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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 20, 1999
August Petersen, Henstedt-Ulzburg, DE;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics, N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An arrangement for measuring a relative linear position between a sensor and a magnetic body, whose position relative to each other can be changed linearly in a predefined direction. The sensor is arranged as a magnetoresistive angle sensor, with little building expenditure and little sensitivity to external influences, and a magnetic strip is provided as the magnetic body, which strip includes a pair of magnetic poles and magnetic field lines running over its length at varying angles, so that the angle of the magnetic field penetrating the magnetoresistive angle sensor depends on the relative position of the magnetoresistive angle sensor to the magnetic strip and the relative position can be computed from the output signal of the magnetoresistive angle sensor.