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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. 29, 1985

Filed:

Mar. 08, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:

Akira Kuno, Oobu, JP;

Muneaki Matsumoto, Okazaki, JP;

Koji Numata, Toyokawa, JP;

Assignee:

Nippon Soken, Inc., Nishio, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01P / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364571 ; 33361 ; 324353 ; 364444 ; 364559 ;
Abstract

A heading detecting apparatus is attached to a moving object and includes a geomagnetic field sensor for detecting the direction of the earth's magnetic field in terms of orthogonal first and second signals and a computing circuit responsive to orthogonal first and second electric signals from the geomagnetic field sensor. In the computing circuit, when any one of the orthogonal first and second electric signals from the geomagnetic field sensor is a predetermined value, the value of the other electric signal is detected so that in accordance with the detected value an offset value is computed and stored, and the electric signals from the geomagnetic field sensor is corrected in accordance with the offset values.


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