- 专利标题: Magnetic field sensor with automatic sensitivity adjustment
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申请号: US12037393申请日: 2008-02-26
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公开(公告)号: US07923996B2公开(公告)日: 2011-04-12
- 发明人: Michael C. Doogue , Gerardo Monreal , William P. Taylor
- 申请人: Michael C. Doogue , Gerardo Monreal , William P. Taylor
- 申请人地址: US MA Worcester
- 专利权人: Allegro Microsystems, Inc.
- 当前专利权人: Allegro Microsystems, Inc.
- 当前专利权人地址: US MA Worcester
- 代理机构: Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP
- 主分类号: G01R33/06
- IPC分类号: G01R33/06 ; G01R33/07 ; G01R33/09
摘要:
Magnetic field sensors have a magnetic field sensing element and also a feedback circuit to provide a gain-adjustment signal to affect a sensitivity associated with the magnetic field sensing element. In some arrangements, the feedback circuit can include piezoresistors to sense a strain of a substrate over which the magnetic field sensor is disposed. With these arrangements, the feedback circuit can generate the gain-adjustment signal in accordance with the sensed strain. In other arrangements, the feedback circuit can generate pulsed magnetic fields proximate to the magnetic field sensing element in order to directly measure the sensitivity of the magnetic field sensing element. With these arrangements, the feedback circuit can generate the gain-adjustment signal in accordance with the sensed sensitivity.
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