Superconducting magnet assembly and fabricating method
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsXianrui Huang, Yan Zhao, Anbo Wu, Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Paul St. Mark Shadforth Thompson
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Abstract
A superconducting magnet assembly includes a bobbin comprising a central bore along a longitudinal direction, and a superconducting coil package wound on the bobbin. The superconducting coil package includes a plurality of superconducting coil layers wound on the bobbin, a plurality of supporting member layers, each of the supporting member layers being between a corresponding two adjacent superconducting coil layers, and a thermal conduction layer between two superconducting coil layers or between a superconducting coil layer and an adjacent supporting member layer.
Claims19
A superconducting magnet assembly comprising:
- a bobbin comprising a central bore along a longitudinal direction;
- and
- a superconducting coil package wound on the bobbin, the superconducting coil package comprising:
- a plurality of superconducting coil layers wound on the bobbin;
- a plurality of supporting member layers, each of the supporting member layers being between a corresponding two adjacent superconducting coil layers;
- and
- a thermal conduction layer between two superconducting coil layers or between a superconducting coil layer and an adjacent supporting member layer, and wherein the thermal conduction layer is flexible along a circumferential direction of the assembly.
A method comprising:
- winding a plurality of superconducting coil layers on a bobbin;
- winding a plurality of supporting member layers each between a corresponding two adjacent superconducting coil layers;
- and
- winding a thermal conduction member between two adjacent superconducting coil layers, wherein the thermal conduction member is flexible along a circumferential direction of the assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.