Patent ID: 8664945

Claim:
A magnetic angle sensor, comprising a semiconductor chip, at least two magnetic field concentrators of planar shape which are arranged on a surface of the semiconductor chip, the magnetic field concentrators arranged at a distance from each other, and four Hall sensors, each Hall sensor assigned to one of the magnetic field concentrators and comprising a Hall element or a cluster of Hall elements, the Hall elements integrated in the semiconductor chip and arranged in the region of the edge of the assigned magnetic field concentrator where they are permeated by field lines of a magnetic field which extend approximately perpendicularly to the said surface of the semiconductor chip in the region of the edge of the magnetic field concentrator, wherein two of the Hall sensors form a first pair of sensors for measuring a first component of the magnetic field and the other two of the Hall sensors form a second pair of sensors for measuring a second component of the magnetic field, wherein the two Hall sensors of the first pair are assigned to different magnetic field concentrators, the two Hall sensors of the second pair are assigned to different magnetic field concentrators, and wherein a connecting line which connects one Hall sensor of the first pair with one Hall sensor of the second pair runs either parallel to or forms a single common line with a line which connects the other Hall sensor of the first pair with the other Hall sensor of the second pair.