With Electric- Or Magnetic-shielding Means Patents (Class 335/301)
  • Patent number: 12002619
    Abstract: A magnetizer including a housing, a passage arranged inside the housing, and a permanent magnet assembly arranged outside the passage to provide a magnetic field passing through the passage. The housing defines an inlet to the passage and an outlet from the passage such that an object to be magnetised can be inserted into the passage via the inlet in the housing and removed via the outlet in the housing. The passage includes a uniform portion where opposing surfaces of the permanent magnet assembly are arranged a uniform distance apart along the length of the uniform portion and a diverging portion arranged between one end of the uniform portion of the passage and the outlet of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Grundfos Holding A/S
    Inventors: Allan Ivo Søgaard Sørensen, Henrik Rasmussen, Alexandru Sorea, Bendixen Buus Fleming
  • Patent number: 11754650
    Abstract: A multi-layered shielding apparatus for reducing the heating of an implanted device within a patient during an MRI scan is disclosed. The shield comprises four internal layers circumferentially surrounded by a waterproof fabric pouch for maintaining composure of the shield and providing a comfortable interface for the patient. The second layer is a thin high conductive energy permeable layer for absorbing a substantial amount of RF energy. The first and third layers are thick low conductive energy absorbent layers that surround the second layer to absorb the RF currents produced by the interaction between the RF energy and the high conductive layer. The fourth layer is a nonconductive polymer layer for insulating the human tissue from any RF currents produced among the other layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
    Inventor: Mayur J. Thakore
  • Patent number: 11690207
    Abstract: In a magnetic shield material including a magnetic layer containing a magnetic material and an electrically conductive layer containing an electrically conductive material, the electrically conductive layer is designed to have a thickness corresponding to a frequency band of electromagnetic wave to be shielded. More specifically, the thickness of the electrically conductive layer (thickness of the aluminum foil in the drawing) is designed to have a thickness to maximize magnetic field shield effect of the magnetic shield material (thickness of the aluminum foil corresponding to peak value frequency in curve E in the drawing) in a frequency band of electromagnetic wave to be shielded. This makes it possible to obtain good magnetic field shield effect of the magnetic shield material in the frequency band of electromagnetic wave to be shielded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Taichi Ishihara
  • Patent number: 11524156
    Abstract: A device for decreasing the pain associated with biopsies for cancer determination. The device includes electrical stimulation and injection of anesthetics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Inventors: Heather Marisa Richardson, Sergio Lara Pereira Monteiro
  • Patent number: 11272282
    Abstract: A wearable audio device with an electro-acoustic transducer for creating audio output, the electro-acoustic transducer comprising a transducer magnet that produces a transducer magnetic field, a magnetic field sensor spaced from the electro-acoustic transducer and constructed and arranged to sense the Earth's magnetic field, and a magnetic shield comprising a material with high magnetic permeability. The shield is configured to intercept at least some of the transducer magnetic field before it reaches the magnetic field sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Bose Corporation
    Inventor: Josue Malaver
  • Patent number: 10827947
    Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to the invention includes a magnet device that generates a static magnetic field and a gradient magnetic field in an imaging space, a top plate that is provided to freely travel on a bed and sends an object lying thereon into the imaging space, a top plate reception member that is disposed inside the imaging space and has a traveling surface of the top plate, a top plate support column that supports the top plate reception member, and a top plate support pedestal that supports a lower end of the top plate support column, in which the top plate support pedestal is provided on a floor surface on which the magnet device is provided, via a magnet support leg, and is provided so that a movement in a direction along at least the floor surface is restricted to the magnet support leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
    Inventors: Yu Saitoh, Satoshi Yamashita
  • Patent number: 10051928
