Movable Or Adjustable Cores Patents (Class 335/298)
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Patent number: 12035458Abstract: A quadrupole accelerator includes a center member, a first side member, and a second side member. The center member includes a center outer frame part, a first electrode and a second electrode. The first side member includes a first side outer frame part, a first wall part and a third electrode. The second side member includes a second side outer frame part which extends from the second side outer frame part toward an outside, a second wall part and a fourth electrode. The center member is formed seamlessly. The first side member is formed seamlessly. The second side member is formed seamlessly. The first side outer frame is fixed to a first side of the center outer frame part by a first fixing member. The second side outer frame is fixed to a second side of the center outer frame part by a second fixing member.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Time Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hideaki Yamauchi, Masashi Masuoka
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Patent number: 11835333Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include a rotational oscillation sensor, a method of detecting rotational oscillation of an object, and a rotational oscillation sensor unit. One embodiment of the rotational oscillation sensor may comprise a first plurality of parallel dipole line (PDL) sensor unit units. In some embodiments, each of the plurality of PDL sensor units may comprise a plurality of cylindrical diametric magnets (CDMs) mounted in parallel around a first open region, and a diamagnetic object in the first open region.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Oki Gunawan, Bruce Gordon Elmegreen, Deon Glajchen
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Patent number: 11801401Abstract: When planning magnetic resonance (MR) guided high intensity focused ultrasonic (HIFU) therapy, HIFU transducer element parameters are optimized as a function of 3D MR data describing a size, shape, and position of a region of interest (ROI) (146) and any obstructions (144) between the HIFU transducer elements and the ROI (146). Transducer element phases and amplitudes are adjusted to maximize HIFU radiation delivery to the ROI (146) while minimizing delivery to the obstruction (144). Additionally or alternatively, transducer elements are selectively deactivated if the obstruction (144) is positioned between the ROI (146) and a given transducer element.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Profound Medical Inc.Inventors: Emil G. Radulescu, Gosta Jakob Ehnholm, Ramon Q. Erkamp, I. A. Julius Koskela, Shunmugavelu D. Sokka, Erkki T. Vahala, Max Oskar Kohler
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Patent number: 11726155Abstract: An apparatus for providing a B0 magnetic field for a magnetic resonance imaging system. The apparatus includes at least one first B0 magnet configured to produce a first magnetic field to contribute to the B0 magnetic field for the magnetic resonance imaging system, the at least one first B0 magnet comprising a first plurality of permanent magnet rings including at least two rings with respective different heights.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Hyperfine Operations, Inc.Inventors: Michael Stephen Poole, Cedric Hugon, Christopher Thomas McNulty
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Patent number: 10598745Abstract: A magnet arrangement (1) having a permanent magnet system with at least two ring-shaped magnet elements (2) which are made of individual magnet segments (3), are arranged cylindrically symmetrically and stacked on one another in the z direction and/or concentrically, and arranged such that the magnetization directions of the individual segments in the rings extend parallel in an x-y plane. The magnet elements align relative to one another in the z direction and have a Halbach magnetization Before final mounting in the magnetic resonance apparatus, the magnet elements are prefabricated as solid structures and their respective magnet segments are fixed undisplaceably relative to one another. But the magnet elements are displaceable relative to one another in the x-y plane, and are mounted rotatably and/or tiltably relative to one another.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: BRUKER BIOSPIN GMBHInventors: Volker Niemann, Rainer Pietig, Lukas Haenichen
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Patent number: 10403240Abstract: There is provided an image display device including a display control unit having a display combining unit that displays one or a plurality of pathological index cursors based on information relating to a pathological slide image.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventor: Kenji Yamane
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Patent number: 10025122Abstract: An optical device including a Faraday rotator, wherein the Faraday rotator includes a Faraday element 31 made of a magnetooptical material 34, two permanent magnets 35, and an electromagnet 20a, with a direction of travel of light as a front-rear direction, the Faraday element includes light incident/emission surfaces in front and rear, and surfaces parallel to each other in left and right, the plate-shaped permanent magnets are attached to each of left and right side surfaces of the Faraday element such that different magnetic poles are opposed to each other, and the permanent magnets are configured to apply a permanent magnetic field to the Faraday element in one direction of a left direction and a right direction, a shaft part 10 that holds the Faraday element, attached with the permanent magnets, over an entire length in the front-rear direction is included, the electromagnet is configured including a coil made by winding a conductor 21 around a periphery of the shaft part with the front-rear direction asType: GrantFiled: August 7, 2014Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Kohoku Kogyo Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroaki Ono, Yuko Oota
