Patents by Inventor Yoshiharu Yoshii
Yoshiharu Yoshii 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).
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Publication number: 20250004076Abstract: A nuclear magnetic resonance sensor applies a high frequency magnetic field based on an RF signal to a target and generates an observation signal with a frequency shifted from that of the RF signal by a frequency of an NMR signal. A mixer generates an IF demodulation signal including the NMR signal. A low-pass filter passes a low frequency component of the IF demodulation signal. In a digitizing device, a physical field generator generates a magnetic field corresponding to the IF demodulation signal passed through the low-pass filter, an optical quantum sensor generates light corresponding to the magnetic field by a sensing member and converts the light into a sensor signal by a photoelectric element, and an analog/digital converter digitizes the sensor signal. The optical quantum sensor performs a quantum operation on the sensing member and causes the sensing member to generate the light corresponding to the magnetic field.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2022Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: Izuru OHKI, Norikazu MIZUOCHI, Yoshiharu YOSHII, Tsunaki KANEKO, Akifumi SAKO
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Publication number: 20240418809Abstract: A physical field generator generates a magnetic field or an electric field corresponding to an input signal. An optical quantum sensor part generates light corresponding to the magnetic field or the electric field by a sensing member and converts the light into an electrical signal as a sensor signal by a photoelectric element. An analog/digital converter digitizes the sensor signal. Further, the optical quantum sensor part performs a quantum operation with respect to the sensing member mentioned above and causes the sensing member mentioned above to generate the light mentioned above corresponding to the magnetic field or the electric field mentioned above.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2022Publication date: December 19, 2024Inventors: Yoshiharu YOSHII, Tsunaki KANEKO, Norikazu MIZUOCHI, Izuru OHKI
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Publication number: 20240410843Abstract: A light receiving device receives fluorescence emitted by a magnetic resonance member in response to excitation light and generates a fluorescence sensor signal corresponding to a fluorescence intensity. A CMR arithmetic part performs common mode rejection with respect to the fluorescence sensor signal based on a reference light sensor signal of reference light that is obtained by branching the excitation light in consideration of nonlinearity of a level of the fluorescence sensor signal corresponding to an amount of the excitation light and generates a CMR signal. An A/D converter digitizes the CMR signal. An analog/digital converter digitizes the reference light sensor signal. An arithmetic processing device derives a measurement value of a measured field based on the digitized CMR signal and the digitized reference light sensor signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2022Publication date: December 12, 2024Inventors: Yoshiharu YOSHII, Norikazu MIZUOCHI, Yuki TAKEMURA
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Patent number: 12140648Abstract: A magnetic resonance member 1 includes a diamond crystal including plural diamond nitrogen vacancy center, and a high-frequency magnetic field generator 2 applies magnetic field of microwave to the magnetic resonance member 1. The aforementioned plural diamond nitrogen vacancy centers include diamond nitrogen vacancy centers arranged in directions of predetermined plural axes among four axes that indicates four connection directions of carbon atoms in the diamond crystal; and the aforementioned magnetic resonance member 1 is arranged in a direction that provides a substantially largest sensitivity of the measurement target magnetic field in the diamond nitrogen vacancy centers arranged in the predetermined plural axes.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Yoshiharu Yoshii, Tsutomu Otsuka, Masateru Hashimoto, Norikazu Mizuochi, Kan Hayashi, Yuki Takemura
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Publication number: 20240325740Abstract: An electrical stimulator is provided including: a base wire configured with a core wire and an outer winding wire wound around the core wire with the core wire serving as a winding axis. The core wire is entirely coated by an insulating film, and an annulus is formed by spiraling or looping the base wire. One end of the core wire is electrically connected to one end of the outer winding wire. The other end of the core wire is connected to a first terminal of an external circuit. Further, the other end of the outer winding wire is connected to a second terminal of the external circuit. Thus, the annulus can apply an electrical stimulation to a living body.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Inventor: Yoshiharu YOSHII
