Abstract: A thermally insulating joint for multilayer insulating blankets for a superconducting magnet with layers of low thermal emissivity material separated by low conductivity spacers staked together with adjacent joints and vents offset from each other and with low emissivity adhesive strips overlying the remote ends of adjacent layers of the joined blankets.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 31, 1998
Date of Patent:
March 21, 2000
Assignee:
General Electric Company
Inventors:
William Louis Einziger, Phillip William Eckels, Michael Loren Creel