Superconductor technology: apparatus, material, process inventions 11/08

20080293575 - Superconducting cable: A superconducting cable enables the cooling of the superconducting conductor with high efficiency and has a sufficient insulating strength. A method of controlling the temperature of the coolants used in the cable is offered. The superconducting cable comprises a heat-insulated pipe that houses a cable core provided with a superconducting... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20080293576 - Substrate for a superconducting thin-film strip conductor: A high-temperature superconducting thin-film strip conductor (HTSL-CC) includes a metal substrate, a buffer layer chemically generated thereon and grown crystallographically unrotated in relation to the metal substrate, and a chemically generated superconducting coating thereon. The HTSL-CC possesses high texturing of the buffer layer since the metal substrate has a surface... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080293577 - Method for operating a superconductor at a temperature higher than the superconductive temperature tc: A method of operating a superconductor in its superconductivity state at a temperature Tc(i) in the range of Tc* to Tc, where Tc* is greater than the superconductivity temperature Tc of the superconductor, includes cooling the superconductor to a temperature of Tc or less and applying energy to the superconductor... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080287301 - Method and apparatus for generation of a gravitational force on a rotating body such as a superconductor: The present invention relates to the use of technical drive systems, which operate by the modification of gravitational fields. These drive systems do not depend on the emission of matter to create thrust but create a change in the curvature of space-time, in accordance with general relativity. This allows travel... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080287302 - Method for producing superconducting wire, method for producing superconducting multicore wire, and superconducting device: A method of producing a superconducting wire comprises the steps of (a) preparing a superconducting precursor powder by treating a material powder for a superconducting use, (b) packing a first metal pipe with the superconducting precursor powder, and (c) sealing the first metal pipe. In the method, the step of... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20080287303 - Nb3sn superconducting wire, precursor or same, and method for producing precursor: A precursor for producing a Nb3Sn superconducting wire includes a bundle of single-element wires each including a Cu or Cu-based alloy matrix, Nb or Nb-based alloy filaments, at least one Sn or Sn-based alloy core, the Nb or Nb-based alloy filaments and at least one Sn or Sn-based alloy core... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080280767 - Method for producing superconducting wire material: A raw material of superconducting wire material is coated with a first silver-containing metal to obtain a silver sheath member. This silver sheath member is coated with a non-silver metal free of silver. At least a part of the first silver-containing metal in the member coated with a non-silver metal... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080274895 - Oxide superconducting film and method of preparing the same: The present invention relates to a method of preparing an oxide superconducting film, the method includes reacting a metal acetate containing metal M selected from the group consisting of lanthanum, neodymium and samarium with fluorocarboxylic acid having not less than three carbon atoms, reacting barium acetate with fluorocarboxylic acid having... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080274896 - Substrate for superconducting wire and fabrication method thereof and superconducting wire: A substrate for a superconducting wire is made of Ni or Ni alloy, with a ratio of cube texture of 95% or above constant in a width direction of a substrate body, a ratio of low-angle (15 or less) grain boundary of 99% or above regularly distributed in the width... Agent: Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

20080274897 - Primary part of a linear motor and linear motor therewith: The invention relates to a primary part of a linear motor having a receptacle for a secondary part which can move along an axis in the receptacle, having a plurality of annular coils which are arranged coaxially with respect to the receptacle, and having a yoke, with teeth which are... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20080274898 - Systems, devices, and methods for controllably coupling qubits: A coupling system to couple a first and a second qubit in response to a state of the coupling system that may be set by two input signals.... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080274899 - Superconducting disk resonator: A superconducting disk resonator is disclosed that includes a dielectric base substrate having dielectric anisotropy, a disk type superconducting resonator pattern that is formed on the dielectric base substrate with superconducting material, and a pair of signal input/output lines arranged on the dielectric base substrate and extending in a straight... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20080274901 - Composite electrical conductors and method for their manufacture: An elongate composite electrical conductor with at least one superconducting core region including processed core material surrounded by sheath material such as Cu. The processed core material has a peripheral portion of ex situ reacted MgB2 and a central portion of in situ reacted MgB2. The ex situ MgB2 is... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080274900 - Sintered body, superconducting apparatus, method of manufacturing sintered body, superconducting wire and method of manufacturing superconducting wire: A method of manufacturing a sintered body, which is a method of manufacturing a sintered body containing Mg and B, comprises the arrangement and heat treatment steps of arranging Mg powder (3a, 3b) and B powder (2) without mixing the Mg powder and the B powder with each other and... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080274902 - Method for producing mgb2 superconductor and mgb2 superconductor: The present invention provides a method for producing a MgB2 superconductor, comprising compacting and heating a mixture comprising Mg or MgH2 powder and B powder, wherein said mixture comprises SiC powder and an aromatic hydrocarbon, and a MgB2 superconductor having a higher critical current density (Jc) than that of the... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080274903 - Critical current density in nb3sn superconducting wire: Critical current densities of internal tin wire having values of at least 2000 at temperature of 4.2 K and in magnetic field of 12 T are achieved by controlling the following parameters in a distributed barrier subelement design: wt % Sn in bronze; atomic Nb:Sn; local area ratio; reactable barrier;... Agent: Klauber & Jackson