    Abstract: A wrist-worn device clasp that secures a strap of the wrist-worn device. A first mechanical part of the wrist worn device interlocks with a second mechanical part by motion in a first plane in order to resist motion perpendicular to said first plane. The first mechanical part also inhibits a first securing part and a second securing part being separated by tension along the strap substantially perpendicular to the first plane when the first mechanical part and second mechanical part are engaged with each other. The first securing part and the second securing part inhibit separation of the first mechanical part and the second mechanical part by motion parallel to the first plane when they are engaged with each other by motion perpendicular to the first plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: ARM IP Limited
    Inventors: Steven James Ogborne, Hugo John Martin Vincent, Gabor Balint
  • Patent number: 9063183
    Abstract: A magnetic shield including a first layer and a second layer and shielding an environmental magnetic field is obtained by manufacturing the first layer that is configured by a first material and that includes a hollow portion on the inside and the second layer that is configured by a second material that is different from the first material and which is a hollow member and placing the second layer in the hollow portion of the first layer. With the magnetic shield, in regions between the first layer and the second layer, a material in which the relative magnetic permeability at the strength of the magnetic field at a region that is next to the second layer is high compared to the relative magnetic permeability of the first material at the strength of the magnetic field is selected as the second material that configures the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Shigemitsu Toda, Kimio Nagasaka
  • Patent number: 8912873
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising: a transducer configured to generate a static magnetic field; at least one magnet plate configured with respect to the transducer to produce a magnetically shielded region from the static magnetic field; and at least one further plate located between the transducer and an exterior of the apparatus and within the magnetically shielded region wherein the at least one magnetic shielding plate is configured to form a trap for particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Jani Samuli Kuivallainen, Thomas Benedict Slotte, Leo Kärkkäinen
  • Publication number: 20140268418
    Abstract: Various embodiments may position a side shield adjacent to and separated from a stack sidewall of a magnetic stack with the side shield having a shield layer disposed between the stack sidewall and a permanent magnet. The permanent magnet can be separated from a first portion of the shield layer by a diffusion barrier that decouples the permanent magnet from the shield layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Shaun Eric McKinlay, Eric Walter Singleton
  • Publication number: 20140191830
    Abstract: A shunt plate is provided that is associated with a first side of a multi-pole magnetic structure. The shunt plate provides a magnetic short between opposite polarity magnetic sources on the first side of said magnetic structure, the magnetic short causing a magnetic flux of said opposite polarity magnetic sources to be routed from said first side of the magnetic structure through said magnetic structure to the second side of said magnetic structure. The thickness of the shunt plate is selected by determining the integrated flux across a magnetic source of the magnetic structure such that the corresponding flux density in the shunt plate does not substantially exceed the flux density saturation level of a cross section of the shunt plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: Correlated Magnetics Research, LLC
    Inventors: Larry W. Fullerton, Mark D. Roberts
  • Patent number: 8740154
    Abstract: A spacecraft is described which uses a magnetic field source to generate a shield magnetic field to protect the spacecraft from energetic charged particles. The field may be perturbed to increase the effectiveness of the protection. Injection of material into the shield cavity to enhance the local plasma density may also be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: The Science and Technology Facilities Council
    Inventors: Ruth Bamford, Robert Bingham
  • Publication number: 20140087953
    Abstract: A cyclotron for ion acceleration is magnetically shielded during ion acceleration by passing electrical current in the same direction through both the first and second superconducting primary coils. A first magnetic-field-shielding coil is on the same side of the mid plane as the first superconducting primary coil, while a second magnetic-field-shielding coil is on the same side of the midplane as the second superconducting primary coil and beyond the outer radius of the second superconducting primary coil. Electrical current is also passed through the magnetic-field-shielding coils in a direction opposite to the direction in which electrical current is passed through the superconducting primary coils and generates a canceling magnetic field that reduces the magnetic field generated at radii from the central axis beyond the magnetic-field-shielding coils.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Leslie Bromberg, Joseph V. Minervini, Peisi Le, Alexey L. Radovinsky, Phillip C. Michael, Timothy A. Antaya
  • Patent number: 8674797
