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公开(公告)号:US11064601B2
公开(公告)日:2021-07-13
申请号:US16634129
申请日:2018-04-16
Applicant: GENERAL FUSION INC.
Inventor: Joerg Zimmermann , David Franklin Plant , Robert Vlastimil Bouchal , Troy Nickolas Tyler , Victoria Suponitsky , Michael Harcourt Delage , Michel Georges Laberge , Malcolm Newton Williams
Abstract: Examples of systems for imploding liquid liner are described. The imploding system comprises a vessel and a rotating member positioned within the vessel. The rotating member has a plurality of shaped blades that form a plurality of curved passages that have an inboard opening at an inner surface and an outboard end at an outer surface. The rotating member is at least partially filled with liquid medium. A driver is used to rotate the rotating member such that when the rotating member rotates the liquid medium is forced into the passages forming a liquid liner with an interface curved with respect to an axis of rotation and defining a cavity. The system further comprises an implosion driver that changes the rotational speed of the rotating member such that the liquid liner is imploded inwardly collapsing the cavity. The imploding liquid liner can be used in plasma compression systems.
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公开(公告)号:US10984917B2
公开(公告)日:2021-04-20
申请号:US15872585
申请日:2018-01-16
Applicant: General Fusion Inc.
Inventor: Michel Georges Laberge , Douglas H. Richardson
Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for compressing plasma are described in which plasma pressures above the breaking point of solid material can be achieved by injecting a plasma into a funnel of liquid metal in which the plasma is compressed and/or heated.
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公开(公告)号:US10811144B2
公开(公告)日:2020-10-20
申请号:US15804865
申请日:2017-11-06
Applicant: General Fusion Inc.
Inventor: Michel Georges Laberge , Meritt Wayne Reynolds , Alexander Douglas Mossman , Stephen James Howard , Blake Kenton Rablah , Peter Joseph Larkin O'Shea , Donald James Froese , Charles Beaufort Eyrich
Abstract: Examples of a system for generating and compressing magnetized plasma are disclosed. The system comprises a plasma generator with a first closed end and an outlet, and a flux conserving chamber that is in tight fluid communication with the outlet of the plasma generator such that the generated plasma is injected into an inner cavity of the flux conserving chamber. An elongated central axial shaft is also provided such that the central shaft extends through the outlet of the plasma generator into the flux conserver. The end of the central shaft in connected to the flux conserver. A power source that comprises a formation power circuit and a shaft power circuit is provided to provide a formation power pulse to the plasma generator to generate magnetized plasma, and a shaft power pulse to the central axial shaft to generate a toroidal magnetic field into the plasma generator and the flux conserving chamber. The duration of the shaft power pulse is longer than the duration of the formation power pulse to maintain plasma q-profile at a pre-determined range. During plasma compression the shaft power pulse is increased to match the raise of the plasma poloidal field due to the compression and thus maintain the q-profile of the plasma.
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公开(公告)号:US20200236770A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-23
申请号:US16634129
申请日:2018-04-16
Applicant: GENERAL FUSION INC.
Inventor: Joerg ZIMMERMANN , David Franklin PLANT , Robert Vlastimil BOUCHAL , Troy Nikolas TYLER , Victoria SUPONITSKY , Michael Harcourt DELAGE , MIchel Georges LABERGE , Malcom Newton WILLIAMS
Abstract: Examples of systems for imploding liquid liner are described. The imploding system comprises a vessel and a rotating member positioned within the vessel. The rotating member has a plurality of shaped blades that form a plurality of curved passages that have an inboard opening at an inner surface and an outboard end at an outer surface. The rotating member is at least partially filled with liquid medium. A driver is used to rotate the rotating member such that when the rotating member rotates the liquid medium is forced into the passages forming a liquid liner with an interface curved with respect to an axis of rotation and defining a cavity. The system further comprises an implosion driver that changes the rotational speed of the rotating member such that the liquid liner is imploded inwardly collapsing the cavity. The imploding liquid liner can be used in plasma compression systems.
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公开(公告)号:US20200231492A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-23
申请号:US16634115
申请日:2018-05-22
Applicant: GENERAL FUSION INC.
Inventor: Kelly Bernard EPP , Michel Georges LABERGE
Abstract: Examples of a high voltage insulator are described. The high-voltage insulator is vacuum compatible and comprises a glass substrate having a face surface and a ceramic layer with uniform thickness coated on the face surface of 5 the glass substrate. The coated surface of the insulator is able to withstand high voltage pulses and exposure to charged particles radiation for a pre-determined time period. The ceramic coated glass insulator is made of a single piece of glass and can be made to large sizes.
