Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Current sensor
- Patent Title (中): 电流传感器
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Application No.: US13910009Application Date: 2013-06-04
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Publication No.: US09207264B2Publication Date: 2015-12-08
- Inventor: Yosuke Ide , Masamichi Saito , Akira Takahashi , Masahiro Iizuka , Kenji Ichinohe , Yoshihiro Nishiyama , Mitsuo Aratono
- Applicant: ALPS GREEN DEVICES CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: ALPS GREEN DEVICES CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: ALPS GREEN DEVICES CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Beyer Law Group LLP
- Priority: JP2011-003160 20110111
- Main IPC: G01R33/02
- IPC: G01R33/02 ; G01R33/09 ; G01R15/20 ; H01L27/22 ; H01L43/08 ; H01F10/32 ; B82Y25/00

Abstract:
A current sensor includes a substrate, a conductive body being provided above the substrate and extending in one direction, and magnetoresistance effect elements being provided between the substrate and the conductive body and outputting output signals owing to an induction magnetic field from a current to be measured being conducted through the conductive body, wherein each of the magnetoresistance effect elements has a laminated structure including a ferromagnetic fixed layer whose magnetization direction is fixed, a non-magnetic intermediate layer, and a free magnetic layer whose magnetization direction fluctuates with respect to an external magnetic field, the ferromagnetic fixed layer is a self-pinned type formed by antiferromagnetically coupling a first ferromagnetic film and a second ferromagnetic film through an antiparallel coupling film, the Curie temperatures of the first ferromagnetic film and the second ferromagnetic film are approximately equal, and a difference between the magnetization amounts thereof is substantially zero.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130265040A1 CURRENT SENSOR Public/Granted day:2013-10-10
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