Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hideo Hatakeyama

Hideki Nakagome

Toru Kuriyama

Yasumi Ohtani

Rohana Chandratilleke

Yoichi Matsubara

Takayuki Kobayashi

Tatsuya Yoshino

Tomomi Hattori

A cryogenic cooling apparatus is provided, wherein the degree of freedom of installation and use is increased without deteriorating the reliability or stability and the range of uses of the apparatus is also increased. A coil unit and a refrigeration unit are positioned such that a second heat conductive member disposed on an extendible wall of a vacuum container and a fourth heat conductive member disposed on an extendible wall of another vacuum container face each other coaxially. In this state, the coil unit and refrigeration unit are relatively moved to approach each other, and thus the second heat conductive member and fourth heat conductive member come in contact. If the coil unit and refrigeration unit are further moved, the extendible wall extends and consequently the second heat conductive member comes in contact with a first heat conductive member. In addition, the extendible wall contracts and consequently the fourth heat conductive member comes in contact with a third heat conductive member. Thus, a superconducting coil is thermally connected to the refrigeration unit so that the superconducting coil is cooled.

Cryogenic cooling apparatus and cryogenic cooling method for cooling

A superconducting magnet apparatus comprises a superconducting coil unit, and a refrigerant-filled chamber type refrigerator having a plurality of cooling stages. At least a final cooling stage of the cooling stages includes a static-type refrigerant-filled chamber and is associated with the superconducting coil unit, and at least a first cooling stage of the cooling stages includes a movable-type refrigerant-filled chamber.

Cooling system having a plurality of cooling stages in which

The present invention provides a pulse tube refrigerator, comprising a regenerator having an inlet port and an outlet port, a pulse tube having one end portion connected in series to the outlet port of the regenerator, a gas compressor connected to the inlet port of the regenerator, a first valve disposed between the discharge port of the gas compressor and the inlet port of the regenerator, a second valve disposed between the suction port of the gas compressor and the inlet port of the regenerator, a first valve controller for selectively opening/closing alternately the first and second valves to permit a high pressure coolant gas discharged from the discharge port of the gas compressor to be guided into the pulse tube through the regenerator and, then, to permit said coolant gas to be sucked into the gas compressor through the suction port thereof via the reverse passageway so as to generate coldness, a third valve disposed between the other end portion of the pulse tube and the discharge port of the gas compressor, a fourth valve disposed between the other end portion of the pulse tube and the suction port of the gas compressor, and a second valve controller serving to open/close the third and fourth valves in relation to the opening/closing of the first and second valves.

Pulse tube refrigerator

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Yokohama, Japan

Hideo Hatakeyama