Bruker Switzerland Ag

Thomas Wuethrich

Robert Schauwecker

Pierre-Alain Bovier

Kenneth J Guenter

Guenter Kuebler

Alexander Baer

A cryostat assembly comprises an outer container that houses a coil tank with a superconducting magnet coil system and a first cryogenic fluid, and a storage tank with a second cryogenic fluid. The coil tank is secured to the outer container by a first suspension element and the storage tank is secured to the outer container by a second suspension element. The storage tank is thermally connected to a cover element having a mechanical and thermally-conductive connection to a tube element and to the first suspension element. The cover element connects to the storage tank via a resilient, heat-conducting connection that is in thermal contact with the cover element and the storage tank. This allows thermal coupling between the storage tank and cover element, and independent relative movements between the storage tank and cover element, while suppressing relative movements between the tube element and the superconducting magnet coil system.

Cryostat assembly having a resilient, heat-conducting connection element

In a magnet system: &#x2014;a superconducting main field magnet () generates a magnetic field in a first sample volume (), &#x2014;a superconducting additional field magnet () generates another field in a second sample volume (), &#x2014;a cryostat () has a cooled main coil container (), an evacuated RT (room temperature) covering (), and an RT bore () which extends through the main and the additional field magnets, and &#x2014;a cooled additional coil container () in a vacuum. The RT covering has a flange connection () with an opening () through which the RT bore extends, a front end of the additional coil container protrudes through the opening into the RT covering such that the additional field magnet also protrudes through the opening into the RT covering, and a closure structure () seals the RT covering between the flange connection and the RT bore.

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Greifensee, Switzerland

Thomas Wuethrich