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US 8,914,086 B2Granted
Superconducting magnet system
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorsAnbo Wu, Minfeng Xu, Timothy James Hollis, Ye Bai, Weijun Shen, Evangelos Trifon Laskaris, Jian-She Wang, Yan Zhao
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Abstract
A superconducting magnet system includes a coil support structure, superconducting coils, and electrically and thermally conductive windings. The superconducting coils and the conductive windings are supported by the coil support structure. Each conductive winding is electromagnetically coupled with a corresponding superconducting coil. Each conductive winding is electrically shorted.
Claims10
A superconducting magnet system, comprising:
- a coil support structure formed by a cryogen vessel;
- superconducting coils supported by the coil support structure;
- and
- electrically and thermally conductive windings supported by the coil support structure;
- wherein the superconducting coils are wound on a bottom wall of the cryogen vessel, and each conductive winding is wound on the corresponding superconducting coil;
- and
- wherein each conductive winding is electromagnetically coupled with a corresponding superconducting coil, and each conductive winding is electrically shorted.
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A superconducting magnet system comprising:
- a thermal shield;
- and
- a former as a coil support structure concentrically arranged in the thermal shield;
- superconducting coils supported by the coil support structure;
- electrically and thermally conductive windings supported by the coil support structure;
- wherein each conductive winding is electromagnetically coupled with a corresponding superconducting coil, and each conductive winding is electrically shorted;
- and
- wherein the conductive windings are installed on an inner surface of the former, and each superconducting coil is installed on an inner surface of the corresponding conductive winding.
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A superconducting magnet system comprising:
- a thermal shield;
- metal bars forming a coil support structure arranged in the thermal shield and axially parallel with a bottom wall of the thermal shield, each metal bar defines a plurality of slots;
- superconducting coils supported by the coil support structure;
- electrically and thermally conductive windings supported by the coil support structure;
- wherein each conductive winding is electromagnetically coupled with a corresponding superconducting coil, and each conductive winding;
- is electrically shorted;
- wherein the conductive windings are respectively installed in the slots of the metal bars, and each superconducting coil is installed on an inner surface of the corresponding conductive winding.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.