摘要:
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.
摘要:
A plurality of SQUID flux sensors are supplied with their respective bias currents at the same time from a bias source. A superconducting multiplexer multiplexes output signals of the SQUID flux sensors during an interval of time when the bias currents are supplied to the SQUID flux sensors. A multiplexer, placed in a room-temperature environment, distributes each of the multiplexed output signals of the SQUID flux sensors to a respective one of the output terminals which correspond to the SQUID flux sensors. Each signal which has been output to an individual output terminal is counted by a counter, so that an external magnetic flux to a corresponding SQUID flux sensor is measured.
摘要:
A digital superconducting quantum interference device type fluxmeter includes a flux sensor unit which detects external magnetic flux to be measured using a SQUID ring, and outputs pulse signals of corresponding directions and numbers, and a counter unit which counts the number of pulse signals output by the flux sensor unit inclusive of the directions thereof, in order to measure the external magnetic flux based on the counted result of the counter unit. The fluxmeter further includes an offset detection unit which detects the offset quantity of the counter unit generated by the magnetic flux trapped by the SQUID ring, and a feedback unit that feeds back to the flux sensor unit a signal that is obtained based on the detected offset quantity and the counted result of the counter unit.
摘要:
In a multi-channel SQUID fluxmeter for detecting magnetic flux signals by use of an array of SQUID flux sensors each comprising a digital SQUID for providing a pulse output, multiplexers and the like are appropriately used to allow pulse signals output from the SQUID flux sensors to be switched on a time series basis in order to obtain a magnetic flux signal for each channel. Thus, only one processing circuit need to be provided for a large number of SQUID flux sensors, thus reducing the scale of the fluxmeter and making the device small.
摘要:
A pick-up coil assembly for a multi-channel SQUID magnetometer. The assembly includes a base plate, a plurality of support bars fixedly mounted on the base plate so as to form a matrix, and a plurality of pick-up coil units fixedly mounted on the support bars, each pick-up coil unit having a first and second pick-up coil block. Each of the pick-up coil blocks has a support body, a pair of pick-up coils, connection pads and connection lines. The pair of pick-up coils, the connection pads and the connection lines are formed by a lithography technique on the support body.
摘要:
An apparatus is provided for measuring a very weak magnetic field generated by a human body, etc. External magnetic noise components coming from other magnetic sources and existing around an object whose magnetic field is to be measured are detected by compensation coils of the apparatus. The compensation coils are oriented in multiple dimensional directions. The detected noise components are weighted and added to each other to correctly find the noise components. Thereafter, the noise components mixed in the objective very weak magnetic field are removed, thereby correctly measuring the very weak magnetic field.
摘要:
An estimated current dipole displaying system in which a weak magnetic field generated from the heart or brain is measured to estimate the position, direction, magnitude and depth from a body surface of a current dipole which is equivalent to a heart current or a current flowing in a nerve and the estimated current dipole is displayed on a two-dimensional display. A parameter, other than that used to indicate the magnitude and those inappropriate for combined use with the magnitude indicating parameter, is used as a depth indicating parameter and the current dipole is thus displayed.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a signal processing apparatus for quantitatively measuring ultrasonic characteristics of a medium, such as a human body and realizes the high speed quantitative measurement by processing all signals in the time domain. In the processing for eliminating an error, produced by a degree of convergence of the ultrasonic beam, a correcting function that is a function of the depth and frequency is employed. The correcting function is measured in a no-attenuation medium and converted into a form suited to the time domain processing. The function is stored and such frequency characteristics of the function are sequentially read during an actual medium measurement to control the characteristic of a variable characteristic filter to correct the received signal.
摘要:
A diagnosis apparatus for discriminating a property of the tissue to be observed from the reflected ultrasonic wave uses the nature of the fine structure of the tissue, and more practically uses the interval of small reflecting bodies dispersely distributed in the tissue as the parameters. The intervals flucatuate. Therefore, an average value and/or a degree of fluctuation is calculated and is displayed. For obtaining the average interval, a method of using the cepstrum of the received signal or a method of using the self-correlation of the received signal can be used.
摘要:
In a signal receiving circuit of a direct conversion system applied with a semiconductor integrated circuit for radio communication having a PLL requiring a clock signal, an LNA requiring low-noise receiving characteristics, and others, a variable coupling line is provided between clock signal buffers and at an input stage of the PLL, so that coupling between the variable coupling line and an input terminal of the LNA and coupling between the variable coupling line and a GND terminal of the LNA are made equal to each other at frequencies of higher harmonic waves of a clock signal. When the input terminal and the GND terminal of the LNA are excited at the same phase, since no output occurs at an output terminal of the LNA, an output of the LNA does not contain any higher harmonic wave of a clock signal.