Measuring and testing – Speed – velocity – or acceleration – Angular rate using gyroscopic or coriolis effect
Reexamination Certificate
2008-09-11
2011-11-15
Kwok, Helen C. (Department: 2856)
Measuring and testing
Speed, velocity, or acceleration
Angular rate using gyroscopic or coriolis effect
Reexamination Certificate
active
08056413
ABSTRACT:
A sensor and sensing method capable of full-differential symmetry to minimize bias drift and improve stability of the sensor output. The sensor includes a sensing element, sense electrodes capacitively coupled to the sensing element to generate capacitive outputs that vary in response to the motion of the sensing element, and a differential readout device. The sense electrodes are electrically separable into at least two pairs of differential sense electrodes. The readout device performs a sampling sequence of at least two sampling cycles during which the readout device samples the capacitive outputs of the sense electrodes and produces at least two differential outputs based on the difference between the capacitive outputs within each pair of differential sense electrodes. The readout device then calculates an average of the differential outputs of the sampling sequence to produce an output of the differential readout device, and thereafter repeats the sampling sequence and calculation.
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Evigia Systems Inc.
Hartman Domenica N. S.
Hartman Gary M.
Hartman & Hartman P.C.
Kwok Helen C.
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