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公开(公告)号:US10391520B2
公开(公告)日:2019-08-27
申请号:US15211476
申请日:2016-07-15
Applicant: General Fusion Inc.
Inventor: Lon William McIlwraith , Michel G Laberge
Abstract: Examples of a pressure wave generator configured to generate high energy pressure waves in a medium are disclosed. The pressure wave generator can include a sabot carrying a piston. The sabot can further comprise a locking means to lock the piston in a fixed position when the locking means are activated. When the locking means are in a deactivated position, the piston can be released and can move at least partially away from the sabot. The sabot carrying the piston can be disposed within an inner bore of a housing of the pressure wave generator and can move within the inner bore of the housing from its first end toward its second end along a longitudinal axis of the bore. A transducer can be accommodated in the second end of the housing. The transducer can be coupled to the medium and can convert a portion of the kinetic energy of the piston into a pressure wave in the medium upon impact of the piston with the transducer. The sabot carrying the piston can be accelerated by applying a motive force to the sabot. Once accelerated within the inner bore of the housing the sabot can be decelerated by applying a restraining force to the sabot while the piston can be released at least partially from the sabot to continue to move toward the transducer until it impacts the transducer. Examples of methods of operating the pressure wave generator are disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US20180286522A1
公开(公告)日:2018-10-04
申请号:US15545646
申请日:2016-01-14
Applicant: General Fusion Inc.
Inventor: Michel Georges Laberge , David Franklin Plant , Victoria Suponitsky , Eunice Kuatsjah
Abstract: Examples of system for generating vortex cavity are disclosed. The system comprises a vessel into which a fluid is injected through one or more inlet ports and a fluid circulating system configured to circulate the fluid through the vessel such that the fluid is removed from the vessel through an outlet port and is returned back into the vessel through the one and more inlet ports. A first spinner is mounted at one wall of the vessel while a second spinner is mounted at the opposite wall of the vessel such that the second spinner is at some distance away from the first spinner and it faces the first spinner. When the fluid circulating system starts circulating the fluid within the vessel a vortex cavity is formed that extends between the first and the second spinners so that one end of the vortex cavity sits on the first spinner while the opposite end of the vortex cavity sits on the second spinner.
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公开(公告)号:US20180190390A1
公开(公告)日:2018-07-05
申请号:US15872585
申请日:2018-01-16
Applicant: General Fusion Inc.
Inventor: Michel Georges Laberge , Douglas H. Richardson
Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods for compressing plasma are described in which plasma pressures above the breaking point of solid material can be achieved by injecting a plasma into a funnel of liquid metal in which the plasma is compressed and/or heated.
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公开(公告)号:US09967963B2
公开(公告)日:2018-05-08
申请号:US15502902
申请日:2015-08-18
Applicant: General Fusion Inc.
Inventor: Ryan Walter Zindler , Jonathan Damian Fraser
IPC: H05H1/04 , H05H1/00 , G01R19/00 , G01R33/028
CPC classification number: H05H1/04 , G01R19/0061 , G01R33/028 , G21B1/057 , G21B1/21 , H05H1/0087 , Y02E30/128
Abstract: Examples of a system for generating and confining a compact toroid are disclosed. The system comprises a plasma generator for generating magnetized plasma, a flux conserver for receiving the compact toroid, a power source for providing current pulse and a controller for actively controlling a current profile of the pulse to keep plasma's q-profile within pre-determined range. Examples of methods of controlling a magnetic lifetime of a magnetized plasma by controlling a current profile of the current pulse are disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US20170303380A1
公开(公告)日:2017-10-19
申请号:US15502902
申请日:2015-08-18
Applicant: General Fusion Inc.
Inventor: Ryan Walter Zindler , Jonathan Damian Fraser
IPC: H05H1/04 , G01R19/00 , G01R33/028 , H05H1/00
CPC classification number: H05H1/04 , G01R19/0061 , G01R33/028 , G21B1/057 , G21B1/21 , H05H1/0087 , Y02E30/128
Abstract: Examples of a system for generating and confining a compact toroid are disclosed. The system comprises a plasma generator for generating magnetized plasma, a flux conserver for receiving the compact toroid, a power source for providing current pulse and a controller for actively controlling a current profile of the pulse to keep plasma's q-profile within pre-determined range. Examples of methods of controlling a magnetic lifetime of a magnetized plasma by controlling a current profile of the current pulse are disclosed.
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