Abstract: A laminated superconducting magnet includes a multilayer short-circuit superconductor group 2 formed by uniting superposed hollow superconducting plates, and an exciting coil 3 for inducing a current from an external power source 4 to the multilayer short-circuit superconductor group 2 for operation in a permanent current mode. Even if some of the superconducting plates are quenched, the other normal superconducting plates share the excess current temporarily. Therefore, the entire superconducting magnet is not quenched.

Abstract: A trapped field magnet formed of a high temperature type II superconductor material is disclosed. The trapped field magnet is formed of a plurality of relatively small, single-grain superconductive elements. Optimal shaped of these elements is in a regular truncated cone wherein the half cone angle is 55.degree., and the optimal orientation of each single-grain superconducting elements is an angle of .phi..sub.m with respect to the axis perpendicular to the upper and lower surface of the element, wherein the .phi..sub.m =3 sin.theta.cos.theta./(3 cos.sup.2 .theta.0-1) and .theta. determines the location of the element (FIG. 3a).

Abstract: A superconducting tube for shielding magnetic fields including a substrate having a tubular wall, a superconducting layer supported by the substrate, and at least two ring-shaped reinforcing members connected to the radially-outer surface of the tubular wall.