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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8150486 | Superconducting device for current conditioning The device has a quenchable superconductor (1), a first metallic member (2) electrically coupled with the quenchable superconductor (1), a second metallic member (3) electrically coupled to the first metallic member (2). The first ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 7792560 | Process for the preparation of low contact resistant contact on a high transition temperature superconductors Disclosed is a three layer process for making contact points to a high transition temperature superconductor (HTSC), particularly to (Bi,Pb)2Sr2Ca2Cu3O19+x with and without silver in the superconductor. The cont... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7729731 | Terminal structure of superconducting cable A terminal structure of a superconducting cable is provided that is capable of preventing degradation in airtightness of a seal provided on the boundary between a room-temperature side and a cryogenic side for a long-term use. The terminal structure includes a termi... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7684839 | Connecting structure for magnesium diboride superconducting wire and a method of connecting the same A magnesium diboride superconducting wire has excellent conduction property and stability. The superconductive connection of the magnesium diboride superconducting wire covered with a superconducting coating layer and a same or different kind of another superconduct... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7358435 | Electric power transport system comprising a cold dielectric superconducting cable Electric power transport system having a cold dielectric superconducting cable, a cryostat and a cryogenic fluid. The cryostat has modules including an inner tube, an outer tube, a couple of gaskets, and a duct connected to the coupling surface between the gaskets o... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7310862 | Method for manufacturing a piezoelectric device A method is provided for effectively manufacturing a piezoelectric device equipped with a piezoelectric film with a crystal orientation that is aligned in a desired direction. An interlayer which partially has a layer formed by an ion beam assisted laser ablation me... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7283381 | System and methods for addressing a matrix incorporating virtual columns and addressing layers A system and methods for addressing unique locations in a matrix. According to some embodiments, the system includes a plurality of uniquely addressable locations. A plurality of virtual columns that include a plurality of serially connected switch elements provide ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7071148 | Joined superconductive articles A superconducting article includes a first superconductive segment having a nominal thickness tn1, a second superconductive segment having a nominal thickness tn2, and a joint region comprising a splice connecting the first and second supercond... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7042320 | Method for mechanical stabilization of tube-shaped superconducting ceramics and mechanically stabilized tube-shaped superconducting composite A method for mechanical stabilisation of a superconducting composite having a tube-shaped superconducting ceramic and a reinforcing pipe introduced into each other by pre-stressing the tube-shaped superconducting ceramic by applying compressive force on one end of t... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7040002 | Method for terminating a conductor of a superconducting cable A method of terminating at least one conductor of a superconducting cable comprising a plurality of superconducting tapes, comprising the steps of associating an electrically conductive connector radially at the at least one conductor, embedding and end of the super... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6957093 | Structure and method of application for protecting the superconductivity of superconducting composites A structural arrangement of superconducting composites is provided to protect their superconductivity in such a way that these composites are electrically connected in a certain manner. The invention may be practiced with any desired superconducting material, and bi... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6933065 | High temperature superconducting thick films An article including a substrate, a layer of an inert oxide material upon the surface of the substrate, (generally the inert oxide material layer has a smooth surface, i.e., a RMS roughness of less than about 2 nm), a layer of an amorphous oxide or oxynitride materi... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6921865 | Superconductor connection structure Electrical connection of superconducting lines can be achieved by using a low-melting point metal, by mechanical contact of superconducting lines or by welding. According to these methods, however, critical current and critical magnetic field at the connection point... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6921741 | Substrate structure for growth of highly oriented and/or epitaxial layers thereon A composite substrate structure including a substrate, a layer of a crystalline metal oxide or crystalline metal oxynitride material upon the substrate, a layer of an oriented cubic oxide material having a rock-salt-like structure upon the crystalline metal oxide or... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6917461 | Laminated package A system and method of aligning a micromirror array to the micromirror package and the micromirror package to a display system. One embodiment provides a method of forming and utilizing a package that exposes regions of an alignment reference plane. The device withi... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6753748 | Superconducting high-field magnet coil with superconducting joints A superconducting high-field magnet coil (1; 27; 38) comprising at least one radially inner (2) and at least one radially outer coil section (3; 32; 33), wherein at least the radially inner coil section (2) is wound in a solenoid-shaped f... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6657526 | Power lead for superconductive magnet There is provided a power lead for a superconductive magnet capable of controlling the invasion of heat to liquid helium for storing superconductive coils therein and of sufficiently feeding power to the superconductive coils. The power lead for a superco... | 12/02/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6591119 | Synthesis of superconducting magnesium diboride objects A process to produce magnesium diboride objects from boron objects with a similar form is presented. Boron objects are reacted with magnesium vapor at a predetermined time and temperature to form magnesium diboride objects having a morphology similar to t... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6584333 | Protected superconducting component and method for producing the same The invention relates to a high-temperature superconductor component with a particular cross-sectional area, which has a current-carrying section, the current-carrying section being in contact with a safety conductor in such a way that the critical curren... