摘要:
There is provided a reinforced superconducting tape. The reinforced tape includes a superconducting tape containing a superconducting ceramic material, a first metal reinforcing layer having a greater coefficient of thermal expansion than that of the superconducting tape, and a second metal reinforcing layer having a greater modulus of elasticity than the superconducting tape and the first reinforcing layer.
摘要:
A rotor having a superconducting coil winding is disclosed having a rotor core having at least one conduit extending through the core; at least one tension rod extending between the pair of side sections of the coil winding and through said at least one conduit of the rotor; and an insulator in the conduit thermally separating the tension rod from the rotor.
摘要:
A high power density synchronous machine is disclosed comprising: a stator having conventional stator coils arranged in an annulus around a vacuum cylindrical cavity; a magnetically saturated cylindrical magnetic solid rotor core; a race-track super-conducting coil winding extending around the rotor core, and a coil supportextending through the core and attaching to opposite long sides of the coil winding.
摘要:
A cooling fluid system is disclosed for providing cryogenic cooling fluid to a high temperature super-conducting rotor comprising: a cryogen storage tank storing a liquid cryogenic cooling fluid; an inlet transfer line connecting the storage tank to the rotor and forming a passage for liquid cooling fluid to pass from the tank to the rotor, wherein said storage tank is elevated above the rotor and the liquid cooling fluid is gravity fed to the rotor.
摘要:
A cooling fluid system is disclosed for providing cryogenic cooling fluid to a high temperature super-conducting rotor comprising: a re-circulation compressor; a storage tank having a second cryogenic fluid; an inlet line connecting the re-circulation compressor to the storage tank and to the rotor, and forming a passage for cooling fluid to pass from the re-circulation compressor through the storage tank and to the apparatus.
摘要:
A cooling fluid coupling is disclosed for providing cooling fluid to a rotor having a super-conducting winding of a synchronous machine and a source of cryogenic cooling fluid. The fluid coupling comprises an inlet cooling tube and an outlet cooling tube in the rotor and coaxial with an axis of the rotor. The inlet cooling tube has an input port coupled to receive inlet cooling fluid from the source of cryogenic cooling fluid. The outlet cooling tube has an output port coupled to return cooling fluid from the rotor to source. A stationary motion gap seal separates the input port and output port of the coupling.
摘要:
A magnet, such as an open magnetic-resonance-imaging (MRI) magnet) has a first assembly including a superconductive main coil and a magnetizable pole piece which, during magnet operation, has a temperature equal to generally the temperature of the main coil. In one example, a cryogenic-fluid (e.g., liquid helium) dewar encloses the main coil, and the dewar has an interior surface defined in part by a surface portion of the pole piece. A method for providing a homogeneous imaging volume for a magnet includes steps to construct the above-described magnet.
摘要:
A superconductive magnet includes a cryogenic vessel enclosing superconductive coils, a thermal shield enclosing the cryogenic vessel, a vacuum enclosure enclosing the thermal shield, a tube suspension assembly having a plurality of tubes located between respective ones of the cryogenic vessel, thermal shield and vacuum enclosure and axially overlapped and interconnected with the cryogenic vessel, thermal shield and vacuum enclosure and the tubes forming bonded joints with one another, and a plurality of locking clip arrangements attached to and having portions at least partially overlapping the bonded joints of the tubes of the suspension assembly so as to reinforce and strengthen the bonded joints.
摘要:
An open magnet useful in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) applications. The magnet has two spaced-apart assemblies. Each assembly has a shielding coil located longitudinally outward from a main coil and a magnetizable pole piece spaced apart from and proximate the main and shielding coils. The method of the invention generates a magnetic field in a first area between the two assemblies while shielding a second area not between the two assemblies from a stray magnetic field by creating the previously-described open magnet.
摘要:
An open superconductive magnet useful in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) applications. The magnet has two spaced-apart assemblies and preferably has a "C" shape. Each assembly has: a vacuum enclosure having a longitudinal axis and surrounding a bore; a magnetizable pole piece located within the bore and outside the vacuum enclosure; and a superconductive main coil, a superconductive shielding coil, and a magnetizable ring positioned within the vacuum enclosure. There is no magnetizable solid path between the two pole pieces. Preferably, the ring is positioned longitudinally between the main and shielding coils.