Three-dimensional magnetic direction sensor, and magneto-impedance sensor element
First Claim
1. A three-dimensional magnetic bearing sensor including a first sensor, a second sensor, and a third sensor each constituted by a magneto-impedance sensor element comprising a magnetic sensitive member having a characteristic changed responsive to an external magnetic field, an insulator formed to allow penetration of said magnetic sensitive member therethrough, and an electromagnetic coil made up of foil-like conductive patterns arranged in adjacent relation on an outer surface of said insulator,wherein said first sensor, said second sensor, and said third sensor are disposed such that directions in which said magnetic sensitive members in respective sensors have maximum magnetic field detection sensitivities are substantially orthogonal to each other,wherein each of said first sensor, said second sensor, and said third sensor comprises an electrode-wiring substrate having an elongate groove formed therein as a recessed groove, first conductive patterns which are disposed on an inner peripheral surface of said elongate groove to extend across the groove-running direction of said elongate groove and each of which has opposite ends extended to position on the surface of said electrode-wiring substrate, said insulator filled in said elongate groove in a state that an amorphous wire serving as said magnetic sensitive member penetrates said insulator, and second conductive patterns disposed on an outer surface of said insulator in bridging relation to said elongate groove, andwherein said electromagnetic coil is a combination of one coil portion constituted by each of said first conductive patterns and the other coil portion constituted by each of said second conductive patterns and electrically connecting respective corresponding ends of said first conductive patterns adjacent to each other.
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Abstract
A three-dimensional magnetic bearing sensor 10a includes a first sensor 101, a second sensor 102, and a third sensor 103 each constituted by a magneto-impedance sensor element 10 comprising a magnetic sensitive member 2 having a characteristic changed responsive to an external magnetic field, an insulator 4 formed to allow penetration of the magnetic sensitive member 2 therethrough, and an electromagnetic coil 3 made up of foil-like conductive patterns 31, 32 arranged in adjacent relation on an outer surface of the insulator 4. The first sensor 101, the second sensor 102, and the third sensor 103 are disposed such that directions in which the magnetic sensitive members 2 in respective sensors have maximum magnetic field detection sensitivities are substantially orthogonal to each other.
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13 Claims
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1. A three-dimensional magnetic bearing sensor including a first sensor, a second sensor, and a third sensor each constituted by a magneto-impedance sensor element comprising a magnetic sensitive member having a characteristic changed responsive to an external magnetic field, an insulator formed to allow penetration of said magnetic sensitive member therethrough, and an electromagnetic coil made up of foil-like conductive patterns arranged in adjacent relation on an outer surface of said insulator,
wherein said first sensor, said second sensor, and said third sensor are disposed such that directions in which said magnetic sensitive members in respective sensors have maximum magnetic field detection sensitivities are substantially orthogonal to each other, wherein each of said first sensor, said second sensor, and said third sensor comprises an electrode-wiring substrate having an elongate groove formed therein as a recessed groove, first conductive patterns which are disposed on an inner peripheral surface of said elongate groove to extend across the groove-running direction of said elongate groove and each of which has opposite ends extended to position on the surface of said electrode-wiring substrate, said insulator filled in said elongate groove in a state that an amorphous wire serving as said magnetic sensitive member penetrates said insulator, and second conductive patterns disposed on an outer surface of said insulator in bridging relation to said elongate groove, and wherein said electromagnetic coil is a combination of one coil portion constituted by each of said first conductive patterns and the other coil portion constituted by each of said second conductive patterns and electrically connecting respective corresponding ends of said first conductive patterns adjacent to each other.
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8. A three-dimensional magnetic bearing sensor including a first sensor, a second sensor, and a third sensor each constituted by a magneto-impedance sensor element comprising a magnetic sensitive member having a characteristic changed responsive to an external magnetic field, an insulator formed to allow penetration of said magnetic sensitive member therethrough, and an electromagnetic coil made up of foil-like conductive patterns arranged in adjacent relation on an outer surface of said insulator,
wherein said first sensor, said second sensor, and said third sensor are disposed such that directions in which said magnetic sensitive members in respective sensors have maximum magnetic field detection sensitivities are substantially orthogonal to each other, wherein in each of said first sensor, said second sensor, and said third sensor, said insulator is formed on an outer periphery of an amorphous wire or a magnetic anisotropic thin film serving as said magnetic sensitive member, and said electromagnetic coil is constituted by said conductive patterns arranged on the outer peripheral surface of said insulator, wherein said three-dimensional magnetic bearing sensor includes an IC having a substantially rectangular shape with four side wall surfaces and incorporating an electronic circuit formed therein, said first sensor, said second sensor, and said third sensor being all disposed on said IC, wherein said third sensor is surface-mounted to a daughter substrate which is disposed on one of said side wall surfaces in substantially orthogonal relation to the surface of said IC, and a direction in which said magnetic sensitive member in said third sensor has a maximum magnetic field detection sensitivity is substantially matched with the direction of thickness of said IC, wherein said first sensor and said second sensor are disposed on the surface of said IC, and wherein said third sensor has electrodes positioned to face a mount surface of said daughter substrate and is surface-mounted to said daughter substrate in a state that said electrodes are abutted with corresponding electrodes on said daughter substrate.
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11. A magneto-impedance sensor element made by winding an electromagnetic coil around a magnetic sensitive member having a characteristic changed responsive to an external magnetic field, wherein said magneto-impedance sensor element comprises a sensor substrate for holding said magnetic sensitive member, an insulator formed to allow penetration of said magnetic sensitive member therethrough, and an electromagnetic coil made up of foil-like conductive patterns arranged in adjacent relation on an outer surface of said insulator, and
wherein said sensor substrate has electrodes extended from said electromagnetic coil and said magnetic sensitive member, said electrodes being formed on one of outer surfaces of said sensor substrate which is substantially orthogonal to the axial direction of said magnetic sensitive member.
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