Electricity: measuring and testing – Magnetic – Magnetometers
Patent
1979-08-22
1981-12-08
Strecker, Gerard R.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Magnetic
Magnetometers
G01R 3304
Patent
active
043050352
ABSTRACT:
A magnetic field sensor is illustrated which in one useful application comprised two orthogonally positioned coils each having its own electronics and each wound on separate small strips of core material and positioned in a gimballed fixture for use as an electronic compass. The sensing coils in each sensor sense only the components of magnetic field in that plane with one output being representative of the field along the axis of one of the coils and the other being representative of the field along the axis of the other coil. A secondary winding cooperating with each of these coils provides an output signal which is operated upon to remove any DC components and provide a signal indicative in waveshape of the flux in the core. Opposite polarity peak detectors are then used to determine the relative peak voltages with respect to ground for the purpose of determining the DC component which had been removed. The DC component is indicative of any external fields affecting the flux levels in the core material. The DC value is obtained by summing the outputs of the two peak detectors and accumulating the results prior to using this as an apparatus output and as a feedback signal to cancel the effects of the external field in the core and thus maintain maximum sensitivity of the sensor mechanism.
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Mach Dedina O.
Wiegel Roger E.
Bachand Richard A.
Hamman H. Fredrick
Lutz Bruce C.
Rockwell International Corporation
Strecker Gerard R.
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