Patents by Inventor Luca Coronato

Luca Coronato has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20100158280
    Abstract: A MEMS acoustic transducer, for example, a microphone, includes a substrate provided with a cavity, a supporting structure, fixed to the substrate, a membrane having a perimetral edge and a centroid, suspended above the cavity and fixed to the substrate the membrane configured to oscillate via the supporting structure. The supporting structure includes a plurality of anchorage elements fixed to the membrane, and each anchorage element is coupled to a respective portion of the membrane between the centroid and the perimetral edge of the membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Luca Coronato, Sarah Zerbini, Angelo Antonio Merassi
  • Publication number: 20100126272
    Abstract: An integrated microelectromechanical structure is provided with: a driving mass, anchored to a substrate via elastic anchorage elements and moved in a plane with a driving movement; and a first sensing mass, suspended inside, and coupled to, the driving mass via elastic supporting elements so as to be fixed with respect to the driving mass in the driving movement and to perform a detection movement of rotation out of the plane in response to a first angular velocity; the elastic anchorage elements and the elastic supporting elements cause the detection movement to be decoupled from the driving movement. The elastic supporting elements are coupled to the first sensing mass at an end portion thereof, and the axis of rotation of the detection movement extends, within the first sensing mass, only through the end portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Luca Coronato, Gabriele Cazzaniga, Sarah Zerbini
  • Publication number: 20100126269
    Abstract: An integrated microelectromechanical structure is provided with: a die, having a substrate and a frame, defining inside it a detection region and having a first side extending along a first axis; a driving mass, anchored to the substrate, set in the detection region, and designed to be rotated in a plane with a movement of actuation about a vertical axis; and a first pair and a second pair of first sensing masses, suspended inside the driving mass via elastic supporting elements so as to be fixed with respect thereto in the movement of actuation and so as to perform a detection movement of rotation out of the plane in response to a first angular velocity; wherein the first sensing masses of the first pair and the first sensing masses of the second pair are aligned in respective directions, having non-zero inclinations of opposite sign with respect to the first axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Luca Coronato, Gabriele Cazzaniga, Sarah Zerbini
  • Publication number: 20100078740
    Abstract: An embodiment of a microelectromechanical device having a first structural element, a second structural element, which is mobile with respect to the first structural element, and an elastic supporting structure, which extends between the first and second structural elements to enable a relative movement between the first and second structural elements. The microelectromechanical device moreover possesses an anti-stiction structure, which includes at least one flexible element, which is fixed only with respect to the first structural element and, in a condition of rest, is set at a first distance from the second structural element. The anti-stiction structure is designed to generate a repulsive force between the first and second structural elements in the case of relative movement by an amount greater than the first distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Gabriele CAZZANIGA, Luca CORONATO
  • Publication number: 20090100930
    Abstract: A driving mass of an integrated microelectromechanical structure is moved with a rotary motion about an axis of rotation, and a sensing mass is connected to the driving mass via elastic supporting elements so as to perform a detection movement in the presence of an external stress. The driving mass is anchored to an anchorage arranged along the axis of rotation by elastic anchorage elements. An opening is provided within the driving mass and the sensing mass is arranged within the opening. The elastic supporting and anchorage elements render the sensing mass fixed to the driving mass in the rotary motion, and substantially decoupled from the driving mass in the detection movement. The detection movement is a rotation about an axis lying in a plane. The sensing mass has, in plan view, a non-rectangular shape; in particular, the sensing mass has a radial geometry and, in plan view, the overall shape of a radial annulus sector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Luca Coronato, Alessandro Balzelli Ludovico, Sarah Zerbini
  • Publication number: 20090064780
    Abstract: A driving mass of an integrated microelectromechanical structure is moved with a rotary motion about an axis of rotation, and a sensing mass is connected to the driving mass via elastic supporting elements so as to perform a detection movement in the presence of an external stress. The driving mass is anchored to a first anchorage arranged along the axis of rotation by first elastic anchorage elements. The driving mass is also coupled to a pair of further anchorages positioned externally thereof and coupled to opposite sides with respect to the first anchorage by further elastic anchorage elements; the elastic supporting elements and the first and further elastic anchorage elements render the driving mass fixed to the first sensing mass in the rotary motion, and substantially decoupled from the sensing mass in the detection movement, the detection movement being a rotation about an axis lying in a plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Luca Coronato, Alessandro Balzelli Ludovico, Sarah Zerbini