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Patent number: 9093207Abstract: An improved system for concentrating and controlling magnetic flux of a multi-pole magnetic structure at the surface of a ferromagnetic target uses first pole pieces having a magnet-to-pole piece interface with a first area and a pole piece-to-target interface with a second area substantially smaller than the first area for concentrating flux of the multi-pole magnetic structure at each pole piece-to-target interface, where the target can be a ferromagnetic material or complementary pole pieces. A magnetic circuit having second pole pieces located between the first pole pieces and the ferromagnetic target controls the flux directed from the first pole pieces to the ferromagnetic target.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2014Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignee: Correlated Magnetics Research, LLC.Inventors: Larry W. Fullerton, Mark D. Roberts
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Publication number: 20150123761Abstract: A rod-shaped magnetic core element, having a first end with a spherical or cylindrical recess or a spherical or cylindrical connecting protrusion, and a second end with a spherical or cylindrical recess or a spherical or cylindrical connecting protrusion so that a bent connection of at least two magnetic core elements is variably adjustable. Magnetic core elements comprising spherical or cylindrical magnetic core ends of this type allow a nearly gap-free construction with little magnetic leakage due to slightly larger end surfaces in comparison with ferrite rods having beveled plane end section surfaces. The enlarged end surface of the spherical surface advantageously allows a more stable connection of individual magnetic core elements without adhesive bonding. This allows the construction of flexible, multiple-member and inexpensive rod core coils and antennae.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2014Publication date: May 7, 2015Inventor: Johann WINKLER
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Patent number: 8975992Abstract: An electromagnetic drive for an electrical switch such as a circuit breaker, has at least one movable armature that can implement a lifting movement along a pushing direction for moving a movable switching contact of the switch. In a closed armature position, the armature closes a magnetic circuit through first and second magnetically conductive yoke parts. A permanent magnet produces a magnetic field for the magnetic circuit and a holding force for holding the armature in the closed position. A coil is disposed to generate a magnetic flux in the same or opposite direction as the magnetic flux of the permanent magnet. The electromagnetic drive can be readjusted after installation, where the first and second yoke parts are moved relative to one another by the permanent magnet into the adjusted state, whereupon they are fixed in position.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2012Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Martin Böttcher, Marcus Kampf
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Publication number: 20150061649Abstract: A moving magnetic field generating apparatus includes a magnet array including magnets disposed at a first pitch such that N and S poles of adjacent magnets in the magnet array are alternated, and first and second magnetic pole piece arrays extending along the magnet array to interpose the magnet array therebetween with a gap from the magnet array. The first and second magnetic pole piece arrays are disposed with a predetermined phase difference therebetween. The first magnetic pole piece array includes first magnetic pole pieces disposed at a second pitch in an array and each having a length enough to face at least two adjacent magnets in the magnet array. The second magnetic pole piece array is configured similarly to the first magnetic pole piece array. One of the first and second magnetic pole piece arrays and the magnet array is relatively moved to the other at a predetermined speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Inventors: Satoshi Sugita, Yasushi Misawa, Yuqi Tang, Shigenori Miyairi
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Patent number: 8803646Abstract: A system and method for magnetic levitation with a tilted orientation. In one embodiment, a magnetic levitation base together with a magnetic levitation affecting element that is located to the side of the levitation base support the magnetic levitation of a spinning magnetic top in a tilted orientation. The tilt angle of the levitating magnetic top may be greater than the tilt angle of the levitation base. In one embodiment, the levitation affecting element may comprise one or more magnets similar to that of the levitation base. The mass of the top and the tilt of the levitation base that are required for magnetic levitation may be adjusted by adjusting the levitation affecting element (e.g. altering its position and/or the strength of its magnetic field.) The general direction of the tilt may be reversed by changing the magnetic north-south direction (e.g. turning over or reversing the electromagnetic current) of the levitation affecting element.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2008Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Inventor: George Farber
