Patent ID: 7352267

Claim:
A cylindrical superconductor component comprising: a cylindrical superconductor body, wherein the cylindrical superconductor body is provided with a longitudinal slot extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the superconductor body at a distance from the lower end to a distance of the upper end of the cylindrical superconductor body, leaving a non-cut section between the lower end and the upper end, respectively, of the cylindrical superconductor body, and the starting point and the end point, respectively, of the longitudinal slot, and a number of azimuthal slots incised vertically to the longitudinal slot into the cylindrical superconductor body, wherein each individual azimuthal slot is cut into the cylindrical superconductor body starting from the longitudinal slot and extending along the perimeter of the cylindrical superconductor body until an end point with a distance from the longitudinal slot, said distance between the longitudinal slot at the start of the respective azimuthal slot and the end point defining a non-cut section on the perimeter of the cylindrical superconductor body, wherein the azimuthal slots are cut into the perimeter of the cylindrical superconductor body in parallel and wherein each individual azimuthal slot starts from said longitudinal slot in a sense along the perimeter of the cylindrical body opposite to the sense of the azimuthal slots immediately neighbouring the individual slot along the longitudinal slot.