Superconductive electromagnet apparatus and cooling apparatus and method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorStephen M. HARRISON
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Abstract
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus has a plurality of cooling pipes disposed while being spaced apart from each other along a longitudinal length of the coil assembly, a first manifold connected to a lower end of the plurality of cooling pipes to distribute and supply a coolant to the plurality of cooling pipes, and a second manifold connected to an upper end of the plurality of cooling pipes to be supplied with the coolant from the plurality of cooling pipes, thereby able to evenly cool off the coil assembly in a longitudinal direction thereof.
Claims18
A superconductive electromagnet apparatus, comprising:
- a coil assembly receives an electrical current and generates a magnetic field, and is configured to be kept at a cryogenic state, and
- a cooling apparatus configured to cool off the coil assembly to the cryogenic state,
- wherein the cooling apparatus comprises a plurality of cooling pipes disposed at the coil assembly and supplied with a coolant to absorb heat generated at the coil assembly, a first manifold configured to distribute and supply the coolant to the plurality of cooling pipes, and a second manifold supplied with the coolant from the plurality of cooling pipes.
A superconductive electromagnet apparatus, comprising:
- a coil assembly receives an electrical current and generates a magnetic field, and is configured to be kept at a cryogenic state,
- a cooling apparatus configured to cool off the coil assembly to the cryogenic state, and
- a subsidiary cooling apparatus connected to the cooling apparatus to operate when an excess amount of heat is generated at the coil assembly for the cooling apparatus to cool off.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.