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Patent number: 8757586Abstract: A solenoid arrangement comprises a pole tube which is axially subdivided into a pole core section, a transition section, and a tube section. A magnetic flux between the pole core section and the tube section is interrupted by the transition section. An armature is movably guided in the pole tube and has, at its end facing the pole core section, a flange which axially projects from an end face. According to the invention, the pole core section has a stepped depression into which the armature can plunge and which, starting from the transition section, is subdivided into an annular collar, a shoulder, and a notch which is set back axially and radially. An axial dimension of the collar exceeds an axial dimension of the flange.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2009Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Juergen Gruen, Horst Bartel, Roland Schempp, Klemens Strauss
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Publication number: 20140125488Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to a methods and apparatus for optimizing and calibrating a magnetic field generator. In various embodiments, the magnetic field generator includes a signal generator for outputting a voltage and a magnetic field generating circuit including a shunt that may be used to change a value of inductance in the magnetic field generating circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicants: STRATA PROXIMITY SYSTEMS, LLCInventors: Larry D. Frederick, Dwight Medley
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Patent number: 8704625Abstract: An electromagnetic energy transducer configured to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy comprises two magnetic elements including a permanent magnetic element and a soft-magnetic element and an electrical coil. The permanent magnetic element and the soft-magnetic element are arranged to form a magnetic circuit and one of the two magnetic elements is movable in relation to the other of the two magnetic elements. The electrical coil surrounds a part of the soft magnetic element. The movable magnetic element is held in a first position by a spring force and moved into a second position by applying an external mechanical force exceeding the spring force, and at the first position the magnetic flux within the soft magnetic element is different than the flux at the second position.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2012Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: EnOcean GmbHInventor: Frank Schmidt
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Publication number: 20140070909Abstract: An aspect of the present invention provides an electric magnet device, in which a smooth movement of an armature is ensured and, even if a vibration or an impact is applied, an attraction state between a yoke and the armature is maintained to prevent a malfunction, and a switch provided therewith, where the electric magnet device includes: a coil adapted to insert through an armature and a yoke so as to attract surfaces of the yoke and the armature, which are opposed to each other, to receive a voltage, to excite for separating the surfaces of the yoke and the armature; the armature disposed on one end side of the coil; and the yoke disposed on the other end side of the coil and adapted to oscillate, such that an oscillation angle of the yoke is greater than that of the armature.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: Omron CorporationInventors: Kazuhira IZAWA, Kenshi NAGATA
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Patent number: 8579254Abstract: An electromagnetic drive for a valve includes a housing comprising at least one electromagnetic circuit comprising a coil wound onto a coil support, a valve closing member, at least one core, at least one magnetizable reflux member, an armature having an annular shape at least on a side facing away from the valve closing member, an adjustment device having an adjustment screw, and a device to fix the armature in a non-energized state. The armature moves between a first end position and a second end position so as to act at least indirectly on the valve closing member. The adjustment device adjusts a magnetic force. The adjustment screw is insertable through the at least the magnetizable reflux member or through the core into the armature. Supplying the coil with an electric current causes the armature to move into the first end position or into the second end position.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Pierburg GmbHInventors: Werner Buse, Alvito Fernandes
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Patent number: 8576035Abstract: A magnetic field generating module includes a housing, a plurality of interpoles, a plurality of short poles and a plurality of windings. The housing has an annular section and an inner side. The interpoles disposed on the inner side in the housing are arranged around an inner periphery of the annular section with the same intervals. The short poles are disposed on the inner side in the housing and distributed between the interpoles evenly. A first interval is formed between the adjacent short poles, and a second interval equal to the first interval is formed between each of the interpoles and the adjacent short pole. The windings are respectively disposed corresponding to the interpoles and located between the interpoles and the short poles. The magnetic field generating module of the invention has more concentrated magnetic lines so as to prompt the magnetic flux density and the magnetic force.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignees: National Cheng Kung University, Delta Electronics, Inc.Inventors: Ray-Lee Lin, Sheng-Fu Hsiao
