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Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Railway Technical Research Institute

Toshiki Herai

Ken Nagashima

Masato Murakami

Masaru Tomita

Hideo Mita

Hideo Misawa

Katsunobu Kanda

Kaoru Nemoto

There is provided a power lead for a superconductive magnet capable of controlling the invasion of heat to liquid helium for storing superconductive coils therein and of sufficiently feeding power to the superconductive coils. The power lead for a superconductive magnet of a superconductor magneto unit for supplying a current to the superconductive coils which are cooled at a liquid helium temperature through a radiant heat shielded section which is cooled at a liquid nitrogen temperature, wherein at least a part of sections positioned inside the radiant heat shielded section of a current lead member of the superconductive magnet comprises a high temperature oxide superconductor bulk body having a critical temperature exceeding a liquid nitrogen temperature. In this case, it is preferable to apply a resin impregnation treatment to the bulk body to enforce the high temperature oxide superconductor bulk body section. If at least a part of sections other than the bulk body is formed of a braided wire, a stress caused by the relative displacement between constituents of the unit does not influence upon the bulk body, thereby reducing the risk of breakage of the unit.

Power lead for superconductive magnet

A cooling system includes a cold-accumulating refrigerator, and a cooling circuit. The cold-accumulating refrigerator includes a regenerator. The cooling circuit includes a main circuit, and a branched circuit. The main circuit includes a counterflow heat exchanger. The branched circuit is branched from an upstream portion of the main circuit, and joined to a downstream portion thereof, thereby reducing one of the flows of a refrigerant, flowing in a high-pressure-side passage and a low-pressure-side passage which are disposed in the counterflow heat exchanger, with respect to the other one of the flows. Moreover, the branched circuit includes a heat exchanger, and the heat exchanger is thermally brought into contact with a portion of the regenerator whose temperature is varied from a high temperature to a low temperature by another refrigerant flowing therein. Thus, the cooling efficiency of the cooling system is remarkably improved synergetically by the cooling resulting from the flow-difference in the counterflow heat exchanger, and by the extra cooling stemming from the thermal-contact at the regenerator.

Cooling system

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Kokubunji, Japan

Toshiki Herai