Abstract: A magnetic sensor includes a sensor chip mounted on a substrate such that an element formation surface thereof is perpendicular to the substrate and a magnetism collecting member mounted on the substrate such that a surface thereof faces the substrate and a surface thereof faces the element formation surface. The arithmetic mean waviness Wa of the surface of the magnetism collecting member is 0.1 ?m or less. When the arithmetic mean waviness Wa of the surface of the magnetism collecting member that faces the element formation surface is set to 0.1 ?m or less, it is possible to significantly suppress a deterioration in detection sensitivity due to the presence of a gap between the element formation surface and the magnetism collecting member and to significantly reduce variations in detection sensitivity among products.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of magnetoresistance pattern portions that forms a bridge circuit. Each of the plurality of magnetoresistance pattern portions includes a first resistance portion and a second resistance portion that are connected together in series. In each of the plurality of magnetoresistance pattern portions, the first resistance portion and the second resistance portion are spaced from each other in a first direction by a distance that is one half as long as a cycle of magnetization of a detection target. In each of the plurality of magnetoresistance pattern portions, the first resistance portion and the second resistance portion are symmetric to each other with respect to a line when viewed in plan in a third direction.

Abstract: The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method and Internet of Things system for managing inspection route based on a gas Geographic Information System (GIS). The method is executed by a smart gas safety management platform of the Internet of Things system, comprising: determining track information of an inspector according to location data of the inspector; in response to the track information satisfying a preset requirement, determining a recommended inspection route based on the track information and gas monitoring data, and prompt the recommended inspection route through a display screen based on a first display parameter; in response to the track information not satisfying the preset requirement, determining a display condition of the display screen based on a second display parameter.

Abstract: Magnetic angular sensor element destined to sense an external magnetic field, including a magnetic tunnel junction containing a ferromagnetic pinned layer having a pinned magnetization, a ferromagnetic sensing layer, and a tunnel magnetoresistance barrier layer; the ferromagnetic sensing layer including a first sensing layer being in direct contact with the barrier layer and having a first sensing magnetization, a second sensing layer having a second sense magnetization, and a metallic spacer between the first sensing layer and the second sensing layer; wherein the metallic spacer is configured to provide an antiferromagnetic coupling between the first sensing magnetization and the second sensing magnetization such that the first sensing magnetization is oriented substantially antiparallel to the second sensing magnetization; the second sensing magnetization being larger than the first sensing magnetization, such that the second sensing magnetization is oriented in accordance with the direction of the externa

Abstract: A magnetic sensor includes at least one sensor main body; a detection circuit provided on the at least one sensor main body, the detection circuit including a magnetic detection element; and a plurality of sensor terminals provided on the at least one sensor main body. The plurality of sensor terminals include a plurality of signal terminals and a plurality of power supply terminals. The plurality of signal terminals are all disposed on a side of one end of the at least one sensor main body. The plurality of power supply terminals include at least one first terminal disposed on the side of the one end of the at least one sensor main body, and a plurality of second terminals disposed on a side of another end of the at least one sensor main body.

Abstract: A position detection device includes a magnet that generates a magnetic field to be detected, and a magnetic sensor. The magnetic sensor detects the magnetic field to be detected and generates a detection value corresponding to the position of the magnet. The magnetic field to be detected has a first direction that changes within a first plane, at a reference position in the first plane. The magnetic sensor includes four MR elements. Each of the MR elements includes a first magnetic layer having first magnetization that can change in direction within a second plane corresponding to the each of the MR elements. The first plane and the second plane intersect at a dihedral angle ? other than 90°. A detection value depends on the direction of the first magnetization.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor capable of preventing degradation of magnetic measurement accuracy is obtained. The magnetic sensor includes a first sensor portion, a second sensor portion, and a connection portion. The first sensor portion extends in a first direction. The second sensor portion is disposed at an interval from the first sensor portion in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The first sensor portion includes a first end and a second end that are ends in the first direction. The second sensor portion includes a third end and a fourth end that are ends in the first direction. The connection portion connects the second end and the third end. The first sensor portion, the second sensor portion, and the connection portion are constituted of a multilayer body of a magnetic sensor element and a magnet. The magnet applies a bias magnetic field to the magnetic sensor element.

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein are directed towards integrating a shield layer into a current sensor to shield a magnetic field sensing element and associated circuitry in the current sensor from electrical, voltage, or electrical transient noise. In an embodiment, a shield layer may be disposed along at least one surface of a die supporting a magnetic field sensing element. The shield layer may be disposed in various arrangements to shunt noise caused by a parasitic coupling between the magnetic field sensing element and the current carrying conductor away from the magnetic field sensing element.

