Abstract: Funds are used on the basis of carefully made forecasts and continue to be used unchanged for a respective prescribed period of time which is shortened only if a prescribed opportunity for realizing a profit arises.

Abstract: A micromechanical structure, particularly for an acceleration sensor, includes a substrate, which has an anchoring device, and a centrifugal mass, which is connected to the anchoring device via a flexible spring device, so that the centrifugal mass is elastically deflectable from its rest position. The centrifugal mass has an oblong convex form and is essentially rotationally symmetric in relation to the longitudinal axis. The centrifugal mass optionally has a widening at both longitudinal ends, to which the flexible spring device is attached.

Abstract: A micromechanical spring structure, in particular for a rotation rate sensor, includes a first and a second cooperating elastic bar, segments of which run largely parallel to each other and segments of which are coupled with one another. The first and second elastic bars have a common curved area in which they are coupled with one another by a connecting area. A first transitional area to the connecting area, located between the first and second elastic bars, forms a largely smooth curve.

Abstract: A sensor, composed of a multilayer substrate, having a first semiconductor layer in which at least one spring element is configured using patterning, the spring element having two arms running essentially parallel to each other and joining to each other at one end segment, the first arm being mounted on a support block and the second arm being joined to a mass that is movable with respect to the support block, in order to avoid a fracture of the spring elements in response to powerful deflections perpendicular to the semiconductor layer. The at least one spring element is configured so that the end segments of the arms in the longitudinal direction of the arms in the plane of the semiconductor layer are directed so as to be initially bent away from each other and then so as to be bent towards each other, joining each other in a central bent area.

Abstract: A micromechanical component, in particular an acceleration sensor, having a seismic mass which is resiliently supported on a substrate via a cantilever spring device and which can be deflected by an acceleration in at least one direction, it being possible for the deflection of the seismic mass to be limited by a first limit limit stop device and the cantilever spring device being attached at the side of the seismic mass. A second limit limit stop device for limiting a bending of the cantilever spring device is provided which prevents the cantilever spring device from sticking to adjacent parts in the case of overload accelerations.