General Electric Company

Ge Precision Healthcare LLC

Richard Thomas Hackett

Xianrui Huang

Longzhi Jiang

Bu-Xin Xu

Phillip William Eckels

Michael R Eggleston

Gregory Alan Lehmann

John Scaturro, Jr

Stuart Paul Feltham

Gregory F Hayworth

Somanath Nagendra

Clifford J Ginfrida

Charles Dudley Yarborough

Stephen Randolph Elgin, Ii

Dogan Celik

Yuye Jiang

Kabindra Ram Bhattarai

Harold Monroe James

A superconducting magnet system includes a coil support structure having a body, a superconducting magnet having a plurality of coils disposed about the body, and a helium vessel encompassing the coil support structure and the superconducting magnet. The superconducting magnet system includes a cooling system that includes a network of tubes disposed within the helium vessel and configured to transport helium within, wherein the network of tubes is retroactively thermally coupled to the plurality of coils. The cooling system includes a liquid helium storage system located within the helium vessel and a helium recondenser located outside the helium vessel. The cooling system includes one or more tubes coupling the helium storage system to the helium recondenser, wherein where the one or more tubes pass through the helium vessel is retroactively vacuum sealed to make the helium vessel a sealed helium vessel.

System and method for converting helium bath cooling system for a superconducting magnet of a magnetic resonance imaging system into a sealed cryogenic system

The present invention provides a magnet support structure. A cylindrical portion comprises a plurality of laminated composite layers concentrically assembled to one another along a longitudinal axis. An integral left flange is comprised of the laminated composite layers concentrically assembled with respect to a left flange axis. The left flange axis is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. An integral right flange is comprised of the laminated composite layers concentrically assembled with respect to a right flange axis. The right flange axis is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. A method for fabricating the magnet support structure comprises concentrically assembling the plurality of laminated composite layers along the longitudinal axis forming the cylindrical portion. Concentrically assembling the laminated composite layers with respect to the left flange axis forming the integral left flange. Concentrically assembling the laminated composite layers with respect to the right flange axis forming the integral right flange.

Apparatus and method for fabricating magnet support structure

A multi purpose interconnect assembly between upper and lower helium vessels in a recondensing superconducting magnet to provide isothermal connections to extend the ride-through period, and to provide for helium liquid and gas passage, electrical interconnections, and to accommodate differential thermal contraction and expansion.

Superconducting magnet split cryostat interconnect assembly

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