Patent ID: 7986073

Claim:
A micro electro mechanical system, comprising: a stator structure comprising a first electrically conductive surface area that is electrically coupled to a first bondpad; a rotor structure comprising: a second electrically conductive surface area that is electrically coupled to a second bondpad and is part of a first side of the rotor structure, a first torsional hinge extending out of a second side of the rotor structure and is mechanically coupled to the stator structure, a second torsional hinge extending out of a third side, which is opposite the second side, of the rotor structure and is mechanically coupled to the stator structure, wherein the first and second torsional hinges are collinear and define an axis of rotation around which the rotor structure rotates, and a first snapping tab extending out of a fourth side of the rotor structure comprising a third electrically conductive surface area that is electrically coupled to the second bondpad; and a first aperture comprising a fourth electrically conductive surface area that is electrically coupled to the second bondpad, wherein the third electrically conductive surface area of the first snapping tab makes both an electrical and a mechanical contact with the fourth electrically conductive surface area of the first aperture when the rotor structure rotates from a first position to a second position due to a first electrostatic force that is produced between the first and second electrically conductive surface areas using a first voltage potential that is applied between the first and second bondpads.