WO1998029749A1 - An accelerometer with a symmetrically bonded proof-mass and method of its fabrication method - Google Patents
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- WO1998029749A1 WO1998029749A1 PCT/KR1996/000278 KR9600278W WO9829749A1 WO 1998029749 A1 WO1998029749 A1 WO 1998029749A1 KR 9600278 W KR9600278 W KR 9600278W WO 9829749 A1 WO9829749 A1 WO 9829749A1
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- G01P15/00—Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration
- G01P15/02—Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration by making use of inertia forces using solid seismic masses
- G01P15/08—Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration by making use of inertia forces using solid seismic masses with conversion into electric or magnetic values
- G01P15/12—Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration by making use of inertia forces using solid seismic masses with conversion into electric or magnetic values by alteration of electrical resistance
- G01P15/123—Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration by making use of inertia forces using solid seismic masses with conversion into electric or magnetic values by alteration of electrical resistance by piezo-resistive elements, e.g. semiconductor strain gauges
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- G01P15/08—Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration by making use of inertia forces using solid seismic masses with conversion into electric or magnetic values
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- G01P—MEASURING LINEAR OR ANGULAR SPEED, ACCELERATION, DECELERATION, OR SHOCK; INDICATING PRESENCE, ABSENCE, OR DIRECTION, OF MOVEMENT
- G01P15/00—Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration
- G01P15/02—Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration by making use of inertia forces using solid seismic masses
- G01P15/08—Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration by making use of inertia forces using solid seismic masses with conversion into electric or magnetic values
- G01P2015/0805—Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration by making use of inertia forces using solid seismic masses with conversion into electric or magnetic values being provided with a particular type of spring-mass-system for defining the displacement of a seismic mass due to an external acceleration
- G01P2015/0822—Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration by making use of inertia forces using solid seismic masses with conversion into electric or magnetic values being provided with a particular type of spring-mass-system for defining the displacement of a seismic mass due to an external acceleration for defining out-of-plane movement of the mass
- G01P2015/0825—Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration by making use of inertia forces using solid seismic masses with conversion into electric or magnetic values being provided with a particular type of spring-mass-system for defining the displacement of a seismic mass due to an external acceleration for defining out-of-plane movement of the mass for one single degree of freedom of movement of the mass
- G01P2015/0828—Measuring acceleration; Measuring deceleration; Measuring shock, i.e. sudden change of acceleration by making use of inertia forces using solid seismic masses with conversion into electric or magnetic values being provided with a particular type of spring-mass-system for defining the displacement of a seismic mass due to an external acceleration for defining out-of-plane movement of the mass for one single degree of freedom of movement of the mass the mass being of the paddle type being suspended at one of its longitudinal ends
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- the present invention relates to a cantilever beam accelerometer and its fabrication, and particularly to a cantilever beam microaccelerometer symmetrically bonded proof-mass and its fabrication method to increase fabrication ability, the accuracy of the size and simplability of the design.
- micromachined silicon accelerometers for applications to automotive electronic systems, such as airbag, anti-lock braking system, active suspension, electronic steering and guidance systems.
- airbag accelerometers open the most immediate and the large market, whose demand for high sensitivity, high reliability, low cost and mass production cannot be met easily by conventional electromechanical sensor technology.
- piezoresistive silicon accelerometers shows a strong potential due to simple detection circuitry and low cost for moderate performance characteristics.
- conventional cantilever beam microaccelerometer fabricated of the unique and homogeneuous silicon plate and its fabrication method to have a beam and proof mass can be classified 3 types as follows.
- Fig la shows conventional unsymmetrical microaccelerometers which includes a cantilever 2, a proof mass 1, and a support 9, all of which are integrally formed on the one side of the plate.
- a piezoresistive material 3 for detecting acceleration 3
- self-diagnostic resistors for determining whether the cantilever 2 is damaged or not
- a lead wire 14 14.
- Fig lb shows a conventional symmetrical accelerometer.
- the symmetrical accelerometer includes a cantilever 2, a support 9 which is symmetrically formed with respect to the cantilever 2 at one end of the cantilever 2, and a proof mass 1 which is also symmetrically formed with respect to the cantilever 2 at the other end of the cantilever.
- a piezoresistive material 3, self-diagnostic resistors, and a lead wire 14 on the plane of the cantilever.
- Fig. lc is still to show a conventional accelerometer, in which a proof- mass 1 is symmetrically assembled on a cantilever 2.
- a support 9 is formed on the same plane as that of the cantilever, and the piezoresistive material 3, the self-diagnostic resistors and the lead wire 14 are mounted on the plane..
- the conventional cantilever type accelerometers have an advantage of having more sensitive to acceleration as well as less sensitive to packaging induced and thermally induced stresses.
- the unsymmetrical cantilever type accelerator shown in Fig. la has a drawback in that relatively large transverse sensitivity caused by the offset between the weight-center of the proof mass and that of the beam.
- the symmetrical accelerometer illustrated in Fig. lb solves the transverse sensitivity problem, but makes it difficult to install piezoresistor 3, self-diagnostic resistors 4 and electric circuit 14 on the highly stressed area in the accelerometer.