Abstract: An angle sensor unit for measuring a rotational angle of a rotational position of a steering shaft of a motor vehicle may include a multipole magnetic ring that has a number of pole pairs and can be connected in a torque-proof manner to the steering shaft, at least two magnetic field sensors that are assigned to the multipole magnetic ring, and an evaluation unit that is configured to determine a rotational angle on the basis of the signals of the at least two magnetic field sensors. The at least two magnetic field sensors may be offset in a circumferential direction on an outside of the multipole magnetic ring such that a magnetic field that originates from the multipole magnetic ring, in a region of the two magnetic field sensors, has an approximate equal absolute value with opposite signs.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a magnetic sensor that includes first and second magnetic structures each having an annular structure and arranged in a first direction with a magnetic gap interposed therebetween, a magnetosensitive element disposed on a magnetic path formed by the magnetic gap and has a sensitivity axis in the first direction, a first excitation coil wound around the first magnetic structure, and a second excitation coil wound around the second magnetic structure.

Abstract: A magnetic field sensor includes a first sensor bridge circuit including a first plurality of magnetic field sensor elements and a second plurality of magnetic field sensor elements, wherein the first plurality of magnetic field sensor elements are positioned symmetrical to the second plurality of magnetic field sensor elements across a center of symmetry, wherein the first and the second pluralities of magnetic field sensor elements are separated by a first sensor pitch; and a second sensor bridge circuit including a third plurality of magnetic field sensor elements and a fourth plurality of magnetic field sensor elements, wherein the third plurality of magnetic field sensor elements are positioned symmetrical to the fourth plurality of magnetic field sensor elements across the center of symmetry, wherein the third and the fourth pluralities of magnetic field sensor elements are separated by a second sensor pitch that is equal to the first sensor pitch.

Abstract: Magnetic field sensors having at least two bridges including MR elements are described. MR elements of each bridge have different magnetic reference directions. A first bridge is positioned to sense a first uniform magnetic field of a first polarity and a second bridge is positioned to sense a second uniform magnetic field of a second polarity opposite to the first polarity. The first and second uniform magnetic fields make up a differential field of interest. The described magnetic field sensors sense the field of interest in a manner that is immune to stray fields. Dual signal path embodiments are described in which outputs of the two bridges are independently processed and single signal path embodiments include a single signal path for processing the output of a combined (e.g., parallel) bridge arrangement.

Abstract: Various means for improvement in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for a magnetic field sensor are disclosed for low power and high resolution magnetic sensing. The improvements may be done by reducing parasitic effects, increasing sense element packing density, interleaving a Z-axis layout to reduce a subtractive effect, and optimizing an alignment between a Z-axis sense element and a flux guide, etc.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor device includes a first chip including a first magnetic sensor, a second chip including a second magnetic sensor and a third magnetic sensor, and a support having a reference plane. The first magnetic sensor includes at least one first magnetic detection element, and detects a first component of an external magnetic field. The second magnetic sensor includes at least one second magnetic detection element, and detects a second component of the external magnetic field. The third magnetic sensor includes at least one third magnetic detection element, and detects a third component of the external magnetic field. The first chip and the second chip are mounted on the reference plane.

Abstract: A method of designing a magnetic sensor that can easily accommodate various design conditions is provided. The method has: preparing magnetic sensors, wherein, for each magnetic sensor, magnetization directions of the first to fourth magnetically pinned layers form first to fourth angles ?1 to ?4 relative to a specific reference angle, respectively, and ?1=?3, ?2=?4, ?1??2, and each magnetic sensor has a value of ?1??2 that is different from values of ?1??2 of remaining magnetic sensors, for each magnetic sensor, obtaining a relationship between an angular range of the magnetization direction of the first to fourth magnetically free layers and an output range of the magnetic sensor, wherein the angular range satisfies a specific linear relationship between the magnetization direction and the output of the magnetic sensor, and selecting a magnetic sensor that satisfies required conditions for the angular range and the output range from among the magnetic sensors.

