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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185175 | Superconducting coil and superconductor used for the same A low-cost superconducting coil which can generate a high magnetic field at comparatively high temperature is provided. The superconducting coil is formed in a pancake shape by winding a superconducting conductor that is made by electrically connecting a tape-shaped... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8126523 | Use of superconductor components in thin layers as variable inductance and devices including said components and corresponding control method Use, as a component with variable inductance which is a function of the current passing through it, of an inductive superconductive component having at least two terminals and comprising at least one line segment working with said terminals and integrating at least ... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8112134 | Superconducting current limiter device of the resistive type having a holding element The superconducting current-limiting device contains at least one coil (61), the conductive track of which is formed from at least one band-shaped superconductor (17), where a holding element (2, 41, 10, 51, 62) is located between adjacent coil ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 7996053 | Quench-controlled high temperature superconductor The present invention relates to a quench controlled high temperature superconductor component wherein at least one depression is provided in a surface of the component resulting in a reduced wall thickness, and, wherein an electrical shunt is applied into the depre... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7865221 | Magnetic field coil with superconducting capability and parallel wound wire sections in a layer A superconducting magnetic field coil (1; 21; 31; 41; 51; 61) comprising at least one coil section (42; 43) which is wound in layers, is characterized in that, in at least one layer (11, 12, 13, 14, 101, 102, 103, 104) of the coil section (42... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7383688 | Superconducting device having a cryogenic system and a superconducting switch The superconducting device has a cryogenic system to whose first refrigerant there is thermally coupled a superconducting unit and a superconducting switching path, which is electrically connected to said unit and is to be activated thermally by a heater, of a super... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7359165 | Superconducting current limiting element A superconducting current limiting element has a parallel circuit including a first superconductor and a normal conductor connected in parallel, and a second superconductor connected in series to the parallel circuit and having a critical current value higher than t... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352267 | Cylindrically shaped superconductor component and its use as resistive current limiter The present invention is directed to a cylindrically shaped superconductor component particularly useful as resistive current limiter composed of a cylindrical superconductor body, in particular of high temperature superconductor material, provided vertically to its... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7273537 | Method of production of metal particles through electrolysis A method of producing metal particles through electrolysis. A cathode having a plurality of active zones on a surface thereof is at least partially immersed in a reaction solution. The cathode is spaced from an anode also at least partially immersed in the reaction ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7235975 | Magnet system with shielded regenerator housing A magnet system of a magnetic resonance apparatus for generating a magnetic field which is homogeneous and temporally highly stable within a volume under investigation and which extends along a z-axis, with a superconducting magnet coil (3) which is disposed ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233223 | Transformer winding A Winding for high voltage transformer having a predetermined number of spaced winding groups joined to form a single winding transformer, each spaced winding group being solenoid wound from a predetermined number of turns. A method of forming the winding and a tran... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7193336 | Switchable low-loss cryogenic lead system A method and apparatus for reducing conductive thermal losses in high-current cryogenic power electronics systems needing large cables to interface between warm and cold environments. Thermal losses increase with increasing cross-sectional area. The total current at... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7154271 | Split type NMR Superconductive magnet device and NMR apparatus for solution analysis with a permanent current switch holding the split type superconducting magnet in a permanent current mode A superconducting magnet device configured for an NMR spectrometer includes a split type superconducting magnet having left and right solenoid superconducting magnets, wherein the split type superconducting magnet has a center space around a vertical center axis bet... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7149560 | Superconducting cable and superconducting cable line A superconducting cable includes a first conductor layer formed of superconducting wires, and an insulating layer formed at the outer periphery of the first conductor layer. The first conductor layer is an assembly of a plurality of superconducting wires obtained by... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7138801 | NMR spectrometer and NMR probe An NMR probe having a high-sensitivity solenoid probe coil for receiving free induction decay (FID) signals in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, and an NMR spectrometer which incorporates this probe. The solenoid probe coil is fabricated by a building b... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7078991 | Superconducting coil Provided is a superconducting coil capable of reducing a magnetic field perpendicularly irradiated to a wide surface of a superconducting wire composing a coil of a superconducting electric device by winding a low current density coil, driven with a current density ... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7071694 | Magnet assembly of an MRI system with concentric annular ferromagnetic laminations The present invention is a saturated ferromagnetic structure for controlling the homogeneity of the primary magnet field of a magnet in a Magnetic Resonance Imaging system. The structure has a plurality of coaxial laminations disposed thereon about a central axis of... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7064646 | Integrated inductor An inductor comprises a substrate comprising a semiconductor material, a first dielectric layer over the substrate, a magnetic layer over the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer over the magnetic layer, and a conductor over the second dielectric layer.... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7053621 | Split type NMR magnet device and NMR apparatus for solution analysis with at least an 11 T static magnetic field and different energizing directions of the NMR magnets A split type magnet device configured for a high-sensitivity NMR apparatus and used for solution analysis generates a uniform magnetic field at the center portion of the magnet device of at least 11 T, which is used for determining a sample. The NMR magnet device ha... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7049817 | Thermostat-controlled containment cell for samples intended for NMR measurements and method for implementing it A thermostatically controlled containment cell for a sample, suitable notably for a measuring device such as a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometer, NMR type measuring device including the cell, and method for implementation is disclosed. Cell (8) co... