Patent ID: 9696156
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G01C,H01L

Claim:
1. A vibrating element comprising: a base; and a drive vibrating arm and a detection vibrating arm extending from the base, wherein the drive vibrating arm has a principal surface parallel to a plane in which the drive vibrating arm vibrates with a drive signal, and an adjustment film is provided on the principal surface adjacent to the base, a portion of the adjustment film extending onto a portion of a principal surface of the base, and a weight portion is provided on an end of the drive vibrating arm opposite to the base, wherein an adjusted mass of the weight portion corrects the frequency of in-plane vibration of the drive vibrating arm and the frequency of out-of-plane vibration of the drive vibrating arm, and the adjustment film adjusts the frequency of out-of-plane vibration of the drive vibrating arm.