Patents by Inventor Tsutomu Shimonosono

Tsutomu Shimonosono has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9234692
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a superconducting magnetic apparatus that conductively cools a superconducting coil contained in a vacuum container with a cryogenic refrigerator. The superconducting magnetic apparatus includes a thermal conductor thermally connecting a cooling stage of the cryogenic refrigerator to the superconducting coil, a radiation blocking layer provided around the superconducting coil, and a coil supporting body supporting the superconducting coil by partial or entire contact with a surface of the superconducting coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Kei Koyanagi, Taizo Tosaka, Tsutomu Shimonosono, Michitaka Ono, Tsutomu Kurusu
  • Patent number: 8280468
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet device for a single crystal pulling apparatus is arranged outside a pulling furnace containing a crucible for melting a single crystal material therein so as to apply a magnetic field to the melted single crystal material. The superconducting magnet device for a single crystal pulling apparatus includes a cryostat containing a superconducting coil therein, and a refrigerator port arranged on the outer circumferential surface of the cryostat and provided with a cryogenic refrigerator that cools the superconducting coil. The cryogenic refrigerator is provided in a region of the outer surface region of the cryostat at which the intensity of the magnetic field generated by the superconducting coil is weak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shohei Takami, Tsutomu Shimonosono, Tomoko Ota, Yuuji Minemoto, Yoshifumi Nagamoto, Makoto Ushijima
  • Publication number: 20110077161
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet device for a single crystal pulling apparatus is arranged outside a pulling furnace containing a crucible for melting a single crystal material therein so as to apply a magnetic field to the melted single crystal material. The superconducting magnet device for a single crystal pulling apparatus includes a cryostat containing a superconducting coil therein, and a refrigerator port arranged on the outer circumferential surface of the cryostat and provided with a cryogenic refrigerator that cools the superconducting coil. The cryogenic refrigerator is provided in a region of the outer surface region of the cryostat at which the intensity of the magnetic field generated by the superconducting coil is weak.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2009
    Publication date: March 31, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Shohei Takami, Tsutomu Shimonosono, Tomoko Ota, Yuuji Minemoto, Yoshifumi Nagamoto, Makoto Ushijima
  • Publication number: 20100313574
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, there is provided a superconducting magnetic apparatus that conductively cools a superconducting coil contained in a vacuum container with a cryogenic refrigerator. The superconducting magnetic apparatus includes a thermal conductor thermally connecting a cooling stage of the cryogenic refrigerator to the superconducting coil, a radiation blocking layer provided around the superconducting coil, and a coil supporting body supporting the superconducting coil by partial or entire contact with a surface of the superconducting coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Publication date: December 16, 2010
    Inventors: Kei KOYANAGI, Taizo Tosaka, Tsutomu Shimonosono, Michitaka Ono, Tsutomu Kurusu
  • Patent number: 6984264
    Abstract: A single crystal pulling device is composed of a cylindrical pulling furnace, a crucible disposed in the pulling furnace in which a single crystal material for a semiconductor is poured, a cylindrical vacuum vessel coaxially disposed around the pulling furnace, and a superconducting magnet composed of a plurality pairs of coils arranged inside the vacuum vessel so as to generate magnetic field. The superconducting coils are arranged on the same horizontal plane of the cylindrical vacuum vessel, and each of the paired superconducting coils includes coils set so as to oppose to each other with respect to a central axis of the cylindrical vacuum vessel so that one coil of one pair of coils and one coil of another pair of coils adjacent to that one pair of coils constitutes a set angle, directing towards the inside of the cylindrical vessel, in a range of 100° to 130°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Tsutomu Shimonosono, Yoshihiro Koguchi, Takashi Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20040107894
    Abstract: A single crystal pulling device is composed of a cylindrical pulling furnace, a crucible disposed in the pulling furnace in which a single crystal material for a semiconductor is poured, a cylindrical vacuum vessel coaxially disposed around the pulling furnace, and a superconducting magnet composed of a plurality pairs of coils arranged inside the vacuum vessel so as to generate magnetic field. The superconducting coils are arranged on the same horizontal plane of the cylindrical vacuum vessel, and each of the paired superconducting coils includes coils set so as to oppose to each other with respect to a central axis of the cylindrical vacuum vessel so that one coil of one pair of coils and one coil of another pair of coils adjacent to that one pair of coils constitutes a set angle, directing towards the inside of the cylindrical vessel, in a range of 100° to 130°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Tokyo, Japan
    Inventors: Tsutomu Shimonosono, Yoshihiro Koguchi, Takashi Sasaki