Patent ID: 7980145

Claim:
A force measuring device, comprising: a microelectromechanical capacitor comprised of at least one set of two parallel conductor plates; a housing of a non-conductive material to encompass the microelectromechanical capacitor, wherein the housing comprises an upper housing and a lower housing coupled to the upper housing forming a cavity, wherein the non-conductive material is at least one of a silicon-on-insulator, a single crystal silicon wafer, a poly silicon wafer, a polymeric material, and kapton, wherein a solid dielectric is used to fill the cavity between the upper housing and the lower housing; a circuit to measure a capacitance change of the microelectromechanical capacitor based on a deflection of the housing due to a force or a pressure applied to the housing; wherein the capacitance change is associated with at least one of a change in area overlapped by the two parallel conductor plates of a second set of two parallel conductor plates, and a change in distance between a set of two parallel conductor plates of a first set of two parallel conductor plates due to the deflection of the housing; a device dependent to the microelectromechanical capacitor, wherein the device dependent to the microelectromechanical capacitor is at least one of internal and external to the force measuring device; a digitizer module coupled to the circuit to convert the capacitance change to digital data; a compensation module coupled to the circuit to minimize a distortion of the digital data by applying at least one distortion factor to the digital data; a communication module to communicate with the device dependent to the microelectromechanical capacitive through a wired channel or a wireless channel; and a processor to execute a set of instructions associated with the digitizer module, the compensation module, and the communication module.