A buoyancy-free mass comparator with precision better than 10-6 for use in a superconducting magnetic levitation system

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 609-612

  Fujii, Yusaku ^a   Shiota, Fuyuhiko ^a   Miki, Yukinobu ^a   Nezu, Yoshiaki ^a   Makishita, Go ^b   Hara, Ko ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Mass stability; Mass standards; Vacuum balance; Vacuum weighing

Indexed keywords

BUOYANCY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MAGNETIC LEVITATION; SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETS; WEIGHING;

SUPERCONDUCTING MAGNETIC LEVITATION SYSTEM;

PRECISION BALANCES;

EID: 0031123640     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.571935     Document Type: Article

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