Patent ID: 9303994
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: G01C

Claim Text:
1. An inertial rotation rate sensor comprising: (a) a lower substrate; (b) a device layer substantially parallel to said lower substrate, said device layer comprising: (c) an actuator deployed for exciting oscillatory motion of said first resonator, referred to as the excitation resonator; and (d) a position pickoff deployed for sensing a current position of said second resonator, referred to as the Coriolis resonator, such that, when said excitation resonator is driven via said actuator in an oscillatory motion, said oscillatory motion combines with an inertial rotation rate around a rotation axis to generate a Coriolis force acting on said at least two masses to excite the first mode of said Coriolis resonator, thereby allowing derivation of the inertial rotation rate about the rotation axis, wherein said first plurality of compliant members comprises two spaced-apart parallel beams integrated at a central region of said parallel beams with said support region and integrated at extremities of said parallel beams with said frame.