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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179218 | Magnetizing system and superconducting magnet to be magnetized therewith A magnet magnetizing system and a superconducting magnet to be magnetized, for magnetizing a superconducting magnet to be magnetized, comprises: a magnetizing magnetic field generating means for generating and distinguishing a static magnetic field; a cooling means ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8154368 | Compact superconducting magnet configuration with active shielding, wherein the shielding coil damps the field maximum of the main coil as well as associated magnetic resonance tomograph, NMR spectrometer and ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer An actively shielded superconducting magnet configuration (M1; M2; M3; 14) for generating a homogeneous magnetic field B0 in a volume under investigation (4b) has a radially inner superconducting main field coil (1 | 04/10/2012 |
| 8138867 | Superconducting magnet device A superconducting magnet device includes a main coil that generates a static magnetic field in an imaging space and a disturbance magnetic field compensation coil that suppresses influences of a variable magnetic field flowing inside from outside in the imaging spac... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134434 | Superconducting quick switch A magnet system for generating a magnetic field may include a superconducting magnet, a switch, and a heater element thermally coupled to the switch. The superconducting magnet is structured to generate magnetic fields, and the switch includes a non-inductive superc... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8134433 | Superconducting magnet apparatus Main coils, counteracting coils and correction coils, each forming superconducting coil, are enclosed in two cooling medium chamber facing to each other and an imaging region is formed between the two cooling medium chamber positioned in each vacuum chamber, the mai... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8115580 | Magnetic field adjusting device A magnetic field adjusting device includes a pair of opposing pole plates mounted on respective magnetic field generating sources, forming a magnetic field space; a plurality of shimming plugs movably mounted at the periphery of the pole plates, with each shimming p... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8077001 | Superconducting magnet A persistent current switch in a superconducting magnet, includes: a winding part in which a superconducting wire is noninductively wound; a winding-heating heater provided around the winding part; a vessel provided around the winding part with a space; and an anti-... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072301 | Superconductive magnet system for a magnetic resonance examination system A superconductive magnet system with a super conductive magnet is provided with a cooling system. A thermal switch is configured to thermally (de)couple the superconductive magnet from/to the cooling system so that the magnet can be decoupled from the cooling system... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8044752 | High-current, compact flexible conductors containing high temperature superconducting tapes High-current, compact, flexible conductors containing high temperature superconducting (HTS) tapes and methods for making the same are described. The HTS tapes are arranged into a stack, a plurality of stacks are arranged to form a superstructure, and the superstruc... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8022797 | Superconducting coil apparatus and inductor-type synchronous machine This superconducting coil apparatus includes: a cylindrical coil container which has an inner circumferential surface and an outer circumferential surface; a superconducting coil which is stored in the coil container to be cooled so that a superconducting member is ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8022798 | Coil with superconductive windings cooled without cryogenic fluids A coil comprises a set of windings with a generally annular shape and formed by a plurality of series-connected partial windings made of a superconductor with a high critical temperature, in which these partial windings are arranged next to each other in stratified ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8013697 | Solenoidal superconducting magnet structure A method of manufacturing a solenoidal magnet structure, includes the step of providing a collapsible accurate mold in which to wind the coils winding wire into defined positions in the mold, placing a mechanical support structure over the coils so wound, impregnati... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7982566 | Cryostat having a magnet coil system, which comprises an LTS section and an HTS section, which is arranged in the vacuum part A cryostat (1) with a magnet coil system including superconductors for the production of a magnet field B0 in a measuring volume (3) within a room temperature bore (2) of the cryostat has a plurality of radially nested solenoid-shaped... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7961067 | Superconducting magnet apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus A superconducting magnet apparatus obtains high magnetic field uniformity without increasing the volume of a magnetic material even against disturbances. The superconducting magnet apparatus has a circular superconducting coil which generates a magnetic field; a coi... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7952454 | Method and device for generating a homogeneous magnetic field in an area of interest, especially for NMR imaging The device for creating a uniform magnetic field in a zone of interest, in particular for nuclear magnetic resonance and magnetic resonance imaging, comprises an arrangement of superconductor coils disposed around a longitudinal axis (z) of the zone of interest. Thi... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7928820 | Superconducting magnet and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus In a superconducting magnet, including a vacuum vessel, a coil vessel inside the vacuum vessel, and a superconducting coil inside the coil vessel for generating a magnetic field, has a magnetic member, disposed inside the vacuum vessel, supported with thermal insula... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7924126 | High field superconducting magnets A superconducting magnet includes an insulating layer disposed about the surface of a mandrel; a superconducting wire wound in adjacent turns about the mandrel to form the superconducting magnet, wherein the superconducting wire is in thermal communication with the ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7889035 | Methods for charging and using pulsed-power sources Methods and systems provide pulsed-power to a load utilizing high temperature superconductors (HTS) within multiple pulsed-power devices. According to embodiments described herein, each pulsed-power device includes a HTS mounted on a rotor and an armature coil mount... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7889034 | Method of high magnetic field superconducting magnet Disclosed is a method for designing a superconducting magnet for generating high magnetic fields with high uniformity for controlling a stray field to be within an allowable range and acquiring structural and magnetic stability by optimizing the arrangement of posit... