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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7613271 | Formation of a field reversed configuration for magnetic and electrostatic confinement of plasma A system and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrostatica... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7486758 | Combined plasma source and liner implosion system A novel arrangement that combines in a single compact embodiment a plasma flow switch source of ultrahigh speed plasma and an electromagnetically-imploded cylindrical shell. The shell, known as a liner, forms the wall of a cavity that receives and stagnates the plas... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7477718 | Formation of a field reversed configuration for magnetic and electrostatic confinement of plasma A system and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrostatica... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7232985 | Controlled fusion in a field reversed configuration and direct energy conversion A system and apparatus for controlled fusion in a field reversed configuration (FRC) magnetic topology and conversion of fusion product energies directly to electric power. Preferably, plasma ions are magnetically confined in the FRC while plasma electrons are elect... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7180242 | Formation of a field reversed configuration for magnetic and electrostatic confinement of plasma A system and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrostatica... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7129656 | Apparatus for magnetic and electrostatic confinement of plasma An apparatus and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrosta... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7126284 | Formation of a field reversed configuration for magnetic and electrostatic confinement of plasma A system and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrostatica... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7119491 | Magnetic and electrostatic confinement of plasma with tuning of electrostatic field A system and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrostatica... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7026763 | Apparatus for magnetic and electrostatic confinement of plasma An apparatus and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrosta... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7015646 | Magnetic and electrostatic confinement of plasma with tuning of electrostatic field A system and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrostatica... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7002148 | Controlled fusion in a field reversed configuration and direct energy conversion A system and apparatus for controlled fusion in a field reversed configuration (FRC) magnetic topology and conversion of fusion product energies directly to electric power. Preferably, plasma ions are magnetically confined in the FRC while plasma electrons are elect... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6995515 | Formation of a field reversed configuration for magnetic and electrostatic confinement of plasma A system and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrostatica... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6891911 | Formation of a field reversed configuration for magnetic and electrostatic confinement of plasma A system and method for containing plasma and forming a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) magnetic topology are described in which plasma ions are contained magnetically in stable, non-adiabatic orbits in the FRC. Further, the electrons are contained electrostatica... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6477216 | Compound plasma configuration, and method and apparatus for generating a compound plasma configuration A compound plasma configuration can be formed from a device having pins, and an annular electrode surrounding the pins. A cylindrical conductor is electrically connected to, and coaxial with, the annular electrode, and a helical conductor coaxial with the... | 11/05/2002 |
| 5041760 | Method and apparatus for generating and utilizing a compound plasma configuration A method and apparatus for generating and utilizing a compound plasma configuration is disclosed. The plasma configuration includes a central toroidal plasma with electrical currents surrounded by a generally ellipsoidal mantle of ionized particles or ele... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4973381 | Method and apparatus for etching surface with excited gas A system (10) is provided for etching a surface (14). A vacuum enclosure (12) is provided to create a vacuum around containers (13) and the surface to be etched (14). A pressurized gas source (16) is utilized to input gas into the containers (13). A wire ... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4931251 | Experimental nuclear fusion reactor An experimental nuclear fusion reactor comprising a coaxial plasma gun which has an outer electrode and an inner electrode arranged coaxially with each other, a metallic container which generates an annular plasma round a center conductor and which holds ... | 06/05/1990 |
| 4894199 | Beam fusion device and method A fusion device provides for the reaction of atomic nuclei, preferably deuterons and tritons, to generate reaction products with kinetic energies convertible to useful energy. First and second sources of first and second positive ions provide such ions at... | 01/16/1990 |
