Magnetic field sensors individualized field reducers
US5729137A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 22, 1996 |
| Grant date | Mar 17, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 22, 2016 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01R33/09
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A magnetic field sensor having a plurality of interconnected magnetoresistive magnetic field sensing structures with at least one thereof having a permeable material mass adjacent thereto to shield it from externally applied magnetic fields. Another has a shunting structure adjacent a side thereof to remove a fraction of externally applied magnetic fields from affecting same.
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