Superconductor technology: apparatus, material, process inventions 04/08

20080096764 - System and method for impregnation of superconductive wires: A system for impregnating a superconductive wire surrounded by insulation with a resin provided in liquid form in a vessel, has an input arrangement that introduces the wire into the vessel, a transport device that moves the wire through the resin in the vessel and a pressure applicator that applies... Agent: Schiff Hardin, LLP Patent Department

20080090732 - Superconductive cable: A superconducting cable capable of absorbing contraction of a superconducting wire through a simple arrangement at the time of cooling. The superconducting cable comprises a superconducting wire wound spirally to constitute a superconducting layer (conductor layer (13), return conductor (17)), a stress relaxation layer (inner stress relaxation layer (12), insulating... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080085834 - Superconductive circuits with efficient method: Circuits exhibiting very low electrical resistance or superconductivity are provided as well as a method for transmitting, storing, or otherwise using electric energy more effectively and efficiently for providing powerful electromagnets for motors and generators, for transmitting electric power with few losses, or for making energy-storage devices with a high... Agent: James Scott Hacsi

20080081767 - Magnesium oxide single crystal having controlled crystallinity and method for producing the same, and substrate using the single crystal: A magnesium oxide single crystal having controlled crystallinity comprising a subboundary, and ranges of variation of diffraction line positions, as measured for reciprocal lattice maps with respect to a region surrounded by the same subboundary, with the range of the variation of 1×10−3 to 2×10−2 degree of on Δω coordinates,... Agent: Lucas & Mercanti, LLP