Patent ID: 8037754

Claim:
A method of constructing an integrated inertial measurement unit, the method comprising the steps of: a) forming a base structure having three mutually orthogonal exterior planar surfaces and a bottom surface, the bottom surface having a central aperture, each of the planar surfaces forming a junction with the bottom surface; b) bridging each of the junctions with a metallization layer comprising a plurality of discrete metallic traces that wrap around the edges of the base structure such that each one of the traces extends from one of the three orthogonal exterior planar surfaces, across the corresponding junction, and onto the bottom surface; c) surface mounting a circuit card assembly on each of the planar surfaces; and d) mounting the bottom surface of the base structure to a support circuit board such that the plurality of discrete metallic traces engages with both the circuit card assembly and the support circuit board, and conductively connects the circuit card assembly to the support circuit board without the use of lead wires.