Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science

Lg Chem, Ltd

Kiwoong Kim

Yong-Ho Lee

Jin-Mok Kim

Kwon-Kyu Yu

Hyukchan Kwon

Seong-Joo Lee

Hyang Mok Lee

Sungjin Kwon

Sang-Kil Lee

Dong-Myung Kim

Seong-min Hwang

Sangbaek Ryu

Heegyoung Kang

Kwon Kyu Yu

Eunyoung Goh

Jeong-Hyun Shim

Seungeun Choi

Chan Seok Kang

Sung-Min Hwang

Hyeong Jin Kim

Ki Hong Min

Jihoon Cho

Yong-Ki Park

Jin Mok Kim

Hyun-Chul Jung

Oh Young Hyun

Dongmyung Kim

Jeong Hyun Shim

Ingo Hilschenz

Sung-Mok Lim

Hyeong Joon Kim

Seong Min Hwang

Hyun-joon Lee

Chan-Seok Kang

Suengeun Choi

Eungyoung Goh

A fluid-cooled electromagnet includes an upper housing, a lower housing vertically aligned with the upper housing, a plurality of pancake coils disposed between the upper housing and the lower housing to be spaced apart from each other and sequentially stacked to have a washer shape, and at least one spacer, disposed between the upper housing and the lower housing, accommodating the pancake coils at regular intervals.

Fluid-cooled electromagnets

Provided are an ultra-low field nuclear magnetic resonance device and a method for measuring an ultra-low field nuclear resonance image. The ultra-low field nuclear magnetic resonance device includes an AC power supply configured to supply a current to a measurement target in such a manner the current flows to the measurement target, magnetic field measurement means disposed adjacent to the measurement target, and measurement bias magnetic field generation means configured to apply a measurement bias magnetic field corresponding to a proton magnetic resonance frequency of the measurement target. A vibration frequency of the AC power supply matches the proton magnetic resonance frequency of the measurement target, and the magnetic field measurement means measures a nuclear magnetic resonance signal generated from the measurement target.

Ultra-low field nuclear magnetic resonance device

A cryocooler superconducting quantum interference (SQUID) system includes a cryocooler including a cold head, a cold head chamber in which the cold head is disposed, a sensor chamber including a SQUID sensor cooled to a low temperature by the cryocooler; and a connection block connecting the cold head and a thermal anchor disposed in the sensor chamber to each other to cool the SQUID sensor in the sensor chamber.

Cryocooled SQUID measurement apparatus

Superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) sensor module and a magnetoencephalography (MEG) measuring apparatus. The SQUID sensor module includes a fixed block having one end fixed to the sensor-mounted helmet, a bobbin having one end combined with the other end of the fixed block and having a groove in which a pick-up coil is wound, a bobbin fixing or attachment structure or material fixed to the other end of the fixed block via a through-hole formed in the center of the bobbin, a SQUID printed circuit board (PCB) disposed one an upper side surface of the bobbin and including a SQUID sensor, and a signal line connection PCB inserted into an outer circumferential surface of the fixed block and adapted to transmit a signal detected in the SQUID sensor to an external circuit.

Squid sensor module and magnetoencephalography measuring apparatus

A battery cell includes an electrode assembly mounted in a battery case. The electrode assembly includes positive electrodes, negative electrodes, and separators, wherein the separators are disposed respectively between the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes. The electrode assembly is provided with a deformation part, and has a sectional width of which is discontinuously or continuously decreased, and is formed at a portion of an outer edge of the electrode assembly. The battery case includes two or more case members, each made of a metal sheet, the case members being coupled to each other in a state in which the electrode assembly is mounted in the case members, at least one of the case members having a receiving part with an internal shape corresponding to the deformation part of the electrode assembly.

Battery cell of novel structure with improved safety

A magnetoencephalography (MEG) measuring apparatus and an MEG measuring method. The MEG measuring apparatus includes a superconducting helmet having an inward brim, a sensor-equipped helmet disposed inside the superconducting helmet, a pick-up coil disposed inside the sensor-equipped helmet, and a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) sensor mounted on the sensor-equipped helmet and connected to the pick-up coil.

Magnetoencephalography measuring apparatus

Provided is a low magnetic field and ultra-low magnetic field NMR and MRI apparatus. The low magnetic field and ultra-low magnetic field NMR and MRI apparatus includes a SQUID sensor and a prepolarization magnetic field coil. The prepolarization magnetic field coil generates a prepolarization magnetic field to polarize a sample. The prepolarization magnetic coil generates a counter pulse in a direction opposite to that of the prepolarization magnetic field immediately before or immediately after the prepolarization magnetic field is generated. The counter pulse demagnetizes wanted magnetization including that of the prepolarization magnetic field coil itself.

Low magnetic field, ultra-low magnetic field nuclear magnetic resonance and magnetic resonance image apparatus

Provided are ultra-low-field nuclear-magnetic-resonance myocardial electrical activity detection method and an ultra-low-field nuclear-magnetic-resonance device. The ultra-low-field nuclear-magnetic-resonance device includes magnetic shielding room; a high-sensitivity magnetic field sensor disposed adjacent to a measurement target disposed inside the magnetic shielding room; and a bias magnetic field generating coil for providing an external measurement bias magnetic field, corresponding to a proton magnetic resonance frequency (nuclear magnetic resonance frequency) corresponding to a frequency of periodic myocardial activity of a lesion desired to be measured, to the measurement target. The high-sensitivity magnetic field sensor measures a magnetic resonance signal generated from the measurement target.

