Inertial measurement unit
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsJun Watanabe, Kenta Sato
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Abstract
An inertial measurement unit includes: a sensor unit having an inertial sensor; and a first holding unit holding the sensor unit. The first holding unit includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; a plurality of spacers coupling the sensor unit and the first substrate; a first elastic member and a second elastic member provided on both sides of the first substrate via opening parts; a first fixing member penetrating, pressing and fixing the first substrate and the first elastic member to the second substrate; and a second fixing member penetrating, pressing and fixing the first substrate and the second elastic member to the second substrate.
Claims9
An inertial measurement unit comprising:
- a sensor unit having an inertial sensor therein;
- a first substrate disposed below the sensor unit, a top surface of the first substrate facing a bottom surface of the sensor unit, the first substrate having a first plurality of openings therein, first, second, third, and fourth openings of the first plurality of openings being located at four corners of a virtual rectangle on the first substrate;
- a first plurality of spacers located at an outermost periphery of the top surface of the first substrate and coupling the sensor unit and the first substrate together;
- a second substrate disposed below the first substrate, a top surface of the second substrate facing a bottom surface of the first substrate;
- four attaching magnets disposed on a bottom surface of the second substrate and attaching the inertial measurement unit to a measurement target;
- a first elastic member provided on both the top and bottom surfaces of the first substrate via the first opening;
- a second elastic member provided on both the top and bottom surfaces of the first substrate via the second opening;
- a third elastic member provided on both the top and bottom surfaces of the first substrate via the third opening;
- a fourth elastic member provided on both the top and bottom surfaces of the first substrate via the fourth opening;
- a first fixing member penetrating, pressing and fixing the first substrate and the first elastic member to the second substrate via the first opening;
- a second fixing member penetrating, pressing and fixing the first substrate and the second elastic member to the second substrate via the second opening;
- a third fixing member penetrating, pressing and fixing the first substrate and the third elastic member to the second substrate via the third opening;
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- a fourth fixing member penetrating, pressing and fixing the first substrate and the fourth elastic member to the second substrate via the fourth opening,
- wherein each of the first, second, third, and fourth elastic members has a first part arranged between the sensor unit and the first substrate, a second part located between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a third part coupled to the second part and located inside one of the first, second, third, and fourth openings,
- a distance between the bottom surface of the sensor unit and the top surface of the first substrate is larger than a distance between the bottom surface of the first substrate and the top surface of the second substrate,
- first and second magnets of the four attaching magnets are respectively located adjacent to the first and second openings in a plan view,
- third and fourth magnets of the four attaching magnets are respectively located adjacent to the third and fourth openings in the plan view, and
- the first, second, third, and fourth elastic members completely overlap the sensor unit in the plan view.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.