Optics and Precision Engineering, Volume. 17, Issue 6, 1257(2009)

LOW-g micro inertial switch based on Archimedes′spiral

CHEN Guang-yan*... WU Jia-li, ZHAO Long and WANG Chao |Show fewer author(s)
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    The low-g inertial switch is a kind of inertial device sensitive to the linear acceleration and achieves the switch closure when subjects to the applied acceleration。Due to its micro size,the switch is designed as a structure with the micro mass and low stiffness. To achieve a low stiffness beam in a micro plane,the planar spiral beam based on Archimedes′spiral is designed. The inertial switch is composed of a substrate,a frame structure,a cover plate and an inertial sensing element containing a sensor mass and a spiral beam.After analysing the inertial sensing element with an ANSYS and fabricating with an UV-LIGA,the laboratory centrifuge tests are performed on the low-g inertial switch to measure the on-state threshold. The result of the test is 21.27g,which is the average of 21.22,21.39,and 21.20g. It is shown that the low-g mechanical inertial switch has a closed precision of 0.5g and good repeatability in multiple tests.

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    CHEN Guang-yan, WU Jia-li, ZHAO Long, WANG Chao. LOW-g micro inertial switch based on Archimedes′spiral[J]. Optics and Precision Engineering, 2009, 17(6): 1257

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    Received: Jan. 20, 2009

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Aug. 28, 2009

    The Author Email: Guang-yan CHEN (cgyiee@126.com)

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