Superconductor technology: apparatus, material, process inventions 02/08

20080051292 - Josephson device, method of forming josephson device and superconductor circuit: A Josephson device includes a first superconducting electrode layer, a barrier layer and a second superconducting electrode layer that are successively stacked. The first and second superconducting electrode layers are made of an oxide superconductor material having (RE)1(AE)2Cu3Oy as a main component, where an element RE is at least one... Agent: Ladas & Parry

20080051291 - Method of generation and method of detection of interband phase difference solition and interband phase difference circuit: The length portion of part of a multiband superconductor line 10 is used as a closed circuit line part Rc that constitutes part of a closed circuit allowing passage of an electric current Io generated by an electric current source 12. Meantime, the line part extending and continuing into the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080039330 - Coated conductor and polycrystalline films useful for the production of high temperatures superconductor layers: Coated conductors have a substrate, a high temperature superconductor layer and at least one or more buffer layers, wherein at least one of the buffer layers is a template for biaxially orienting the high temperature superconductor layer wherein the template is composed of a polycrystalline film consisting of a non-stoichiometric... Agent: Sofer & Haroun LLP.

20080039331 - Axial gap type superconducting motor: Stators 12 and 13 are disposed with required air gaps in an axial direction of a rotor 11 so as to face each other, a plurality of field bodies 15 or permanent magnets 33 are disposed in the rotor 11, and a plurality of armature coils 17 and 19 are... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080039332 - Method and system for the production of superconducting inductive components comprising thin layers, and devices containing such components: A method for producing a superconducting inductive component having at least two plots, the component including at least one line segment incorporating at least one plot of the component, the line segment constituting a conducting or superconducting layer within a stack of alternately superconducting and insulating films.... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20080039333 - High temperature superconducting structures and methods for high q, reduced intermodulation structures: Novel structures and methods for forming useful high temperature superconducting devices, most particularly resonators, are provided. Structures resulting in reduced peak current densities relative to known structures achieve numerous desirable benefits, especially including the reduced intermodulation effects of earlier resonators. In one aspect of this invention, a spiral in, spiral... Agent: O''melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-1118

20080039334 - Dielectric strength test method of superconducting cable: A dielectric strength test method of a superconducting cable that can evaluate the insulation characteristic of a superconducting cable in a state in which a refrigerant is filled without filling a refrigerant is provided. A tested superconducting cable is filled with gas in place of a refrigerant and a regular... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080032894 - Rotary body used for energy storage apparatus, method of manufacturing rotary body, and energy storage apparatus: A rotary body used in an energy storage device and capable of storing a large amount of external energy is provided in an energy storage device that stores external energy as the energy of the rotary motion of the rotary body for which the frictional resistance of the bearing parts... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080032895 - Tunable superconducting resonator and methods of tuning thereof: A method of tuning a high temperature superconductor (HTS) resonator includes the steps of providing a HTS inductor and a HTS capacitor, the HTS capacitor being electrically connected to the HTS inductor. A tuning body is provided adjacent to the HTS inductor and the HTS capacitor. The relative position of... Agent: O''melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-1118