Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Mechanical low pass filter for motion sensors
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Application No.: US15210838Application Date: 2016-07-14
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Publication No.: US10345330B2Publication Date: 2019-07-09
- Inventor: Kuan-Lin Chen , Yun-Ju Lai
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: G01P1/00
- IPC: G01P1/00 ; G01P15/00 ; G01P15/08 ; G01C19/5783 ; B81B7/00

Abstract:
Mechanical low pass filters for motion sensors and methods for making the same are disclosed. In an implementation, a motion sensor package comprises: a substrate; one or more viscous dampers formed on the substrate; one or more mechanically compliant metal springs formed on the substrate; and a sensor stack attached to the one or more metal springs, the sensor stack overlying the one or more viscous dampers and forming a gap between the sensor stack and the one or more viscous dampers and channels between the one or more viscous dampers and metal springs, wherein the one or more metal springs and the one or more viscous dampers provide a mechanical suspension system having a resonant frequency that is higher than a sensing bandwidth of a motion sensor in the sensor stack and lower than a resonant frequency of the motion sensor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170089943A1 Mechanical Low Pass Filter for Motion Sensors Public/Granted day:2017-03-30
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