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Patent number: 8505874Abstract: An adjusting screw structure of an oil immersed solenoid comprises a movable core provided in a first space of a main body case to be movable in an axial direction. The core is biased by an adjusting spring to be pulled by a fixed magnetic pole portion. An adjusting screw capable of adjusting biasing force of the adjusting spring is included. The adjusting screw structure includes an air-bleeding plug configured to detachably attach to and seal an opening end portion of a rear case, which communicates with the first space. The air-bleeding plug includes an internal screw portion that threadedly engages the adjustable screw. A detachable mechanism is configured to attach the air-bleeding plug to the opening end portion, locating the air-bleeding plug at a predetermined attachment position in a movement direction of the adjusting screw. Thus, air in a solenoid can be removed without causing a biasing force error.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2009Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Hiroaki Shimizu
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Patent number: 8373528Abstract: There is provided a magnetic field control method and a magnetic field generator which are capable of moving a local maximum point of magnetic field intensity on a predetermined plane easily to any given point within a predetermined area on the predetermined plane. A magnetic field generator 10 includes a pair of permanent magnets 16a, 16b provided axially of a predetermined axis A, with a gap G in between. The permanent magnet 16a is formed on a drive unit 14a in such a way that a center region 30a of a first main surface 26a is off the predetermined axis A. The permanent magnet 16b is formed on a drive unit 14b in such a way that a center region 30b of a first main surface 26b is off the predetermined axis A. The permanent magnet 16a revolves on a path R1 as a rotating member 24a rotates. The permanent magnet 16b revolves on a path R2 as a rotating member 24b rotates.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2007Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Yoshinori Takayama, Mitsutoshi Natsumeda, Kentaro Horisaka
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Publication number: 20120242437Abstract: An electromagnet drive for a valve includes a piston element. A housing comprises an electromagnetic circuit, a coil wound onto a coil former, an armature mounted to move between a first and second end position to act on the piston element, a core, and a magnetisable return device. The core and/or the magnetisable return device comprises an adjusting bore. The core or the magnetisable return device comprises a substantially circumferential cutout in a region of the adjusting bore on a side facing the coil. A fixing device fixes the armature in a non-energized state. An adjusting device adjusts a magnetic force. The adjusting device comprises an adjusting screw which influences a profile of magnetic field lines. The adjusting screw is insertable into the adjusting bore of the core or the magnetisable return device in a direction of the armature. Energizing the coil moves the armature into the first or second end position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2010Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: PIERBURG GMBHInventors: Werner Buse, Franz-Josef Schnelker, Rolf Dohrmann
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Patent number: 8248196Abstract: The invention relates to a magnet arrangement for magnetic levitation vehicles. Said arrangement comprises a magnetic back box and a plurality of magnetic poles that are connected to said back box and that have magnetic pole faces bordering on a common reference surface. According to the invention, the reference surface extends along an elastic line when the magnetic pole is in the unloaded state, said elastic line being inverse to the curvature of the surface that is obtained under a nominal load of the magnetic poles when the magnetic pole faces are in the unloaded state on a plane. The invention also relates to a method for producing said type of magnet arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2007Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Transrapid GmbHInventors: Peter Bugiel, Harald Pfannkuch, Wolfgang Hahn, Joachim Krämer
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Patent number: 8247204Abstract: Magnetic enrichment method, wherein the desired biological component is collected from a solution, which component is thereafter enriched in a liquid in such a manner that by means of the micro particles attached to the magnet or attached by means of at least one magnet at least one biological component is collected in a closed reactor vessel. Thereafter at least one biological component is enriched in such a manner that the desired component is released to the solution. The reactor unit is a closed vessel, wherein the prevailing conditions are controllable. The shape and the location of the magnet unit in the reactor unit are adjusted in a preferable manner to collect the desired biological component.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2004Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: BioControl Systems, Inc.Inventors: Matti Korpela, Kenneth Rundt
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Patent number: 8228151Abstract: An electromagnetic energy transducer configured to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy comprises two magnetic elements including a permanent magnetic element and a soft-magnetic element and an electrical coil. The permanent magnetic element and the soft-magnetic element are arranged to form a magnetic circuit and one of the two magnetic elements is movable in relation to the other of the two magnetic elements. The electrical coil surrounds a part of the soft magnetic element. The movable magnetic element is held in a first position by a spring force and moved into a second position by applying an external mechanical force exceeding the spring force, and at the first position the magnetic flux within the soft magnetic element is different than the flux at the second position.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2011Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Enocean GmbHInventor: Frank Schmidt
