Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Shuichi Nakagawa

Takahiro Matsumoto

Takashi Inaguchi

Masashi Nagao

Hideto Yoshimura

Kazuki Moritsu

Mitsuhiro Kishida

Mitsuo Horikawa

Shuji Ando

An object of the present invention is to obtain a superconductive magnet, the size of which can be reduced by shortening the radial length of a magnetic device thereof and the refrigerating performance of which can be improved. A cylinder for fastening a refrigerator has an end facing an ambience of helium gas evaporating in a helium chamber and another end which is substantially horizontally fastened to a vacuum chamber. Further, the three-stage regenerative refrigerator is inserted and fastened to the cylinder for fastening the refrigerator. A heat insulator, such as a convection prevention tube, made of a hollow Teflon tube is wound around the outer surface of each stage of the cylinder of the three-stage regenerative refrigerator. The convection prevention tube is enclosed into a gap between the cylinder for fastening the refrigerator and the three-stage regenerative refrigerator without no undesirable gap so that heat convection of the helium gas is prevented.

Superconductive magnet

A superconducting magnet which is capable of improving the refrigerating and the assembling characteristics and of composing in small size. A helium vessel 2 contains a cylindrical superconducting coil for cryogenically refrigerating it by liquid helium. A second and a first heat-shields 5 and 6 and a vacuum vessel 4 are coaxially provided so as to surround the helium vessel 2. Over the helium vessel 2, a L-letter shaped duct 50 is provided to be exposed to helium gas atmosphere being evaporated in the helium vessel 2. A refrigerator-mounting cylinder 51 has an end coupled to the L-letter shaped duct 50 through the bellows 52 and is mounted on an end surface of the vacuum vessel 4 substantially in parallel to the axial direction of the superconducting coil. A three-stage cold heat accumulation refrigerator 30 is inserted into and fixed to the refrigerator-mounting cylinder 51 for reliquefying the helium gas having been drawn into the L-letter shaped duct 50 by a third heat state 43.

Superconducting magnet and method for assembling the same

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