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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2009
Armin Meisenberg, Dortmund, DE;
Axel Bartos, Waltrop, DE;
Armin Meisenberg, Dortmund, DE;
Axel Bartos, Waltrop, DE;
MEAS Deutschland GmbH, Dortmund, DE;
Abstract
Measuring apparatus for measuring magnetic properties of the area surrounding the measuring apparatus with a sensor row comprising at least two magnetoresistive sensor elements, which are arranged in a row that extends in a row direction, and a supporting field apparatus with generates a magnetic supporting field having a magnetic field component which points in the row direction and the field strength of which varies in the row direction, wherein this field strength profile in the row direction does not have a zero crossing and/or a maximum or minimum on at least two sensor edges of the sensor elements which for the sensor row, which sensor edges are arranged after one another in the row direction.