In-phase voltage elimination circuit for Hall element

• US 4,435,653 A
• Filed: 11/06/1981
• Issued: 03/06/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Tanaka, Shikei, Matui, Kunihiko
• Primary Examiner(s): Miller, Stanley D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Davis, B. P.
• Application Number:
  US06/318,852
• Time in Patent Office: 851 Days
• Field of Search: 307/309, 307/511, 307/491, 330/6, 324/117 H, 323/368, 323/294
• US Class Current: 327/511
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 17/06 Automatic balancing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 21/08 by using galvanomagnetic-effect devices, e.g. Hall-effect devices
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 33/07 Hall effect devices

Abstract

An in-phase voltage elimination circuit in which a Hall element has first and second control current input terminals and first and second output terminals, the first and second control current input terminals fed with a control current and the first output terminal connected to one input terminal of an operational amplifier. The other output of the operational amplifier is connected to ground, and the output terminal of the operational amplifier is connected to one of the first and second control current input terminals. A Hall output is produced at the second output terminal of the Hall element.

Claims

1. An in-phase voltage elimination circuit comprising:

a Hall element having first and second control current input terminals and first and second output terminals, said second control current input terminal being connected to neither of said first and second output terminals;

means for supplying a control current to said first control current input terminal of said Hall element; and

an operational amplifier having a first input terminal connected to reference potential, a second input terminal connected to said first input terminal of said Hall element, and an output terminal connected to second control current input terminal of said Hall element;

wherein said Hall element produces a Hall output at said second output terminal of said Hall element.

2. An in-phase voltage elimination circuit according to claim 1, wherein said first input terminal of said operational amplifier is connected to ground.

3. An in-phase voltage elimination circuit according to claim 1, wherein said control current supplying means is a constant current source.

4. An in-phase voltage elimination circuit according to claim 1, wherein said control current supplying means is a constant voltage power source connected between said first and second control current input terminals.

5. An in-phase voltage elimination circuit according to claim 1, wherein said control current supplying means comprises a converter for converting load voltage into constant control current and then for feeding the constant control current to said Hall element.

6. An in-phase voltage elimination circuit comprising:

a Hall element having a pair of control current input terminals and a pair of output terminals, said control current input terminals being disconnected from said output terminals;

a power source for feeding a control current between said pair of control current input terminals of said Hall element; and

an operational amplifier having a first input terminal connected to reference potential, a second input terminal connected to one of said output terminals of said Hall element to produce a Hall output voltage at the other output terminal of said Hall element, and an output terminal connected to said power source.

7. An in-phase voltage elimination circuit according to claim 6, wherein said power source is a constant current source.

8. An in-phase voltage elimination circuit according to claim 7, wherein said constant current source comprises:

an operational amplifier having an inverted input terminal connected to one of control current input terminals of said Hall element, an output terminal connected to the other control current input terminal of said Hall element; and

a constant voltage power source, one terminal of which is connected to said inverted input terminal of said operational amplifier through a resistance, and the other terminal of which is connected to a non-inverted input terminal of said operational amplifier.

9. An in-phase voltage elimination circuit according to claim 7, wherein said constant current source comprises:

an operational amplifier, an output terminal of which is connected to one of control current input terminal of said Hall element; and

a constant voltage power source, one terminal of which is connected to one of input terminals of said operational amplifier, and the other terminal of which is connected to the other control current input terminal of said Hall element and also connected to the other input terminal of said operational amplifier through a resistance.

10. An in-phase voltage elimination circuit according to claim 6, wherein said power source is a constant voltage source connected between said pair of control current input terminals.

11. An in-phase voltage elimination circuit according to claim 6, wherein said first input terminal of said operational amplifier is connected to ground.