# US 12,222,372 B2 · Chip type coil-based fluxgate current sensor

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- Number: US 12,222,372 B2
- Document ID: US12222372B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 18/005,528
- Filed: 2020-09-11
- Published: 2023-09-07
- Granted: 2025-02-11
- Earliest claimed: 2020-08-18
- Assignees: Ningbo Crrc Times Transducer Technology Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Ningbo Crrc Times Transducer Technology Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Xiaowei Hou; Yang Lv; Liangguang Zheng; Shengping Zhu; Po Zhang; Peng Wu
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12222372B2

## CPC

- G01R 15/185: {with compensation or feedback windings or interacting coils, e.g. 0-flux sensors (using galvano-magnetic field sensors G01R15/20; conversion of DC into AC using transductors G01R19/20)}
- G01R 15/20: using galvano-magnetic devices, e.g. Hall-effect devices {, i.e. measuring a magnetic field via the interaction between a current and a magnetic field, e.g. magneto resistive or Hall effect devices}
- G01R: MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES (indicating correct tuning of resonant circuits H03J3/12)

## Abstract

A chip type coil-based fluxgate current sensor, comprising: a magnetism gathering iron core, a chip type coil, an integral filtering module, a signal driving module, a voltage acquisition module, and a signal amplification module which are connected in sequence. The chip type coil comprises a first high-resistance silicon wafer and a second high-resistance silicon wafer which are bonded with each other; a built-in cavity is formed between involution surfaces of first high-resistance silicon wafer and second high-resistance silicon wafer, and multiple solenoid cavities filled with coil materials are provided around the periphery of the cavity; a cavity opening is formed at one end after involution of first high-resistance silicon wafer and second high-resistance silicon wafer. The magnetism gathering iron core is inserted into the cavity of the chip type coil by means of the cavity opening. The present current sensor is small in size and stable in signal.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A chip type coil-based fluxgate current sensor, comprising a magnetism gathering iron core, a chip type coil, an integral filtering module, a signal driving module, a voltage acquisition module, and a signal amplification module which are connected in sequence;
the chip type coil comprises a first high-resistance silicon wafer and a second high-resistance silicon wafer which are bonded with each other; a built-in cavity is formed between involution surfaces of the first high-resistance silicon wafer and the second high-resistance silicon wafer, and multiple solenoid cavities filled with coil materials are provided around a periphery of the cavity; a cavity opening is formed at one end after involution of the first high-resistance silicon wafer and the second high-resistance silicon wafer;
the magnetism gathering iron core is inserted into the cavity of the chip type coil by means of the cavity opening;
further comprising a feedback coil and a self-excited oscillation circuit module; the feedback coil is used for generating a magnetic field opposite to a magnetic field generated by a primary-side current, and feeding the generated magnetic field back to the magnetism gathering iron core; the self-excited oscillation circuit module is used for detecting a current of the chip type coil, reversing square waves of the chip type coil, and driving the chip type coil;
the integral filtering module is used for receiving a voltage signal output after the chip type coil senses a detected magnetic field, and processing the voltage signal to obtain a corresponding current signal.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The chip type coil-based fluxgate current sensor according to claim 1, wherein the chip type coil is a chip type three dimensional solenoid coil.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The chip type coil-based fluxgate current sensor according to claim 1, wherein the signal driving module is used for receiving the current signal of the integral filtering module and driving the feedback coil according to the received current signal.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The chip type coil-based fluxgate current sensor according to claim 3, wherein the signal driving module comprises a sampling resistor.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The chip type coil-based fluxgate current sensor according to claim 4, wherein the voltage acquisition module is used for acquiring a voltage signal of the sampling resistor of the signal driving module.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The chip type coil-based fluxgate current sensor according to claim 5, wherein the signal amplification module is used for receiving the voltage signal acquired by the voltage acquisition module and amplifying the acquired voltage signal to obtain a voltage signal in preset proportion with the primary-side current.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The chip type coil-based fluxgate current sensor according to claim 1, wherein the magnetism gathering iron core is a soft magnetism gathering iron core.