- the object of the present invention is to provides a method of fabricating a cantilever microaccelerometer with a symmerically bonded proof mass comprised of processes: integrally fabricating a cantilever, a lower proof mass and a support on the one side of the unique and homogeneuous silicon plate so as to easily install a piezoresistive material for detecting acceleration, self diagnostic resistors for determining whether the cantilever is damaged or not, and a lead wire on the other side of the plate unfabricated; bonding a upper proof mass which is same material and size as those of the lower proof mass on the unfabricated side of the plate for the total prooof mass being symmetrically arranged with the respect to the cantilever and mass offset being not occured; and cutting an unit cantilever microaccrometer from the series of the microaccrometer fabricated according to the process described above by etching method so that the accuracy of the size and simplicity of design can be increased.
- the other object of the present invention is to provides a cantilever microaccelerometer comprised of: a lower portion having a cantilever, a lower proof mass and a support which are integrally formed on one side of the unique and homogeneuous silicon plate so as to easily install a piezoresistive material for detecting acceleration, self-diagnostic resistors for determining whether the cantilever is damaged or not, and a lead wire on the other side of the plate unfabricated; and an upper portion includes a upper proof mass which is same material and size as those of the lower proof mass and symmetically bonded on the unfabricated plane of the plate with respect to the cantilever.
- the cantilever microaccelerometer according to the present invention can process yield, chip size and reproducibility of the accelerometer, while solving the transverse sensitivity problem of the cantilever accelerometers as well as accommodating a self-diagnostic resistor for detecting structural failure of microbeam.
- the cantilever microaccelerometer according to the present invention can be applied to automobile electronics systems, as well as to consumer electronics, and industrial eletrical measurement system etc..
- Fig. la is a sectional view illustrating a conventional cantilever accelerometer with an unsymmetrical proof -mass
- Fig. lb is a sectional view illustrating another conventional cantilever accelerometer with a symmetrical proof-mass
- Fig. lc is a sectional view illustrating still another conventional cantilever accelerometer with a separate proof-mass
- Fig Id is a sectional view illustrating a cantilever accelerometer according to a first embodiment of the present invention
- Fig. 2 is a perspective view illustrating a cantilever accelerometer according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention in a piezoresistive measuring manner;
- Figs. 3a through 3e are sectional views for showing the steps for fabricating the cantilever accelerometer depicted in Fig. 2;
- Fig 4a is a top view illustrating a cantilever accelerometer according to a second embodiment of the present invention
- Fig 4b is a sectional view illustrating a cantilever accelerometer according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
- Fig. 5 is a sectional view illustrating a cantilever accelerometer according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention in a piezoresistive measuring manner.
- the cantilever microaccelerometer according to the present invention is composed of a lower portion having a cantilever 2, a lower proof mass lb and a support 9 which are integrally formed on one side of the unique and homogeneuous silicon plate so as to easily install a piezoresistive material 3 for detecting acceleration, self-diagnostic resistors 4 for determining whether the cantilever is damaged or not, and a lead wire 14 on the other side of the plate unfabricated; and an upper portion includes a upper proof mass la which is same material and size as those of the lower proof mass and symmetically bonded on the unfabricated plane of the plate with respect to the cantilever 2.
- Fig 2 shows a preferred embodiment of the present invention in a piezoresistive measuring manner, which the cantilever 2, the upper and lower mass la. lb, self-diagnostic resistors 4 for determining whether the cantilever is damaged or not , and the support 9 are mounted.
- the cantilever beam 2 in Fig 2 acts as spring where the mass la, lb and the drag force of the fluid around the mass la, lb acts as damper respectively.
- the magnitude of the acceleration z a of the support 9 can be measured from the magnitude of the relative displacement Z, that is the deflection of the mass.
- Fig 2 and 3 show an example of the implementation of the accelerometer based on above principle with piezoresistive detection of the deflection from the stress at the end of the beam.
- the piezoresistive material 3 represents the stress caused by the deflection of the beam as the change of the electro resistance.
- the desired resonant frequency ⁇ n can be obtained by controlling the size of the proof mass and the beam, and the desired damping ratio ⁇ can be obtained by controlling the viscosity and the pressure of the fluid around the mass la, lb.
- the upper proof mass la is symmetrically bonded to the lower proof mass lb, thus the offset of the total mass is eliminated and the transverse sensitivity is improved.
- the piezoresistive material 3, self diagnosis 4, electric circuit 14 and electrodes 5, 6 can be easily installed on the unfabricatd of the plate.
- a piezoeletric material can be mounted instead of the piezoresistive material depicted in Fig 2 and Fig 3.
- flat plates 16a, 16b having flat electrodes 17a, 17b respectively are mounted on both sides of the microaccelerometer in accordance with the present invention through an upper insert plate 18a and a lower insert plate 18b, a capacity type accelerometer which measures the displacement of the proof mass 1 caused by acceleration as change of electrostatic capacity and a piezoelecric accelerometer which measures the displacement of the proof mass 1 as voltage generated piezoelectric material can be constituted.
- Fig 3 shows an example of fabrication steps for fabricating the cantilever accelerometer depicted in Fig. 2 by using silicon as a substrated material. Detailed description are as follows.
- the piezoresitive material 3 As the beam 2 and the lower proof mass lb are fabricated on one 5 side of the plate material, the piezoresitive material 3, the self diagnosis 4, electric circuit 14 and electrodes 5, 6 are easily mounted on the flat plane unfabricated.
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PCT/KR1996/000278 WO1998029749A1 (en) | 1996-12-31 | 1996-12-31 | An accelerometer with a symmetrically bonded proof-mass and method of its fabrication method |
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JP10529883A JP2000510244A (en) | 1996-12-31 | 1996-12-31 | Symmetric joint mass type acceleration member and method of manufacturing the same |
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