In the head-on configuration, only the magnetic B field of the z-axis is used. Because the field drops very quickly with distance, only a small travel distance can be measured (Fig. 1).

Taku Murakami, Masami Kitsunai, Daisuke Yoshida, Koichi Yamashita, Nobuyuki Nagahashi, A Hydraulic Cylinder with a Magnetic Stroke Sensor, SAE Transactions, Vol. 101, SECTION 2: JOURNAL OF COMMERCIAL ...

Infineon Technologies will launch a monolithically integrated linear Hall sensor which was developed entirely according to the safety standard ISO26262 for automotive applications. With just one ...