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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176620 | Aluminum oxide particle strengthened niobium-tin superconducting composite wire A composite superconducting wire and a method of manufacturing the wire is disclosed. Nano-particle dispersion strengthened copper is co-drawn with Niobium rod to produce DSC-1Nb wire. n numbers of DSC-1Nb wires are then stacked in a hollow DSC tube and drawn to for... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8136222 | Method of forming a coupled coil arrangement A method of forming an encapsulated coupled coil arrangement. The method includes coupling a first lead of a first coil to a second lead of an electrical circuit device, by soldering or infusion, using a superconductive jointing alloy; and encapsulating the first co... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8091207 | Method of laying a superconductor cable A method for laying a superconductor cable having a superconductive cable core and a cryostat enclosing the superconductive cable core, with the superconductive cable core being arranged freely mobile in the cryostat. The method includes cooling the superconductive ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8061016 | Superconducting coil fabrication A method of fabricating a superconducting coil is provided which includes fabricating individual coil windings by depositing, shaping and texturing superconductive material in situ on a former which has a substantially curved surface. ... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8042258 | Method for producing superconducting acceleration cavity A method for producing a superconducting acceleration cavity having a stabilized quality, by which production cost is reduced by reducing the number of welding points. A dumbbell-shaped dumbbell cell (3) is formed by forming a recessed iris portion (3 | 10/25/2011 |
| 7979976 | Method for laying a superconductor cable A method for arranging a superconductor cable including the step of laying the superconductive cable core into a cryostat with an overlength in comparison to the axial length of said cryostat. After laying the superconductive cable core, it is cooled to its operatin... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7895730 | Method of controlling effective impedance in a superconducting cable A method of controlling the effective impedance of a low-impedance high-temperature superconducting cable (“HTS cable”). Passive or active control circuitry is used to create a current in the shielding conductor of the HTS cable which opposes the current in the ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7854057 | Method of facilitating superconducting tape manufacturing A method of facilitating superconducting tape manufacturing is provided that includes forming a long-length superconducting tape having a layered structure, comprising a substrate having a dimension ratio not less than about 100, a buffer layer overlying the substra... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7784169 | Method of manufacturing superconducting wire A method of manufacturing a superconducting wire includes the step of drawing a wire formed by coating raw material powder for a superconductor with a metal, the step of first rolling a multifilamentary wire after the step of drawing, and the step of first sintering... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7752734 | Method for manufacturing superconductors A method for forming improved superconducting composites having improved Jc values by assembling octagonal or curved octagonal elements which when assembled allow for formation of uniformly continuously spaced voids. The voids are then filled with a metal, alloy, in... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7748102 | Method for fabricating a conduction-cooled high-temperature superconducting cable A conduction-cooled superconducting power transmission cable wherein a High-Temperature Superconducting (HTS) wire is surrounded by an inner layer of thermal insulator, one or more layers of high thermal conductivity material, such as copper, and an outer layer of t... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7743485 | Method of manufacturing a superconducting cable Provided is a superconducting cable having a structure such that cable cores, each having a superconducting layer, are housed in a thermal insulation pipe and the superconducting layer of each cable core has portions having different critical current values. When an... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7735212 | Superconducting multiphase cable comprising N phases and method of constructing the cable A superconducting cable comprises N phases. Each phase comprises a number of superconducting phase conductors classified into N-phase groups. Each N-phase group comprises a phase conductor from each of the N different phases, where N is greater than one, and the num... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7698804 | Method for producing a fully transposed high Tcomposite superconductor and a superconductor produced by said method A fully transposed composite superconductor of the Roebel bar type is produced. The superconductor is formed from combines superconductors. The process step for forming the subconductors, which are being configured with a lateral projection into a region of a neighb... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7596852 | Method of manufacturing superconducting wire A method of manufacturing a superconducting wire includes the step of drawing a wire formed by coating raw material powder for a superconductor with a metal, the step of first rolling rolling a multifilamentary wire after the step of drawing, and the step of first s... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7562433 | Method for producing metal nanofibers, yarns and textiles A method for fabrication of nanometer scale metal fibers, followed by optional further processing into cables, yarns and textiles composed of the primary nanofibers. A multicomponent composite is first formed by drilling a billet of matrix metal, and inserting rods ... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7543370 | Method for production of a superconducting magnetic coil In a method for production of a superconducting magnetic coil, winding of superconducting wires of the superconducting magnetic coil is implemented with at least one UV-curable plastic, and the UV-curable plastic is at least partially cured with UV light during the ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7480978 | Production of electrolytic capacitors and superconductors A superconducting material useful for forming electrolytic devices is made by establishing multiple niobium or tantalum components in a primary billet of a ductile material; working the primary billet through a series of reduction steps to form the niobium or tantal... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7439208 | Growth of in-situ thin films by reactive evaporation A method of forming MgB2 films in-situ on a substrate includes the steps of (a) depositing boron onto a surface of the substrate in a deposition zone; (b) moving the substrate into a reaction zone containing pressurized, gaseous magnesium; (c) moving the ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7431868 | Method of manufacturing a metal substrate for an oxide superconducting wire A metal substrate for an oxide superconducting wire, which comprises a polycrystalline metal substrate with a rolled aggregate structure having a {100} plane which is parallel to the rolled surface and a axis which is parallel to the rolling direction, and an ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7432229 | Superconductors on iridium substrates and buffer layers Laminated, biaxially textured superconductors include Ir-based buffer layers and/or substrates. ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7394024 | Oxide superconductor current lead and method of manufacturing the same, and superconducting system An oxide superconductor current lead in which generation of Joule heat at joint portions with a system side conductor and a power supply side conductor is reduced with use of an oxide superconductor with less heat penetration into a super conducting equipment system... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7387811 | Method for manufacturing high temperature superconducting conductors using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) A CVD apparatus capable of substantially simultaneously processing multiple portions of at least one substrate or substantially simultaneously processing portions of multiple substrates or substantially simultaneously processing multiple portions of at least one sub... | 06/17/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7371968 | Detachable superconducting cable A detachable superconducting lead includes a vacuum-sealed thermal transition through which a stabilized conductor passes. Two identical leads are attached and surrounded by a sealed Dewar and allowed to cool either naturally or by way of a cooling element. Detachin... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7371586 | Superconductor and process for producing the same A superconductor and a method for producing the same are provided. The method for producing a superconductor includes the step of forming a superconducting layer on a base layer by performing a film deposition at least three times, wherein the film thickness of a su... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7368021 | Critical current density in NbSn superconducting wire Critical current densities of internal tin wire to the range of 3000 A/mm2 at temperature of 4.2 K and in magnetic field 12 T are achieved by controlling the following parameters in a distributed barrier subelement design: wt % Sn in bronze; atomic Nb:Sn;... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7361377 | Fluorinated precursors of superconducting ceramics, and methods of making the same This invention provides a method of making a fluorinated precursor of a superconducting ceramic. The method comprises providing a solution comprising a rare earth salt, an alkaline earth metal salt and a copper salt; spraying the solution onto a substrate to provide... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7354486 | Process for producing Ge-added NbAl base superconducting wire material A composite multi-core wire rod in which a plurality of Al alloy wires containing 15 at % to 40 at % of Ge are arranged in Nb matrix at a core diameter of 2 μm to 20 μm is subjected to heating for at least five hours at a temperature ranging from 1300° C. to 1600... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7337527 | Method including a heat treatment of manufacturing superconducting wires based on MgB A method of manufacturing superconducting wires based on MgB2 is described and includes the steps of: production of a cylindrical wire comprising an MgB2 core surrounded by a metal covering, in which the core has a lattice structure formed by g... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7338921 | MgB2 superconductor and method for preparation thereof An electrode is steeped in a solution of Mg and B and a negative voltage is applied to the electrode so as to precipitate superconductive MgB2 on the electrode. Superconductive MgB2 is easily manufactured in various forms and at low costs witho... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7325293 | Zirconia-stabilized multi-filamentary niobium-tin superconducting wire A multi-filament superconducting wire in which the filaments comprise zirconia-stabilized ultra-fine grain Nb3Sn. The superconducting wire is formed by wire-drawing a preform comprising a metallic matrix and at least one niobium alloy rod having zirconium... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7319195 | Composite conductor, superconductive apparatus system, and composite conductor manufacturing method A composite conductor suitable as a connecting conductor that includes a superconductor and is capable of reducing the generation of Joule heat in a joint part between the system side and power-supply sides of a superconductor apparatus. A composite conductor 10 | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319196 | Bonding wire and bonded connection A bonding wire (1) includes a matrix material (2) and a filler (3) embedded in this matrix material (2), the coefficient of thermal expansion of the filler (3) being lower than the coefficient of thermal expansion of the matrix mat... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7317369 | Superconductor magnet coil configuration A superconducting magnet coil configuration comprising at least one section of a superconducting strip conductor, which is continuously wound in a cylindrical winding chamber (1) between two end flanges (2, 3) in several solenoid-like layers is charact... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7293343 | Method of manufacturing superconducting wire A method of manufacturing a superconducting wire is provided. The method is provided with the steps of filling a raw material powder in a metal pipe, the raw material powder being composed of an oxide superconductor or a precursor to become an oxide superconductor t... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7288715 | High-vacuum-maintaining structure of superconducting cable Disclosed herein is a high-vacuum-maintaining structure of a superconducting cable. The superconducting cable includes inner and outer metal tubes, and spacers disposed between the inner and outer metal tubes for spacing them by a prescribed distance. To the spacers... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7282268 | Structure, method of manufacturing the same, and device using the same A composite structure is formed so as to contain aluminum and silicon or silicon/germanium. The composite structure comprises pillar-shaped members containing aluminum and a region containing silicon or silicon/germanium and surrounding the pillar-shaped members. Th... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280875 | High strength, low resistivity electrode For use in an implantable medical device, there is provided a biocompatible, biostable, corrosion-resistant wire strand comprising a core comprising a plurality of electrically conductive, low electrical resistance filaments embedded in an electrically conductive ma... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7275301 | Method for reinforcing superconducting coils with high-strength materials A method for manufacturing clad superconducting wire for use in superconducting coils, such wire having improved resistance to electromagnetic forces by using composite superconducting wires that are clad with selected high-stiffness high-strength materials. ... | 10/02/2007 |
