US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on June 9 for "Superconducting magnet device and cryostat" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,686, issued on June 9, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Superconducting magnet device and cryostat" was invented by Jyun Yoshida (Yokosuka, Japan) and Atsushi Hashimoto (Yokosuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconducting magnet device includes a superconducting coil disposed in a cryogenic environment; and a protection diode disposed in the cryogenic environment and connected to the superconducting coil, the protection diode being disposed such that a direction of a magnetic field generated by the superconducting coil on a pn junction surface of the protection diode forms an angle within about 30 ...