Method of manufacturing oxide superconducting wire, oxide superconducting wire, superconducting coil and superconducting apparatus

摘要

A method of manufacturing an oxide superconducting wire which can manufacture the longest possible wire by connecting relatively short wires with each other and is capable of suppressing reduction of a critical current resulting from influence by strain when the wires connected with each other are bent, an oxide superconducting wire, a superconducting coil and a superconducting apparatus are provided. According to the method of manufacturing an oxide superconducting wire by superposing end portions of two oxide superconducting wires (1, 2) with each other thereby bonding the end portions and connecting the oxide superconducting wires with each other, a junction (L) formed by superposing the end portions with each other is so worked as to reduce the quantity of strain on an end of the junction (L) when the two oxide superconducting wires (1) and (2) connected with each other are bent. Each of the oxide superconducting wire, the superconducting coil and the superconducting apparatus has the aforementioned junction (L), and the quantity of strain on the end of the junction (L) is reduced in the aforementioned manner.