Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Magnetic field measurement apparatus, magnetic field measurement method, and storage medium with magnetic field measurement program stored thereon
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Application No.: US16434192Application Date: 2019-06-07
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Publication No.: US11668771B2Publication Date: 2023-06-06
- Inventor: Takenobu Nakamura , Shigeki Okatake , Yoshitaka Moriyasu
- Applicant: Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation
- Current Assignee: Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Priority: JP 2018110417 2018.06.08 JP 2019075742 2019.04.11
- Main IPC: G01R33/09
- IPC: G01R33/09 ; G01R33/00 ; A61B5/243 ; A61B5/242 ; G01R33/02 ; G01R33/035

Abstract:
A magnetic field measurement apparatus including a magnetic sensor array having magnetic sensor cells capable of detecting magnetic fields in three axial directions arranged in three dimensions, each magnetic sensor cell including a plurality of magnetic sensors that each have a magnetoresistive element and a magnetic flux concentrator arranged at least at one of one end and another end of the magnetoresistive element; AD converters that respectively convert analog detection signals output by the magnetic sensors into digital measurement data; a magnetic field acquiring section that acquires the digital measurement data; a calibration computing section that calibrates the digital measurement data from the magnetic field acquiring section, using at least one of a main-axis sensitivity, cross-axis sensitivities, and an offset; and a gradient magnetic field computing section that calculates a gradient magnetic field using magnetic field measurement data resulting from the calibration of the digital measurement data.
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