A magnetic sensor includes a base material, a plurality of magnets provided at predetermined spacing on the base material, and a plurality of magnetic detection parts respectively provided close to the plurality of magnets. Each of the plurality of magnetic detection parts outputs a signal in accordance with change in the magnetic field accompanying deformation of the base material.

The present disclosure relates to a magnetic-sensor device comprising a circuit board made of an electrically insulating material and having conductor tracks, and comprising a permanent magnet surface-mounted on the circuit board, and a magnetic-field sensor connected to the conductor tracks of the circuit board. An SMD component for populating a circuit board is also proposed, which SMD component comprises a permanent magnet and a magnetic-field sensor.

The present disclosure relates to a magnetic-sensor device comprising a circuit board made of an electrically insulating material and having conductor tracks, and comprising a permanent magnet surface-mounted on the circuit board, and a magnetic-field sensor connected to the conductor tracks of the circuit board. An SMD component for populating a circuit board is also proposed, which SMD component comprises a permanent magnet and a magnetic-field sensor.

An information processing device and a magnetic sensor system are provided, in which accuracy of frequency measurement is less likely to deteriorate even though the frequency of output signals outputted from the magnetic sensor increases, and which have detection limits for high frequency measurement even with a minute frequency change rate. An information processing device 120 includes: an obtaining part 31 obtaining an output signal outputted by a magnetic sensor and oscillating at a frequency determined in response to strength of a magnetic field; a frequency determination part 32 utilizing interference between the output signal and a reference signal with a reference frequency, which is a frequency used as a reference, to determine the frequency of the output signal; and a magnetic field calculation part 40 calculating the strength of the magnetic field based on the determined frequency of the output signal.

An electromagnetic gradiometer that includes multiple torsionally operated MEMS-based magnetic and/or electric field sensors with control electronics configured to provide magnetic and/or electric field gradient measurements. In one example a magnetic gradiometer includes a first torsionally operated MEMS magnetic sensor having a capacitive read-out configured to provide a first measurement of a received magnetic field, a second torsionally operated MEMS magnetic sensor coupled to the first torsionally operated MEMS magnetic sensor and having the capacitive read-out configured to provide a second measurement of the received magnetic field, and control electronics coupled to the first and second torsionally operated MEMS magnetic sensors and configured to determine a magnetic field gradient of the received magnetic field based the first and second measurements from the first and second torsionally operated MEMS electromagnetic sensors.

An electromagnetic gradiometer that includes multiple torsionally operated MEMS-based magnetic and/or electric field sensors with control electronics configured to provide magnetic and/or electric field gradient measurements. In one example a magnetic gradiometer includes a first torsionally operated MEMS magnetic sensor having a capacitive read-out configured to provide a first measurement of a received magnetic field, a second torsionally operated MEMS magnetic sensor coupled to the first torsionally operated MEMS magnetic sensor and having the capacitive read-out configured to provide a second measurement of the received magnetic field, and control electronics coupled to the first and second torsionally operated MEMS magnetic sensors and configured to determine a magnetic field gradient of the received magnetic field based the first and second measurements from the first and second torsionally operated MEMS electromagnetic sensors.

A magnetic sensor 1 includes a plurality of sensitive elements 31 made of a soft magnetic material. The sensitive elements 31 have a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction and have a uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction. The sensitive elements 31 are configured to sense a magnetic field by a magnetic impedance effect. The sensitive elements 31 are arranged with a gap in between in the transverse direction. The magnetic sensor 1 includes a connecting portion 32 configured to connect longitudinal ends of transversely adjacent ones of the sensitive elements 31. The connecting portion 32 has a width in the transverse direction that narrows as the connecting portion 32 approaches the ones of the sensitive elements 31 along the longitudinal direction.

The innovative concept described herein relates to a magnetic angle sensor system having a rotatable shaft, a permanent magnet coupled to the rotatable shaft, and a magnetic field sensor arranged opposite the permanent magnet, wherein the magnetic field sensor is configured to detect a magnetic field prevailing in its detection region. The magnetic angle sensor system comprises means for reducing and/or compensating for an inhomogeneous stray field component of a per se homogeneous external magnetic stray field.

A magnetic sensor includes: a non-magnetic substrate; and a sensitive element 31 having a longitudinal direction and a short direction, provided with uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in a direction crossing the longitudinal direction, and sensing a magnetic field by a magnetic impedance effect, wherein the sensitive element 31 includes plural soft magnetic material layers 105a to 105d and plural non-magnetic material layers 106a to 106c configured with a non-magnetic material and laminated between the plural soft magnetic material layers 105a to 105d, and the soft magnetic material layers 105a to 105d facing each other with each of the non-magnetic material layers 106a to 106c interposed therebetween are antiferromagnetically coupled.

Embodiments of the disclosure provide magnetic sensing systems and methods for a galvanometer scanner configured to rotate within a predetermined angular range. An exemplary magnetic sensing system includes a disc permanent magnet configured to provide a magnetic field. The magnetic sensing system further includes a Hall sensor configured to generate a voltage proportional to the strength of the magnetic field as the Hall sensor and the disc permanent magnet move relatively to each other when the galvanometer scanner rotates. One of the disc permanent magnet and the Hall sensor locates on and rotates with the galvanometer scanner and the other locates off the galvanometer scanner. The magnetic sensing system also includes at least one controller configured to determine a rotation angle of the galvanometer scanner based on the generated voltage by the Hall Sensor.