High-current, compact flexible conductors containing high temperature superconducting tapes
AssigneeAmerican Superconductor Corporation
InventorsAlexander Otto, Ralph P. Mason, James F. Maguire, Jie Yuan
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Abstract
High-current, compact, flexible conductors containing high temperature superconducting (HTS) tapes and methods for making the same are described. The HTS tapes are arranged into a stack, a plurality of stacks are arranged to form a superstructure, and the superstructure is twisted about the cable axis to obtain a HTS cable. The HTS cables of the invention can be utilized in numerous applications such as cables employed to generate magnetic fields for degaussing and high current electric power transmission or distribution applications.
Claims21
A cable employed to generate a magnetic field, said cable comprising:
- a plurality of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) stacks arranged to form a superstructure, each of said HTS stacks comprising a plurality of HTS tapes substantially parallel to a plane formed by the width and the length of individual HTS tapes,
- wherein a first HTS tape of the HTS stack is displaced a distance in the width direction from an HTS tape positioned above the individual HTS tape in the HTS stack,
- wherein an end of an HTS tape from the plurality of HTS tapes of a first HTS stack is connected in series with an end of a second HTS tape located in a second HTS stack.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.