SHAFT-INTEGRATED ANGLE SENSING DEVICE
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190212173A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-11

    申请号:US16354596

    申请日:2019-03-15

    Abstract: A sensor arrangement is provided. The sensor arrangement includes a rotatable shaft extending along a rotation axis; a magnet module coupled to the rotatable shaft configured to generate a magnetic field; and a sensing element configured to sense a rotating magnetic field caused by the magnet module upon rotation of the rotatable shaft around the rotation axis. The rotatable shaft incudes a bore extending within a shaft end portion along the rotation axis. The magnet module is coupled to at least one face of the bore and configured to generate the magnetic field within the bore. The sensing element has a sensitive spot, the sensitive spot being arranged within the bore and exposed to the rotating magnetic field.

    MAGNET ARRANGEMENT FOR ROTATIONAL ANGLE DETECTION

    公开(公告)号:US20190063955A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-28

    申请号:US15687159

    申请日:2017-08-25

    CPC classification number: G01D5/2033 G01D3/08 G01D5/145

    Abstract: A ring magnet for use in determining a rotational angle of a rotatable shaft and configured to be connected to the rotatable shaft for co-rotation with the rotatable shaft around a rotational axis may include a recess in a circumferential surface of the ring magnet, where the recess may be recessed away from the circumferential surface to cause a magnetic sensor to measure a substantially constant ellipticity of a radial component of a magnetic field of the ring magnet and a tangential component of the magnetic field of the ring magnet, when measuring the rotational angle of the rotatable shaft, as the ring magnet moves along the rotational axis of the rotatable shaft.

    MAGNETIC SENSOR USING MULTIPLE GRADIOMETERS FOR ANGLE DETECTION

    公开(公告)号:US20180335294A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-22

    申请号:US15982573

    申请日:2018-05-17

    Abstract: An example device includes a first gradiometer that includes a first set of sensing elements aligned along a first axis, a second gradiometer that includes a second set of sensing elements aligned along a second axis, and a controller. The first set of sensing elements and the second set of sensing elements may be configured to sense a set of magnetic field components that are perpendicular to the rotational axis, wherein the first axis is in a first plane and the second axis is in a second plane, and the first plane and the second plane may be perpendicular to a rotational axis of a rotatable object. The controller may obtain, via the first gradiometer and the second gradiometer, the set of components of the magnetic field. The controller may then determine, based on obtaining the set of components of the magnetic field, the angular position of the rotatable object.

    MAGNETIC ANGLE SENSOR DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATION

    公开(公告)号:US20180087888A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-29

    申请号:US15705355

    申请日:2017-09-15

    CPC classification number: G01B7/30 G01D5/145

    Abstract: An embodiment relates to a magnetic angle sensor device comprising a first group of magnetic angle sensors and a second group of magnetic angle sensors, wherein the first group of magnetic angle sensors and the second group of magnetic angle sensors are located on different positions along a straight line, wherein the first group of magnetic angle sensors comprises at least one first type of angle sensor and at least one second type of angle sensor, wherein the second group of magnetic angle sensors comprises the at least one first type of angle sensor and the at least one second type of angle sensor, wherein the at least one first type of angle sensor is sensitive to detect a first magnetic field component in a first direction and the at least one second type of angle sensor is sensitive to detect a second magnetic field component in a second direction, and wherein a combined rotation angle is determined based on the detected first magnetic field components and the detected second magnetic field components.

    EXTENSION SENSOR AND REDUCTION OF A DRIFT OF A BRIDGE CIRCUIT CAUSED BY AN EXTENSION

    公开(公告)号:US20170261306A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-09-14

    申请号:US15451771

    申请日:2017-03-07

    CPC classification number: G01B7/18 G01R17/02 G01R33/09

    Abstract: A circuit comprise a semiconductor substrate of an integrated circuit, comprising at least two resistors arranged in different orientations in, on or at the semiconductor substrate. The resistance value of the respective one of the resistors is substantially independent of an acting magnetic field. An output signal is determinable on the basis of a comparison of the resistance values of the resistors. Moreover, a circuit comprising a bridge circuit is specified, wherein the bridge circuit comprises at least two MR elements arranged on, at or in a substrate, comprising an extension sensor which provides a signal on the basis of a difference in mechanical extensions in two different directions parallel to a plane in which the two MR elements lie, wherein the circuit is configured to combine an output signal of the bridge circuit by means of the signal.

    SIGNAL COMPENSATION SYSTEM CONFIGURED TO MEASURE AND COUNTERACT ASYMMETRY IN HALL SENSORS

    公开(公告)号:US20230003814A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-05

    申请号:US17932385

    申请日:2022-09-15

    Abstract: A sensor cross-talk compensation system includes a semiconductor substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface; a vertical Hall sensor element disposed in the semiconductor substrate, the vertical Hall sensor element is configured to generate a sensor signal in response to a magnetic field impinging thereon; and an asymmetry detector configured to detect an asymmetric characteristic of the vertical Hall sensor element. The asymmetry detector includes a detector main region that vertically extends into the semiconductor substrate from the first main surface towards the second main surface and is of a conductivity type having a first doping concentration; and at least three detector contacts disposed in the detector main region at the first main surface, the at least three detector contacts are ohmic contacts of the conductivity type having a second doping concentration that is higher than the first doping concentration.

    INDUCTIVE ANGLE SENSOR WITH CLEARANCE VALUE ASCERTAINMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20210156665A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-27

    申请号:US16949825

    申请日:2020-11-16

    Abstract: An inductive angle sensor is provided with a stator with an excitation oscillating circuit and a pickup coil arrangement and also with a rotor which is arranged rotatably with respect to the stator and comprises an inductive target arrangement. The excitation oscillating circuit can be energizable with an alternating current, in order to induce an induction current in the target arrangement, and the target arrangement can be designed to generate a magnetic field in reaction to the induction current, which magnetic field in turn generates induction signals in the pickup coil arrangement. The angle sensor further comprises a circuit that is designed to derive an induction strength signal representing the signal strength of the induction signals from the induction signals and to ascertain the spatial clearance between the rotor and the stator on the basis of the induction strength signal, and to generate a corresponding clearance signal.

    MEASUREMENT ARRANGEMENT AND SENSOR PACKAGE

    公开(公告)号:US20210116231A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-22

    申请号:US17062886

    申请日:2020-10-05

    Abstract: A measurement arrangement includes a first soft magnetic element, a second soft magnetic element, a magnetic element which is mechanically coupled to the first soft magnetic element and is configured to produce a magnetic field, and a sensor arrangement for capturing the magnetic field, which sensor arrangement is arranged in such a manner that a relative movement between the first soft magnetic element and the sensor arrangement results in a change in the magnetic field at the location of the sensor arrangement. The sensor arrangement is configured to determine the change. The sensor arrangement and the magnetic element are arranged between the first soft magnetic element and the second soft magnetic element.

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