Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
174125100 | Superconductors | 17 |
20080210454 | Composite Superconductor Cable Produced by Transposing Planar Subconductors - A method of forming a low AC loss, fully transposed cabled superconductor from multiple superconducting subconductors cut in a serpentine form from a wider superconducting tape is disclosed. By assembling pre-cut subconductor tapes a cable with a short transposition pitch length can be formed without excessive in-plane or out-of-plane deformation of the tape which could otherwise cause degradation of its superconducting performance. The transposition may be in either Roebel bar or Rutherford cable geometry. | 09-04-2008 |
20080236869 | Low resistivity joints for joining wires and methods for making the same - Method for joining wires using low resistivity joints is provided. More specifically, methods of joining one or more wires having superconductive filaments, such as magnesium diboride filaments, are provided. The wires are joined by a low resistivity joint to form wires of a desired length for applications, such in medical imaging applications. | 10-02-2008 |
20090038822 | Multifilament Superconductor, as well as Method for its Production - A multifilament superconductor ( | 02-12-2009 |
20090050348 | REINFORCED SUPERCONDUCTOR ELEMENT - A superconductor element comprising Nb | 02-26-2009 |
20090194316 | WIRE-IN-CHANNEL SUPERCONDUCTOR - In a method of manufacturing a copper clad aluminum channel superconductive conductor, an electrically conductive wire comprising a metal or alloy core is formed with a longitudinally extending groove in a surface thereof. A wire made of a material that exhibits superconducting properties within a defined temperature range is soldered into the groove. | 08-06-2009 |
20090260851 | SUPERCONDUCTIVE THIN FILM MATERIAL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A superconductive thin film material which achieves good superconductivity by preventing an element diffusion reaction and a manufacturing method of the superconductive thin film material are provided. A superconductive thin film material is provided with a substrate, an intermediate layer with one layer or at least two layers formed on the substrate, and a superconductive layer formed on the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer has a thickness of not less than 0.4 μm. The material for forming the intermediate layer is preferably oxide having a crystal structure, which is at least one of a halite type, a fluorite type, a perovskite type, and a pyrochlore type. | 10-22-2009 |
20100012349 | POLYCRYSTALLINE THIN FILM, METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME AND OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR - An object of the invention is to provide a polycrystalline thin film which includes an intermediate layer that is made thinner while keeping high crystal orientation so as to prevent warpage of a substrate resulting from internal stress of the film. A polycrystalline thin film according to the invention includes an intermediate layer formed by a first layer and a second layer laminated in this order and provided on a metal substrate. The first layer has a rock-salt crystal structure and the second layer has a fluorite crystal structure. | 01-21-2010 |
20110168428 | METHOD OF CONNECTING SUPERCONDUCTORS AND SUPERCONDUCTING COIL - In one embodiment, there are produced two superconductors, in which a superconducting element wire bundle exposed from a conduit is reduced in diameter to be a polygonal shape with a metal die. The superconducting element wires reduced in diameter are covered with a conducting member and banded, and thereafter, covered portions thereof are cut to expose a cross section, inserted in a hollow portion of a hollow pipe in a manner to engage therewith, and the two superconductors are heated and joined via cross sections of the superconducting element wires reduced in diameter. | 07-14-2011 |
20120103659 | SUPERCONDUCTING CABLE SYSTEM - In an embodiment, an apparatus including a cable is disclosed. The cable includes at least two conductors, each conductor comprising a high-temperature superconductor material, wherein a first conductor is concentric within a second conductor, and wherein the first conductor is tapered at a first end of the cable and the second conductor is tapered at a second end of the cable. | 05-03-2012 |
20120181062 | MULTIFILAMENT CONDUCTOR AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - A ribbon-shaped substrate and at least one superconductive layer form a multifilament conductor in which the superconductive layer is divided into filaments. The ribbon-shaped substrate has a first direction parallel to the longitudinal direction thereof, and the at least one filament has a second direction parallel to the longitudinal direction thereof. The first and second directions form an angle not equal to zero. The filaments of the multifilament conductor can be configured on the front and back of the conductor and be electrically connected to each other such that a transposed conductor is created. | 07-19-2012 |
