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公开(公告)号：US20160361729A1
公开(公告)日：2016-12-15
申请号：US15247740
申请日：2016-08-25
Applicant: General Fusion Inc.
Inventor： Victoria Suponitsky , Sandra Justine Barsky , J. Michel G. Laberge , Douglas Harvey Richardson , Peter Leszek Kostka
CPC classification number: B05B1/26 , F15D1/0005 , F15D1/08 , F17D1/00 , G21B3/008 , H05H1/24 , H05H2277/13 , Y10T137/0318 , Y10T137/86163
Abstract: Examples of a jet control device are described. The jet control device can comprise a jet deflecting member that is configured to intercept and/or collide with a high speed jet emerging from a jet formation location. The interaction of the jet deflecting member and the jet can cause the high speed jet to be dispersed into a plurality of jets with a number of flow directions which may be sideways to an initial direction of the high speed jet. In one embodiment the deflecting member can include a liquid guide formed by injecting a fluid out of an outlet nozzle so that the liquid guide extends longitudinally away from the outlet nozzle. In another embodiment the deflecting member can include an array of solid pellets injected through an outlet in a direction of the emerging high speed jet and configured to collide with the emerging jet thereby deflecting its initial direction.
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32.发明申请PRESSURE WAVE GENERATOR WITH MOVABLE CONTROL ROD FOR GENERATING A PRESSURE WAVE IN A MEDIUM 有权压力波发生器，具有用于在介质中产生压力波的可变控制杆公开(公告)号：US20150152899A1
公开(公告)日：2015-06-04
申请号：US14532793
申请日：2014-11-04
Applicant: General Fusion Inc.
Inventor： Lon McIlwraith , John Senger , Darcy Montgomery , Douglas H. Richardson , Peter Kostka , Kristin Bell , Ryan Zindler , Michel Georges Laberge
IPC: F15B21/12
CPC classification number: F15B21/12 , F03G7/002 , F15B15/1447 , F15B15/148 , G10K15/04 , G10K15/043
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 movable piston with a guide through which a piston control rod can move or slide. The pressure wave generator can include a transducer coupled to a medium. During an impact of the piston on the transducer, the control rod can slide in the guide, which can reduce stress on the rod. The pressure wave generator can include a damper to decelerate the control rod, independently of the piston. Impact of the piston on the transducer transfers a portion of the piston's kinetic energy into the medium thereby generating pressure waves in the medium. A piston driving system may be used to provide precise and controlled launching or movement of the piston. Examples of methods of operating the pressure wave generator are disclosed.
Abstract translation: 公开了在介质中产生高能压波的压力波发生器的实例。 压力波发生器可以包括具有引导件的活动活塞，活塞控制杆可以通过引导件移动或滑动。 压力波发生器可以包括耦合到介质的换能器。 在活塞对换能器的冲击时，控制杆可以在导向件中滑动，这可以减少杆上的应力。 压力波发生器可以包括阻尼器，以便与活塞无关地减速控制杆。 活塞对换能器的影响将活塞的一部分动能传递到介质中，从而在介质中产生压力波。 可以使用活塞驱动系统来提供活塞的精确和受控的发射或运动。 公开了操作压力波发生器的方法的实例。
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公开(公告)号：US20240062919A1
公开(公告)日：2024-02-22
申请号：US18260700
申请日：2021-12-16
Applicant: GENERAL FUSION INC.
Inventor： Joerg ZIMMERMANN , Robert BOUCHAL , William Randolph SMITH, II
Abstract: A plasma compression system comprises a plasma containment vessel, an annular rotating core inside the vessel, and a plurality of compression drivers fixedly mounted to an outer surface of the vessel wall. The annular rotating core contains a liquid medium and is rotatable to circulate the liquid medium and form a liquid liner with a cavity. The rotating core comprises an outer surface spaced from an inner surface of the vessel wall to define an annular gap, and a plurality of implosion drivers each comprising a pusher bore with a pusher piston slideable therein. Each pusher bore extends through the rotating core. The plurality of compression drivers compresses a compression fluid in the annular gap and creates a pressure pulse, such that when the rotating core rotates and the liquid medium fills the pusher bores, the pusher pistons are operable to push the liquid medium inwards to collapse the liquid liner and compress a plasma in the cavity.
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公开(公告)号：US20240062918A1
公开(公告)日：2024-02-22
申请号：US18259249
申请日：2021-12-16
Applicant: GENERAL FUSION INC.
Inventor： Michel Georges LABERGE , David Franklin PLANT , Raphael SEGAS , William Randolph SMITH, II
Abstract: A control system manipulates one or more of the shape, timing, and magnitude of a pressure pulse (“plasma pulse trajectory”) generated by a plasma compression system to implode a liquid liner surrounding a cavity containing plasma, thereby compressing the plasma. The liquid liner and cavity are created by rotating a liquid medium in a vessel. Compression drivers extend perpendicularly around the liquid medium's rotational axis. Multiple layers of compression drivers are stacked in an axial direction parallel to the rotational axis to form multiple pressure zones extending along the rotational axis. The control system separately controls each pressure zone, or groups of pressure zones, to generate individual pressure pulses each having a different pressure pulse trajectory in each pressure zone. The multiple individual pressure pulses collectively form a combined pressure pulse having a pressure pulse trajectory that varies along the rotational axis.
