Denso Corporation

Nippon Soken, Inc.

Tomomitsu Kamiya

Kenji Takeda

Masao Tokunaga

A magnetic sensor unit includes an actuator motor and a magnetic position sensor. The actuator motor has a magnetic circuit including motor magnets. The magnetic position sensor includes a sensor magnet and a hall element for detecting magnetic flux. Magnet clearances are formed between the motor magnets. The hall element is disposed outside of the motor to detect the magnetic flux in a direction penetrating through the magnet clearances, and which is perpendicular to a direction from one of the motor magnets to the other. In this disposition of the hall element, it is restricted that the hall element detects leaking magnetic flux from the motor magnets.

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Takahama, Japan

Tomomitsu Kamiya