Passive quench protection techniques for non-insulated superconducting magnets (US Patent 12700530)

Patent number: 12700530 Kind code: B2 Granted: 2026-08-04 Filed: 2021-03-25 Inventors: Brian Labombard (Belmont, MA, US); Krishna Kiran Kumar Uppalapati (North Billerica, MA, US) Assignees: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA, US); Commonwealth Fusion Systems LLC (Devens, MA, US) CPC: H01F 6/04; H10N 60/203

Abstract

According to some aspects, techniques are described for designing non-insulated (NI) high temperature superconductor (HTS) magnets that mitigate problems