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Patent number: 12066392Abstract: A substrate 1 includes a color center excited by excitation light, and at least a pair of reflection members 21a, 21b are arranged with gaps from the substrate 1. The substrate 1 causes the excitation light entering the substrate 1 to exit through its surfaces without reflection, and the reflection members 21a, 21b cause the exited excitation light to reflect at the reflection surface 21-1 or 21-2 and enter the substrate 1, and cause the excitation light to repeatedly enter and exit the substrate 1 and thereby pass through the substrate 1 only a predetermined number of times. Here, the irradiating device 4 emits the excitation light such that the excitation light is incident to the reflection surface 21-1 or 21-2 with an angle perpendicular to one axis among two axes of the reflection surface 21-1 or 21-2 and with a predetermined slant angle from the other axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignees: SUMIDA CORPORATION, Kyoto UniversityInventors: Masateru Hashimoto, Yoshiharu Yoshii, Yuki Takemura, Norikazu Mizuochi
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Publication number: 20240255594Abstract: A high-frequency magnetic field generator 2 applies microwave to a magnetic resonance member 1. A magnet 3 applies a static magnetic field to the magnetic resonance member 1. An irradiating device 12 irradiates the magnetic resonance member 1 with incident light of a specific wavelength. An FT 4 senses a measurement target magnetic field using a primary coil 4a and applies an application magnetic field corresponding to the sensed measurement target magnetic field to the magnetic resonance member 1 using a secondary coil 4b. A pillar-shaped light guide member 41 guides the incident light to the magnetic resonance member 1, and a pillar-shaped light guide member 42 guides fluorescence that the magnetic resonance member 1 emits from the magnetic resonance member 1.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2022Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Yoshiharu YOSHII, Tsutomu OOTSUKA, Shingo HAMADA, Norikazu MIZUOCHI, Yuki TAKEMURA
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Publication number: 20240255588Abstract: A high-frequency magnetic field generator 2 applies microwave to a magnetic resonance member 1 capable of an electron spin quantum operation using the microwave. A magnet 3 applies a static magnetic field to the magnetic resonance member 1. An irradiating device 12 irradiates the magnetic resonance member 1 with light of a specific wavelength. A flux transformer 4 senses a measurement target magnetic field using a primary coil 4a and applies an application magnetic field corresponding to the sensed measurement target magnetic field to the magnetic resonance member 1 using a secondary coil 4b. Further, the magnetic resonance member 1 is arranged at a position in a hollow part of the secondary coil 4b of the flux transformer 4 and in a hollow part of the magnet 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Shingo HAMADA, Tsutomu OTSUKA, Yoshiharu YOSHII, Norikazu MIZUOCHI, Yuki TAKEMURA
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Patent number: 11933865Abstract: A magnetic resonance member 1 includes a crystal structure and is capable of electron spin quantum operations with microwaves of different frequencies corresponding to arrangement orientations of a vacancy and an impurity in a crystal lattice. A magnetic field transmission unit 4 senses a measurement target magnetic field at plural measurement positions different from each other, and applies application magnetic fields corresponding to the measurement target magnetic field sensed at the plural measurement positions to the magnetic resonance member 1 along respective different directions corresponding to the aforementioned arrangement orientations. A measurement control unit 21 controls a high frequency power supply 12, and determines detection values detected by a detecting device (an irradiating device 5 and a light receiving device 6) of the physical phenomena corresponding to the plural measurement positions.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: SUMIDA CORPORATION, Kyoto UniversityInventors: Yoshiharu Yoshii, Masateru Hashimoto, Tsutomu Ootsuka, Shingo Hamada, Yuki Takemura, Kan Hayashi, Norikazu Mizuochi
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Patent number: 11808831Abstract: The magnetic resonance member 1 is a member that is arranged in a measurement target AC physical field, and in which a quantum operation can be performed in a specific quantum system. The coil 2 and the high frequency power supply 3 apply a magnetic field of a microwave to the magnetic resonance member 1. The irradiating device 4 irradiates the magnetic resonance member 1 with light, and the detecting device 5 detects from the magnetic resonance member 1 a physical phenomenon corresponding to the measurement target AC physical field. Further, the measurement control unit 21 performs the DC physical field measurement sequence a predetermined plural times, and in each of the plural times of the DC physical field measurement sequence, determines a detection value of the physical phenomenon detected by the detecting device 5.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Inventors: David Ernst Herbschleb, Norikazu Mizuochi, Yoshiharu Yoshii