    Abstract: There is provided a magnetic field generator in which separation and dislocation of permanent magnets from their permanent magnet groups is prevented easily and reliably for a long period of time without sacrificing productivity. A magnetic field generator 10 includes a permanent magnet group 14a which is provided on a plate yoke 12a; a pole piece 16a which is provided in a first main surface of the permanent magnet group 14a, leaving an exposed region 18b thereon; a frame-like member 34 which is provided on the plate yoke 12a to surround the permanent magnet group 14a; and a flange-shaped member 36 which is provided in the pole piece 16a to cover the exposed region 18b. Presser bolts 44 are threaded into the frame-like member 34 and press an outer circumferential surface 18a of the permanent magnet group 14a directly or via insertion members 42.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaaki Aoki, Michiaki Kishimoto
  • Publication number: 20140043713
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magneto-resistance effect element includes a first shield, a second shield, a third shield, a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, and an intermediate layer. The third shield is provided between the first shield and the second shield, and is in contact with the second shield. A length of the third shield along a first direction crossing a stacking direction from the first shield toward the second shield is shorter than a length along the first direction of the second shield. The first magnetic layer is provided between the first shield and the third shield. The second magnetic layer is provided between the first magnetic layer and the third shield, and is exchange-coupled to the third shield. The intermediate layer is provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 13, 2014
    Inventors: Yousuke ISOWAKI, Hitoshi IWASAKI, Masayuki TAKAGISHI
  • Patent number: 8531185
    Abstract: A magnetic shield body comprises a cylindrical body unit configured by having a plurality of cylindrical bodies having permeability and mutually same longitudinal cross-sectional shapes arranged with a mutual interval such that central axes of the cylindrical bodies coincide with each other and side surfaces of the cylindrical bodies form a mutually same plane; and a supporting unit that supports a plurality of the cylindrical body units such that side surfaces of cylindrical bodies of the cylindrical body units face each other with a mutual interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Takenaka Corporation
    Inventors: Keita Yamazaki, Shigetaka Hirosato
  • Patent number: 8514043
    Abstract: A passive magnetic field shielding system for shielding a fringe magnetic field is described. The passive magnetic field shielding system includes a magnet configured to generate a uniform magnetic field, an imaging system with associated electronics coupled to the magnet, and a passive shield configured to reduce the strength of the fringing magnetic field to approximately five Gauss at a distance from the passive shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jian-She Wang, Jinhua Huang, Stephen R. Elgin
  • Publication number: 20130181138
    Abstract: A cellular-type PD unit is proposed and a plurality of the cellular-type PD units is used in pairs in a multi-axis magnetic lens for focusing a plurality of charged beams. First type PD units or second type PD units (called as hybrid PD unit as well) can be applied to cellular-type PD units to flexibly construct sub-lenses. Furthermore, magnetic shielding plates with a plurality of through openings can be placed above and/or below the multi-axis magnetic lens to make magnetic flux leaking out of the multi-axis magnetic lens vanish away rapidly outside the magnetic shielding plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: HERMES-MICROVISION, INC.
    Inventor: HERMES-MICROVISION, INC.
  • Patent number: 8466763
    Abstract: An electromagnetic device, which includes a ferromagnetic flux guide; an insulated electrical conductor positioned adjacent to the ferromagnetic flux guide; and, an intermediate support structure positioned between the ferromagnetic flux guide and conductor which includes at least one resiliently deformable member arranged to allow relative movement between the ferromagnetic flux guide and the insulated electrical conductor, in which the relative movement is due to thermal expansion or contraction of the ferromagnetic flux guide and insulated electrical conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Rolls-Royce PLC
    Inventors: Alexis Lambourne, Geraint W Jewell
  • Patent number: 8441330
    Abstract: Systems and methods for magnetic shielding are described. A magnetic shield formed of a material having a high magnetic permeability may be degaussed using a toroidal degaussing coil. The toroidal degaussing coil may enclose at least a portion of the shield. Magnetic field gradients may be actively compensated using multiple magnetic field sensors and local compensation coils. Trapped fluxons may be removed by an application of Lorentz force wherein an electrical current is passed through a superconducting plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2013
    Assignee: D-Wave Systems Inc.
