MEMS devices include fluid confinement structures on either a fixed part of a substrate and/or on a suspended element. The fluid confinement structures may be configured to confine a viscoelastic fluid in a limited part of a gap between one or more vertical sidewalls of both the fixed part of the substrate and either the suspended element or the drive beam or both the suspended element and drive beam such that one part of the gap is bridged by the fluid and another part of the gap is not, The structures may be configured to prevent flow of the fluid to other parts of the gap.

A movable device includes a light deflector including a movable part rotatable about a predetermined axis; a mount including a pair of stationary parts to which the light deflector is secured; and a substrate attached to an opposite side of a light-deflector side of the mount. The substrate has a through hole between the pair of the stationary parts.

A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device includes a MEMS device body connected to a first mooring portion and a second mooring portion. The MEMS device body further includes a first cantilever and a second cantilever and connected by a spring. The spring is in operable communication with the first cantilever and the second cantilever.

An optical device includes a support portion a movable unit and a pair of torsion bars disposed on both sides of the movable unit on a first axis. The movable unit includes a main body portion, a ring-shaped portion surrounding the main body portion when viewed from a predetermined direction perpendicular to the first axis, two connection portions connecting the main body portion and the ring-shaped portion to each other, and a rib portion provided to the main body portion. Each of the two connection portions includes two connection regions that are separated from each other by a space and the each of the two connection region connects the main body portion and the ring-shaped portion to each other. The rib portion includes four extending portions radially extending between a center of the main body portion and the four connection regions respectively when viewed from the predetermined direction.

Microelectromechanical sensor comprising a fixed part and a mobile part suspended from the fixed part such that the mobile part can move at least in an out-of-plane displacement direction, the fixed part comprising at least first electrodes extending parallel to the displacement direction of the mobile part, the mobile part comprising a seismic mass and at least second electrodes extending parallel to the out-of-plane displacement direction, the first electrodes and the second electrodes being located relative to each other so as to be interdigitated, in which the second electrodes are directly connected to the inertial mass and only part of the face of each mobile electrode is facing an electrode fixed at rest.

The present invention discloses a MEMS chip including a substrate with a back cavity; a capacitance system disposed on the substrate including a back plate, a membrane opposite to the back plate forming an inner cavity; a protruding portion accommodated in the inner cavity, fixed on one of the back plate and the membrane and spaced apart from the other along a vibration direction; a support system configured to support the capacitance system, including a first fixation portion suspending the membrane on the substrate, and a second fixation portion suspending the back plate on the substrate; the protruding portion comprises an annular first protruding portion and an annular second protruding portion surrounding the first protruding portion. The MEMS chip has higher sensitivity, higher resonance frequency and higher low frequency property.

An optical filter device (1000) includes: a first mirror (101) transmitting portion of incident light; a second mirror (201) spaced apart from the first mirror (101), and transmitting portion of the incident light; actuators (300) driving the first mirror (101) to change a space between the first mirror (101) and the second mirror (201); and a detection electrode (400) detecting displacement of the first mirror (101). The detection electrode (400) includes: a movable comb electrode (410) including movable combs (414) and connected to the first mirror (101); and a stationary comb electrode (420) including stationary combs (424) facing the movable combs (414) in parallel with each other. The movable combs (414) are displaced in parallel with the stationary combs (424) when the movable comb electrode (410) is displaced together with the first mirror (101).

A micro-electromechanical apparatus includes a rotary element, at least one restraint and at least two folded springs. The rotary element is capable of rotating with respect to an axis. The folded springs are symmetrically disposed about the axis. Each folded spring has a moving end and a fixed end, the moving end is connected to the rotary element, and the fixed end is connected to the at least one restraint. The moving end is not located on the axis, and the fixed end is not located on the axis. A moving distance is defined as a distance between the moving end and the axis, a fixed distance is defined as a distance between the fixed end and the axis. A spring length is defined as a distance between the moving end and the fixed end. The spring length is varied according to the rotation of the rotary element.

A MEMS device is obtained by forming a temporary biasing structure on a semiconductor body, and forming an actuation coil on the semiconductor body, the actuation coil having at least one first end turn, one second end turn and an intermediate turn arranged between the first and the second end turns and electrically coupled to the first end turn through the temporary biasing structure. In this way, the intermediate turn is biased at approximately the same potential as the first end turn during galvanic growth, and, at the end of growth, the actuation coil has an approximately uniform thickness. At the end of galvanic growth, portions of the temporary biasing structure are selectively removed to electrically separate the first end turn from the intermediate turn and from a dummy biasing region adjacent to the first end turn.

A micromirror device includes a first support portion that is connected to the mirror portion on a first axis located in a plane including the reflecting surface of the mirror portion in a stationary state, and that swingably supports the mirror portion around the first axis. The first support portion is composed of a main shaft stretched along the first axis and a plurality of sub-shafts symmetrically disposed on both sides of the main shaft across the first axis and stretched along the first axis, the first support portion has a folded structure having three or more folded portions formed by connecting the plurality of sub-shafts, and in a case where inner curvature radii of the folded portions are denoted by R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, ... , in order from the closest to the first axis, a relationship of 0.73 ≤ R.sub.k+1/R.sub.k ≤ 0.9 (k = 1, 2, ...) is satisfied.