Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Physical quantity sensor, pressure sensor, altimeter, electronic apparatus, and moving object
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Application No.: US14820716Application Date: 2015-08-07
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Publication No.: US09645027B2Publication Date: 2017-05-09
- Inventor: Kazuya Hayashi , Shoichi Nagamatsu , Junichi Takeuchi , Takuya Kinugawa
- Applicant: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2014-164066 20140812
- Main IPC: G01L9/00
- IPC: G01L9/00 ; G01C5/06 ; G01L19/14

Abstract:
A physical quantity sensor includes a substrate that has a recess that is open toward one side of the substrate, a diaphragm that has a bottom of the recess as part of the diaphragm and undergoes bending deformation under pressure, a piezoresistance device that is disposed in the diaphragm, a coating layer that faces the diaphragm via a cavity, and wiring layers that are disposed between the substrate and the coating layer, and form, along with the substrate and the coating layer, the cavity. Each of the wiring layers contains a metal, and in a plan view, a circumferential edge of the bottom of the recess is closer to the center of the diaphragm than a substrate-side end of an inner wall surface of one of the wiring layers.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160047704A1 PHYSICAL QUANTITY SENSOR, PRESSURE SENSOR, ALTIMETER, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MOVING OBJECT Public/Granted day:2016-02-18
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