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Patent number: 8228148Abstract: A persistent-mode magnet, assembled from superconducting annuli, provides a micro coil NMR, in which compactness and manufacturability are provided for a variety of applications. An annular magnet for micro NMR can include a YBCO-annulus Helmholtz coil, for example, that can energized by a magnet system and then transported for use at a second location with an operating system.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2010Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignees: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Railway Technical Research InstituteInventors: Yukikazu Iwasa, Masaru Tomita
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Patent number: 8115580Abstract: A magnetic field adjusting device includes a pair of opposing pole plates mounted on respective magnetic field generating sources, forming a magnetic field space; a plurality of shimming plugs movably mounted at the periphery of the pole plates, with each shimming plug being mounted in a radially oriented retaining groove, so as to be moveable in the direction of the retaining groove. Additionally, or alternatively, the circumferences of the magnetic field generating sources are arranged with adjusting bars which can move perpendicular to the pole plates.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2009Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Cheng Ni, Ting Qiang Xue, Jin Jun Chen
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Patent number: 8111125Abstract: A Nb3Sn superconducting coil can be formed from a wire including multiple unreacted strands comprising tin in contact with niobium. The strands are wound into a cable, which is then heated to react the tin and niobium to form a cable comprising reacted Nb3Sn strands. The cable comprising the reacted Nb3Sn strands are then mounted in and soldered into an electrically conductive channel to form a reacted cable-in-channel of Nb3Sn strands. The cable-in-channel of reacted Nb3Sn strands are then wound to fabricate a superconducting coil. The Nb3Sn superconducting coil can be used, for example, in a magnet structure for particle acceleration. In one example, the superconducting coil is used in a high-field superconducting synchrocyclotron.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2011Date of Patent: February 7, 2012Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Timothy A. Antaya, Joel Henry Schultz
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Patent number: 8082953Abstract: A solenoid valve assembly includes a bobbin supporting a coil and having at least one protrusion on an inner surface, an adjustment member disposed within the bobbin and in contact with the at least one protrusion, a pole piece disposed within the adjustment member, a valve body having a seat, wherein the bobbin is disposed in contact with the seat, a spool slideably disposed within the valve body, and a resilient member disposed in contact with the adjustment member and the spool.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2009Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Eaton CorporationInventor: Robert Andrew Dayton
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Patent number: 7868721Abstract: An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties correspond to a desired spatial force function where spatial forces between field emission structures correspond to relative alignment, separation distance, and the spatial force function.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2009Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Cedar Ridge Research, LLCInventors: Larry W. Fullerton, Mark D. Roberts, James L. Richards
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Patent number: 7859374Abstract: A persistent-mode magnet, assembled from superconducting annuli, provides a micro coil NMR, in which compactness and manufacturability are provided for a variety of applications. An annular magnet for micro NMR can include a YBCO-annulus Helmholtz coil, for example, that can energized by a magnet system and then transported for use at a second location with an operating system.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2006Date of Patent: December 28, 2010Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Railway Technical Research InstituteInventors: Yukikazu Iwasa, Masaru Tomita
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Patent number: 7796001Abstract: In forming magnetic blocks, a first permanent magnet may be lowered to the bottom of an upwardly open vessel, the vessel may be already filled or may be then filled with liquid and, while forcefully maintaining the first permanent magnet in that position, further permanent magnets are gradually inserted into the vessel in a direction perpendicular to their resulting joint contact surfaces, where the adjacent surfaces of the superimposed permanent magnets have an opposite polarity, while during insertion of a further permanent magnet, the liquid is drained from the space in the vessel under that inserted magnet, whereby the motion speed of the inserted magnet is controlled as it bears down on the permanent magnet lying beneath it.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2007Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Ustav Struktury A Mechaniky Hornin AV CR, V.V.I.Inventors: Václav {hacek over (Z)}e{hacek over (z)}ulka, Pavel Straka, Václav Soukup
