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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7394338 | Superconducting coil In one embodiment, a superconducting coil includes a tertiary parallel superconductor unit (60) composed of superposed in parallel a plurality of layers of secondary parallel superconductor units (50). The layers of secondary parallel superconductor un... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7383625 | Method of manufacturing continuous disk winding for high-voltage superconducting transformers Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a continuous disk winding. A high-temperature superconducting wire is lapped using Kapton films to insulate the high-temperature superconducting wire. The high-temperature superconducting wire is wound on a bobbin by a predeter... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7357567 | Sterile fluid pumping or mixing system and related method A system for pumping or mixing a fluid using a levitating, rotating magnetic element and various other components for use in a pumping or mixing system are disclosed. The magnetic element is placed in a vessel or container that can be positioned in close proximity t... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7310034 | Superconductor magnet coil configuration A superconducting magnet coil configuration has at least one section containing a superconducting strip conductor which is wound in several layers like a solenoid in a cylindrical winding chamber (1) between two end flanges (2, 3), characterized in tha... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7301425 | Pancake type bifilar winding module using high-tc superconducting wire and bobbin for winding therefor The present invention discloses a pancake-type bifilar winding module using a superconducting wire and a winding bobbin therefor. The pancake-type bifilar winding module includes (a) a bobbin having (i) a cylindrical main body having a wire insertion groove for wind... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7224250 | Superconducting magnet apparatus This invention provides a superconducting magnet apparatus capable of preventing or restraining the heat invading into the apparatus and reducing the refrigeration load of an external refrigerator, at the time of changeover of a switch in transiting to a persistent ... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7026271 | Chemical pinning centers for high temperature superconductors An oxide superconductor includes a textured superconducting material including an array of defects, where the defects are a compound of two elements foreign to the superconductor, plus other elements native to the superconductor. The two foreign elements include one... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6965288 | Pumping or mixing system using a levitating magnetic element A system capable of pumping or mixing fluids using a rotating magnetic element or bearing levitated by a cold superconducting element is disclosed. ... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6900714 | System and method for quench and over-current protection of superconductor A system and method for protecting a superconductor. The system may comprise a current sensor operable to detect a current flowing through the superconductor. The system may comprise a coolant temperature sensor operable to detect the temperature of a cryogenic cool... | 05/31/2005 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6693504 | Internal support for superconductor windings The invention features an internally supported superconducting coil assembly. The invention includes several superconducting windings and at least one internal coil support member that forms a laminate stack alternating between an internal support member ... | 02/17/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6638894 | Devices and systems based on novel superconducting material A class of superconductive materials containing copper-oxygen bonding and with mixed cation-occupancy designed with a view to size and valence consideration yield useful values of critical temperature and other properties. Uses entail all applications whi... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6635603 | Devices and systems based on novel superconducting material A class of superconductive materials containing copper-oxygen bonding and with mixed cation-occupancy designed with a view to size and valence consideration yield useful values of critical temperature and other properties. Uses entail all applications whi... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6630425 | Devices and systems based on novel superconducting material Superconducting copper oxides of the perovskite structure are modified to have mixed occupancy of a cation site, thereby resulting in increased limits in critical field and/or critical current. Mixed occupancy may be observed in terms of increased resisti... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6621395 | Methods of charging superconducting materials The invention provides methods of charging superconducting materials and, in particular, methods of charging high-temperature superconducting materials. The methods generally involve cooling a superconducting material to a temperature below its critical t... | 09/16/2003 |
| 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 |
| 6525002 | Textured high-temperature superconductors An oxide superconductor includes a textured superconducting material including an array of defects with a neutron-fissionable element, or with at least one of the following chemical elements: uranium-238, Nd, Mn, Re, Th, Sm, V, and Ta. The array of defect... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6417751 | Superconducting conductor system In a superconducting coil system an m×n array of wound cores are arranged and n pairs of strands, totalling at 2n strands, are passed in pairs through the hollow center of the cores so that the current will flow in mutually opposite directions in each pa... | 07/09/2002 |
