Patent 7879762 was granted and assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft on February, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A superconductor has a conductive path with a metallic substrate strip, a super-conductive layer made of a AB2CU3Ox type high-Tc-super conductive material, at least one insulating buffer layer which is arranged therebetween, and a metallic cover layer which is arranged thereon. At least one contacting element made of a normal conductive contacting material and arranged at least on one longitudinal side of the structure between the cover layer and the substrate strip enables a predetermined normally conductive limitation of the current-limiting device to be obtained.