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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 10, 2018
Applicant:

Allegro Microsystems, Llc, Manchester, NH (US);

Inventors:

Nicolas Rigoni, Buenos Aires, AR;

Octavio H. Alpago, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, AR;

Nicolas Rafael Biberidis, Barcelona, ES;

Hernán D. Romero, Buenos Aires, AR;

Assignee:

Allegro MicroSystems, LLC, Manchester, NH (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 35/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/02 (2006.01); G01R 33/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 35/00 (2013.01); G01R 33/0017 (2013.01); G01R 33/0029 (2013.01); G01R 33/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

A magnetic field sensor includes a first magnetic field sensing element first generating a first signal having a first axis of maximum sensitivity, a second magnetic field sensing element for generating a second signal and having a second axis of maximum sensitivity, one or more detectors for receiving an output of the first magnetic field sensing element or the second magnetic field sensing element, and a processor that receives an output of the one or more detectors and uses the output of the one or more detectors to calculate a first constant Kand a second constant Kand then uses Kand Kto compensate for an orthogonality error between the first axis of maximum sensitivity and second axis of maximum sensitivity. The detectors include peak detectors and/or zero-crossing detectors that compare the output of the first input signal or the second input signal with a threshold or zero.


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