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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 1993

Filed:

May. 13, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:

Hideaki Nakane, Hachioji, JP;

Yoshinobu Tarutani, Yamanashi, JP;

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
324248 ; 505702 ; 505846 ;
Abstract

Since a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) using a high temperature superconductor operates at the liquid nitrogen temperature 77 K, which is higher than the liquid helium temperature 4.2 K, it is necessary that the value of signal voltages is at a level, which is sufficiently higher than the thermal noise level. The superconducting inductance L should be decreased with increasing current flowing through Josephson junctions in the SQUID. The superconducting inductance can be reduced by various methods such as reduction in the size of the aperture of the superconducting inductance, parallel connection of superconducting inductances, utilization of a superconducting ground plane, etc., in order to realize a SQUID, which can be use in a wide application field at the liquid nitrogen temperature 77 K.


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