Patents by Inventor Ryoko Sugano

Ryoko Sugano 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).

  • Publication number: 20180069165
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an MgB2 thin film wire having an optimum average grain size is done by providing an optimum average grain size range to increase a pinning force and improve Jc with respect to the MgB2 thin film wire. In this method, the MgB2 thin film wire is made of an aggregate of MgB2 grains having a columnar structure which alignment is controlled to be in a direction perpendicular to a surface, a ratio of MgB2 to a total volume of the thin film wire is 90% or more, an average grain size of the grains is 30 nm or more and 200 nm or less by forming the MgB2 thin film having a film thickness of 1000 nm or more and 10000 nm or less in the lateral direction, and the average grain size of the grains is 40 nm or more and 100 nm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoko SUGANO, Toshiaki KUSUNOKI, Hiroyuki YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 9086445
    Abstract: To increase an output from a magnetoresistive element without using a special magnetic material, provided is a magnetic detection device including a magnetoresistive element including a ferromagnetic reference layer having a fixed magnetization direction, to which a spin wave induction layer is connected, so that the spin wave induction layer injects, into the ferromagnetic reference layer, electrons having spins in a specific direction by a spin electromotive force internally generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoko Sugano, Masahiko Ichimura, Akihiko Kandori
  • Publication number: 20140132257
    Abstract: To increase an output from a magnetoresistive element without using a special magnetic material, provided is a magnetic detection device including a magnetoresistive element including a ferromagnetic reference layer having a fixed magnetization direction, to which a spin wave induction layer is connected, so that the spin wave induction layer injects, into the ferromagnetic reference layer, electrons having spins in a specific direction by a spin electromotive force internally generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryoko SUGANO, Masahiko ICHIMURA, Akihiko KANDORI
  • Patent number: 8295006
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor reduces thermal fluctuation and realizes high-sensitive signal detection using a spin Hall device of a simple structure configured with only one magnetic layer. The magnetic sensor includes a stacked film in which a nonmagnetic spin Hall layer, a nonmagnetic insulator layer, and a magnetic layer are stacked, an electrode nonmagnetic terminal pair connected to a side surface of the nonmagnetic spin Hall layer, and a unit applying a current in a film thickness direction of the stacked film. A thickness of the nonmagnetic spin Hall layer is thinner than twice a spin diffusion length of a material constituting the nonmagnetic spin Hall layer. A magnetization direction of the magnetic layer magnetized by an external magnetic field is detected due to the polarity of a voltage across both ends of the electrode nonmagnetic terminal pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryoko Sugano, Masahiko Ichimura, Hiromasa Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20090161265
    Abstract: A magnetic sensor reduces thermal fluctuation and realizes high-sensitive signal detection using a spin Hall device of a simple structure configured with only one magnetic layer. The magnetic sensor includes a stacked film in which a nonmagnetic spin Hall layer, a nonmagnetic insulator layer, and a magnetic layer are stacked, an electrode nonmagnetic terminal pair connected to a side surface of the nonmagnetic spin Hall layer, and a unit applying a current in a film thickness direction of the stacked film. A thickness of the nonmagnetic spin Hall layer is thinner than twice a spin diffusion length of a material constituting the nonmagnetic spin Hall layer. A magnetization direction of the magnetic layer magnetized by an external magnetic field is detected due to the polarity of a voltage across both ends of the electrode nonmagnetic terminal pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Ryoko Sugano, Masahiko Ichimura, Hiromasa Takahashi
  • Publication number: 20090054722
    Abstract: The present invention provides drug carriers having high heating efficiency by high-frequency dielectric heating in a state of being selectively accumulated in a target site. The drug carriers each consist of a drug, magnetic fine particles, and a shell containing the drug and the magnetic fine particles. The shell has an outer diameter in a range from 10 nm to 200 nm. The magnetic fine particles having an average particle diameter of d has a standard deviation ? of particle diameter distribution satisfying 0.8d>?>0.4d. The magnetic fine particles contained in the individual drug carriers generate hysteresis heat due to high-frequency dielectric heating by irradiation of a high-frequency magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Ryoko Sugano, Nami Sugita, Teruo Kohashi, Keiji Takata, Chiharu Mitsumata, Shigeo Fujii