Cryogenic cooling system with wicking structure

US8694065B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Hendrik Pieter Jacobus de Bock · Clifton Park, US
• Jalal Hunain Zia · Grand Island, US
• Ernst Wolfgang Stautner · Niskayuna, US
• Tao Deng · New York, US
• Longzhi Jiang · Florence, US
• William Louis Einziger · Florence, US
• Wen Shang · Clifton Park, US
• Yuri Lvovsky · Florence, US
• Kathleen Melanie Amm · Clifton Park, US
• Gregory Citver · Danvers, US
• Tao Zhang · Beijing, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 23, 2011
• Grant date: Apr 8, 2014
• Expiry date: Dec 24, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F25B2500/09
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A cryogenic cooling system includes a chamber defined by an outer wall and an inner wall, the chamber housing at least one component to be cooled; a wicking structure in thermal contact with one of the outer wall and the inner wall of the chamber; and a delivery system in a spaced apart relationship with the chamber and fluidly connected to the wicking structure for transporting a working fluid to and from the wicking structure. Also provided is a magnetic resonance imaging system including the cryogenic cooling system.