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公开(公告)号：US20230003205A1
公开(公告)日：2023-01-05
申请号：US17756405
申请日：2020-12-02
Applicant: GENERAL FUSION INC.
Inventor： James Hastings Wilkie , Joerg Zimmermann , Martin Clifford Wight , Cody John Pavel Esau , Ivan Victorovich Khalzov
Abstract: A plasma compression driver is connected to a plasma containment vessel containing a liquid medium that forms a liquid liner containing plasma, and comprises a pair of coaxially aligned pistons that are sequentially driven towards the liquid liner. A pusher bore containing a pusher piston is coaxial with and has a smaller diameter than a driver bore containing a driver piston such that an interconnecting annular face surface is defined at the junction of the driver and pusher bores. During the compression operation, a prime mover accelerates the driver piston towards the pusher piston and compresses a compression fluid, which accelerates the pusher piston and pushes the liquid medium in the pusher bore into the vessel, causing the liquid liner to collapse, and compressing the plasma. Outward forces on the vessel wall caused by compression driver recoil and increased vessel pressure is counteracted by an inward force applied by the compression fluid on the annular face surface during the compression operation.
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公开(公告)号：US10798808B2
公开(公告)日：2020-10-06
申请号：US16634127
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
Abstract: Examples of systems for forming cavity and a liquid liner are described. The system comprises a vessel and a rotating member positioned within the vessel and rotatable about an axis of rotation. The rotating member has an inner surface 5 curved with respect to the axis of rotation, an outer and plurality of fluid passages that each has an inboard opening at the inner surface and an outboard opening at the outer surface. The rotating member is filled with a liquid medium and a rotational driver rotates the rotating member such that when rotating the liquid medium at least partially fills the fluid passages forming liquid liner, defining the 10 cavity. The cavity formation system is used in a liquid liner implosion system with an implosion driver that causes the liquid liner to implode inwardly collapsing the cavity. The imploding liquid liner system can be used in plasma compression systems.
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公开(公告)号：US20190139650A1
公开(公告)日：2019-05-09
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：US10115486B2
公开(公告)日：2018-10-30
申请号：US15556181
申请日：2016-03-03
Applicant: General Fusion Inc.
Abstract: Examples of a modular compression chamber for use in a compression system are disclosed. The modular compression chamber comprises a plurality of individual modules and a plurality of fasteners to attach the plurality of modules in an interlocking fashion to form the chamber. The modules have a pre-determined geometry and size to form a compression chamber with a desired geometry and size. The plurality of fasteners keeps each of the individual modules in compression with neighboring modules so that the formed chamber maintains its integrity during operation. The modules can comprise a plurality of pressure wave generators to generate a pressure wave within the chamber. In one embodiment, the pressure wave generators have a pre-determined geometry and size and are configured to interlock with the neighboring generators forming the individual modules. The fasteners are configured to maintain intimate contact between side walls of the adjacent pressure wave generators.
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公开(公告)号：US10092914B2
公开(公告)日：2018-10-09
申请号：US15247740
申请日：2016-08-25
Applicant: General Fusion Inc.
Inventor： Victoria Suponitsky , Sandra Justine Barsky , J. Michel G. Laberge , Douglas Harvey Richardson , Peter Leszek Kostka
Abstract: Examples of a jet control device are described. The jet control device can comprise a jet deflecting member that is configured to intercept and/or collide with a high speed jet emerging from a jet formation location. The interaction of the jet deflecting member and the jet can cause the high speed jet to be dispersed into a plurality of jets with a number of flow directions which may be sideways to an initial direction of the high speed jet. In one embodiment the deflecting member can include a liquid guide formed by injecting a fluid out of an outlet nozzle so that the liquid guide extends longitudinally away from the outlet nozzle. In another embodiment the deflecting member can include an array of solid pellets injected through an outlet in a direction of the emerging high speed jet and configured to collide with the emerging jet thereby deflecting its initial direction.
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公开(公告)号：US20170333806A1
公开(公告)日：2017-11-23
申请号：US15522460
申请日：2015-11-02
Applicant: General Fusion Inc.
Inventor： Alexander Douglas Mossman , David Franklin Plant
CPC classification number: B01D1/0017 , B01D1/0082 , B01J3/03 , C23C14/06 , C23C14/14 , C23C14/24 , C23C14/243
Abstract: Examples of a device for gettering and surface conditioning are disclosed. The device comprises an elongated tube with a closed first end, a second end and a body extending between the first end and the second end. The body defines an inner cavity of the tube in which a heating device is inserted. The tube is inserted into a vessel so that the first end is positioned within the vessel. A solid metal is mounted closely to the tube in a region surrounding the heating device and a meshed screen is mounted over the solid metal and secured to the tube. When the heating device is on, the heat transfers through the tube's wall into the solid metal melting and vaporizing it, so that the metal vapors travel and coat onto vessel's surfaces. The device can also be used in producing metal alloys such as lead lithium alloys.
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