Electrostatic device, electrostatic device intermediate body and production method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12215019-B2
Application number	US-202017615978-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 19, 2020
Priority date	Jun 6, 2019
Publication date	Feb 4, 2025
Grant date	Feb 4, 2025

Abstract

An electrostatic device includes: a fixed portion, a moveable portion, and an elastically-supporting portion that are formed in a same substrate; and a first glass package and a second glass package that are anodically bonded to each other on one and the other of front and back surfaces of the substrate with the fixed portion and the elastically-supporting portion separated from each other, the second glass package forms a sealed space in which the moveable portion is arranged between the first and second glass packages, an electret is formed at least partially in the fixed portion and the moveable portion, and a first electrode connected to the fixed portion and exposed on an outer surface of the second glass package and a second electrode connected to the elastically-supporting portion and exposed on the outer surface of the second glass package are formed in the second glass package.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electrostatic device comprising:
a fixed portion, a moveable portion, and an elastically-supporting portion that are formed in a substrate, the elastically-supporting portion elastically supporting the moveable portion;
a first glass package having a first peripheral portion that is anodically bonded to a peripheral portion of a first surface of the substrate that includes the fixed portion; and
a second glass package having a second peripheral portion that is anodically bonded to a second surface of the peripheral portion of the substrate that includes the fixed portion, wherein the first and second surfaces are opposite sides of the substrate, wherein the first glass package and the second glass package form a sealed space and the moveable portion is arranged in the sealed space between the first and second glass packages, wherein
the elastically-supporting portion comprises a fixed area that is included in the peripheral portion of the substrate that is bonded to the first glass package and to the second glass package,
the fixed portion and the fixed area are separated by a groove formed in the peripheral portion of the substrate,
at least a part of one of the fixed portion and the moveable portion includes an electret, and
a first electrode connected to the fixed portion and exposed on an outer surface of the second glass package and a second electrode connected to the elastically-supporting portion and exposed on the outer surface of the second glass package are formed in the second glass package.

2. The electrostatic device according to claim 1 , wherein
a fixed electrode is formed in the fixed portion,
a movable electrode facing the fixed electrode is formed in the moveable portion,
the sealed space in which the fixed electrode and the movable electrode are arranged is set to a vacuum state, and
displacement of the moveable portion relative to the fixed portion causes an electrostatic capacitance between the fixed electrode and the movable electrode to change and the electrostatic device generates power.

3. A production method of producing the electrostatic device according to claim 1 , comprising:
forming the fixed portion, the moveable portion, and the elastically-supporting portion in the substrate in an integral state;
stacking the substrate on the first glass package;
applying anodical bonding voltage between the first glass package and the substrate to anodically bond the fixed portion and the elastically-supporting portion to the first glass package;
etching the substrate to separate the fixed portion and the elastically-supporting portion from each other;
stacking the second glass package on the substrate to which the first glass package is anodically bonded;
applying anodical bonding voltage between the elastically-supporting portion and the second glass package while applying electret formation voltage between the elastically-supporting portion and the fixed portion to anodically bond the fixed portion and the elastically-supporting portion to the second glass package and to form the electret; and
forming the first electrode connected to the fixed portion and exposed on the outer surface of the second glass package and the second electrode connected to the moveable portion and exposed on the outer surface of the second glass package.

4. The production method according to claim 3 , wherein the anodical bonding of the fixed portion and the elastically-supporting portion to the second glass package is performed in a vacuum state.

5. The production method according to claim 3 , wherein
a plurality of the first glass packages are formed in a first glass substrate in a non-separated state with a division region arranged between the first glass packages,
a plurality of the second glass packages are formed in a second glass substrate in a non-separated state with a division region arranged between the second glass packages,
a plurality of functional elements each including the fixed portion, the moveable portion, and the elastically-supporting portion are formed in a same substrate in a non-separated state with a division region arranged between the functional elements, and
the substrate to which the first and second glass packages are anodically bonded is divided at the division regions.

6. An electrostatic device intermediate body comprising:
a substrate in which a plurality of device components each including the fixed portion, the moveable portion, and the elastically-supporting portion of the electrostatic device according to claim 1 are integrally formed; and
first and second glass packages that vacuum-package the substrate.

7. A production method comprising performing singulation on the electrostatic device intermediate body according to claim 6 to produce the electrostatic device.

Assignees

• Univ Tokyo
• Saginomiya Seisakusho Inc

Inventors

• Toshiyoshi Hiroshi
• Honma Hiroaki
• Mitsuya Hiroyuki

Classifications

• H02N2/186

  Vibration harvesters · CPC title

• H02N1/08 Primary

  with conductive charge carrier, i.e. capacitor machines · CPC title

• H01G7/02

  Electrets, i.e. having a permanently-polarised dielectric · CPC title

• B81B2203/04

  Electrodes · CPC title

• B81B2203/0353

  Holes · CPC title