    Inventor: Sergey V. Uchaykin
  • Patent number: 8436705
    Abstract: A magnetic encoder magnetizing method, in which magnetization of the plural neighboring tracks of the magnetic encoder can be accurately performed, is provided. While an annular magnetic body having a plurality of annular, unmagnetized magnetic encoder tracks integral therewith and juxtaposed relative to each other is rotated, the tracks of the magnetic encoder are individually magnetized by a magnetizing head, made up of a magnetizing yoke and an exciting coil, to thereby provide the magnetic encoder. In the practice of this magnetizing method, when one of the tracks of the magnetic encoder is magnetized, the other track is covered with a magnetic shielding mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Toru Takahashi, Shintarou Ueno, Pascal Desbiolles, Cyril Peterschmitt
  • Patent number: 8406833
    Abstract: A cryostat (1) with a magnet coil system including superconductors for the production of a magnet field B0 in a measuring volume (3) has a plurality of radically nested solenoid-shaped coil sections (4, 5, 6) and which are electrically connected in series, at least one of which being an LTS section (5, 6) with a conventional low temperature superconductor (LTS) and at least one of which being an HTS section (4) including a high temperature superconductor (HTS), wherein the magnet coil system is located in a helium tank (9) of the cryostat (1) along with liquid helium at a helium temperature TL<4 K. The apparatus is characterized in that heating means are provided which always keep the HTS at an increased temperature TH>TL and TH>2.2 K. The cryostat in accordance with the invention can maintain the HTS section over a long period of time in a reliable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Bruker Biospin GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Roth, Axel Lausch
  • Patent number: 8354907
    Abstract: Superconducting coil assemblies (100) in which a plurality of coil units (110) composed of superconducting material are arranged coaxial to the same direction, and including magnetic field adjusting members (121) composed of ferrite, powder metallurgical core, or permendur powder, which have higher magnetic permeability than said superconducting material and are provided in the vicinities of said coil units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: IHI Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuko Fukaya, Tomoya Oota, Hidehiko Sugimoto
  • Publication number: 20120286910
    Abstract: Plumbing fixtures are disclosed having acoustic electromagnetic transducers mounted thereon to transmit music or other vibrations to the fixture interior. The mounting assembly provides for a shield that reduces exposure of those in the fixture to a magnetic field generated by the transducers. In one form there is a post extending from the transducer, through the shield, to a bracket on the housing. Other structures are provided to facilitate removability of the shield and transducer for maintenance purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Inventors: Scott R. Knapp, Kenneth A. Lefeber, Santosh R. Narasimhan
  • Publication number: 20120280774
    Abstract: A magnetic shield for a magnetoresistive (MR) reader has one or more lateral hard magnets and a ferromagnetic shielding layer with at least one hard sub-magnet in a lateral notch in the shielding layer. The notch allows the shielding layer to contact the sub-magnet on surfaces along multiple normal planes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Eric W. Singleton, Junjie Quan, Jae-Young Yi
  • Publication number: 20120280773
    Abstract: In accordance with various embodiments, a magnetic shield for a magnetoresistive (MR) element has one or more lateral hard magnets and a coupling layer contactingly adjacent both the MR element and the hard magnet. The coupling layer concurrently magnetically decouples the MR element while magnetically coupling the hard magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Eric W. Singleton, Junjie Quan, Shaun E. McKinlay
  • Patent number: 8305173
    Abstract: There is obtained a superconductive magnet in which there are reduced the machining costs and the amount of materials for bobbins and supporting members that support coils. In a superconductive magnet provided with a first group of coils serving as main coils for generating a magnetic field and a second group of coils serving as shield coils that are arranged coaxially with the first group of coils and generate a magnetic field whose direction is opposite the direction of a magnetic field generated by the first group of coils so that a magnetic field that leaks outside is cancelled, the second group of coils are arranged at axis-direction positions where axis-direction electromagnetic force generated by the first group of coils and exerted on the second group of coils and axis-direction electromagnetic force generated by the second group of coils balance with each other and cancel out each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Hajime Tamura
  • Publication number: 20120249274
    Abstract: A magnetic shield including a first layer and a second layer and shielding an environmental magnetic field is obtained by manufacturing the first layer that is configured by a first material and that includes a hollow portion on the inside and the second layer that is configured by a second material that is different from the first material and which is a hollow member and placing the second layer in the hollow portion of the first layer. With the magnetic shield, in regions between the first layer and the second layer, a material in which the relative magnetic permeability at the strength of the magnetic field at a region that is next to the second layer is high compared to the relative magnetic permeability of the first material at the strength of the magnetic field is selected as the second material that configures the second layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigemitsu TODA, Kimio NAGASAKA
