US 12,417,867 B2
Fiber reinforced coils and structures for high temperature superconductors
Wayne Chung Wei Lau, Geneva (CH)
Assigned to LAU Superconductors Inc., Hunt Valley, MD (US)
Filed by LAU Superconductors Inc., Geneva (CH)
Filed on Nov. 20, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/100,616.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/941,410, filed on Nov. 27, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/983,333, filed on Feb. 28, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/983,336, filed on Feb. 28, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0210265 A1, Jul. 8, 2021
Int. Cl. H01F 6/04 (2006.01); H01F 1/147 (2006.01); H01F 6/00 (2006.01); H01F 6/06 (2006.01); H10F 10/00 (2025.01); H10N 60/01 (2023.01); H10N 60/20 (2023.01); H10N 60/83 (2023.01); H10N 60/85 (2023.01); B64G 1/00 (2006.01); B64G 1/40 (2006.01)
CPC H01F 6/04 (2013.01) [H01F 1/147 (2013.01); H01F 6/00 (2013.01); H01F 6/06 (2013.01); H10F 10/00 (2025.01); H10N 60/0632 (2023.02); H10N 60/0801 (2023.02); H10N 60/20 (2023.02); H10N 60/203 (2023.02); H10N 60/83 (2023.02); H10N 60/85 (2023.02); H10N 60/857 (2023.02); B64G 1/002 (2013.01); B64G 1/40 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device, comprising:
a rigid solenoid coil comprising a high temperature superconducting (HTS) crystal spiral having a spiral shape with spacing between adjacent spirals, wherein the crystal spiral forms a cylinder having a longitudinal axis, wherein the crystal spiral comprises a reinforcement fiber structure in the shape of a spiral embedded in an HTS material, wherein the reinforcement spiral structure comprises Silicon Carbide (SiC), and wherein the HTS material comprises one or more of the following: a copper oxide material, a rare earth copper oxide material (RE) BCO (e.g., (RE) Ba2Cu307), an iron arsenide material, an iron selenide material, a LaBaCuO material, a LaSrCuO material, a LaSrCaCuO material, a YBaCuO material, a BiSrCaCuO material, a TiBaCaCuO material, a HgBACaCuO material, a HgTiBaCaCuO material, a LnFeAs (O,F) material, a (Ba, K, Li, Na) FeAs material, a FeSe material, a BKBO material, a RbCsC material, a YbPdBC material, and/or a NbGe material.