Electric transducer for measuring mechanical quantities

Claim 1

An electric transducer for measuring a mechanical quantity comprising: a substrate comprising a rigid semiconductor yoke in the form of a regular parallelepiped; a cantilever disposed on a side of the yoke and further disposed so as to face an opposite side of the yoke, the cantilever being both capable of positive and negative motion in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane of the yoke, the cantilever being electrically conductive; two partial field effect transistor structures disposed in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the cantilever on upper and lower edges of the side of the yoke opposite the cantilever, said field effect structures each comprising a source-drain path and said cantilever functioning as a common gate for each of said field effect structures; said cantilever moving in said direction such that when the cantilever moves toward one of said source-drain paths said cantilever moves away from the other of the source-drain paths, signals related to the distance of said cantilever from the resepective source-drain path being generated by each source-drain path.