Hitachi, Ltd.

Kie Nakamura

Takaaki Suzuki

Kunihiro Maeda

Ken Takahashi

Tadahiko Miyoshi

Takeo Yamazaki

Yukio Takeda

Atsuko Soeta

Masatoshi Nakazawa

Choushiro Kitazawa

Hironori Kodama

A superconducting oxide wire and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The wire comprises a pipe made of a metal and a superconducting oxide material filling the interior of the pipe and comprising superconducting oxide grains which are bonded to each other and which have a perovskite crystal structure having a C face and a C axis. The superconducting oxide grains contain more than 50 vol % of plate-shaped grains of which the length in the direction of the C face is greater than the length in the direction of the C axis. The C faces of most the plate-shaped grains are arranged to be directed toward longitudinal axis of the pipe.

Superconducting wire and method of manufacturing the same

A composite ceramic sintered body is made from a ceramic matrix comprised mainly of silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride or an inorganic oxide selected from alumina, mullite, zirconia, high silica glass, lithium-aluminosilicate glass, magnesium-aluminosilicate glass or barium-magnesium-aluminosilicate glass, containing both whiskers and particles of a material selected from silicon carbide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, alumina and zirconia dispersed therein. The whiskers have a diameter of 0.1 to 5 .mu.m and the particles have an average particle size of 5 to 60 .mu.m. The composite ceramic sintered body is homogeneous and isotropic, and it has a high strength and high toughness at a high temperature and an excellent heat resistance and oxidation resistance.

Composite ceramic sintered body and process for production thereof

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Sapporo, Japan

Kie Nakamura