Cryogenic link
AssigneeCern - European Organization for Nuclear Research
InventorAmalia BALLARINO
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Abstract
There is provided a cryogenic link and a method of installing a cryogenic link. The cryogenic link comprises: a core and a cryostat. The cryostat comprises a flexible sleeve around the core and is configured to maintain a temperature of the core at a cryogenic temperature. The cryostat further comprises spacing means configured to maintain a spacing between the core and the flexible sleeve during expansion and contraction of the core. The flexible sleeve is suitable for fixing to an external structure at a plurality of fixed points, where each of the plurality of fixed points is separated by a distance, and a length of the cryogenic link between at least one pair of fixed points is greater than the distance between that pair of fixed points.
Claims20
A cryogenic link comprising:
- a core;
- and
- a cryostat comprising a flexible sleeve around the core, the cryostat configured to maintain a temperature of the core at a cryogenic temperature, and spacing means configured to maintain a spacing between the core and the flexible sleeve during expansion and contraction of the core,
- wherein:
- the flexible sleeve is suitable for fixing to an external structure at a plurality of fixed points, each of the plurality of fixed points separated by a distance, and a length of the cryogenic link between at least one pair of fixed points is greater than the distance between that pair of fixed points.
A method of installing a cryogenic link having a core, and a cryostat comprising a flexible sleeve around the core configured to maintain a temperature of the core at a cryogenic temperature, the cryostat comprising spacing means configured to maintain a spacing between the core and the flexible sleeve during expansion and contraction of the core,
- the method comprising:
- arranging the cryogenic link to run between a plurality of fixed points each of the plurality of fixed points separated by a distance, wherein a length of the cryogenic link between at least one pair of fixed points is greater than the distance between that pair of fixed points;
- and
- fixing the flexible sleeve of the cryogenic link to each of the plurality of fixed points.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.