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Patent number: 11754793Abstract: An excitation light irradiation device includes a substrate having a color center. The color center is excited by an excitation light incident to the substrate. The substrate includes first and second reflection surfaces facing each other, and first and second end surfaces facing each other. When the excitation light enters into the substrate, the incident excitation light travels from the first end surface to the second end surfaces while repeatedly reflecting between the first and second reflection surfaces. The second end surface is inclined. The second end surface reflects the incident excitation light so as to cause the incident excitation light to be emitted from one of the first and second reflection surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Inventors: Masateru Hashimoto, Yoshiharu Yoshii
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Patent number: 11747414Abstract: A measurement device includes a microwave generator, an electron spin resonance member, and an observation system. The microwave generator is configured to generate a microwave. The microwave is configured for an electron spin quantum operation based on a Rabi oscillation. The microwave generator has a coil configured to emit the microwave and an electrostatic capacitor electrically connected in parallel to the coil. The microwave is irradiated to the electron spin resonance member. The observation system is configured to measure a physical quantity in a measured field in response to a state of the electron spin resonance member when the electron spin resonance member is irradiated by the microwave. The coil has first and second ends from which first and second legs continuously extended. The electrostatic capacitor spans the first and second legs and is electrically connected in parallel to the coil.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Inventors: Yuki Takemura, Yoshiharu Yoshii, Masaki Saito
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Publication number: 20230258755Abstract: A high-frequency magnetic field generating device includes two coils arranged with a predetermined gap in parallel with each other, the two coils (a) in between which electron spin resonance material is arranged or (b) arranged at one side from electron spin resonance material; a high-frequency power supply that generates microwave current that flows in the two coils; and a transmission line part connected to the two coils, that sets a current distribution so as to locate the two coils at positions other than a node of a stationary wave.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2023Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventors: Yoshiharu YOSHII, Masaki SAITO, Norikazu MIZUOCHI, Kan HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20230194448Abstract: A substrate 1 includes a color center excited by excitation light, and at least a pair of reflection members 21a, 21b are arranged with gaps from the substrate 1. The substrate 1 causes the excitation light entering the substrate 1 to exit through its surfaces without reflection, and the reflection members 21a, 21b cause the exited excitation light to reflect at the reflection surface 21-1 or 21-2 and enter the substrate 1, and cause the excitation light to repeatedly enter and exit the substrate 1 and thereby pass through the substrate 1 only a predetermined number of times. Here, the irradiating device 4 emits the excitation light such that the excitation light is incident to the reflection surface 21-1 or 21-2 with an angle perpendicular to one axis among two axes of the reflection surface 21-1 or 21-2 and with a predetermined slant angle from the other axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Masateru HASHIMOTO, Yoshiharu YOSHII, Yuki TAKEMURA, Norikazu MIZUOCHI
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Publication number: 20230184853Abstract: A magnetic resonance member 1 includes a diamond crystal including plural diamond nitrogen vacancy center, and a high-frequency magnetic field generator 2 applies magnetic field of microwave to the magnetic resonance member 1. The aforementioned plural diamond nitrogen vacancy centers include diamond nitrogen vacancy centers arranged in directions of predetermined plural axes among four axes that indicates four connection directions of carbon atoms in the diamond crystal; and the aforementioned magnetic resonance member 1 is arranged in a direction that provides a substantially largest sensitivity of the measurement target magnetic field in the diamond nitrogen vacancy centers arranged in the predetermined plural axes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Yoshiharu YOSHII, Tsutomu OOTSUKA, Masateru HASHIMOTO, Norikazu MIZUOCHI, Kan HAYASHI, Yuki TAKEMURA