Abstract: A zoom method and an apparatus to improve zoom accuracy of a camera module are disclosed. The zoom method includes: controlling, based on a target focal length, the lens to move in different subregions when the lens moves in an operation region, and determining position information of the lens based on a position detection relationship of a subregion in which the lens is currently located. The lens is controlled to move based on a position of the lens detected when the lens moves, so that the lens can more accurately stop at a position corresponding to the target focal length. This helps improve focusing accuracy of the camera module.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor 1 includes a plurality of MR elements disposed in first to fourth areas. Each of the first to fourth areas includes a first end edge and a second end edge located at both ends in a first reference direction, and a third end edge and a fourth end edge located at both ends in a second reference direction. Each of the first and second end edges extends along the second reference direction. Each of the third and fourth end edges extends along a third reference direction. Each of the plurality of MR elements has a shape long in a direction different from each of the first reference direction, the second reference direction, and the third reference direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a magnetic field sensor system, comprising an AMR magnetic field sensor and an overcurrent detection sensor. The overcurrent detection sensor comprises an AMR sensing element connected in a half bride arrangement with a field insensitive component. The output of the overcurrent detection sensor is able to monitor the strength of the magnetic field experiences by the sensor system, and detect if the magnet field goes beyond a sensing threshold of the AMR magnetic field sensor. Outside of this threshold, the AMR magnet field sensor is unable to provide a measurement of the magnetic field strength. The overcurrent detection sensor can therefore detect that the system is operating in very high magnetic fields, which in turn can indicate that there is overcurrent in the system.

Abstract: A sensor die may include a set of sensing elements and a test structure associated with determining a magnetic sensitivity of the set of sensing elements. The test structure includes a first test sensing element sensitive in a direction in a plane defined by a surface of the sensor die, a second test sensing element sensitive in the direction in the plane defined by the surface of the sensor die, and a wire on chip (WoC) associated with applying a magnetic field to the first test sensing element and the second test sensing element. The first test sensing element, the second test sensing element, and the WoC may be arranged such that, when current flows through the WoC, the first test sensing element senses a component of the magnetic field in the direction, and the second test sensing element senses a component of the magnetic field in a perpendicular direction.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a redundant current sensor (100), comprising, in a common chip package (20), a first integrated magnetoresistive sensor circuit (110A) and a second integrated magnetoresistive sensor circuit (110B).

Abstract: A TMR element includes a magnetic tunnel junction, a side wall portion that covers a side surface of the magnetic tunnel junction, and a minute particle region that is disposed in the side wall portion. The side wall portion includes an insulation material. The minute particle region includes the insulation material and a plurality of minute magnetic metal particles that are dispersed in the insulation material. The minute particle region is electrically connected in parallel with the magnetic tunnel junction.

Abstract: An electrical component inspection instrument includes a substrate and a rod-shaped conductor component having one end for contact with a conductor of an electrical component which is an object to be inspected. A conductor pattern on a board surface of the substrate reaches an edge of the substrate, and the other end of the rod-shaped conductor component is electrically connected to the conductor pattern at the edge of the substrate. A direction in which the rod-shaped conductor component extends is orthogonal to the direction of the normal to the board surface of the substrate.

Abstract: To increase, in a magnetic sensor having a magnetoresistive strip and a ferromagnetic film, a magnetic bias to be applied to a magnetoresistive element by magnetically coupling the magnetoresistive strip and ferromagnetic film. A magnetic sensor 1 includes a magnetoresistive strip S, an insulating film 13 that covers the magnetoresistive strip S, and ferromagnetic films M1 and M2 formed on the insulating film 13 and arranged in the x-direction through a magnetic gap G extending in the y-direction. The ferromagnetic films M1 and M2 overlap a plurality of hard magnetic members H through the insulating film 13. This allows two adjacent hard magnetic members H to be magnetically coupled through the ferromagnetic films M1 and M2. This makes it possible to increase the magnetic bias to be applied to a magnetoresistive element R without involving an increase in the size of the hard magnetic member H.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor includes a magnetic field conversion unit that outputs an output magnetic field, a magnetic field detection unit that the output magnetic field can be applied, and a magnetic shield that shields external magnetic fields. The length of the magnetic field conversion unit in the third direction is greater than the length in the second direction. The magnetic shield overlaps the magnetic field conversion unit and the magnetic field detection unit. The magnetic field detection unit includes a Wheatstone bridge circuit in which a first bridge circuit including first and second magnetic field detection units and a second bridge circuit including third and fourth magnetic field detection units are connected in parallel. The first through fourth magnetic field detection units include two magnetoresistive units, and two of the magnetoresistive units have magnetoresistive effect elements that include magnetization fixed layers whose magnetization directions differ from each other.