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Patent number: 7741939Abstract: A displacement device is provided with a linear motor which comprises a first part comprising magnetic strips and a second part comprising a coil block. The parts are connected via a linear guide. The second part is movable with respect to the first part in a conveying direction extending parallel to the guide. The displacement device further comprises an connected to said second part, which is located on a side of the first part remote from the second part. The displacement device can be used is a component placement device.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2007Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: Assembleon N.V.Inventor: Johannes Hubertus Antonius Van De Rijdt
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Patent number: 7667562Abstract: A new class of fundamental devices and methods for their manufacture and use. The bulk magnetic field replicators of the present invention require no precision machining or alignment to accurately reproduce magnetic fields of any complexity, nor extreme positional stability to maintain superconductivity. Such bulk devices may be formed of either low or high critical temperature superconductive materials, but are particularly adapted to formation from high critical temperature materials.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1990Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Inventor: Roy Weinstein
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Publication number: 20090256715Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to a methods and apparatus for optimizing and calibrating a magnetic field generator. In various embodiments, the magnetic field generator includes a signal generator for outputting a voltage and a magnetic field generating circuit including a shunt that may be used to change a value of inductance in the magnetic field generating circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2009Publication date: October 15, 2009Inventors: Larry D. Frederick, Dwight Medley
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Publication number: 20090180311Abstract: The present invention provides a novel element capable of simply controlling an in-plane rotational motion of a core (a rising spot of a magnetization) generated in the center of a ferromagnetic dot made by forming a ferromagnetic material into a nanosized disk shape. In addition, the present invention is achieved to provide a binary information memory element using a core, including a ferromagnetic dot, made of a disk-shaped ferromagnetic material, with a magnetic structure of a magnetic vortex structure, and a current supplier for supplying an alternating current with a predetermined alternating current in the radial direction of the ferromagnetic dot. In the case where the frequency of the current resonates with the intrinsic frequency of the ferromagnetic dot, it is possible to rotate the core in the plane of the dot. Since the core leaks a magnetic field, a microscopic actuator such as a motor can be obtained by using this element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2007Publication date: July 16, 2009Applicants: Kyoto University, The University of Electro-Communications, Osaka University, Tokyo Metropolitan UniversityInventors: Teruo Ono, Shinya Kasai, Kensuke Kobayashi, Yoshinobu Nakatani, Hiroshi Kohno, Gen Tatara
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Patent number: 7535328Abstract: In an electromagnet switch, a stationary iron core is composed mainly of a base part and a disk part. The base part is faced to a plunger and the disk part is forcedly inserted and fixed to a boss part formed in the base part. The disk part is composed of a metal plate of ferromagnetic substance (iron plate) and another substance plate (made of resin or rubber and the like, for example,) of a smaller spring constant or a larger damping coefficient than that of the metal plate. The metal plate and another substance plate are laminated. Another substance plate absorbs or reduces the impact force when the plunger is electromagnetically attracted toward and collides with the base part. The propagation of a large impact noise or crashing sound is thereby suppressed, and as a result the impact noise can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2007Date of Patent: May 19, 2009Assignee: Denso CorporationInventors: Tadahiro Kurasawa, Shinji Usami, Tomohiro Teramachi
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Patent number: 7501922Abstract: A permanent magnetic male and female levitation support has a first part with a cavity and a plurality of retainment mechanisms incorporated therein, and a plurality of first permanent magnets evenly distributed around the perimeter of the cavity and held in place by the retainment mechanisms, wherein the first permanent magnets produce a first rotationally invariant magnetic field around a first axis. A second part is rigidly connected to a base and produces a second rotationally invariant magnetic field around a second axis. When the first axis is aligned with the second axis, the first magnetic field and the second magnetic field simultaneously produce a repulsive force and a restorative force to levitate the first part relative to the second part.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2007Date of Patent: March 10, 2009Inventor: Sanza T. Kazadi
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Patent number: 7441746Abstract: An injection valve includes a housing that movably accommodates a needle. A movable core is axially movable together with the needle in the housing. A stationary core is fixed in the housing for forming a magnetic circuit together with the movable core. At least one of the movable core and the stationary core has an end that has an annular first protrusion protruding toward an end of an other of the movable core and the stationary core. At least one of the movable core and the stationary core has an end that has an annular second protrusion protruding toward an end of an other of the movable core and the stationary core. The first protrusion is substantially coaxial with respect to the second protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2007Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: Denso CorporationInventor: Kouichi Sugiyama
