US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES on Oct. 20 for "Superconducting magnet device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,768, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SUMITOMO HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD. (Tokyo).

"Superconducting magnet device" was invented by Atsushi Hashimoto (Yokosuka, Japan), Jyun Yoshida (Yokosuka, Japan), Kenta Demura (Yokosuka, Japan) and Takaaki Morie (Yokosuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconducting magnet device includes a tubular cryostat defining a central cavity therein, a first superconducting coil set and a second superconducting coil set disposed outside the central cavity and inside the tubular cryostat, and a power supply system being capable of controlling a magnitude of a first exciting current to the first supe...