Ultra-low-field nuclear-magnetic-resonance direct myocardial electrical activity detection method and ultra-low-field nuclear-magnetic-resonance device

Disclosed herein is a battery cell configured to have a structure in which an electrode assembly, including positive electrodes, negative electrodes, and separators disposed respectively between the positive electrodes and the negative electrodes, is mounted in a battery case, wherein the electrode assembly includes two or more electrodes or unit cells stacked in a height direction when viewed in a plan view, the battery case is provided with a receiving unit, in which electrode assembly is mounted, the electrode assembly is configured to have a quadrangular shape having side (a), side (b), side (c), and side (d) when viewed in a plan view, and inclined such that an interior angle between side (a) of each of the electrode plates or the unit cells, at which an electrode terminal is located, and side (b) adjacent to side (a) is less than 90 degrees, and the receiving unit of the battery case has an internal shape corresponding to a planer shape of the electrode assembly.

Electrode assembly of incline structure and battery cell employed with the same

Disclosed herein is an electrode group stack including a stacked structure of electrode groups, each including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, in which the electrode groups are stacked in a height direction on the basis of a plane such that the positive electrode and the negative electrode face each other in a state in which the separator is disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, wherein the stacked structure of the electrode groups includes electrode groups having different areas at an interface between the electrode groups, and a ratio of capacity to area of the positive electrode and the negative electrode at the interface between the electrode groups (N/P ratio) is equal to or greater than a ratio of capacity to area of a positive electrode and a negative electrode constituting an electrode group having a relatively large area (N/P ratio).

Stepped electrode group stack

Provided are an atomic magnetometer and an operating method of the same. The atomic magnetometer includes a vapor cell receiving a circularly polarized pump beam and a linearly polarized probe beam and containing an alkali metal vapor, a detector adapted to receive the probe beam passing through the vapor cell to measure magneto-optical rotation of the probe beam, a feedback coil to establish a negative feedback magnetic field signal orthogonal to a first plane defined by traveling directions of the probe beam and the pump beam and provide the negative feedback magnetic field signal to the vapor cell, and a feedback amplifier adapted to provide feedback current to the feedback coil such that the negative feedback magnetic field proportional to a measurement magnetic field is established. The measurement magnetic field of a measurement target provides magneto-optical rotation of the probe beam in the vapor cell.

Atomic magnetometer and operating method of the same

Provided are an ultra-low-field nuclear magnetic resonance device and an ultra-low-field nuclear magnetic resonance measuring method. The method includes applying a first measurement bias magnetic field corresponding to an excitation frequency of a coherent biomagnetic field generated in association with the electrophysiological activity of human body organs, applying a second measurement bias magnetic field having the same direction as the first measurement bias magnetic field and having a different magnitude than the first measurement bias magnetic field, and measuring a magnetic resonance signal generated in the human body by using magnetic field measuring means.

Biomagnetic resonance device and measuring method therefor

Provided are an apparatus and a method for canceling magnetic fields. The apparatus includes a magnetic field canceling coil disposed adjacent to an inner wall of a magnetic shield room to surround the entire inner space or a portion of an inner space of the magnetic shield room; and a magnetic field canceling coil driver to supply current to the magnetic field canceling coil. The magnetic field canceling coil cancels a prepolarization magnetic field established on the wall of the magnetic shield room by a prepolarization coil disposed in the center of the magnetic shield room to minimize magnetic interference caused by the magnetic shield room.

Apparatus and method for canceling magnetic fields

Provided are a low-temperature cooling apparatus and a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) sensor module. The low-temperature cooling apparatus includes an outer container; an inner container disposed inside the outer container, the inner container including a neck portion having a first diameter and a body portion having a second diameter greater than the first diameter; an insert inserted into the neck portion of the inner container; and a plurality of SQUID sensor modules inserted into the body portion of the inner container. Each of the SQUID sensor modules is in the form of a fan-shaped pillar and is fixedly coupled with an inner bottom plate of the inner container.

Low-temperature cooling apparatus and superconducting quantum interference device sensor module

An apparatus and a method for indirectly cooling a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) are provided. The apparatus includes an outer container extending in a vertical direction; a metallic inner container inserted into the outer container to store a liquid coolant, the metal inner container including a top plate; a SQUID sensor module disposed between a bottom surface of the outer container and a bottom surface of the inner container; a heat transfer pillar adapted to cool the SQUID sensor module, the heat transfer pillar having one end connected to the bottom surface of the inner container and the other end directly or indirectly connected to the SQUID sensor module; a magnetic shield part formed of a superconductor covering a top surface of the SQUID sensor module; and a heat conduction plate being in thermal contact with the other end of the heat transfer pillar.

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Daejeon, South Korea

Kiwoong Kim