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Patent number: 11668778Abstract: A high-frequency magnetic field generating device includes two coils arranged with a predetermined gap in parallel with each other, the two coils (a) in between which electron spin resonance material is arranged or (b) arranged at one side from electron spin resonance material; a high-frequency power supply that generates microwave current that flows in the two coils; and a transmission line part connected to the two coils, that sets a current distribution so as to locate the two coils at positions other than a node of a stationary wave.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: SUMIDA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiharu Yoshii, Masaki Saito, Norikazu Mizuochi, Kan Hayashi
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Patent number: 11619687Abstract: An ODMR member is arranged in a measurement target AC magnetic field. A coil applies a magnetic field of a microwave to the ODMR member. A high frequency power supply causes the coil to conduct a current of the microwave. An irradiating device irradiates the ODMR member with light. A light receiving device detects light that the ODMR member emits. A measurement control unit performs a predetermined DC magnetic field measurement sequence at a predetermined phase of the measurement target AC magnetic field, and in the DC magnetic field measurement sequence, controls the high frequency power supply and the irradiating device and thereby determines a detection light intensity of the light detected by the light receiving device. A magnetic field calculation unit calculates an intensity of the measurement target AC magnetic field on the basis of the predetermined phase and the detection light intensity.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: SUMIDA CORPORATIONInventors: Yoshiharu Yoshii, Norikazu Mizuochi
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Publication number: 20230051777Abstract: A magnetic resonance member 1 includes a crystal structure and is capable of electron spin quantum operations with microwaves of different frequencies corresponding to arrangement orientations of a vacancy and an impurity in a crystal lattice. A magnetic field transmission unit 4 senses a measurement target magnetic field at plural measurement positions different from each other, and applies application magnetic fields corresponding to the measurement target magnetic field sensed at the plural measurement positions to the magnetic resonance member 1 along respective different directions corresponding to the aforementioned arrangement orientations. A measurement control unit 21 controls a high frequency power supply 12, and determines detection values detected by a detecting device (an irradiating device 5 and a light receiving device 6) of the physical phenomena corresponding to the plural measurement positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Yoshiharu YOSHII, Masateru HASHIMOTO, Tsutomu OOTSUKA, Shingo HAMADA, Yuki TAKEMURA, Kan HAYASHI, Norikazu MIZUOCHI
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Patent number: 11543467Abstract: In a magnetic field source detecting apparatus, a magnetic sensor unit detects an intensity and a direction of a measurement target magnetic field on or over a surface of a test target object; and a position estimating unit estimates a position in a depth direction of a magnetic field source that exists at an unspecified position inside a test target object on the basis of the intensities and the directions of the measurement target magnetic field detected by the magnetic sensor at at least two 2-dimensional positions of the surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: SUMIDA CORPORATIONInventor: Yoshiharu Yoshii
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Publication number: 20220373628Abstract: The magnetic resonance member 1 is a member that is arranged in a measurement target AC physical field, and in which a quantum operation can be performed in a specific quantum system. The coil 2 and the high frequency power supply 3 apply a magnetic field of a microwave to the magnetic resonance member 1. The irradiating device 4 irradiates the magnetic resonance member 1 with light, and the detecting device 5 detects from the magnetic resonance member 1 a physical phenomenon corresponding to the measurement target AC physical field. Further, the measurement control unit 21 performs the DC physical field measurement sequence a predetermined plural times, and in each of the plural times of the DC physical field measurement sequence, determines a detection value of the physical phenomenon detected by the detecting device 5.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2020Publication date: November 24, 2022Inventors: David Ernst HERBSCHLEB, Norikazu MIZUOCHI, Yoshiharu YOSHII