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Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025

Filed:

Feb. 23, 2024
Applicant:

Tdk Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Keisuke Uchida, Tokyo, JP;

Kazuya Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

TDK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 5/16 (2006.01); G01R 33/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01D 5/16 (2013.01); G01R 33/0005 (2013.01); G01R 33/09 (2013.01); G01R 33/091 (2013.01); G01R 33/093 (2013.01); G01R 33/098 (2013.01);
Abstract

The magnetic sensor of the invention has an element portion that is elongate, that exhibits magnetoresistive effect and that has a magnetically sensitive axis in a direction of a short axis thereof. The element portion is non-oval and can be arranged in an imaginary ellipse, wherein the imaginary ellipse has a major axis that connects both ends of the element portion with regard to a direction of a long axis thereof to each other and a minor axis that connects both ends of the element portion with regard to a direction of the short axis thereof to each other, as viewed in a direction that is perpendicular both to the short axis and to the long axis of the element portion.


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