General Electric Renovables Espana, S.l.

General Electric Company

Anbo Wu

Minfeng Xu

James William Bray

Ernst Wolfgang Stautner

Weijun Shen

Paul St Mark Shadforth Thompson

Susumu Mine

Ye Bai

Michael Parizh

Jian-She Wang

Xu Minfeng

Yunxing Song

A superconducting magnet apparatus includes a plurality of superconducting magnet coil sections connected in series and housed within a cryogenically cooled, vacuum container. A power source generates a current. A first lead is electrically connected to the superconducting magnet coil sections. A second lead is enclosed entirely within the vacuum container. The second lead has a first section and a second section, and the first section is electrically connected to the power source. The second section is electrically connected to the first lead, and rigidly connected to a linear displacement device enclosed entirely within the vacuum container. The linear displacement device linearly displaces the second section relative to the first section, so that the first section contacts the second section thereby electrically connecting the first and second sections, or by creating a gap between the first section and second section thereby electrically disconnecting the first section from the second section.

Superconducting magnet apparatus and method of operating same

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Anbo Wu