Acceleration sensor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11112423-B2
Application number	US-201916391618-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 23, 2019
Priority date	Jun 21, 2018
Publication date	Sep 7, 2021
Grant date	Sep 7, 2021

Abstract

The disclosure discloses an acceleration sensor, where the acceleration sensor comprises: a housing, and a mass block in the housing and connected with the housing via at least two hanging beams, where an auxiliary buffer component is further provided between the mass block and a bottom surface of the housing, and an elastic coefficient of the auxiliary buffer component decreases as force applied thereon increases.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An acceleration sensor, comprising:
a housing;
a mass block in the housing and connected with the housing via at least two hanging beams;
and an auxiliary buffer component between the mass block and a bottom surface of the housing;
wherein an elastic coefficient of the auxiliary buffer component decreases as force applied thereon increases;
wherein a filter frequency of the acceleration sensor decreases as the force applied thereon increases;
wherein the auxiliary buffer component comprises a shear-thinning non-Newtonian fluid, and an elastic outer wall surrounding the shear-thinning non-Newtonian fluid.

2. The acceleration sensor according to claim 1 , wherein a material of the shear-thinning non-Newtonian fluid is a polyacrylamide or a polyvinyl acetal that is at least partially hydrolyzed.

3. The acceleration sensor according to claim 1 , wherein a material of the elastic outer wall is a rubber.

4. The acceleration sensor according to claim 1 , wherein holding bases for limiting a position of the auxiliary buffer component are provided on the bottom surface of the housing and a surface of the mass block facing the auxiliary buffer component.

5. The acceleration sensor according to claim 4 , wherein each of the holding bases shapes as an annulus and is sleeved at an outer side of the auxiliary buffer component.

6. The acceleration sensor according to claim 5 , wherein a groove is provided at an inner side of at least one of the holding bases; a protrusion is provided on the auxiliary buffer component at a position in contact with the at least one of the holding bases; and the protrusion of the auxiliary buffer component is tightly clamped with the groove of the at least one of the holding bases.

7. The acceleration sensor according to claim 4 , wherein the holding bases are fixedly connected with the housing and the mass block via an adhesive.

8. The acceleration sensor according to claim 7 , wherein the adhesive is an epoxy resin.

9. The acceleration sensor according to claim 4 , wherein two end surfaces of the auxiliary buffer component come into contact with the bottom surface of the housing and a lower end surface of the mass block, respectively; wherein the lower end surface of the mass block is a surface of the mass block facing the auxiliary buffer component.

10. The acceleration sensor according to claim 9 , wherein the lower end surface of the mass block completely covers an end surface, in contact with the lower end surface of the mass block, of the auxiliary buffer component.

11. The acceleration sensor according to claim 1 , wherein each of the at least two hanging beams is an elastic hanging beam of a strip shape.

12. The acceleration sensor according to claim 1 , wherein a surface of each of the at least two hanging beams is attached with a piezoelectric strip.

13. The acceleration sensor according to claim 12 , wherein the at least two hanging beams comprise four hanging beams, wherein two of the four hanging beams extend in a direction parallel to a first direction, the other two of the four hanging beams extend in a direction parallel to a second direction, and the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction.

14. The acceleration sensor according to claim 1 , wherein each of the at least two hanging beams is connected with an end surface of the mass block facing away from the auxiliary buffer component.

15. The acceleration sensor according to claim 1 , wherein each of the at least two hanging beams is connected with an end surface of the mass block facing the auxiliary buffer component.

16. The acceleration sensor according to claim 1 , wherein a shape of the auxiliary buffer component is a cylinder, a rectangle or a square.

17. The acceleration sensor according to claim 1 , wherein a shape of the mass block is a square.

18. The acceleration sensor according to claim 1 , wherein the housing is further provided with a support body fixed to an inner side wall of the housing, and the at least two hanging beams are fixed to the support body to thereby be connected with the inner side wall of the housing.

19. The acceleration sensor according to claim 1 , wherein the bottom surface of the housing is a surface that is perpendicular to a vibration direction of the mass block when the acceleration sensor is under impact.

Assignees

• Beijing Boe Optoelectronics Tech Co Ltd
• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Han Yongjie
• Dou Shuqian
• Fu Xiaoliang
• Tian Ting
• Zhou Dayong
• Fan Zhiqiang
• Zhang Yawen
• Yang Youcai
• Zhang Dong
• Wang Zhongjun
• Liu Yu

Classifications

• G01P15/123

  by piezo-resistive elements, e.g. semiconductor strain gauges · CPC title

• G01P1/023

  for acceleration measuring devices · CPC title

• G01F1/00

  Measuring the volume flow or mass flow of fluid or fluent solid material wherein the fluid passes through a meter in a continuous flow (measuring a proportion of the volume flow G01F5/00) · CPC title

• G01P15/006

  by making use of fluid seismic masses · CPC title

• G01P15/09 Primary

  by piezoelectric pick-up · CPC title