Patent ID: 7698804

Claim:
A method for producing a fully transposed composite superconductor with an at least approximately rectangular cross section, comprising: first producing a plurality of individual shaped and coated conductor elements, each having a ribbon shape with an approximately rectangular cross section corresponding to an individual shape of the conductor element in a transposed arrangement of the composite superconductor; wherein each shaped and coated conductor element has at least partially a coating of a superconductive high-T C material, each shaped and coated conductor element satisfies the relationship B<H< 20 ·B, where B is a width of the shaped and coated conductor element and H is the length of an upright bending zone of the conductor element, in a current-carrying direction in the transposed arrangement, and upright bending of the conductor elements in the coated state is avoided; and after producing the individual shaped and coated conductor elements, assembling the shaped and coated conductor elements to said composite superconductor in the transposed arrangement by fitting the individual shaped and coated conductor elements with one another in a process separate from producing each conductor element, wherein the conductor elements are shaped by cutting an initial body to a desired shape, and the initial body is coated with the superconductive high-T C material before the conductor elements are cut therefrom, to the desired shape.