Magnetic Patents (Class 505/803)
  • Magnetic field replicator and method
    Patent number: 7667562
    Abstract: A new class of fundamental devices and methods for their manufacture and use. The bulk magnetic field replicators of the present invention require no precision machining or alignment to accurately reproduce magnetic fields of any complexity, nor extreme positional stability to maintain superconductivity. Such bulk devices may be formed of either low or high critical temperature superconductive materials, but are particularly adapted to formation from high critical temperature materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Inventor: Roy Weinstein
  • Process of making an oriented polycrystal superconductor
    Patent number: 4990493
    Abstract: A superconductive polycrystalline body is produced having a composition selected from the group consisting of Y.sub.1-x (Ln).sub.x Ba.sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.7-7, La.sub.1-x (Ln).sub.x Ba.sub.2 Cu.sub.3 O.sub.7-y and a combination thereof wherein x ranges from about 0.01 to about 0.5, y ranges up to about 0.3, and where Ln is selected from the group consisting of Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Kenneth W. Lay