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Patent number: 7414504Abstract: A solenoid plunger for use in solenoid driven multi-line embossing systems is constructed of magnetic steel laminations that are attached to a center block which is machined to mount a solenoid shaft and anti-rotate pins. The laminations are attached to the center block with screws and vacuum epoxy glued for a very high cycle life. The laminated steel construction dramatically reduces eddy currents, which allows the magnetic field to rise and fall much more quickly than a conventional steel plunger. It also increases the magnetic force in the solenoid. This reduction in solenoid plunger eddy currents and increase of magnetic force in the solenoid structure itself operates to increase embosser throughput. The laminated steel construction further reduces embosser solenoid heating which also contributes to improved embossing control.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2006Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: DataCard CorporationInventors: Robert W. Lundstrom, Peter E. Johnson
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Patent number: 7350763Abstract: A linear solenoid includes a pole tube; a housing jacket that encloses the pole tube; a coil that encompasses the pole tube; and a displaceable armature that is received in the pole tube. An overlap range between the housing jacket and an axially displaceable component that is in operative connection with the pole tube adjusts in order to adjust a magnetic force. The component is adapted to be actuated from outside in a mounted condition of the linear solenoid. The pole tube guides the component axially and the component has an external thread engaged with an internal thread of the housing jacket.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2005Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Bosch Rexroth AGInventor: Klaus Höfling
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Patent number: 7205685Abstract: A solenoid plunger system for an electropneumatic pressure transducer, comprising at least partly—in a casing which focuses magnetic field lines M, in particular in the form of an iron casing—a solenoid plunger and a core, in particular in the form of an iron core or magnetic core, wherein the solenoid plunger comprises at least one recess on the side facing towards the core, and/or the core comprises at least one recess on the side facing towards the solenoid plunger, and an air gap is provided between the solenoid plunger and the core; the air gap is adjustable by relative movement between the solenoid plunger and the core, during which relative movement the solenoid plunger can, at least partly, be moved into/out of the first recess in the core, and/or the core can be moved, at least partly, into/out of the recess in the solenoid plunger; the casing comprises at least a first shell and a yoke, each of high magnetic permeability, wherein the first shell is arranged between the solenoid plunger and at leastType: GrantFiled: November 12, 2003Date of Patent: April 17, 2007Assignee: WOCO Industrietechnik GmbHInventors: Uwe Reichert, Josef Praiza
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Patent number: 7129627Abstract: A ferrite core constituting a deflection yoke includes a plurality of convex portions in a ridge shape on an inner surface thereof. Among the plurality of convex portions, assuming that the convex portions in a range excluding a range of ?20° to +20° with respect to a horizontal axis and a range of ?20° to +20° with respect to a vertical axis are diagonal convex portions, the lengths in a tube axis direction of at least horizontal axial convex portions on a horizontal axis or vertical axial convex portions on a vertical axis are larger than those of the diagonal convex portions. Because of this, a color picture tube apparatus with a deflection power reduced can be provided while the degree of freedom in a winding arrangement of deflection coils is secured.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2004Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: Matsushita Toshiba Picture Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Etsuji Tagami
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Patent number: 7053743Abstract: An imaging apparatus, such as an MRI system, contains at least one layer of soft magnetic material between the yoke and each permanent magnet. This imaging apparatus may be operated without pole pieces due to the presence of the soft magnetic material. The permanent magnets may be fabricated by magnetizing unmagnetized alloy bodies after the unmagnetized alloy bodies have been attached to the yoke.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2002Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Michael Anthony Palmo, Kathleen Melanie Amm, Paul Shadforth Thompson
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Patent number: 6958672Abstract: A system and a method for magnetizing one of a plurality of substantially non-magnetized blocks disposed on a plate of a magnetic assembly used in an MRI device are provided. The system includes first and second arm portions operably coupled together. The system further includes a first electromagnetic coil disposed on a first end of the first arm portion, wherein the first electromagnetic coil is configured to generate a magnetic field that propagates from the first electromagnetic coil through at least one non-magnetized block and the plate and further through the first and second arm portions to magnetize the block.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2004Date of Patent: October 25, 2005Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Weijun Shen, Bu-Xin Xu
