US Patent Issued to Canon on July 28 for "Superconducting magnet device and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,359, issued on July 28, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Superconducting magnet device and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus" was invented by Katsutoshi Mizuno (Nasushiobara, Japan) and Takehiro Shibuya (Nasushiobara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconducting magnet device of an embodiment includes a vacuum vessel, a superconducting coil, and an insulating load support. The insulating load support supports the superconducting coil through the thermal deformation cancellation mechanism that generates a second deformation amount in a direction in which a first deformation amount applied from the superconducting coil...