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7049920 | Open magnet device and magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising it In a superconductive magnet device comprising upper and lower vacuum vessels coupled by a coupling conduit, the upper and lower vacuum vessels 9 and the coupling conduit 24 coupling them are made of a high electric-resistance material so that the magne... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7048840 | Method for metal coating the surface of high temperature superconductors The invention relates to a method for metal coating the surface of high temperature superconductors with a copper-oxygen base structure. The aim of the invention is to achieve a method as above, which requires a low production complexity, serves for the production o... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7046112 | Logging tool induction coil form The present invention is directed to a logging tool induction coil form having a coating layer, which is easy to form to tight tolerances, bonded to at least a portion of the outer surface of the ceramic hollow cylindrical core. A plurality of parallel circumferenti... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7038356 | Mechanical-to-acoustical transformer and multi-media flat film speaker A mechanical-to-acoustical transducer has at least one actuator, preferably a piezo motor, that is coupled, generally perpendicularly, to one edge of a diaphragm formed from a thin, flexible sheet material. The diaphragm is fixed at a point spaced from the actuator ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6950277 | Concave trailing edge write pole for perpendicular recording A magnetic recording system includes a magnetic medium and a magnetic write head to write information on the magnetic medium. The magnetic write head includes a write pole having a downstream side that has a concave shaped portion when the write pole is viewed from ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6922885 | High temperature superconducting racetrack coil A racetrack shaped high temperature superconducting (HTS) coil is fabricated by layer winding HTS tape under tension on a precision coil form with a binder such as pre-preg filament-ply interlayer insulation. The coil form includes a racetrack shaped bobbin, two sid... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6925316 | Method of forming superconducting magnets using stacked LTS/HTS coated conductor A method of forming magnets using stacked superconducting films-disks of coated conductor is described. The superconducting material may be either from the oxide high temperature superconducting (HTS) class or the metallic/inter-metallic low temperature superconduct... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6897749 | Magnetic energy storage device A superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) device including a first coil made of superconducting material, a cooling mechanism for cooling the first coil to superconducting temperatures, a second coil inductively coupled to the first coil for inputting emergy ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6876877 | High temperature superconductor tunable filter having a movable substrate controlled by a magnetic actuator A circuit is provided wherein the electronic properties of the circuit are varied by a magnetic actuator. The circuit includes a fixed substrate and a movable substrate. The magnetic actuator comprises a magnetic driver on an upper surface of the fixed substrate tha... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6809910 | Method and apparatus to trigger superconductors in current limiting devices A method and apparatus for magnetically triggering a superconductor in a superconducting fault current limiter to transition from a superconducting state to a resistive state. The triggering is achieved by employing current-carrying trigger coil or foil on either or... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6799363 | System for manufacture and use of a superconductive coil In one embodiment, the invention comprises a system for manufacturing a superconductive electrical conductor. A channel (140) is formed in a mold (130) that is formed from a ceramic material having a negative heat coefficient of expansion. A material (... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6774752 | NMR high field magnet coil system with superconducting capability and having an outwardly protruding inner coil section The invention concerns an NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) high field magnet coil system comprising superconducting conductor structures for generating a homogeneous magnetic field B0 in a measuring volume (23) with several radially nested solenoid... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6635368 | HTS film-based electronic device characterized by low ELF and white noise A film-based HTS device comprises a substrate and a superconducting film. A peripheral portion of the film is a-axis-aligned material which is so situated on the substrate as to describe a-b planar barriers which are perpendicular to the substrate and whi... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6600398 | Superconducting magnet coil for very high field having an HTS coil section and method for production thereof A superconducting very high field magnet coil with several solenoidal multi-layer coil sections which are wound in layers onto a hollow cylindrical support body (3) about a common central axis a, and which are electrically connected in series to carry a c... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6516208 | High temperature superconductor tunable filter A circuit is provided wherein the electronic properties of the circuit are varied by a magnetic actuator. The circuit includes a fixed substrate and a movable substrate. The magnetic actuator comprises a magnetic driver on an upper surface of the fixed su... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6506709 | Devices utilizing oriented superconducting ceramics A high Tc superconducting ceramic material is produced by a method in which a mixture of chemicals in suitable amounts is compacted into a desired form. The compacted mixture is then fired and, at the same time, an electric current is caused to pass throu... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6501970 | Superconductor-based processing Viable (HT) superconductor-based processing is disclosed comprising the controlled conversion of energy resulting from application of a (HT) superconductor to an electric, magnetic, electromagnetic and/or gravitational field, wherein the converted energy ... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6475958 | High-temperature superconductor arrangement and a method for its production The present invention relates to a high-temperature superconductor arrangement which is protected against hot spots. A contact-making layer 4 is provided between a superconductor layer 1 and an electrical bypass 2, which contact-making layer 4 has anisotr... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6442827 | Method of making superconductor strand The invention relates to a powder in tube type method of manufacturing an HTc superconductor multifilament conductor having a matrix of compatible silver alloy and in which, during preparation of the multifilament billet, the number of segments per layer ... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6344287 | High temperature compatible insulation for superconductors and method of applying insulation to superconductors There is described a method of applying insulative coating on high temperature superconductors and low temperature superconductors from sol-gel solutions prepared from Zr or Zr with one of, Mg, Y, Ce, In and Sn based precursor materials. The solution is p... | 02/05/2002 |
