Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Magnetic sensor device preventing concentration of magnetic fluxes to a magnetic sensing element
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Application No.: US15343874Application Date: 2016-11-04
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Publication No.: US09891293B2Publication Date: 2018-02-13
- Inventor: Makoto Kawakami , Yasunori Takaki , Yasunori Abe , Yasuhito Takeuchi
- Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
- Current Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oliff PLC
- Priority: JP2012-066579 20120323
- Main IPC: G01R33/05
- IPC: G01R33/05 ; G01R33/09

Abstract:
A magnetic sensor device that includes an annular magnetic body, a coil wound around the magnetic body, the coil configured to apply a magnetic field that rotates 360 degrees by a half way point in a peripheral direction of the magnetic body, and a magnetoresistance effect element arranged at a center of the annular magnetic body and including a fixed layer having a magnetization direction fixed in a direction of the magnetic field to be measured. The magnetic body includes a tapered portion located at a position where a line passing through the center of the magnetic body and extending in a shorter-axis direction intersects the magnetic body, the tapered portion having a narrowed portion narrowed down toward the magnetoresistance effect element, and having dumbbell-shaped inner and outer peripheries, and the narrowed portion having a width reduced toward the magnetoresistance effect element.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170097395A1 MAGNETIC SENSOR DEVICE Public/Granted day:2017-04-06
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