| 6365997 | Magnetic bearing and its use In a magnetic bearing in which a first part is mounted magnetically relative to a second part and the second part has a Type II superconducting material containing an anisotropic crystal or a plurality of grains formed of this anisotropic crystal, this cr... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6355599 | Radiation curable coating composition for superconducting wire This invention provides a radiation curable coating composition for superconducting wires. The coating composition comprises at least one (meth)acrylate terminated urethane oligomer, at least one adhesion promoter, at least one (meth)acrylate functionaliz... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6318666 | Superconductive geomagnetic craft A craft that includes superconductive materials that are supported within the geomagnetic field of the earth by means of the Meissner effect. The craft is propelled by means of directing a current from a point to another therein which creates a propelling... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6157276 | MRI magnet assembly with non-conductive inner wall An MR magnet assembly includes a cylindrical vessel for housing a superconducting magnet and having a vacuum between its inner and outer walls. The vessel defines a magnet bore for receiving a patient to be imaged. A gradient coil assembly is mounted in t... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6133814 | Oxide superconductor wire material and method for jointing the same together Structure for joining together metal-coated multi-core oxide superconductor wire material parts in a tape shape. The C axis of a oxide superconductor crystal is substantially oriented along the longitudinal (length) direction that the wire material extend... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6034588 | Superconducting current lead A superconducting current lead is provided, in which a plurality of unit conductors serving as current paths and each formed from a tape-like oxide superconducting wire are disposed on a cylindrical support member 4 so that a tape surface of the supercond... | 03/07/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5917393 | Superconducting coil apparatus and method of making A superconducting coil mounted on, and in heat transfer relationship with, a heat conducting support cylinder. The superconducting coil is electrically insulated from the support cylinder by means of a refractory ceramic coating, such as aluminum oxide, o... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5914647 | Superconducting magnetic coil A superconducting magnetic coil includes a plurality of sections positioned axially along the longitudinal axis of the coil, each section being formed of an anisotropic high temperature superconductor material wound about a longitudinal axis of the coil a... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5872500 | Superconducting MRI electromagnet A superconducting annular electromagnet for MRI purposes includes an annular winding within which a generally cylindrical space is provided. The winding includes at least one pair of annular coils, each having an outer cylindrical surface which is suitabl... | 02/16/1999 |
| 5861788 | Superconducting coil In application to a superconducting magnet which is cooled by a cryogenic refrigerator, provided is a superconducting coil which can maintain a cooled state and enables a stable operation and continuous driving even if a ramping speed is increased. First ... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5812042 | Superconducting magnet formed by laminating hollow conductor plates A laminated superconducting magnet includes a multilayer short-circuit superconductor group 2 formed by uniting superposed hollow superconducting plates, and an exciting coil 3 for inducing a current from an external power source 4 to the multilayer short... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5774032 | Cooling arrangement for a superconducting coil A superconducting device, such as a superconducting rotor for a generator or motor. A vacuum enclosure has an interior wall surrounding a cavity containing a vacuum. A superconductive coil is placed in the cavity. A generally-annularly-arranged, thermally... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5710531 | Static field converter A device for the conversion of a static magnetic field into electrical energy comprising a permanent or electromagnet for establishing a stationary (static) magnetic field, one or more coils responsive to the magnetic field, a switch to periodically place... | 01/20/1998 |
| 5708405 | Superconducting coil and manufacturing method thereof A superconducting coil bas a winding wire portion which is formed by winding a superconducting wire covered with an insulating material around a winding frame composed of such a material that its modulus of longitudinal elasticity is 50 (GPa) or greater, ... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5659278 | Superconducting magnet device, magnetizing device and method for superconductor A superconducting magnet device and magnetizing device for superconductor including a coil provided around the superconductor; a current supply line connected to the coil and a power source and supplying a pulse current from the power source to the coil; ... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5606300 | Superconducting magnet superconducting magnet coil, and manufacturing method thereof A superconducting magnet coil, an insulating layer, and a superconducting magnet which do not generate quenching under cooled and operational conditions are provided by using a fixing resin capable of suppressing microcrack generation in a resin layer whi... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5604473 | Shaped superconducting magnetic coil Double pancake coils include a pair of pancake coils of different outer dimensions, and are wound from the same continuous length of superconducting wire. The double pancake coils are coaxially positioned and electrically interconnected along a longitudin... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5596303 | Superconductive magnet system with low and high temperature superconductors A magnet structure particularly suitable for partial human body magnetic resonance imaging. A superconductive magnet assembly consisting of a plurality of axially symmetric low and/or high temperature superconductors through which currents are induced to ... | 01/21/1997 |
