Patents Examined by Roger Philips
  • Patent number: 5550469
    Abstract: A Hall-effect device for detecting a magnetic flux intensity has a pair of input terminals connected respectively to a constant-voltage regulated power supply and an FET. The FET has a gate connected to the output terminal of an operational amplifier. One of the input terminals of the operational amplifier is connected to the junction between a variable resistor and a temperature-dependent variable resistor which jointly serve as a voltage divider. The temperature-dependent variable resistor has a temperature characteristic of resistance which is opposite to the temperature characteristic of sensitivity of the Hall-effect device. When the ambient temperature varies, the sensitivity of the Hall-effect device also varies, and so does the resistance of the temperature-dependent variable resistor. The divided voltage applied from the voltage divider to the operational amplifier drops, lowering the voltage applied to the gate of the FET.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 27, 1996
    Assignee: Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toru Tanabe, Kazuhide Seki, Masaaki Hatsumi