| 4891180 | Method and apparatus for generating and utilizing a compound plasma configuration A method and apparatus for generating and utilizing a compound plasma configuration is disclosed. The plasma configuration includes a central toroidal current surrounded by a generally ellipsoidal mantel of ionized particles. The preferred methods of form... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4713208 | Spheromak reactor with poloidal flux-amplifying transformer An inductive transformer in the form of a solenoidal coils aligned along the major axis of a flux core induces poloidal flux along the flux core's axis. The current in the solenoidal coil is then reversed resulting in a poloidal flux swing and the convers... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4650631 | Injection, containment and heating device for fusion plasmas A container device for a fusion plasma which has a beam of charged particles accelerating system feeding an ion or plasma beam into a polytron magnetic device. The polytron is formed from a succession of magnetic cusps joined point to point around a torus... | 03/17/1987 |
| 4639348 | Recyclotron III, a recirculating plasma fusion system This is one of a series of nuclear fusion (vs. fission) inventions by this physicist-inventor. This invention is designed to burn the cleanest of all known fusion fuels: boron hydride (B-H, or p-11 B). Boron hydride has no free neutrons on eith... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4601871 | Steady state compact toroidal plasma production Apparatus and method for maintaining steady state compact toroidal plasmas. A compact toroidal plasma is formed by a magnetized coaxial plasma gun and held in close proximity to the gun electrodes by applied magnetic fields or magnetic fields produced by ... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4549082 | Synthetic plasma ion source An improved crossed-beam charge-exchange ion gun in which a synthetic plasma is formed by injecting an electron beam into a collimated molecular beam just before the molecules are ionized by charge exchange with a crossed primary ion beam, thereby forming... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4421713 | Tokamak plasma heating with intense, pulsed ion beams An intense, space-charge-neutralized, pulsed ion beam is used to heat a metically-confined plasma, such as a tokamak plasma, by injecting the ion beam into the plasma along a trajectory that is generally tangential to the confining magnetic field. The io... | 12/20/1983 |
| 4401618 | Particle-induced thermonuclear fusion A nuclear fusion process for igniting a nuclear fusion pellet in a manner similar to that proposed for laser beams uses, an array of pulsed high energy combined particle beams focused to bombard the pellet for isentropically compressing it to a Fermi-dege... | 08/30/1983 |
| 4354999 | Plasma confinement An Atomic Fusion Device wherein a laser beam is focused to the center of a spherical reaction chamber having a mirrored inner surface. The spherical reaction chamber is evacuated and surrounded by a concentric lithium jacket which is surrounded by a conce... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4314879 | Production of field-reversed mirror plasma with a coaxial plasma gun The use of a coaxial plasma gun to produce a plasma ring which is directed into a magnetic field so as to form a field-reversed plasma confined in a magnetic mirror. Plasma thus produced may be used as a target for subsequent neutral beam injection or oth... | 02/09/1982 |
| 4274919 | Systems for merging of toroidal plasmas Methods and apparatus for merging of tokamak plasmas, having applications including pseudo steady-state tokamak operation, refueling, impurity removal and plasma heating. In such systems, currents of two merging tokamak plasmas are provided in the same di... | 06/23/1981 |
| 4209703 | Source for plasma of large transverse section and constituting an ion accelerator A plasma source constituting an ion accelerator operating in the presence of an intense magnetic induction for obtaining plasma of large transverse section and comprising a chamber having an inlet for gas and a device to produce electrical discharge at hi... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4140943 | Plasma generating device with hairpin-shaped cathode filaments A device for generating a homogeneous ion-electron plasma from which a large ion beam can be extracted. The device utilizes hairpin-shaped filaments lining at least portions of the wall of the chamber which have been rotated 90 degrees from prior known ap... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4115191 | Tokamak plasma heating with intense, pulsed, ion beams An intense, space-charge-neutralized, pulsed ion beam is used to heat a magnetically-confined plasma, such as a tokamak plasma, by injecting the ion beam into the plasma along a trajectory that is generally perpendicular to the confining magnetic field. F... | 09/19/1978 |
| 4047068 | Synchronous plasma packet accelerator Charged particles are entrained on a straight or curved path by a traveling magnetic field moving along that path with its magnetic flux vector transverse thereto. The general direction of entrainment is the same for particles of either polarity. The init... | 09/06/1977 |
| 4023065 | Method and apparatus for generating and utilizing a compound plasma configuration A method and apparatus for generating and utilizing a compound plasma configuration is disclosed. The plasma configuration includes a central toroidal plasma with electrical currents surrounded by a generally ellipsoidal mantle of ionized particles or ele... | 05/10/1977 |
| 4010396 | Direct acting plasma accelerator Charged particles are entrained on a straight or curved path by a traveling magnetic field moving along that path with its magnetic flux vector transverse thereto. The general direction of entrainment is the same for particles of either polarity. The init... | 03/01/1977 |
| 3980916 | Beam limiter for thermonuclear fusion devices A beam limiter circumscribes the interior surface of a vacuum vessel to inhibit collisions of contained plasma and the vessel walls. The cross section of the material making up the limiter has a flatsided or slightly concave portion of increased width tow... | 09/14/1976 |
