US Patent Issued to National Institute for Materials Science on Dec. 16 for "Superconducting connection structure of Nb3Sn superconducting wire rod and NbTi wire rod, method for producing same, and nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus using same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,011, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to National Institute for Materials Science (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Superconducting connection structure of Nb3Sn superconducting wire rod and NbTi wire rod, method for producing same, and nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus using same" was invented by Nobuya Banno (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A superconducting connection structure is provided with: a connection strip that comprises an Nb alloy strip to which an element M is added (wherein the element M is an element which increases the recovery temperature and the recrystallization temperature of Nb); an Nb3Sn superconducting wire r...