Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Rotation-angle-detecting apparatus
- Patent Title (中): 旋转角度检测装置
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Application No.: US12988277Application Date: 2010-03-26
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Publication No.: US08093886B2Publication Date: 2012-01-10
- Inventor: Yasuyuki Okada , Kyohei Aimuta , Chiharu Mitsumata
- Applicant: Yasuyuki Okada , Kyohei Aimuta , Chiharu Mitsumata
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JP2009-081364 20090330
- International Application: PCT/JP2010/055447 WO 20100326
- International Announcement: WO2010/113820 WO 20101007
- Main IPC: G01B7/30
- IPC: G01B7/30

Abstract:
A rotation-angle-detecting apparatus comprising a magnet rotor, a magnetic sensor detecting the direction of magnetic flux from the magnet rotor, a correction circuit, and an angle-calculating circuit, the magnetic sensor having bridge circuits X and Y each comprising four connected magnetoresistive devices, each magnetoresistive device comprising a spin-valve, giant-magnetoresistive film, the correction circuit calculating difference (Vx−Vy) and sum (Vx+Vy) from the output voltage Vx of the bridge circuit X and the output voltage Vy of the bridge circuit Y, and making their amplitudes equal to each other, and the angle-calculating circuit determining the rotation angle of the rotor by arctangent calculation from a signal (Vx−Vy)′ and a signal (Vx+Vy)′ supplied with the same amplitude from the correction circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110037459A1 ROTATION-ANGLE-DETECTING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2011-02-17
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