Siemens Healthcare Gmbh

Siemens Corporation

Martin Howard Hempstead

Michael Simpkins

Stephen Paul Trowell

Neil John Belton

Nicholas Mann

Matthew John Longfield

Patrick William Retz

Marcel Kruip

Simon Chorley

Peter Jonathan Davis

Nicholas Aley

William James Bickell

Graeme Hyson

Yunxin Gao

Ashley Fulham

Paul Lewis

Martin Gambling

Nicholas Paul Aley

A superconducting magnet device including a plurality of superconducting magnet coils; a structural element mechanically and thermally linked to respective magnet coils to retain them in respective relative positions; and a cooling station thermally connected to a cryogenic refrigerator and to the structural element. A thermally conductive path, which passes through the structural element, is established between the cryogenic refrigerator and the superconducting magnet coils through the structural element.

Thermal buses for cryogenic applications

An assembly having a cylindrical structure supported by a support structure having at least one support element, the support structure being cradle shaped, such that vertical and horizontal loads are taken largely as shear forces by respective interface surfaces which are substantially parallel to the direction of the respective load, and vertical loads are taken in a direction substantially tangential to the cylindrical surface of the cylindrical structure.

Assembly comprising a cylindrical structure supported by a support structure

For shimming a background magnetic field of a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus having an outer vacuum chamber (OVC) bore tube, a shimming arrangement has rails on the OVC bore tube and shim trays are mounted between respective rails.

Combined shim and bore cooling assembly

An arrangement for supporting a cylindrical superconducting coil structure has recesses in an axial end-surface of the coil structure, and support brackets that individually horizontally protrude into the recesses, such that a vertical loading on the support brackets bears the weight of the coil structure. Opposite ends of the support brackets engage a support member, which supports the support brackets engaged therein, thereby also bearing the weight of the coil structure.

Support structure for cylindrical superconducting coil structure

A turret subassembly for use as part of a cryostat, the turret subassembly comprising a vent tube () housing an auxiliary vent (); a refrigerator sock () for housing a refrigerator; a termination box () linking the vent tube and the refrigerator sock, and having an opening () in one wall (); and means () for attachment of the turret subassembly to a cryogen vessel ().

Turret subassembly for use as part of a cryostat and method of assembling a cryostat

A current lead-through for providing an electrically conductive path between an interior of a vessel and the exterior of the vessel. The electrically conductive path is electrically isolated from the material of the vessel. The current lead-through comprises an electrically conductive pin surrounded by an electrically isolating sealing material, and retained within a tubular carrier body by the sealing material, the electrically conductive pin being exposed at each end of the tubular carrier body to enable electrical connection thereto.

Current leadthrough for cryostat

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