Patent ID: 7152473

Claim:
An integrated sensor apparatus comprising: a sensor module including: (a) a housing including a cavity, one or more parallel planar surfaces, a bottom surface of the cavity, a bottom exterior surface, a top exterior surface, one or more side surfaces, one or more bond pads on one or more of the parallel planar surfaces, one or more bond pads on the bottom exterior surface, one or more bond pads on the top exterior surface, and one or more bond pads on one or more of the side surfaces; (b) a plurality of sensor packages coupled to a substrate in the housing having slots for receiving the sensor packages, each sensor package having an axis of sensitivity positioned in a different spatial direction; wherein each sensor package has a sensor in the cavity, the sensor resiliently coupled to the housing with at least one coupling and at least one bumper slidingly supporting the sensor; and (c) a controller coupled to the housing for controlling the sensor module.