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6552415 | Electrically stabilized thin-film high-temperature superconductor and method for the production thereof An electrically stabilized thin-film high-temperature superconductor includes a superconductive layer (32) applied over a flat metallic substrate (31) and connected to the metallic substrate (31) so that electrical contact between the superconductive laye... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6531233 | Superconducting joint between multifilamentary superconducting wires A superconducting joint between multifilamentary superconducting wires through an optional superconducting medium where at least one of such components is an interconnected filament superconducting part is disclosed. Such joint and method for producing sa... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6359540 | Superconducting leads A superconducting lead comprises a supporting board (1) with at least one superconducting tape (3) adhered to it and extending from one terminal area of the lead to another. Respective metal end-fittings soldered to the superconducting tape (3) at each of... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6352741 | Planar high temperature superconductive integrated circuits for using ion implantation High temperature superconductive (HTS) integrated circuits can be fabricated in three ways according to the invention. First, a planar multiple layer HTS integrated circuit is fabricated using multiple HTS layers. The layers include altered regions which ... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6323426 | Mounting structure for semiconductor device A mounting structure for a high temperature superconductor device, such as a filter, housed in a closed vacuum chamber and operated at a low temperature. The filter has dielectric substrate having: first and second surfaces; a circuit portion made of a su... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6271473 | Oxide superconductive wire and process for manufacturing the same A clad superconductive wire or tape of an oxide superconductive material and a silver-copper alloy base containing 0.05-90 atomic % a copper or a silver alloy. The silver-copper alloy base contains one or more elements selected from the group of Zr, Hf, A... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6251530 | Thin-film of a high-temperature superconductor compound and method A thin-film of a high temperature superconducting compound having the formula M1-x CuO2-y, where M is Ca, Sr, or Ba, or combinations thereof, x is 0.05 to 0.3, and x>y. The thin film has a Tc (zero resistivity) of about 40... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6159905 | Methods for joining high temperature superconducting components with negligible critical current degradation and articles of manufacture in accordance therewith A method for joining high temperature superconducting components while minimizing critical current degradation is provided. The articles formed have critical currents that are at least 80 % of the critical current of the high temperature superconducting c... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6096565 | Multi-layer glass ceramic module with superconductor wiring A multilayer ceramic substrate electronic component is provided having high temperature superconductor material circuitry. The high temperature superconductor material is preferably yttrium-barium-copper-oxide and is encased within a noble metal such as s... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6088604 | Superconductor-normal conductor junction device A superconductor-normal conductor junction device comprises first and second regions (1, 3) of normal material forming first and second junctions with a superconducting material (2), the Fermi level of the first region of normal material being so arranged... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6034324 | Modular high temperature superconducting down lead with safety lead A self-protected modular high temperature superconducting (HTS) down-lead that is capable of carrying large currents from a room temperature power source to a superconducting device operating at cryogenic temperatures. This down-lead incorporates a safety... | 03/07/2000 |
| 6002951 | Multi-layer ceramic substrate having high TC superconductor circuitry A multilayer ceramic substrate electronic component is provided having high temperature superconductor material circuitry. The high temperature superconductor material is preferably yttrium-barium-copper-oxide and is encased within a noble metal such as s... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5972846 | Article comprising textured superconductive cuprate material Articles according to the invention comprise a superconductive cuprate (e.g., YBa2 Cu3 O7) body containing elongate grains measuring at least about 10 μm along the long axis and having an aspect ratio of at least 10:1. Bo... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5908813 | Method making integrated circuit metallization with superconductor BEOL wiring The present invention discloses an integrated circuit that is wired with a high-temperature superconductive material that is superconductive at temperatures of about 70° K and above, and methods of making the integrated circuit. The front-end manufacture... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5880068 | High-temperature superconductor lead The invention relates to a high-temperature superconductor lead element including a plurality of lengths of high-temperature superconductor electrically connected in a non-collinear configuration, for example, next to and parallel with each other, to incr... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5877124 | Superconducting ceramic pattern and its manufacturing method A superconducting oxide ceramic pattern is described. The pattern is comprised of a high Tc superconducting region and a low Tc superconducting region which exhibits a resistivity at the liquid nitrogen temperature while the high Tc region is superconduci... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5863869 | Thin film high Tc oxide superconductors and method for making the same Superconducting transition metal oxide films are provided which exhibit very high onsets of superconductivity and superconductivity at temperatures in excess of 40° K. These films are produced by vapor deposition processes using pure metal sources for th... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5856275 | Superconducting wiring lines and process for fabricating the same Patterned superconducting wiring lines each having a portion of a thin film of an oxide superconductor deposited on a flat substrate, the portion having a predetermined crystal orientation (a-axis or c-axis orientation) with respect to a flat surface of t... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5849669 | High temperature superconducting Josephson device and method for manufacturing the same A high critical temperature superconducting Josephson device includes a bicrystal substrate formed of a first single crystal substrate and a second single crystal substrate, with end faces of the first and second single crystal substrates having different... | 12/15/1998 |
| 5834405 | Superconducting multilayer ceramic substrate A superconducting multilayer ceramic substrate is disclosed, prepared by firing a laminate of at least two polymer bonded cast sheets of a ceramic dielectric oxide powder, at least one sheet of which has a metallization pattern provided thereon, to thereb... | 11/10/1998 |
