Current relaying device used with superconductor apparatus

• US 4,477,689 A
• Filed: 07/02/1982
• Issued: 10/16/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/1981
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Sato, Takashi, Asai, Osatsugu, Ogasahara, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Askin, Laramie E.
• Application Number:
  US06/394,813
• Time in Patent Office: 837 Days
• Field of Search: 174/13, 174/15 CA, 174/21 CA, 174/69, 174/86, 174/99 E, 339/9 E
• US Class Current: 174/15.4
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 4/68 Connections to or between superconductive connectors
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 505/887 Conductor structure

Abstract

The disclosed current relaying device comprises a corrugated strip of an electrically conducting material, a pair of strip-shaped conducting electric conductors connected to both ends of the corrugated strip, an electrically insulating casing for surrounding the corrugated strip throughout its length, and a pair of fixing and supporting members for enclosing both end portions of the casing.

Claims

1. A current relaying device for use with a superconductor apparatus comprising a current conducting member in the form of a strip bent into a corrugated shape, a pair of connecting electric conductors in the form of strips connected to both ends of said current conducting member, an electrically insulating casing surrounding an outer periphery of said current conducting member, and a pair of electrically insulating frame members complementary in cross section to and each fixed to an end portion of said casing for externally supporting said casing, said current conducting member being supported solely by engaging an inside surface of said casing and being slideable lengthwise of said casing to absorb expansion and contraction of said superconductor apparatus transmitted to said current conducting member through one of said strips.

2. A current relaying device as claimed in claim 1 wherein said corrugated strip includes valleys slidably disposed on a bottom surface of said electrically insulating casing.