Patents by Inventor Guenter Kuebler

Guenter Kuebler has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11810711
    Abstract: A cryostat assembly comprises an outer container that houses a coil tank with a superconducting magnet coil system and a first cryogenic fluid, and a storage tank with a second cryogenic fluid. The coil tank is secured to the outer container by a first suspension element and the storage tank is secured to the outer container by a second suspension element. The storage tank is thermally connected to a cover element having a mechanical and thermally-conductive connection to a tube element and to the first suspension element. The cover element connects to the storage tank via a resilient, heat-conducting connection that is in thermal contact with the cover element and the storage tank. This allows thermal coupling between the storage tank and cover element, and independent relative movements between the storage tank and cover element, while suppressing relative movements between the tube element and the superconducting magnet coil system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventors: Pierre-Alain Bovier, Robert Schauwecker, Guenter Kuebler, Thomas Wuethrich
  • Publication number: 20200411218
    Abstract: A cryostat assembly comprises an outer container that houses a coil tank with a superconducting magnet coil system and a first cryogenic fluid, and a storage tank with a second cryogenic fluid. The coil tank is secured to the outer container by a first suspension element and the storage tank is secured to the outer container by a second suspension element. The storage tank is thermally connected to a cover element having a mechanical and thermally-conductive connection to a tube element and to the first suspension element. The cover element connects to the storage tank via a resilient, heat-conducting connection that is in thermal contact with the cover element and the storage tank. This allows thermal coupling between the storage tank and cover element, and independent relative movements between the storage tank and cover element, while suppressing relative movements between the tube element and the superconducting magnet coil system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Pierre-Alain BOVIER, Robert SCHAUWECKER, Guenter KUEBLER, Thomas WUETHRICH
  • Patent number: 9766312
    Abstract: An NMR apparatus includes a superconducting magnet coil system configured to generate a homogeneous magnetic field, and a helium (He) tank having an inner tube mechanically rigidly connected to the He tank and in which the magnet coil system is positioned. The He tank is configured to contain liquid helium to cool the magnet coils. A radiation shield has a radiation shield inner tube encompassing the He tank and spaced from the He inner tube to create a space between the He inner tube and the radiation shield inner tube to reduce an evaporation rate of the liquid helium. The NMR apparatus additionally includes a field shaping device with a magnetic material arranged in the space, in order to shim the homogeneous magnetic field. The field shaping device is fixed in the space so as to be in rigid mechanical contact with the He tank but without contacting the radiation shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Bruker BioSpin AG
    Inventors: Beat Grossniklaus, Guenter Kuebler, Pierre-Alain Bovier
  • Patent number: 9702951
    Abstract: An NMR apparatus includes a superconducting magnet coil system configured to generate a homogeneous magnetic field, and a helium (He) tank having an inner tube mechanically rigidly connected to the He tank and in which the magnet coil system is positioned. The He tank is configured to contain liquid helium to cool the magnet coils. A radiation shield has a radiation shield inner tube encompassing the He tank and spaced from the He inner tube to create a space between the He inner tube and the radiation shield inner tube to reduce an evaporation rate of the liquid helium. The NMR apparatus additionally includes a field shaping device with a magnetic material arranged in the space, in order to shim the homogeneous magnetic field. The field shaping device is fixed in the space so as to be in rigid mechanical contact with the He tank but without contacting the radiation shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Bruker BioSpin AG
    Inventors: Beat Grossniklaus, Guenter Kuebler, Pierre-Alain Bovier
  • Publication number: 20170176554
    Abstract: An NMR apparatus includes a superconducting magnet coil system configured to generate a homogeneous magnetic field, and a helium (He) tank having an inner tube mechanically rigidly connected to the He tank and in which the magnet coil system is positioned. The He tank is configured to contain liquid helium to cool the magnet coils. A radiation shield has a radiation shield inner tube encompassing the He tank and spaced from the He inner tube to create a space between the He inner tube and the radiation shield inner tube to reduce an evaporation rate of the liquid helium. The NMR apparatus additionally includes a field shaping device with a magnetic material arranged in the space, in order to shim the homogeneous magnetic field. The field shaping device is fixed in the space so as to be in rigid mechanical contact with the He tank but without contacting the radiation shield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Beat GROSSNIKLAUS, Guenter KUEBLER, Pierre-Alain BOVIER
  • Publication number: 20140125342
    Abstract: A magnet assembly has a field shaping device (P1) that is cylindrically symmetric with respect to the z-axis and made of magnetic material. At least parts of the field shaping device have a radial distance from the z-axis of less than 80 millimeters and compensate for at least one of the inhomogeneous field parts An0·zn of the magnet coil system. The field shaping device has one or more non cylindrically symmetric recesses, which are constituted such that at least a coefficient Anm or Bnm in the magnetic field expansion of the magnet assembly according to the spherical harmonic functions is reduced by at least 50%. In this way, the field homogeneity of the working volume can be substantially increased in a simple manner and without increasing the volume of the magnet assembly, wherein only a few iterations are required to optimize the magnet assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Inventors: Pierre-Alain Bovier, Guenter Kuebler
  • Patent number: 6236562
    Abstract: The section of an electrical high-voltage system has a gas-filled housing of predominantly symmetrical design. Provided in the housing are a conductor extending along a plane of symmetry of the housing, and cooling means for producing a circulation flow which dissipates heat loss from the conductor. The cooling means contains two blowers. The blowers are arranged in the interior of the housing and designed in such a way that, during the operation of the system, two mirror-symmetrical circulation part flows are formed which are bounded by the plane of symmetry. These circulation part flows are in each case guided without recirculation along a housing side wall from the top of the housing or the bottom of the housing. By this means, the heat loss is given up particularly effectively to the housing side walls, and the conductor can be loaded with very high operating currents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AG
    Inventors: Günter Wilfert, Günter Kübler, Sacha Parneix, Enrico Malfa