Superconductor technology: apparatus, material, process inventions 06/08

20080153709 - High temperature superconductors having planar magnetic flux pinning centers and methods for making the same: Superconductor wires or layers having improved properties and methods for making the same are described. The superconducting layer includes a rare earth element—alkaline earth element—transition metal oxide having an average stacking fault density that is greater than about 0.01 nm−1, wherein two or more rare earth cations form the rare... Agent: Wilmerhale/new York

20080146449 - Electrical device and method of manufacturing same: A method of making a magnetic circuit device is also described. The method comprises forming a layer of manganite material; forming a mask over part of the layer of manganite material; and irradiating the layer of manganite material through the mask with ions such that a portion of the layer... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080146450 - Superconductor filter unit: In a wall of a package base made of aluminum or aluminum alloy, there is formed a through-hole, through which a semi-rigid coaxial cable passes. A central conductor of the semi-rigid coaxial cable is joined to an electrode with a solder material. The semi-rigid coaxial cable has an insulating material... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080146451 - Aluminum oxide particle strengthened niobiumtin superconducting composite wire: A composite superconducting wire and a method of manufacturing the wire is disclosed. Nano-particle dispersion strengthened copper is co-drawn with Niobium rod to produce DSC-1Nb wire. n numbers of DSC-1Nb wires are then stacked in a hollow DSC tube and drawn to form a DSC-n.Nb hexagonal wire. In a separate... Agent: J. Wiley Horton, Esquire Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.a.

20080146452 - (113) [121] textured ag substrate and tl-1223 high temperature superconducting coated conductor using the same: Disclosed herein are a (113) [121] textured Ag sheet and an HTS Tl-1223 phase coated conductor featuring a high critical current density. The Ag sheet is allowed to have an intensified (113) [121] texture by applying an additional tensile force to an Ag sheet which has undergone primary recrystallization. The... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, Llc

20080139393 - Oxide superconductor and method for producing the same: An oxide superconductor film formed on a substrate includes an oxide containing at least one metal M selected from the group consisting of yttrium and lanthanoid metals, provided that cerium, praseodymium, promethium and ruthenium are excluded, and barium and copper, in which the film has an average thickness of 350... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080139394 - Magnetic field coil with superconducting capability and parallel wound wire sections in a layer: A superconducting magnetic field coil (1; 21; 31; 41; 51; 61) comprising at least one coil section (42; 43) which is wound in layers, is characterized in that, in at least one layer (11, 12, 13, 14, 101, 102, 103, 104) of the coil section (42; 43) N (with N≧2),... Agent: Kohler Schmid Moebus