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7880574 | Superconducting magnet and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus using the same A superconducting magnet includes: first and second torus coolant containers substantially symmetrically, vertically arranged to have a space and a symmetrical plane therebetween for storing a coolant. Each of the first and second torus coolant containers includes t... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7859375 | Electromagnet An electromagnet comprising a plurality of coils of superconductive material, monolithically embedded in an embedding material, which is solid at the temperature of operation of the superconductive electromagnet, and a method for producing an electromagnet comprisin... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7859374 | Annular magnet system for magnetic resonance spectroscopy A persistent-mode magnet, assembled from superconducting annuli, provides a micro coil NMR, in which compactness and manufacturability are provided for a variety of applications. An annular magnet for micro NMR can include a YBCO-annulus Helmholtz coil, for example,... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7843292 | Coil for producing a magnetic field The invention relates to a coil for producing a magnetic field having at least one winding (12), which is manufactured from a superconductor, is cast into a plastic and whose winding end (19) which is arranged at the circumference (13) of the wi... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7764153 | Magnetic field generator A magnetic field generator comprises a superconducting bulk body, which generates a superconducting magnetic field, a refrigerant vessel for storing solid nitrogen, a vacuum container, which accommodates therein the superconducting bulk body and the refrigerant vess... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7705701 | Thin metal layer vacuum vessels with composite structural support A composite sealed vessel is provided. The vessel includes a non-metallic, generally cylindrical inner containment piece, a non-metallic, generally cylindrical outer containment piece disposed around the inner containment piece. A pair of non-metallic flanges are di... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7696847 | High-field synchrocyclotron The magnetic field in an acceleration chamber defined by a magnet structure is shaped by shaping the poles of a magnetic yoke and/or by providing additional magnetic coils to produce a magnetic field in the median acceleration plane that decreases with increasing ra... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7667562 | Magnetic field replicator and method A new class of fundamental devices and methods for their manufacture and use. The bulk magnetic field replicators of the present invention require no precision machining or alignment to accurately reproduce magnetic fields of any complexity, nor extreme positional s... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7656258 | Magnet structure for particle acceleration A magnet structure for particle acceleration includes at least two coils that include a continuous path of superconducting material [e.g., niobium tin (Nb3Sn) having an A15-type crystal structure] for electric current flow there through. The coils can be ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7646272 | Freely oriented portable superconducting magnet A freely oriented portable superconducting magnet is disclosed. Coolant is supplied to the superconducting magnet from a repository separate from the magnet, enabling portability of the magnet. A plurality of support assemblies structurally anchor and thermally isol... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7629868 | Cryogenic cooling of superconducting magnet systems below temperature of 4.2 K A superconducting magnet system comprises a cryogenic vessel (1), a superconducting magnet (11) contained in an inner reservoir (16) within the vessel (1) to be cooled by liquid helium within the inner reservoir (16), and an outer ... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7626477 | Cold mass cryogenic cooling circuit inlet path avoidance of direct conductive thermal engagement with substantially conductive coupler for superconducting magnet A cold mass for a superconducting magnet system in one example comprises a superconducting magnet, a cryogenic cooling circuit, and a magnet and cooling circuit support. The magnet and cooling circuit support comprises a substantially conductive coupler that serves ... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7616083 | Resin-impregnated superconducting magnet coil comprising a cooling layer A resin-impregnated superconducting magnet coil comprising a number of turns of superconducting wire (14) embedded within a resin (16) having an outer filler layer (18) composed of the resin, filled with filler material (20). The coil fur... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7602269 | Permanent current switch There is disclosed a permanent current switch which has a high temperature margin and which is thermally stable and which securely performs a switching operation between a superconducting state and a normal conducting state. The permanent current switch of the prese... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7586396 | Superconducting resistive current limiter with a shunt A resistive current limiter with at least one tubular high temperature superconductor body is disclosed provided with a shunt of a normal conducting material wound in coil configuration around the surface of the tubular superconductor body. ... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7570141 | Method of designing a shim coil to reduce field settling time A shim coil design technique determines a position and a geometry of a room temperature (RT) shim coil to provide both a desired field homogeneity and a desired B0 field setting time. The simultaneous satisfaction of both field homogeneity and field settl... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7567156 | Superconducting magnet configuration with switch A superconducting magnet configuration with a magnet coil (1) of inductance L which is disposed in a cryostat (7) at a cryogenic temperature, for generating a temporally stable magnetic field, in a working volume, which is suitable for NMR measurements... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7567157 | Rectangular coil made of strip-shaped superconductors containing high-T-superconductor material and use thereof A rectangular coil has several successive windings which are made of a strip-shaped super conductor, which contains at least one core which is embedded in a normal conductive matrix material and which is made of a high-Tc-super conductor material. The coi... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7567158 | Superconducting magnet arrangement with hysteresis free field coil A magnet arrangement (M, M′, M″, M′″) for generating a magnetic field in the direction of a z-axis in a working volume (V) disposed on the z-axis about z=0, with a magnet coil system (A, A′, A″, A′″) which comprises one or more superconducting magnet... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7541904 | Magnetic field adjusting device The present invention relates to a magnetic field adjusting device; such as may be used in MRI apparatus. The device can overcome the magnetic force to enable shimming plugs to move in a controlled continuous manner, thereby achieving continuous adjusting and accura... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7541905 | High-field superconducting synchrocyclotron The magnetic field in an acceleration chamber defined by a magnet structure is shaped by shaping the poles of a magnetic yoke and/or by providing additional magnetic coils to produce a magnetic field in the median acceleration plane that decreases with increasing ra... | 06/02/2009 |
