Acceleration sensor

US5734107A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Herbert Boehm · Wannweil, DE
• Ulrich Goebel · Hattersheim, DE
• Franz Schmich · Pfullingen, DE
• Gerald Hopf · Reutlingen, DE
• Roland Feucht · Annweiler am Trifels, DE
• Albert-Andreas Hoebel · Reutlingen, DE
• Botho Ziegenbein · Reutlingen, DE
• Bernd Maihoefer · Simpsonville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 28, 1996
• Grant date: Mar 31, 1998
• Expiry date: Jun 28, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T29/49103
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An acceleration sensor having a piezoelectric sensor element, which is supported as a flexural resonator in a holding module and whose electrodes are connected to an evaluation circuit. The holding module mechanically fixes the sensor element in position and provides, at the same time, for its electrical contacting.