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Flexible cryogenic conduit

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5911266
The interior of a tube provided for low temperature operation is shielded from the exterior through a plurality of metal ribbons helically looping around the tube in an intertwined relationship and each carrying a welded on conduit for low temperature liquid whereby one of these conduits serves as a primary or outgoing conductor, and the two others serve as return paths; suitable spacers are provided to position the system in a concentric relation; inner and outermost tubes are preferably corrugated and the immediate interior of the outermost tube is filled with superinsulation.
Assignee:
Kabelmetal Electro GmbH (Germany, Federal Republic Of)
Patent Number(s):
US 4492089
OSTI ID:
5911266
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English