Patent 7800871 was granted and assigned to Nexans on September, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention relates to a resistive type high temperature superconductor based fault current limiter with improved heat exchange capability composed of a thermally conductive matrix material 8 with a plurality of superconductor components 5 embedded in the thermally conductive matrix material 8 wherein the plurality of superconductor components 5 is connected electrically in parallel.