Patent ID: 6727563
Filing Date: 2004-04-27
Classification: G01R

Abstract:
A Hall element comprising:a Hall region having a non-zero Hall constant; a first contact for supplying an operating current to the Hall region; a third contact for conducting the operating current away from the Hall region, the first and third contacts defining a direction of the operating current within the Hall region; a second contact and a fourth contact for tapping a Hall voltage; and a conductor pattern connected to the first contact or to the third contact and substantially surrounding the region laterally, the conductor pattern comprising two partial conductors that are connected to each other at a connecting point, the connecting point being connected to the first contact or the third contact, wherein the two partial conductors extend, on respective opposite sides of the Hall region, around the Hall region in the direction of the contact to which they are connected, such that an operating current across the contact to which the two partial conductors are connected, is divided into two operating current shares across the two partial conductors.