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1. A rotation-angle detection device for detecting a rotation angle of a rotary drum having a multi-pole magnetic pattern at a magnetization pitch λ on an outer circumference, the rotation-angle detection device comprising:
a substrate arranged facing an outer circumference of the rotary drum; a first detection track that is arranged on the substrate and detects the multi-pole magnetic pattern; and a second detection track that is provided on the substrate in a form that the second detection track is lined with respect to the first detection track in a rotational axis direction of the rotary drum, and detects the multi-pole magnetic pattern in a phase different by λ/4 from a phase of the first detection track, wherein the first and second detection tracks each include; a first detection element group that includes a plurality of first magnetic resistance elements arranged between a first reference potential and an output terminal, wherein when k is an integer equivalent to or larger than 2 and orders of target harmonic components to be cancelled among a plurality of harmonic components superimposed on a fundamental component of a detection signal for the multi-pole magnetic pattern are assumed as n=n1, . . . , and nk, respectively, the first magnetic resistance elements are arranged at a pitch λ/(2n) for each of the orders n=n1, . . . , and nk of the target harmonic components, a plurality of first dummy magnetic resistance elements arranged among the first magnetic resistance elements, a second detection element group that includes a plurality of second magnetic resistance elements arranged at the pitch λ(2n) between the output terminal and a second reference potential, a plurality of second dummy magnetic resistance elements arranged between the second magnetic resistance elements, and a plurality of third dummy magnetic resistance elements arranged between the first detection element group and the second detection element group at an equivalent pitch, and wherein, when m is assumed as an integer equivalent to or larger than 2 and a least common multiple of n1, . . . , and nk is assumed as K, pitches between adjacent magnetic resistance elements among the first magnetic resistance elements and the first dummy magnetic resistance elements, and pitches between adjacent magnetic resistance elements among the second magnetic resistance elements and the second dummy magnetic resistance elements are λ(mK), when the order of a target harmonic component to be canceled is assumed as p, pitches between the first magnetic resistance elements and the second magnetic resistance elements corresponding to the first magnetic resistance elements are λ/p, pitches between adjacent magnetic resistance elements among the first magnetic resistance elements, the first dummy magnetic resistance elements, the third dummy magnetic resistance elements, the second magnetic resistance elements, and the second dummy magnetic resistance elements are equivalent to one another, and the first detection track and the second detection track each further include a plurality of fourth dummy magnetic resistance elements on one end side in an arrangement direction of the magnetic resistance elements on the substrate for the first detection track and the second detection track to be equivalent in width and position in a circumferential direction of the rotary drum. |