Patents Assigned to Sumitomo Electric Indusstries, Inc
  • Patent number: 6313408
    Abstract: Provided is an insulated oxide superconducting cable conductor having a high critical current and a high critical current density. The insulated oxide superconducting cable conductor comprises an elongated former, a plurality of tape-shaped multifilamentary oxide superconducting wires which are wound on the former at a bending strain factor of not more than 0.5%, and a spirally wound tape-shaped insulating material covering the tape-shaped multifilamentary oxide superconducting wires. The tape-shaped multifilamentary superconducting wires are superposed on the former in layers, whereby stabilizing materials of the superposed superconducting wires are in contact with each other. The tape-shaped insulating material consists essentially of a material which is contracted at a thermal contraction rate of at least three times that of the tape-shaped multifilamentary wires by cooling from a temperature of 298 K to that of 77 K.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignees: Sumitomo Electric Indusstries, Inc, The Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun Fujikami, Kenichi Sato, Tsukushi Hara, Hideo Ishii