Abstract: A gain-controllable magnetoresistive analog amplifier includes a substrate in an X-Y plane, an output signal magnetoresistive sensor on the substrate, and an input signal coil and a gain adjustment coil. The input signal coil and the gain adjustment coil are respectively on two side surfaces of the sensor. The gain adjustment coil is used to input a gain signal by the generation of a gain magnetic field, in order to set the gain the magnetic field is applied along a magnetization direction of a free layer of the output signal magnetoresistive sensor. The input signal coil is used for inputting a current signal to generate an input magnetic field, in order to apply the input magnetic field to a magnetization direction of a pinned layer of the output signal magnetoresistive sensor. This amplifier provides isolation between input signals, output signals, and controllable gain signals.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a magnetic field sensor system, comprising an AMR magnetic field sensor and an overcurrent detection sensor. The overcurrent detection sensor comprises an AMR sensing element connected in a half bride arrangement with a field insensitive component. The output of the overcurrent detection sensor is able to monitor the strength of the magnetic field experiences by the sensor system, and detect if the magnet field goes beyond a sensing threshold of the AMR magnetic field sensor. Outside of this threshold, the AMR magnet field sensor is unable to provide a measurement of the magnetic field strength. The overcurrent detection sensor can therefore detect that the system is operating in very high magnetic fields, which in turn can indicate that there is overcurrent in the system.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor device includes a magnetic field converter that receives an input magnetic field input along a first direction and outputs an output magnetic field along a second direction, which is orthogonal to the first direction. A magnetic field detector is provided at a position where the output magnetic field is applied. A magnetic shield shields external magnetic fields along a third direction, which is orthogonal to both the first direction and the second direction. When viewed along the first direction, the magnetic field converter has a shape such that the length in the third direction is greater than the length in the second direction. When viewed along the first direction, the magnetic shield is provided at a position overlapping the magnetic field converter and the magnetic field detector, and the magnetic field transmittance of the external magnetic field is 1˜30%.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for detecting a magnetic field include a semiconductor substrate, a coil configured to provide a changing magnetic field in response to a changing current in the coil; and a magnetic field sensing element supported by the substrate. The coil receives the changing current and, in response, generates a changing magnetic field. The magnetic field sensing element detects the presence of a magnetic target by detecting changes to the magnetic field caused by the target and comparing them to an expected value.

Abstract: A tunnel barrier layer includes a non-magnetic oxide, wherein a crystal structure of the tunnel barrier layer includes both an ordered spinel structure and a disordered spinel structure.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor includes a substrate including a top surface, an insulating layer including an inclined surface, an MR element disposed on the inclined surface, a first insulating portion of an insulating material disposed on a part of the MR element, and a second insulating portion of an insulating material disposed on another part of the MR element at a position forward of the first insulating portion in a direction along the inclined surface, the direction being a direction away from the top surface of the substrate.

Abstract: In a magnetic sensor using a magnetic impedance effect, sensitivity is improved as compared to the case where a width of a sensitive element in the short direction is equal from one end to the other end in the longitudinal direction. The magnetic sensor includes: a non-magnetic substrate; and a sensitive element that is provided on the substrate, composed of a soft magnetic material, having a longitudinal direction and a short direction, provided with uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in a direction crossing the longitudinal direction, having a width at a center portion in the longitudinal direction that is smaller compared to a width at each of both end portions in the longitudinal direction, and sensing a magnetic field by a magnetic impedance effect.

Abstract: Provided is a magnetic tunnel junction element including: a magnetization pinned layer having a fixed magnetization direction; a first insulating layer which is provided on the magnetization pinned layer and is formed of an insulating material; a magnetization free layer provided on the first insulating layer; an adjacent layer which is provided adjacent to the magnetization free layer and is formed of a non-magnetic transition metal; and a cap layer which is formed to have a multilayer structure including at least one barrier layer formed of a non-magnetic transition metal and is provided on the adjacent layer.

Abstract: We disclose herein a sensing device comprising a semiconductor substrate having a first etched portion, a dielectric layer located on or over the semiconductor substrate, wherein the dielectric layer comprises a first dielectric membrane located adjacent to the first etched portion of the semiconductor substrate, a pressure sensing element and/or a flow sensing element within the first dielectric membrane, and a first structure configured to reinforce the dielectric membrane. A first portion of the first structure is located within the first dielectric membrane, the first structure has a higher stiffness than the first dielectric membrane, and the first portion of the first structure is located between a perimeter of the dielectric membrane and the pressure sensing element or flow sensing element.

