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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2015
American Superconductor Corporation, Devens, MA (US);
Glenn C. Driscoll, Haverhill, MA (US);
Henry C. Valcour, III, Upton, MA (US);
Paul Yankauskas, Lunenburg, MA (US);
Daniel B. George, II, Homer City, PA (US);
Alan W. Baum, Homer City, PA (US);
Timothy G. Freidhoff, Johnstown, PA (US);
Bryan P. Tipton, Johnstown, PA (US);
Patricia D. Huber, Lincoln University, PA (US);
American Superconductor Corporation, Devens, MA (US);
Abstract
A system for bundling a plurality of high temperature superconductor tapes into a flexible cable, includes a first alignment device for receiving and guiding there through the plurality of high temperature superconductor tapes, each of the tapes arranged with a wide surface oriented at a first angle. There is a second alignment device for receiving and guiding there through the plurality of high temperature superconductor tapes, each of said tapes arranged with the wide surface oriented at a second angle. The first angle is transverse to the second angle and plastically deforms the tapes to impart a twist pitch in the tapes. There is a forming member spaced from the second alignment device for receiving the plurality of high temperature superconductor tapes with the imparted twist pitch and forming them into a bundle of high temperature superconductor tapes of the high temperature superconductor tapes with the imparted twist pitch.