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Patent No.:

US 12406790 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2025

Filed:

Oct. 10, 2023

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

Applicant:

GE Precision Healthcare Llc, Waukesha, WI (US);

Inventors:

Dogan Celik, Florence, SC (US);

Kabindra Ram Bhattarai, Columbia, SC (US);

Yuye Jiang, Florence, SC (US);

Richard Thomas Hackett, Sumter, SC (US);

Charles Dudley Yarborough, Florence, SC (US);

Stuart Paul Feltham, Florence, SC (US);

Longzhi Jiang, Florence, SC (US);

Harold Monroe James, Florence, SC (US);

Assignee:

GE Precision Healthcare LLC, Wauwatosa, WI (US);

Attorney:

Fletcher Yoder, P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Roberto Velez

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01F 6/04 (2006.01); G01R 33/34 (2006.01); G01R 33/38 (2006.01); G01R 33/3815 (2006.01); H01F 6/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01F 6/04 (2013.01); G01R 33/34023 (2013.01); G01R 33/3403 (2013.01); G01R 33/3804 (2013.01); G01R 33/3815 (2013.01); H01F 6/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

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.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Celik, Dogan. (2025). System and method for converting helium bath cooling system for a superconducting magnet of a magnetic resonance imaging system into a sealed cryogenic system (U.S. Patent No. 12406790). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/12406790

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