Abstract: A position sensor system is arranged for determining a position of a sensor device movable along a predefined path relative to a magnetic source. The system includes the magnetic source and the sensor device. The magnetic source has a first plurality of magnetic pole pairs arranged along a first track and a second plurality of magnetic pole pairs arranged along a second track, centrelines of the tracks are spaced apart by a predefined track distance. The sensor device is configured for measuring at least two orthogonal magnetic field components at a first sensor location, and at least two second orthogonal magnetic field components at a second sensor location. The first and second sensor location are spaced apart by a predefined sensor distance smaller than the predefined track distance, in a direction transverse to the tracks.

Abstract: Various means for improvement in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for a magnetic field sensor are disclosed for low power and high resolution magnetic sensing. The improvements may be done by reducing parasitic effects, increasing sense element packing density, interleaving a Z-axis layout to reduce a subtractive effect, and optimizing an alignment between a Z-axis sense element and a flux guide, etc.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor includes a magnetic sensor chip that includes a magnetoresistive effect element and a sealed part. The magnetoresistive effect element includes a free layer and a pinned layer. The sealed part has a first surface and a second surface, which is opposite the first surface. The shape of the sealed part in the plan view from the first surface side is substantially quadrilateral. The substantially quadrilateral shape has a first side and a second side, which are substantially parallel to each other. In the plan view, from the first surface side of the sealed part, the magnetization direction of the pinned layer, in a state in which the external magnetic field is not applied on the magnetoresistive effect element, is inclined with respect to an approximately straight line found through the least squares method using a plurality of points arbitrarily set on the first side.

Abstract: A magnetizing device includes a magnet and a magnetic field concentrator. The magnet has a magnetic field forming a magnetization region in which a magnetizable security element is exposed to a magnetic field strength having a defined magnetic field direction. The magnetic field concentrator is formed of a ferromagnetic material. The magnetic field concentrator is arranged in the magnetic field and amplifies and focuses the magnetic field in the magnetization region.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a magnetic multi-turn sensor comprising a continuous coil of magnetoresistive elements and a method of manufacturing said sensor. The continuous coil is formed on a substrate such as a silicon wafer that has been fabricated so as to form a trench and bridge arrangement that enables the inner and outer spiral to be connected without interfering with the magnetoresistive elements of the spiral winding in between. Once the substrate has been fabricated with the trench and bridge arrangement, a film of the magnetoresistive material can be deposited to form a continuous coil on the surface of the substrate, wherein a portion of the coil is formed in the trench and a portion of the coil is formed on the bridge.

Abstract: The magnetic sensor of the invention has an element portion that is elongate, that exhibits magnetoresistive effect and that has a magnetically sensitive axis in a direction of a short axis thereof. The element portion is non-oval and can be arranged in an imaginary ellipse, wherein the imaginary ellipse has a major axis that connects both ends of the element portion with regard to a direction of a long axis thereof to each other and a minor axis that connects both ends of the element portion with regard to a direction of the short axis thereof to each other, as viewed in a direction that is perpendicular both to the short axis and to the long axis of the element portion.

Abstract: Magnetic current sensor, including: a sensor bridge circuit including a first and second half-bridges, each including two series-connected and diagonally opposed tunnel magnetoresistive (TMR) sensor elements, the TMR sensor elements including a reference layer oriented a single predetermined direction and a sense layer having a sense magnetization; a field line configured for passing a field current generating a magnetic field adapted for orienting the sense magnetization of the diagonally opposed TMR sensor elements of the first half-bridge and of the diagonally opposed TMR sensor elements of the second half-bridge in an opposite direction; such that a non-null differential voltage output between the TMR sensor elements of the first half-bridge and the TMR sensor elements of the second half-bridge is measurable when the field current is passed in the field line; the differential voltage output being insensitive to the presence of an external uniform magnetic field.

Abstract: A position detection device includes a magnet that generates a magnetic field to be detected, and a magnetic sensor. The magnetic sensor detects the magnetic field to be detected and generates a detection value corresponding to the position of the magnet. The magnetic field to be detected has a first direction that changes within a first plane, at a reference position in the first plane. The magnetic sensor includes four MR elements. Each of the MR elements includes a first magnetic layer having first magnetization that can change in direction within a second plane corresponding to the each of the MR elements. The first plane and the second plane intersect at a dihedral angle ? other than 90°. A detection value depends on the direction of the first magnetization.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor device includes a first detection circuit that generates a first detection signal, a coil through which a feedback current is passed to generate a cancellation magnetic field, a second detection circuit that generates a second detection signal having a correspondence with a value of the feedback current, and a control circuit that controls the feedback current. In a closed-loop operation, the control circuit controls the feedback current so that the first detection signal has a constant value. In an open-loop operation, the control circuit maintains the feedback current at a constant value.

