Methode Electronics Malta Ltd.

Ignazio Barraco

Johannes Gieβibl

Assed Mir

Johannes Giessibl

The invention provides a method for reducing the noise in a signal from a torque sensor caused by near magnetic field sources. The torque sensor has a partially hollow longitudinally extending member, and a magneto-elastically active region including one region magnetically polarized such that the magnetized polarity becomes increasingly helically shaped as the applied torque increases; a plurality of primary magnetic field sensors arranged approximate the at least one region for outputting a first signal corresponding to a torque-dependent magnetic flux emanating from the active region; at least one secondary magnetic field sensor axially spaced in a first direction by a pre-determined first distance from the plurality of primary magnetic field sensors for outputting a second signal corresponding to an ambient magnetic flux emanating from a near magnetic field source; at least one secondary magnetic field sensor axially spaced in a second direction opposite the first direction by a pre-determined second distance from the plurality of primary magnetic field sensors for outputting a third signal corresponding to the ambient magnetic flux emanating from the near magnetic field source; means for adjusting the first signal using the second and the third signals thereby compensating for the effects of the near magnetic field.

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Munich, Germany

Ignazio Barraco