20130199821 | FIXATION STRUCTURE OF SUPERCONDUCTING CABLE AND FIXATION STRUCTURE OF SUPERCONDUCTING CABLE LINE - A fixation structure for fixing a superconducting cable including a cable core and a thermal insulation tube. The fixation structure includes a fixation box connected to the thermal insulation tube, including a hollow thermal insulation structure, and through which the cable core is passed, a fixation body for fixing the cable core on the inner wall of the fixation box, and a diameter-expanded reinforcement layer that is an electrical insulation layer that has a diameter decreasing toward both ends and is formed on the cable core. A refrigerant flows through the inside of the inner wall of the fixation box. The cable core is fixed on the inner wall with the fixation body through the diameter-expanded reinforcement layer. The structure implements a simple and low-cost fixation structure appropriate for an electric field design. | 08-08-2013 |
20130240246 | SUPERCONDUCTIVE WIRE MATERIAL SUBSTRATE, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF AND SUPERCONDUCTIVE WIRE MATERIAL - Provided is a less expensive and high-performance superconductive wire material substrate, a method of manufacturing the less expensive and high-performance superconductive wire material substrate, and a superconductive wire material using the less expensive and high-performance superconductive wire material substrate. A superconductive wire material substrate | 09-19-2013 |
20140096997 | Semi-finished wire for a Nb3Sn superconducting wire - A semi-finished wire ( | 04-10-2014 |
20140374136 | SUPERCONDUCTIVE TRACE PATTERNS - A trace is disclosed formed of superconductive material. The trace is formed in an elongate, non-linear trace pattern characterized by (i) a trace pattern thickness, (ii) a trace pattern width greater than the trace pattern thickness, (iii) a trace pattern length greater than the trace pattern width, and (iv) a trace pattern axis extending along the trace length and defining an instantaneous alignment tangential to the trace pattern axis. The trace pattern is further characterized by (i) a envelope within which the trace pattern lies and (ii) an envelope axis defining an alignment of the envelope. The trace comprises at least two electrically connected sections, where each section includes (i) a first turn in which the trace pattern instantaneous alignment rotates about 180 degrees in a first direction around a first turn focus, and (ii) a second turn in which the trace pattern instantaneous alignment rotates about 180 degrees in a second direction, opposite the first direction, about a second turn focus. The turn radius is less than about 1,000 microns. | 12-25-2014 |
20150014019 | 3-COAXIAL SUPERCONDUCTING POWER CABLE AND CABLE'S STRUCTURE - Provided are a three-phase coaxial superconducting power cable and a structure thereof. A certain space is formed between adjacent superconducting wires of a superconducting layer (disposed at an outer portion) having more superconducting wires among a plurality of superconducting layers, and another wire is disposed in the space, or the superconducting wires of the respective superconducting layers are disposed to have different critical currents. Accordingly, a waste of superconducting wires is prevented, and the optimized three-phase coaxial superconducting power cable is provided. | 01-15-2015 |
20160125977 | OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING SAME - An oxide superconductor includes: a substrate made of a metal; an insulating intermediate layer provided on the substrate; an oxide superconducting layer provided on the intermediate layer; a metal stabilizing layer provided on the oxide superconducting layer; and a plurality of dividing grooves which divide the metal stabilizing layer and the oxide superconducting layer along a longitudinal direction of the substrate, reach the inside of the intermediate layer through the oxide superconducting layer from the metal stabilizing layer, and do not reach the substrate. The metal stabilizing layer and the oxide superconducting layer are divided to form a plurality of filament conductors by the plurality of dividing grooves, and in each dividing groove of the plurality of dividing grooves, a width of a groove opening portion of the dividing groove is equal to or greater than a width of a groove bottom portion of the dividing groove. | 05-05-2016 |
20160155543 | SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE MATERIAL HAVING LAMINATED STRUCTURE AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREFOR | 06-02-2016 |