Abstract: A magnetic field detection apparatus includes a magnetoresistive effect element and a coil. The coil includes first and second tier parts opposed to each other in a first axis direction, with the magnetoresistive dal element interposed therebetween. The coil is configured to be supplied with a current and thereby configured to generate an induction magnetic field to be applied to the magnetoresistive effect element in a second axis direction. The first tier part includes first conductors extending in a third axis direction, arranged in the second axis direction and coupled in parallel to each other. The second tier part includes a second conductor or second conductors extending in the third axis direction, the second conductors being arranged in the second axis direction and coupled in parallel to each other. The first conductor each have a width smaller than a width of the second conductor or each of the second conductors.

Abstract: Magnetic field sensor apparatuses are discussed. A magnetic field sensor apparatus in accordance with one example implementation in this case comprises a coil and a magnetic field sensor. A chip carrying the coil and the magnetic field sensor is arranged on a leadframe. The leadframe comprises a cutout.

Abstract: A rotation angle detection device that detects a rotation angle of a valve body. The rotation angle detection device includes a shaft, a gear, a magnetic field generator, and a magnetic detection element. The shaft is connected to the valve body. The magnetic field generator is arranged on a gear side and generates a magnetic field. The magnetic detection element is arranged on an extension of the shaft and detects magnetic flux density of the magnetic field that rotates together with the gear.

Abstract: A magnetic sensor includes an MR element. The MR element includes a free layer. The free layer has a first surface having a shape that is long in one direction and a second surface located opposite the first surface, and has a thickness that is a dimension in a direction perpendicular to the first surface. The first surface has a first edge and a second edge located at both lateral ends of the first surface. In a given cross section, the thickness at the first edge is smaller than the thickness at a predetermined point on the first surface between the first edge and the second edge.

Abstract: A magnetic field sensor arrangement for determining a signal magnetic flux in a manner which is substantially strayfield immune, comprises: a signal magnetic field source; a first and second magnetic flux concentrator forming an air gap between exterior faces of the magnetic flux concentrators; the flux concentrators being configured for guiding a signal magnetic flux to and across the air gap in a gap direction; a magnetic field sensor arranged inside the air gap, and configured for measuring a first and second signal in the gap direction and perpendicular to the gap direction; and for reducing or eliminating an magnetic disturbance field based on the first and second signal. An angle sensor arrangement. A torque sensor. A method of measuring a signal flux, an angle, a torque in a substantially strayfield immune manner.

Abstract: A method of determining a gradient of a magnetic field, includes the steps of: biasing a first/second magnetic sensor with a first/second biasing signal; measuring and amplifying a first/second magnetic sensor signal; measuring a temperature and/or a stress difference; adjusting at least one of: the second biasing signal, the second amplifier gain, the amplified and digitized second sensor value using a predefined function f(T) or f(T, ??) or f(??) of the measured temperature and/or the measured differential stress before determining a difference between the first/second signal/value derived from the first/second sensor signal. A magnetic sensor device is configured for performing this method, as well as a current sensor device, and a position sensor device.

Abstract: A wheel speed sensor includes a plurality of magnetic field detectors configured to output detection signals that correspond to magnetic field fluctuation caused by a rotation of a rotor; and an attachment member that includes an attachment portion that is to be attached to a vehicle and a holding portion that is configured to hold the plurality of magnetic field detectors, and that, in a state in which the attachment portion is attached to the vehicle, when viewed along a center axial direction of the rotor, holds the plurality of magnetic field detectors at a position that is closer to a center line, which passes centrally between an outer peripheral line that depicts the outer periphery of the rotor and an inner peripheral line that depicts the inner periphery of the rotor, than to the outer peripheral line and the inner peripheral line.

Abstract: A printed circuit board assembly may have a printed circuit board with at least one electric component. A magnetic field sensor for measuring a magnetic field may be included, where an amperage of a current conducted in the electric component is determined on the basis of the magnetic field. The assembly may also include a magnetic conductor for conducting the magnetic field, which is then measured by the magnetic field sensor.