Low inductance interconnection of cryoelectric memory system

Claim 2

An interconnection element for the conductive strips on two memory planes comprising, in combination: a strip of flexible insulating material; 2n spaced, parallel conductors on said strip; and n discrete, spaced magnetic field shielding elements also on said strip and insulated from said conductors, each shielding element registering with exactly one pair of adjacent conductors and insulated from the other shielding elements, where n is an integer greater than 1.

Claim 3

An interconnection element as set forth in claim 1, wherein each shielding element is of O-shape and is formed with a central opening lying beneath the space between the two conductors registered with said shielding element.

Claim 4

An interconnection element as set forth in claim 1, wherein said shielding elements and conductors are formed of superconductive material.

Claim 5

An interconnection element as set forth in claim 2, wherein said shielding elements and conductors are formed of superconductive material.

Claim 6

An interconnection element as set forth in claim 1, wherein the spaced parallel conductors are on one surface of the strip of insulating material and the magnetic field shielding elements are on the opposite surface.

Claim 7

In combination: two superconductor memory planes stacked one over the other and facing in opposite directions, each having at one surface thereof conductors terminated at an edge of the plane by lands; and an interconnection element for electrically connecting the two planes, said element comprising; a length of flexible insulating material; a plurality, equal in number to the number of lands on a plane, of parallel superconductive strips, each joined at one end to a land on one plane and at the other end to a land on the other plane, said strips being located on one surface of said insulating material; and a plurality of shielding elements, insulated from one another, equal to half the number of lands on a plane, said shielding elements lying on the opposite surface of said insulating material and each shielding element lying beneAth a pair of adjacent superconductive strips.

Claim 8

In combination: two superconductor memory planes stacked one over the other and facing in opposite directions, each having at one surface thereof conductors terminated at an edge of the plane by lands; and an interconnection element for electrically connecting the two planes, said element comprising; a length of flexible insulating material; a plurality, equal in number to the number of lands on a plane, of parallel superconductive strips, each joined at one end to a land on one plane and at the other end to a land on the other plane, said strips being located on one surface of said insulating material; and a plurality of shielding elements, insulated from one another, equal to half the number of lands on a plane, said shielding elements lying on the opposite surface of said insulating material and each shielding element lying beneAth a pair of adjacent superconductive strips.

Claim 9

In the combination set forth in claim 6, each shielding element being in the shape of an elongated O, one element of the O being of the same width as and lying immediately under one strip and another element of the O being of the same width as and lying under an adjacent strip.

Claim 10

In the combination set forth in claim 7, each memory plane having a ground plane and the lands on each plane extending beyond the ground plane, and each end of each elongated O-shaped shielding element lying over and insulated from a ground plane.

Claim 11

In combination: two superconductor memory planes stacked one over the other and facing in opposite directions, each having at one surface thereof conductors terminated at an edge of the plane by lands; two interconnection elements for electrically connecting the two planes, each said element comprising: a length of flexible insulating material; a plurality, equal in number to the number of lands on a plane, of parallel superconductive strips, said strips being located on one surface of said insulating material; and a plurality of shielding elements, insulated from one another, equal to half the number of lands on a plane, each such element on the opposite surface of said insulating material and beneath a pair of adjacent superconductor strips; and a terminal bar comprising an insulator, parallel conductors equal in number to the number of lands on a plane on one surface of the insulator, and a magnetic field shield on the other surface of the insulator, the conductors on the respective interconnection elements being connected at one end to the conductors of the terminal bar and at the other end to the lands of the respective memory planes.

Claim 12

In combination: two superconductor memory planes stacked one over the other and facing in opposite directions, each having at one surface thereof conductors terminated at an edge of the plane by lands; two interconnection elements for electrically connecting the two planes, each said element comprising: a length of flexible insulating material; a plurality, equal in number to the number of lands on a plane, of parallel superconductive strips, said strips being located on one surface of said insulating material; and a plurality of shielding elements, insulated from one another, equal to half the number of lands on a plane, each such element on the opposite surface of said insulating material and beneath a pair of adjacent superconductor strips; and a terminal bar comprising an insulator, parallel conductors equal in number to the number of lands on a plane on one surface of the insulator, and a magnetic field shield on the other surface of the insulator, the conductors on the respective interconnection elements being connected at one end to the conductors of the terminal bar and at the other end to the lands of the respective memory planes.