  • Patent number: 8258903
    Abstract: A superconducting, actively shielded magnet has a first and second superconducting coil modules that generate a homogeneous magnetic field in a first direction in an operating volume of the magnet and that reduces the scatter magnetic field in an environment of the magnet. A third superconducting coil module is arranged in proximity to the first and second coil modules. The third coil module is fashioned to generate a compensation gradient field given occurrence of an interference gradient field in the environment so that the effect of the interference gradient field in the operating volume is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Guenter Schnur
  • Patent number: 8222985
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet configuration (4; 14) for generating a homogeneous magnetic field B0 in an examination volume (4b), has an interior radial superconducting main field coil (1) which is disposed rotationally symmetrically about an axis (z-axis) and an oppositely driven coaxial radially exterior superconducting shielding coil (2) is characterized in that the magnet configuration (4; 14) consists of the main field coil (1), the shielding coil (2), a ferromagnetic field formation device (3; 18) and a ferromagnetic shielding body (AK), wherein the ferromagnetic field formation device (3; 18) is located at the radially inside of the main field coil (1) and the ferromagnetic shielding device (AK) surrounds the main field coil (1) and the shielding coil (2) in a radial and axial direction, the main field coil (1) consisting of an unstructured solenoid coil or of several radially nested unstructured solenoid coils (15, 16) which are driven in the same direction, the axial extent Labs of the shielding coil (2)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Bruker BioSpin GmbH
    Inventors: Gerald Neuberth, Michael Westphal
  • Patent number: 8210481
    Abstract: There is provided a radiation shield device for providing radiation protection to an area, such as a spacecraft including, for example, a manned vehicle. The radiation shield device comprises a magnetic field generator, such as a solenoid, of superconductive material that provides a magnetic field around the area to shield the area from radiation. The solenoid preferably defines an axial length that is substantially smaller than a diameter of the solenoid. A thermal control system, comprising a limited amount of coolant or a refrigeration cycle, is included to control a temperature of the superconductive material during operation of the magnetic field generator. A magnetic shield device is also provided between the magnetic field generator and the area to be shielded from radiation to substantially shield the area from the magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Gary A. Kinstler
  • Patent number: 8154368
    Abstract: An actively shielded superconducting magnet configuration (M1; M2; M3; 14) for generating a homogeneous magnetic field B0 in a volume under investigation (4b) has a radially inner superconducting main field coil (1) which is disposed rotationally symmetrically about an axis (z axis) and a coaxial radially outer superconducting shielding coil (2) which is operated in an opposite direction. The magnet configuration consists of the main field coil, the shielding coil and a ferromagnetic field-shaping device (3; 18), wherein the ferromagnetic field-shaping device is disposed radially inside the main field coil. The main field coil consists of an unstructured solenoid coil or of several radially nested unstructured solenoid coils (15, 16) which are operated in the same direction. An extension Labs of the shielding coil in the axial direction is smaller than the extension Lhaupt of the main field coil in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Bruker BioSpin GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Westphal, Gerald Neuberth
  • Patent number: 8134435
    Abstract: Aspects relate to mitigation of a magnetic field produced by one or more units to be shipped such that a magnitude of magnetic field measured is maintained at or below a threshold level. A counter-flux is applied through the use of one or more magnets, magnet arrays, or a geometrical arrangement of magnet arrays. The strength of the counter-flux is varied by altering size, shape, number, polarity and/or location of the one or more magnets or magnet arrays. The one or more magnets or magnet arrays can be constructed as standard assemblies and/or customized magnet assemblies. Additionally, magnet tiles or configurations can provide a return path for stray field leakage and mitigation. Additionally or alternatively, the placement and orientation of the magnets or magnet arrays allows the flux of one or more units to be mitigated, thus, allowing more than one unit to be shipped at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Floresta, Nandakumar Thirunarayan, Fred Sommerhalter
  • Publication number: 20120049990
