced by resonating at least one shuttle of the resonator in a device plane at a shuttle resonance mode frequency and modulating the motion of the at least one resonator shuttle to induce accelerometer signals from the accelerometer. The motion may be modulated in the device plane or out of the device plane. A shuttle resonance mode and an accelerometer resonance mode may me matched based on the induced accelerometer signals, for example, by providing a feedback signal to the inertial sensor in response to such induced accelerometer signals to substantially nullify the induced accelerometer signals.


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