Abstract: A laundry treatment device includes a housing, a container suspended in the housing in an oscillating manner, and a detecting unit for detecting one of the position and the arrangement of the container in the housing. The detecting unit includes a magnetic field-generator that generates a magnetic field; and a magnetic field detector for detecting a magnetic flux density of the magnet field and for determining a direction of field lines of the magnet field.

Abstract: The invention concerns a current detection apparatus for detection of a current flowing through a conductor (1) by detection of a magnetic field surrounding the conductor. The current detection apparatus includes at least one sensor element (3) provided on a carrier portion (4) for detection of the magnetic field, and a predetermined region (S) of the conductor (1), at which the at least one sensor element is arranged. The conductor (1) in the predetermined region (S) has a plurality of conductor portions (11, 12; La, Lb) which have the current to be measured flowing therethrough in the same direction and which are spaced from each other by a predetermined spacing and which form an intermediate space (2). The carrier portion (4) is fitted into the intermediate space in such a way that the at least one sensor element (3) is arranged outside the intermediate space in adjacent relationship therewith in the magnetic field of the conductor (1).

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring an electric current flowing through an electrical conductor (1), comprising a measuring device which detects a magnetic field formed by the electrical conductor in three orthogonal spatial directions and supplies measurement signals associated with the respective spatial directions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a laundry treatment device, particularly a washing machine, or a laundry dryer, comprising a housing (1), a container (3) suspended in the housing (1) in a swiveling manner, and an apparatus (2) for detecting the position and/or the arrangement of the container (3) in the housing (1), wherein the detection unit (2) comprises a magnetic field-generating clement (2b) and a detector unit (2a) for detecting a magnetic flux density of the magnetic field. The position detection unit (2) is characterized in that the detector unit (2a)) also detects the direction of the magnetic field lines of the magnetic field and determines the position of the container (3) as a function of the flux density and the field line direction.

Abstract: The invention concerns a current detection apparatus for detection of a current flowing through a conductor (1) by detection of a magnetic field surrounding the conductor. The current detection apparatus includes at least one sensor element (3) provided on a carrier portion (4) for detection of the magnetic field, and a predetermined region (S) of the conductor (1), at which the at least one sensor element is arranged. The conductor (1) in the predetermined region (S) has a plurality of conductor portions (11, 12; La, Lb) which have the current to be measured flowing therethrough in the same direction and which are spaced from each other by a predetermined spacing and which form an intermediate space (2). The carrier portion (4) is fitted into the intermediate space in such a way that the at least one sensor element (3) is arranged outside the intermediate space in adjacent relationship therewith in the magnetic field of the conductor (1).

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring an electric current flowing through an electrical conductor (1), comprising a measuring device which detects a magnetic field formed by the electrical conductor in three orthogonal spatial directions and supplies measurement signals associated with the respective spatial directions.