    Abstract: An electromagnetic device, which includes a ferromagnetic flux guide; an insulated electrical conductor positioned adjacent to the ferromagnetic flux guide; and, an intermediate support structure positioned between the ferromagnetic flux guide and conductor which includes at least one resiliently deformable member arranged to allow relative movement between the ferromagnetic flux guide and the insulated electrical conductor, in which the relative movement is due to thermal expansion or contraction of the ferromagnetic flux guide and insulated electrical conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventors: Alexis Lambourne, Geraint W. Jewell
  • Patent number: 8111125
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Timothy A. Antaya, Joel Henry Schultz
  • Patent number: 8031039
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a separate type magnetic shield apparatus which has high access performance to a magnetically shielded space, in which magnetic shielding is very effectively achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignees: Kyushu University, National University Corporation, Nippon Steel Composite Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichiro Sasada, Toshikazu Takeda
  • Patent number: 7990661
    Abstract: The active shield superconducting electromagnet apparatus includes: a main switching circuit in which first and second main coils, first and second shield coils, and a first superconducting persistent current switch are connected in series; a sub switching circuit in which a bypass circuit, in which a superconducting fault current limiter and a second superconducting persistent current switch are connected in series, are connected to a series circuit of the first main coil and the second main coil in parallel; a first closed circuit in which at least one of the first main coil and the first shield coil, and a first quench protection circuit are connected in series; and a second closed circuit in which one of the second main coil and the second shield coil, and a second quench protection circuit are connected in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiya Higuchi, Mitsushi Abe, Ryuya Ando, Tsutomu Yamamoto, Takuro Honda
  • Patent number: 7986205
    Abstract: There is provided a magnetic field generator 10 which is capable of varying an orientation of a magnetic field at a target position P easily in all directions. The magnetic field generator 10 includes a pair of magnetic field generating units 16a, 16b which are disposed coaxially so that their respective first main surfaces 28a, 28b oppose in parallel to each other, with a gap G in between. The magnetic field generating units 16a, 16b are rotated by rotation drive units 20a, 20b respectively in Arrow A directions. By rotating each of the magnetic field generating units 16a, 16b in the same one direction of the Arrow A directions by the same angle, the orientation of the magnetic field at the target position P is varied on an X-Z plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Metals. Ltd
    Inventors: Kentarou Horisaka, Hisato Amano
  • Patent number: 7982566
    Abstract: A cryostat (1) with a magnet coil system including superconductors for the production of a magnet field B0 in a measuring volume (3) within a room temperature bore (2) of the cryostat has a plurality of radially nested solenoid-shaped coil sections (4, 5, 6) which surround the room temperature bore and which are electrically connected in series, at least one of which being an LTS section (5, 6) with a conventional low temperature superconductor (LTS) and at least one of which being an HTS section (4) including a high temperature superconductor (HTS), wherein the LTS section (5, 6) is located in a helium tank (9) of the cryostat (1) along with liquid helium at a helium temperature TL. The apparatus is characterized in that the HTS section (4) is disposed radially within the LTS section (5, 6) in a vacuum portion of the cryostat and is separated from the LTS section (5, 6) by the helium tank (9) wall (9a) facing the room temperature bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Bruker BioSpin GmbH
    Inventor: Arne Kasten
  • Patent number: 7964803
    Abstract: A magnetic shield structure having openings, the structure comprising a plurality of similar magnetic blind bodies 2, each blind body 2 having an imaginary blind core plane F and a plurality of magnetic material slats 1 being spaced from each other by a distance d required for magnetic shielding, each slat 1 intersecting the blind core plane F at a longitudinal central axis C thereof, the longitudinal central axes of the slats are oriented substantially in parallel to each other on the blind core plane F. The blind bodies 2a, 2b are coupled in a row by serially coupling each slat 1 in each blind body 2a to a corresponding slat 1 of adjacent blind body 2b through overlapping or abutting of slat terminal portions, whereby the blind core planes Fa, Fb of the blind bodies 2a, 2b are so coupled as to define a successive magnetic shield plane, and spaces d between adjacent slats 1 in each blind body 2a, 2b form openings in the magnetic shield structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignees: Nippon Steel Corporation, Nippon Steel Engineering Co., Ltd., Kajima Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Saito, Masanori Karikomi, Masanori Niwa, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Satoru Miura, Masahiro Fujikura, Akira Sakaida, Yoneo Yamada, Kentaro Chikuma
  • Publication number: 20110137589
    Abstract: A method for shimming a magnetic field is disclosed. The method uses a single shim current to contribute to suppression of more than one geometrical component of an inhomogeneity in the magnetic field without changing the geometry of the shim path. Apparatuses to implement the method are also disclosed. In embodiments the apparatuses comprise substantially commonly oriented shim paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: NANALYSIS CORP.
