Patent attributes
The invention relates to a differential accelerometer micromachined in a plane plate, comprising a base and a differential measurement cell which includes a moveable seismic mass and two force sensors that are connected to the mass and to the base. Under the effect of an acceleration along Ox and/or Oy, Ox and Oy being directions orthogonal to the plane of the plate, the seismic mass is capable of undergoing linear displacement along a direction parallel to the acceleration, and has a center of gravity located at the intersection of a plane A1 perpendicular to the plane of the plate and passing through Ox and of a plane A2 perpendicular to the plane of the plate and passing through Oy; a first force sensor comprises, along Ox, two identical detection systems for a differential measurement of the linear displacement along Ox, and associated with each detection system a filtering system connected to the base, and a second force sensor comprises, along Oy, two other identical detection systems for the differential measurement of the linear displacement along Oy, and associated with each detection system a filtering system connected to the base, each filtering system allowing the associated detection system to move along a direction perpendicular to that of its detection without permitting it to move along its detection direction.
