Hitachi, Ltd.

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation

Hitachi Medical Corporation

Hitachi Cable, Inc.

Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology

Naoki Maki

Kiyoshi Yamaguchi

Takashi Kobayashi

Masayuki Shibata

Noriaki Hino

Shigeru Kakugawa

Masashi Kitamura

Tadasi Sonobe

Teruhiro Takizawa

Nobuhiro Hara

Toshio Saitoh

Ryukichi Takahashi

Hiroshi Tomeoku

Hajime Kawano

Ken Yoshioka

Katsunori Suzuki

Kenichi Hattori

Hirotaka Takeshima

Naofumi Tada

Hideshi Fukumoto

Mitsuru Izumi

Fumio Iida

Takanobu Mori

Takao Honmei

Toshio Tamura

Fumio Suzuki

Yutaka Takuma

Shunji Kakiuchi

Yoshiji Hotta

Seiji Numata

Shuji Sakai

Jyoji Nakata

Toshiharu Tominaka

Heroe Yamamoto

Munenori Kotabe

Yasumichi Uno

Shizuo Tsujimoto

The present invention provides a superconductive rotating electric machine drive control system that has higher efficiency and is smaller size and lighter in weight than conventional systems, and also provides a superconductive rotating electric machine drive control method to be implemented in the superconductive rotating electric machine drive control system. By the superconductive rotating electric machine drive control system and the superconductive rotating electric machine drive control method in accordance with the present invention, a control operation is performed so that the field current Iapplied to the superconductive field winding of the synchronous rotating electric machine satisfies an equation for the field current Iin accordance with the variation of the electric power exchanged between the synchronous rotating electric machine and the power unit.

Superconductive rotating electric machine drive control system and superconductive rotating electric machine drive control method

Superconducting magnet apparatus and method of regulating magnetization

A laminated superconducting magnet includes a multilayer short-circuit superconductor group 2 formed by uniting superposed hollow superconducting plates, and an exciting coil 3 for inducing a current from an external power source 4 to the multilayer short-circuit superconductor group 2 for operation in a permanent current mode. Even if some of the superconducting plates are quenched, the other normal superconducting plates share the excess current temporarily. Therefore, the entire superconducting magnet is not quenched.

Superconducting magnet formed by laminating hollow conductor plates

A superconducting apparatus is provided with a cryostat, a superconducting magnet contained in the cryostat, an emergency gas discharge pipe connected with the cryostat, and an emergency discharge valve disposed midway of the discharge pipe for discharging to an external environment an emergency discharge gas generated at quenching. In addition, the superconducting apparatus is provided with a gas heating unit for heating the emergency discharge gas flowing inside the discharge pipe.

Superconducting apparatus and method for operating said superconducting

A superconducting magnet abnormality detection and protection apparatus is for early and surely detecting abnormality in superconducting coils mounted on a vehicle and protecting the superconducting coils. Magnetic flux detecting devices are mounted inside an outer vessel, which is a vacuum container of a superconducting magnet, so as to be opposite to the superconducting coil. Voltages induced in the magnetic flux detecting devices are detected. Voltage signals are led to a decision device. By monitoring the change of the voltage signals with time in a comparing judgment device, it is determined whether there is an abnormality. If there is an abnormality, an alarm indicator informs of an abnormal state, and a protection device takes protection measures such as interruption of the current of the superconducting magnet. Owing to such configuration, heat does not penetrate from the outside into the superconducting coil via instrumentation lead wires of the magnetic flux detecting devices. Magnitudes of vibration and displacement of the superconducting coil can be detected without contacting the superconducting coil. By always monitoring these signals, it becomes possible to early detect an abnormality in the superconducting coil and protect it.

Superconducting magnet abnormality detection and protection apparatus

A levitation system of a magnetically levitated train is provided wherein superconducting magnets are installed in a car body, and the first layer and the second layer of levitation coils are so arranged as to be in a shifted location relative to each other in the moving direction of the train. By making the levitation coils two layers and by arranging the two layers in the shifted location relative to each other in the moving direction, amplitude of higher harmonic waves is reduced to a very small level, substantially to zero.

Levitation system of a magnetically levitated train

Disclosed is a superconductor which has an aluminum area at the center of the cross section of the superconductor and a copper-covered multifilamentary NbTi composite conductor at the periphery parts of the cross section formed around the aluminum area, wherein the cross-sectional area ratio of (Cu+Al)/NbTi is in the range of 0.5 to 3.0 and the cross-sectional area ratio of Al/Cu is in the range of 0.05 to 0.5.. The superconductor is provided by a method comprising a first step of providing a superconductor-copper composite hollow body in which copper films are applied around the superconductors, a second step of area reducing the composite hollow body, a third step of heat treating the body, a fourth step of inserting an aluminum body into the hollow of the hollow body, a fifth step of subjecting the body to working such as drawing, a sixth step of subjecting the body to working such as twisting, forming or the like, with an additional area reduction being carried out, if necessary, subsequent to the third step. A superconducting coil is made using the superconductor, and the coil is used for a magnetically levitated vehicle or a nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus.

