Electricity: measuring and testing – Magnetic – Magnetometers
Patent
1990-03-27
1991-09-03
Snow, Walter E.
Electricity: measuring and testing
Magnetic
Magnetometers
307306, 505846, G01R 33035
Patent
active
050457888
ABSTRACT:
A digital SQUID control system for measuring a weak magnetic flux irradiated from an object includes: a SQUID having Josephson junctions and a superconductively coil; a pick-up coil detecting the weak magnetic flux from the object and flowing a measuring current in the pick-up coil, and an input coil magnetically coupled to the superconductivity coil through the measuring current; a feedback coil magnetically coupled to the superconductivity coil through a feedback current; a feedback circuit for counting positive and negative pulses input from the SQUID, for converting count values to an analog voltage, and for converting the analog voltage to the feedback current; an alternating has current generating circuit connected to the SQUID through an injection terminal, for supplying the alternating bias current to the SQUID; and a pulse rate measuring circuit for calculating a sum of the positive and negative pulses, for converting the sum to an analog voltage, and for outputting the analog voltage to the alternating current generating circuit. Further, the alternating current generating circuit controls an amplitude of the alternating bias current in such a way that the sum of the positive and negative pulses per unit of time becomes constant, and the feedback circuit controls the feedback current under the controls of the alternating bias current amplitude in such a way that a difference between the positive pulses and the negative pulses becomes zero by flowing the feedback current through the magnetically coupled superconductivity coil.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4672359 (1987-06-01), Silver
Amemiya Shin-ichi
Goto Takao
Hayashi Hajime
Hayashi Takehiko
Igarashi Yutaka
Fujitsu Limited
Snow Walter E.
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