Sensor device for detecting at least one rotation rate of a rotating motion

US8695424B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG · DE

Inventors

• Bernhard Schmid · Friedberg, DE
• Roland Burghardt · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Jörg Heimel · Ingelheim am Rhein, DE
• Otmar Simon · Linden, DE
• Roland Hilser · Kirchheim unter Teck, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 11, 2009
• Grant date: Apr 15, 2014
• Expiry date: Jan 25, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01C19/5755
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In order to be able to perform redundant measurements of rotation rates particularly economically, disclosed herein is a sensor device which includes a dual-axis, first rotation rate sensor element with which rotation rates of rotating motions of the sensor device about a first and a second rotation rate measurement axis can be detected, wherein the first and the second rotation rate measurement axes are oriented orthogonally in relation to one another. The sensor device is defined by the fact that the sensor device includes at least one other rotation rate sensor element with which a rotation rate of a rotating motion of the sensor device about a rotation rate measurement axis, which lies in a plane together with the first and the second rotation rate measurement axes, can be deselected.