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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2008
Applicants:
Yimin Guo, San Jose, CA (US);
Grace Gorman, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Yimin Guo, San Jose, CA (US);
Grace Gorman, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
MagIC Technologies, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01B 7/30 (2006.01); G01R 33/05 (2006.01); G01R 33/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An AMR gear tooth rotation sensor and a method for utilizing it are disclosed. These facilitate easy manufacture of the device without sacrificing either high sensitivity or high signal output. This is achieved by forming individual sensing elements out of AMR stripes and then connecting four such sensing elements as a Wheatstone bridge. The latter is attached to a permanent magnet that provides a bias field whose value rises and falls as wheel teeth and valleys (respectively) move past the rotation sensor.