Invention Grant
US07669475B2 System and method for measuring rotational movement about an axis
有权
用于测量围绕轴的旋转运动的系统和方法
- Patent Title: System and method for measuring rotational movement about an axis
- Patent Title (中): 用于测量围绕轴的旋转运动的系统和方法
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Application No.: US11764558Application Date: 2007-06-18
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Publication No.: US07669475B2Publication Date: 2010-03-02
- Inventor: Felix Goldenberg , Ryan Nielsen
- Applicant: Felix Goldenberg , Ryan Nielsen
- Applicant Address: US MN Burnsville
- Assignee: Rosemount Aerospace Inc.
- Current Assignee: Rosemount Aerospace Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Burnsville
- Agency: Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP
- Main IPC: G01P9/04
- IPC: G01P9/04

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a micro-gyro device for measuring rotational movement about an input axis includes a driving element generating a driving signal. A MEMS gyro includes a motor rotor and a motor assembly. The motor rotor receives the driving signal and oscillates about a motor axis at a frequency determined as a function of the driving signal. The motor assembly oscillates around a rate axis, which is orthogonal to the motor axis, as a function of the frequency of the motor rotor oscillation. A capacitance of the motor assembly changes as a function of the oscillation of the motor assembly. Driving element feedback circuitry, including a first band-pass filter, is between the motor rotor and the driving element. The driving element feedback circuitry causes the driving element to generate the driving signal as a function of an amplitude of the motor rotor oscillation for maintaining the amplitude of the motor rotor oscillation within a predetermined range. Output circuitry, including a second band-pass filter, produces an output signal as a function of the changing capacitance of the motor assembly. The first and second band-pass filters have central frequency phase characteristics not exceeding about 0.1°/Hz.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080121054A1 MEMS GYROSCOPE Public/Granted day:2008-05-29
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