Cold head, superconducting magnet, examination apparatus, and cryopump

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11530846-B2
Application number	US-202016928483-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 14, 2020
Priority date	Oct 22, 2012
Publication date	Dec 20, 2022
Grant date	Dec 20, 2022

Abstract

A reduction in a permeability of refrigerant gas is suppressed while increasing a filling factor of regenerator material particles with respect to a stage of a cold head. A cold head includes a stage including regenerator material particle groups, and a metal mesh material partitioning the regenerator material particle groups. The metal mesh material has quadrangular mesh holes each having a length of a long side of 1/10 or more and ½ or less of each of average particle sizes of the regenerator material particle groups.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for manufacturing a cold head, comprising:
preparing a regenerator container;
filling a first regenerator material particle group having an average particle size in a range from 200 μm to 380 μm in the regenerator container;
filling a plurality of metal mesh materials on the first regenerator material particle group in the regenerator container; and
filling a second regenerator material particle group having an average particle size in a range from 200 μm to 380 μm on the plurality of metal mesh materials in the regenerator container so that the second regenerator material particle group is partitioned with the first regenerator material particle group by the plurality of metal mesh materials,
wherein each of the plurality of metal mesh materials has quadrangular mesh holes each having a length of a long side in a range from 1/10 to ½ of each of the average particle sizes of the first and second regenerator material particle groups,
wherein each of the plurality of metal mesh materials has metal wires woven in a mesh form, and each of the metal wires has a wire diameter in a range from 20 μm to 90 μm,
wherein the plurality of metal mesh materials are stacked so that positions of the mesh holes in the plurality of the metal mesh materials do not match, and
wherein a length of one side of each of the mesh holes in one of the plurality of metal mesh materials is different from a length of one side of each of the mesh holes in another one of the plurality of the metal mesh materials.

2. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein one of the plurality of metal mesh materials comprises a copper mesh material.

3. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the second regenerator material particle group has a different kind of material with the first regenerator material particle group.

4. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein each of the first and second regenerator material particle groups is at least one selected from the group consisting of a lead regenerator material particle group, a holmium-copper regenerator material particle group, an erbium-nickel regenerator material particle group, an erbium-cobalt regenerator material particle group, a gadolinium oxysulfide regenerator material particle group, and a gadolinium-aluminum oxide regenerator material particle group.

5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
filling a plurality of metal mesh materials on the second regenerator material particle group in the regenerator container; and
filling a third regenerator material particle group having an average particle size in a range from 200 μm to 380 μm on the plurality of metal mesh materials in the regenerator container so that the third regenerator material particle group is partitioned with the second regenerator material particle group by the plurality of metal mesh materials.

6. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein a proportion of particle in which a form factor R represented by L 2 /4πA exceeds 1.5 is 5% or less in each of the first and second regenerator material particle groups, where L is a circumferential length of a projected image of the regenerator material particle, and A is an actual area of the projected image.

7. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein each of the average particle sizes of the first and second regenerator material particle groups is 200 μm or more and 300 μm or less; and
wherein a number proportion of particle having a particle size which falls within a range of 150 μm or more and 350 μm or less is 95% or more in each of the first and second regenerator material particle groups.

8. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the cold head is configured to achieve a temperature of 10 K or less.

9. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the cold head is configured to achieve a temperature of 5 K or less.

10. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the cold head is a GM type cold head.

11. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the cold head is a pulse type cold head.

12. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the cold head is a Stirling type cold head.

13. The method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the cold head is used for a superconducting magnet, an examination apparatus, or a cryopump.

14. The method according to claim 13 ,
wherein the examination apparatus is a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus or a nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus.

Assignees

• Toshiba Kk
• Toshiba Materials Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yamada Katsuhiko
• Fuse Keiichi

Classifications

• F25B9/00 Primary

  Compression machines, plants or systems, in which the refrigerant is air or other gas of low boiling point · CPC title

• F25B9/14 Primary

  characterised by the cycle used, e.g. Stirling cycle · CPC title

• F25B2309/1416

  Pulse-tube cycles characterised by regenerator stack details · CPC title

• F28D17/02

  using rigid bodies, e.g. of porous material · CPC title

• F25B2309/1415

  Pulse-tube cycles characterised by regenerator details · CPC title