Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
376144000 | Plasma formed between spaced electrodes | 11 |
20110007860 | Method and apparatus for reduction of neutron flux and or neutron containment, to facilitate nuclear-fusion - A method and several embodiments of an apparatus for increasing reliability in IEC devices through ionization of a gas while imparting a non-radial momentum thereupon. Said non-radial momentum producing collisions between ionized particles and free neutrons generated from a point of nuclear fusion. Collisions are reduced between neutrons and apparatuses effecting temperatures in the vicinity of said point of nuclear fusion. | 01-13-2011 |
20120008728 | Resonant Vacuum Arc Discharge Apparatus for Nuclear Fusion - The present invention relates to a resonant vacuum arc discharge apparatus for producing nuclear fusion. A resonant high-frequency high-voltage alternating current (AC) power supply is used to efficiently power a fusion tube normally containing deuterium, tritium and/or helium-3 vapor. Metals that can hold large amounts of hydrogen isotopes such as palladium and titanium can be used to increase the target density. The nuclear fusion device can be used for energy production, well logging, uranium mining, neutron activation analysis, isotope production or other applications that require a neutron source. | 01-12-2012 |
20130188763 | METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR NUCLEAR TRANSFORMATION - Nuclear transformation method and apparatus can produce thermal energy and hydrogen with a simple structure. A reaction cell, made of metal material like iron, from which oxygen is discharged is heated by a heater at a temperature above 500° C. Water is supplied into the reaction cell to be changed into steam which reacts on the inner wall of the reaction cell to produce hydrogen and thermal energy through a nuclear transformation. In the case that a reaction agent (NaOH, K | 07-25-2013 |
20150380114 | METHOD AND APPARATUS OF CONFINING HIGH ENERGY CHARGED PARTICLES IN MAGNETIC CUSP CONFIGURATION - An apparatus and method for generating nuclear fusion reactions using a plasma initiator, and electron injector and a magnetic coil cusp confinement arrangement. The plasma initiator produces the high beta plasma inside the reaction chamber for electron confinement in the magnetic cusp arrangement. The electron injector produces a plasma potential well within the reaction chamber to confine ions and accelerates ions to fusion relevant energies within the reaction chamber. | 12-31-2015 |
20160042814 | RF CURRENT DRIVE FOR PLASMA ELECTRIC GENERATION SYSTEM - 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 electrostatically confined in a deep energy well, created by tuning an externally applied magnetic field. In this configuration, ions and electrons may have adequate density and temperature so that upon collisions ions are fused together by the nuclear force, thus forming fusion products that emerge in the form of an annular beam. Energy is removed from the fusion product ions as they spiral past electrodes of an inverse cyclotron converter. Advantageously, the fusion fuel plasmas that can be used with the present confinement and energy conversion system include advanced (aneutronic) fuels. | 02-11-2016 |
20160071621 | Planar Geomertry Inertial Electrostatic confinement Fusion Device - The systems and methods described herein relate to the use of electrostatic elements to confine and circulate ions in trapped orbits so as to facilitate ion-ion and ion-neutral collisions resulting in nuclear fusion reactions. The systems employ a disc shaped cloud of ions wherein the turning region for the recirculating ions are located in a circular space around the periphery of the disc-shaped ion cloud, thereby maximizing the turning space region to increase the number of ions trapped in the device compared to discrete beam devices, which in turn enables higher fusion yield compared to prior art devices. | 03-10-2016 |
20160155518 | REACTANT, HEATING DEVICE, AND HEATING METHOD | 06-02-2016 |
20160180970 | Device for Creating and Controlling Plasma | 06-23-2016 |
376145000 | Plasma focus | 3 |
20090122941 | Device for Producing an Atmospheric Pressure Plasma - The invention relates inter alia to a device ( | 05-14-2009 |
20130188764 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING ELECTRON SPIRAL TOROIDS - A spheromak is a plasma of ions and electrons formed into a toroidal shape. A spheromak plasma can include electrons and ions of nearly equal amounts such that it is essentially charge neutral. It contains large internal electrical currents and their associated internal magnetic fields arranged so that the forces within the spheromak are nearly balanced. The spheromak described herein is observed to form around an electric arc in partial atmosphere, and is observed to be self-stable with no external magnetic containment. | 07-25-2013 |
20130235964 | ANEUTRONIC MAGNETRON ENERGY GENERATOR - An aneutronic magnetron energy generator that generates microwave energy from a fusion-fission reaction that produces alpha particles in response to a proton colliding with an | 09-12-2013 |