Aluminum-stabilized superconductor and superconducting coil, and method

A synchrotron radiation utilizing apparatus comprises a generator generating synchrotron radiation, a guide duct for outwardly guiding the synchrotron radiation in a predetermined direction, a plurality of supporting members each supporting one of a plurality of objects which are targets to be irradiated with the synchrotron radiation, the supporting members being disposed at positions distant substantially by an equal distance from the center of rotation of the apparatus, a support base rotatably supporting the supporting members, a first rotating unit rotating each of the supporting members in a predetermined direction, a first control unit applying a control signal to the first rotating unit, a second rotating unit rotating the support base in the plane of the support base in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the object supporting members, and a second control unit applying a control signal to the second rotating unit.

Synchrotron radiation utilizing apparatus and method for utilizing

In a bending magnet, a core which is substantially sectoral or semi-circular in horizontally sectional configuration and in which opposed magnetic poles are formed and a vacuum chamber for storage of a charged particle beam is disposed in a gap between the opposed magnetic poles, and a pair of upper and lower exciting coils for generating a bending magnetic field in the gap between the magnetic poles of core, the reluctance against the magnetic flux passing through a portion of the core adjacent to the inner circumference of the orbit of the charged particle beam and a portion of the core adjacent to the outer circumference of the charged particle beam orbit is equally uniformed over the overall length of the orbit of the charged particle beam. With this construction, the magnetic flux density becomes uniform in the gap between magnetic poles where the magnetic flux passing through the inner and outer circumference side portions is concentrated and the magnetic flux distribution is uniformed in the orbital direction in the gap, thereby eliminating adverse influence upon the charged particle beam, and the bending magnet can be very effective for use in a synchrotron or a storage ring.

Bending magnet

A coolant supply and discharge device for a superconductive rotor including a gaseous coolant withdrawing tube for withdrawing a gaseous coolant located at an end portion of fixed casing enclosing an end portion of the rotor and supporting a coolant feed tube. The withdrawing tube is constituted to withdraw a predetermined amount of gaseous coolant produced in a clearance between the coolant feed tube and a coolant inlet tube located within a rotor shaft to a coolant sump located outside, to avoid introduction of heat into the feed tube from outside.

Coolant supply and discharge device for superconductive rotor

A superconductive coil has both its terminals connected in parallel with a protecting device which has a diode and a unipolar d.c. motor connected in series with each other. The superconductive coil is further connected with an energizing d.c. power source through a switch. The conductive direction of the diode is so selected that the d.c. motor is driven by the energizing energy of the superconductive coil when the switch is opened in the quenching operation of the superconductive coil.

Superconductive coil system with protecting device

This invention relate to a structure for supporting a power lead connected to a superconductive field coil and refrigerant supply and discharge pipes in the hollow shaft of the superconductive rotor. A plurality of spacers for holding the power lead and the refrigerant supply and discharge pipes are fitted in a supporting sleeve, and fixed from the outer peripheral side of the supporting sleeve, the supporting sleeve itself being fixed in the cavity of the hollow shaft. Since the fixing work can be made from the outer peripheral side by means of the structure stated above, it is possible to fix the leads and pipes to the inside of the shaft easily and rigidly, and to avoid the generation of vibration so as to prevent serious damage to the stability of the superconductive state of the rotor.

Superconductive rotor

An electric rotary machine having a superconducting rotor, such as a dynamoelectric machine. A cylindrical shielding member is provided for protecting the superconducting winding from the influence of the magnetic flux of the stator, and for shielding the heat radiated from the normal-temperature side of the machine, thereby maintaining the superconducting winding at an extremely low temperature. An inner reinforcing body and an outer reinforcing body are fitted to the inner and the outer peripheral surfaces of the cylindrical shielding member so as to reinforce the latter. These reinforcing bodies are effective to reduce the stress in the rotor caused by the centrifugal force and electromagnetic force during a running of the electric rotary machine, thereby protecting the shielding member against breakage and/or deformation.

Electric rotary machine having superconducting rotor

The vehicle is powered by a linear synchronous motor, The linear synchronous motor comprises a series of field poles fitted on the vehicle body along its total length and a series of magnetic devices being provided along a track on the ground facing these field poles and developing a travelling magnetic field. A driving force developed between these field poles and the magnetic devices causes the vehicle to move. Such a linear synchronous motor powered vehicle has a problem when securing proper and satisfactory places to mount the necessary equipment of the vehicle. The problem arises from the peculiar construction thereof that a plurality of field poles are disposed along the entire length of the vehicle body. A satisfactory mounting of the apparatus may be attained by a unique arrangement of the field poles, without making the vehicle body large in size or providing discomfort to the passengers.

Linear synchronous motor powered vehicle

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Naoki Maki