Patent ID: 8746033

Claim:
An angular velocity sensor, comprising: first and second vibrators which are elastically and displaceably supported on a substrate; a driving means which differentially vibrates mutually the first and second vibrators in the drive axis direction horizontal to the substrate surface; and a displacement detecting means in the detection axis direction, which detects a displacement of the first and second vibrators in the detection axis direction perpendicular to the drive axis direction, wherein the angular velocity sensor further comprises: first and second self-vibration detecting means which detect the self-vibrations of the first and second vibrators, which are generated due to leakage in the detection axis direction of the vibrations of the first and second vibrators in the drive axis direction and are comprised of a synchronous detection circuit for synchronously detecting the output of the displacement detecting means in the detection axis direction by a signal according to the vibrations of the vibrators in the drive axis direction, and an integration circuit for integrating the output of the synchronous detection circuit; first and second feedback circuits which completely cancel the self-vibrations of the first and second vibrators; an arithmetic means which performs predetermined calculation according to the outputs of a pair of the integration circuits; and an abnormality determining means which determines abnormality according to the output of the arithmetic means.