{"title":"Design considerations and realization of a novel micromechanical bi-stable switch","authors":"M. Freudenreich, U. Mescheder, G. Somogyi","doi":"10.1109/SENSOR.2003.1216960","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A new concept for a micro mechanical bi-stable switch is presented. The bi-stability is achieved by a mechanically pre-stressed toggle-lever. Using FEM (ANSYS) the design of the switch has been optimised for symmetrical switching behaviour, large stroke and low mechanical stress throughout the structure. An analytical model of the bi-stable switch has been developed which gives similar results as the FEM calculations. With a stroke of about 100 /spl mu/m the switch can be utilized for fibre switching.","PeriodicalId":196104,"journal":{"name":"TRANSDUCERS '03. 12th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems. Digest of Technical Papers (Cat. No.03TH8664)","volume":"129 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2003-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"TRANSDUCERS '03. 12th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems. Digest of Technical Papers (Cat. No.03TH8664)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SENSOR.2003.1216960","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A new concept for a micro mechanical bi-stable switch is presented. The bi-stability is achieved by a mechanically pre-stressed toggle-lever. Using FEM (ANSYS) the design of the switch has been optimised for symmetrical switching behaviour, large stroke and low mechanical stress throughout the structure. An analytical model of the bi-stable switch has been developed which gives similar results as the FEM calculations. With a stroke of about 100 /spl mu/m the switch can be utilized for fibre switching.