发明授权
- 专利标题: Magnetic field sensing device
- 专利标题(中): 磁场感应装置
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申请号: US12392638申请日: 2009-02-25
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公开(公告)号: US07977941B2公开(公告)日: 2011-07-12
- 发明人: Phillip G. Mather , Jon M. Slaughter
- 申请人: Phillip G. Mather , Jon M. Slaughter
- 申请人地址: US AZ Chandler
- 专利权人: Everspin Technologies, Inc.
- 当前专利权人: Everspin Technologies, Inc.
- 当前专利权人地址: US AZ Chandler
- 代理机构: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, PC
- 主分类号: G01R33/02
- IPC分类号: G01R33/02
摘要:
A magnetic field sensing device for determining the strength of a magnetic field, includes four magnetic tunnel junction elements or element arrays (100) configured as a bridge (200). A current source is coupled to a current line (116) disposed near each of the four magnetic tunnel junction elements (100) for selectively supplying temporally spaced first and second currents. Sampling circuitry (412, 414) coupled to the current source samples the bridge output during the first and second currents and determines the value of the magnetic field from the difference of the first and second values. A method for sensing the magnetic field includes supplying a first current to the current line (116), supplying a second current the current line (116), sampling the value at the output for each of the first and second currents, determining the difference between the sampled values during each of the first and second currents, and determining a measured magnetic field based on the determined difference.
公开/授权文献
- US20100213933A1 MAGNETIC FIELD SENSING DEVICE 公开/授权日:2010-08-26
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