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Patent number: 6940379Abstract: A permanent magnet in which the magnetization direction varies with location to optimize or restrict a magnetic field property in a selected direction at a selected point. The magnetic field property may be, for example, the transverse magnetic field, axial magnetic field, axial gradient of the transverse magnetic field, transverse gradient of the transverse magnetic field, axis gradient of the axial magnetic field, transverse gradient of the axial magnetic field, the product of the transverse magnetic field and the transverse gradient of the transverse magnetic field, the product of the transverse magnetic field and the axial gradient of the transverse magnetic field, the product of the axial magnetic field and the transverse gradient of the axial magnetic field, or the product of the axial magnetic field and the axial gradient of the axial magnetic field.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2002Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Stereotaxis, Inc.Inventor: Francis M. Creighton
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Patent number: 6864773Abstract: A magnet assembly for producing a varying magnetic field is provided wherein a plurality of permanent magnets are interposed between two members which are constructed of a ferromagnetic material. Each of the magnets is rotatable and has a north and south magnetic pole. Each of the magnets is disposed so that the north magnetic poles of the plurality of permanent magnets have a common magnetic orientation with respect to the first member. An orienter, such as, for example, a ring gear and pinion arrangement, is coupled to the magnets to change their common magnetic orientation with respect to the first member. The magnetic field projected by the assembly varies as a function of the orientation of the magnets.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2003Date of Patent: March 8, 2005Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventor: Mark A. Perrin
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Patent number: 6859123Abstract: A method for positioning permanent magnetic blocks includes providing a plurality of magnetized blocks, positioning the magnetized blocks on a yoke in a row by applying a mechanical force at a first end of the row with a first clamping member and at a second end of the row with a second clamping member, and repositioning the blocks by reducing the mechanical force at the first end by moving the first clamping member away from the first end, and moving the second clamping member toward the second end.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2003Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company, LLCInventors: Jinsheng Zheng, Jinhua Huang, Ronald Floyd Lochner, Weijun Shen, Hideaki Uno, Geer Ward, Bu-Xin Xu
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Patent number: 6843353Abstract: An electromagnetic clutch assembly (10) has a housing (12, 14) and shaft (16) rotatably supported by the housing. At least one of the shaft extends out of the housing. A clutch plate (22) is mounted on the shaft (16) for rotation therewith. An armature plate (20) is mounted in the housing (12, 14). A gear (24) is rotatable and slidably mounted on the shaft (26). A spring assembly (88, 89) extends between the clutch plate (22) and the gear (24) to bias the gear (24) out of engagement with the clutch plate (22). A coil assembly (18) is mounted on the shaft (16) for sliding movement therealong. The coil assembly (18) engages the gear (24). Energizing the coil assembly moves the coil assembly (18) into engagement with the armature plate (20) and responsively effects movement of the gear (24) into engagement with the clutch plate (22), coupling the gear (24) and the clutch plate (22).Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2001Date of Patent: January 18, 2005Assignee: Intier Automotive Closures Inc.Inventor: Jan Majewski
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Patent number: 6825668Abstract: For the purpose of providing a static magnetic field generating apparatus employing permanent magnets that allows easy adjustment of a static magnetic field, eight grooves are provided in a columnar yoke and the other opposing columnar yoke, and the shape or material of insert members is changed to modify magnetic resistance of the columnar yoke and the other opposing columnar yoke when the insert members are fitted; thus, magnetic flux formed in a space between permanent magnets can be easily modified, and hence, a static magnetic field can be easily adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2003Date of Patent: November 30, 2004Assignee: GE Medical Systems Global Technology Company LLCInventor: Takeshi Watanabe
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Patent number: 6809619Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and system for adjusting a magnetic center field of a magnetic field generator in an MRI. One embodiment of the presenting invention relates to a magnetic field generator system having a magnetic center field. This embodiment comprises opposing posts and opposing yokes connected to the opposing posts, where at least one of the posts has a spacer. At least one permanent magnetic block is connected to at least one of the opposing yokes. Further, at least one spacer is formed in at least one of the posts, the yokes and/or the permanent magnetic block.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2003Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: G.E. Medical Systems Global Technology Co., LLCInventors: Bu-Xin Xu, Weijun Shen