    Inventors: Garett M. LESKOWITZ, Gregory McFEETORS, Sebastien PERNECKER
  • Publication number: 20110137145
    Abstract: An inventive magnetic filling material for bridging interspaces in magnetic shields for shielding static or low-frequency magnetic fields. The magnetic filling material comprises at least one matrix material and at least one magnetic component embedded into the matrix material. The magnetic component has magnetically shielding properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Inventors: Sergio Nicola Erné, Hannes Nowak, Georg Bison
  • Patent number: 7928730
    Abstract: The electromagnet apparatuses generate a homogeneous magnetic field in a homogeneous magnetic field region by a pair of superconductive main coils for facing to each other; a pair of superconductive shielding coils for facing to each other and passing a current in a direction reverse to that of the main coils; and a pair of first ferromagnetic members for facing to each other, and the apparatuses further include a pair of second ferromagnetic members for facing to each other and be disposed in contact with or adjacent to an opposite side of the region side of the first ferromagnetic members, wherein the region is interposed between the main coils, between the shielding coils, between the first members whose outer periphery is a circle, and between the second members whose outer periphery is a circle whose diameter is larger than that of the circle of the first members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Manabu Aoki, Mitsushi Abe, Takeshi Nakayama, Masanori Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7898258
    Abstract: A superconducting magnet configuration (4; 14) for generating a homogeneous magnetic field B0 in an examination volume (4b), has an interior radial superconducting main field coil (1) which is disposed rotationally symmetrically about an axis (z-axis) and an oppositely driven coaxial radially exterior superconducting shielding coil (2) is characterized in that the magnet configuration (4; 14) consists of the main field coil (1), the shielding coil (2), and a ferromagnetic field formation device (3; 18), wherein the ferromagnetic field formation device (3; 18) is located at the radially inside of the main field coil (1), the main field coil (1) consisting of an unstructured solenoid coil or of several radially nested unstructured solenoid coils (15, 16) which are driven in the same direction, the axial extent Labs of the shielding coil (2) being smaller than the axial extent Lhaupt of the main field coil (1), wherein the axial magnetic field profile (5) generated by the main field coil (1) and the shielding co
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Bruker BioSpin GmbH
    Inventors: Gerald Neuberth, Michael Westphal
  • Publication number: 20110018662
    Abstract: The use of diamagnetic materials in a magnetic field, into which a paramagnetic material is introduced, as a focuser for focusing the magnetic field lines in the paramagnetic material is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Georg DEGEN, Fabian SEELER
  • Patent number: 7868301
    Abstract: A device for deflecting a beam of electrically charged particles onto a curved particle path is provided. The device includes at least one beam guidance magnet having a coil system which has at least one coil that is curved along the particle path for the purpose of deflecting the beam onto a curved particle path, and at least one scanner magnet for variably deflecting the beam in a y,z plane at right angles to the particle path, characterized in that the device has at least one correction system which is embodied to influence the particle path in a regulated or controlled manner with the aid of electric and/or magnetic fields as a function of the position of the beam in the y,z plane. The invention also relates to a corresponding method for deflecting a beam of electrically charged particles onto a curved particle path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Dirk Diehl
  • Publication number: 20100321138
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a separate type magnetic shield apparatus which has high access performance to a magnetically shielded space, in which magnetic shielding is very effectively achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Applicants: KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION, NIPPON STEEL COMPOSITE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ichiro Sasada, Toshikazu Takeda
  • Patent number: 7852079
    Abstract: A apparatus for low AC loss thermal shielding includes a plurality of thermally conducting fibers positioned along a desired direction of heat conduction. The fibers are electrically insulated from each other. The fibers are bonded together with a matrix, and a thermal link connects the bonded fibers to a cryogenic cold head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Xianrui Huang, Evangelos T. Laskaris, Paul S. Thompson, Bulent Aksel
  • Patent number: 7852629
    Abstract: A suspension device mounts a superconducting magnet heat shield enclosure that encompasses a low-temperature container, that encompasses a superconducting magnet and holds coolant for cooling the superconducting magnet. The low-temperature container has an outer heat shield layer and an inner heat shield layer. A vacuum jacket encompasses the heat shield enclosure and has an outer vacuum shell and an inner vacuum shell. A first set of suspension parts connects the outer vacuum shell with the low-temperature container, and a second set of suspension parts connects the outer heat shield shell with the low-temperature container. Since the second set of suspension parts connect the heat shield enclosure directly with the low-temperature container, this reduces the relative movement between the two parts, thus alleviating the streaking phenomenon in a magnetic resonance image, if the superconducting magnet is part of a magnetic resonance imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Xing En Yu
  • Patent number: 7843292
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coil for producing a magnetic field having at least one winding (12), which is manufactured from a superconductor, is cast into a plastic and whose winding end (19) which is arranged at the circumference (13) of the winding (12) is used for making contact with an electrical conductor (15). In order to provide coils with windings (12) consisting of superconductors which make robust contact-making possible given simple production, an electrically conductive connection piece (30) with a base region (31), which is connected to the winding end (19), and a top region (32) for connecting the conductor (15) is provided for contact-making purposes, the base region (31) of said connection piece (30) being covered partially in the radial direction by a reinforcing insert (14), which is cast into the plastic (20) and at least partially surrounds the winding (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Zenergy Power GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Remke, Thomas Braun, Jan Wiezoreck