公开(公告)号：US20210319950A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-14

申请号：US17220032

申请日：2021-04-01

Applicant: GENERAL ATOMICS

Inventor： Carlos Paz-Soldan ,  Andrew Benson ,  Paul Beharrell ,  Daniel Mullins

IPC: H01F41/082 ,  H01F27/30 ,  H01F41/098

Abstract: An apparatus and method for winding electrical coils (electromagnets) is described. A self-propelled and self-referencing winding vehicle uses features on a winding bobbin to guide the direction and/or orientation of the vehicle, while laying electrical conductor material (e.g., high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tapes) as it traverses the bobbin. The vehicle may wind electrical coils with complex shapes. In some embodiments, the self-propelled, self-referencing (SPSR) vehicle may perform other magnet fabrication and assembly procedures.

公开(公告)号：US11106936B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-31

申请号：US16561403

申请日：2019-09-05

Applicant: General Atomics

Inventor： Zachary Bergen

IPC: G06K9/62 ,  G06K9/00

Abstract: Point clouds of objects are compared and matched using logical arrays based on the point clouds. The point clouds are azimuth aligned and translation aligned. The point clouds are converted into logical arrays for ease of processing. Then the logical arrays are compared (e.g. using the AND function and counting matches between the two logical arrays). The comparison is done at various quantization levels to determine which quantization level is likely to give the best object comparison result. Then the object comparison is made. More than two objects may be compared and the best match found.

公开(公告)号：US20210166825A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-03

申请号：US17153855

申请日：2021-01-20

Applicant: General Atomics

Inventor： Jonathan David Sheeder ,  Jiping Zhang ,  Christian Peter Deck ,  Hesham Ezzat Khalifa ,  Robert Warren Stemke ,  Brian Stephen Austin ,  Gokul Vasudevamurthy ,  Carlos Bacalski ,  Eric Song ,  Christina Allyssa Back

IPC: G21C3/07 ,  G21C3/10 ,  G21C21/02

Abstract: This patent document relates to systems, structures, devices, and fabrication processes for ceramic matrix composites suitable for use in a nuclear reactor environment and other applications requiring materials that can withstand high temperatures and/or highly corrosive environments. In one exemplary aspect, a method of joining and sealing ceramic structures is disclosed. The method comprises forming a joint of a ceramic structure and an end plug using a sealing material, wherein the end plug has a hole that goes through a top surface and a bottom surface of the end plug; filling the ceramic structure with a desired gas composition through the hole; heating a material into a molten form using a heat source; and directing the material into the hole, wherein the material solidifies to seal the end plug.

公开(公告)号：US10727774B2

公开(公告)日：2020-07-28

申请号：US15067448

申请日：2016-03-11

Applicant: General Atomics

Inventor： George Thomas Santamaria

IPC: H02P27/04 ,  H02P13/06 ,  H02M1/42 ,  H02P25/22 ,  H02P27/14 ,  H02P29/50 ,  H02M1/12

Abstract: A multi-level high-speed adjustable speed drive has a plurality of modular multilevel, 3-phase inverter bridges, wherein the multilevel, 3-phase inverter bridges operate with fundamental frequency, f, wherein the multilevel, 3-phase inverter bridges include at least three levels, wherein the multilevel, 3-phase inverter bridges operate in Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) mode with 9 to 21× or operating in Fundamental Frequency Mode (FFM), wherein inverter commutation frequency equals the fundamental frequency, wherein the multilevel, 3-phase inverters operate with split phase such that one group is displaced from the other by an angle, θ=60°/q, wherein the phase displacement of a harmonic component of order n between groups, θn is nθ/q; a high-speed polyphase motor with phases arranged in q 3-phase groups; and electromagnetic means for blocking selected groups of harmonics while passing components at fundamental frequency, f, wherein the electromagnetic means includes coils carrying motor current linked by a magnetic core, wherein the electromagnetic means is interposed between the plurality of modular multilevel, 3-phase inverter bridges and the high-speed polyphase motor.

公开(公告)号：US10688464B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-23

申请号：US15613616

申请日：2017-06-05

Applicant: General Atomics

Inventor： Glenn Thomas Hong ,  Kevin William Downey

IPC: C02F1/02 ,  C02F1/72 ,  C02F11/08 ,  B01J3/00 ,  B01J19/02 ,  C10G1/00 ,  C23F11/18 ,  C23F11/08 ,  C02F5/02 ,  C02F5/08 ,  C02F5/10 ,  C02F5/06

Abstract: The disclosed technology relates to methods of inhibiting corrosion in reaction chambers configured for hydrothermal reaction of feeds containing a heteroatom. An embodiment of such a method comprises providing a feed stream comprising a phosphorus-containing material, an alkali metal compound, water, and a corrosion-inhibitor. The embodiment additionally includes introducing the feed stream and oxidant into a reactor chamber and oxidizing the phosphorus-containing material at an oxidation temperature greater than about 374° C. and an oxidation pressure exceeding about 25 bar, wherein the reactor chamber has inner surfaces comprising a material that corrodes when in contact with a phosphorus compound within the reactor. The embodiment additionally includes selectively reacting the corrosion-inhibitor with phosphorus within the reactor, thereby precipitating in the reactor chamber a phosphorus-containing solid inorganic compound. The embodiment further includes forming in the reactor chamber an alkali salt melt and carrying away from the reactor chamber a mixture comprising the solid phosphorus-containing inorganic compound and the alkali salt melt.

公开(公告)号：US20190198182A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-27

申请号：US15851542

申请日：2017-12-21

Applicant: General Atomics

Inventor： Paul Brownlee Parks

IPC: G21B1/05

CPC classification number: G21B1/057 ,  G21Y2002/20 ,  G21Y2004/40

Abstract: Exemplary pellets can be used for magnetic fusion devices for mitigating plasma disruption. In some embodiments, the pellets may be cryogenically cooled that may cause a rise in the electrical conductivity of the pellets. A high conductivity of the pellet can screen out the plasma's magnetic field from the interior of the pellet. The screening out of the plasma's magnetic field can slow the ablation rate of the pellet which may allow for deeper pellet penetration and a better suited spatial profile of deposited material for proper mitigation of the plasma disruption. In some other embodiments, the pellets may not be cryogenically cooled.

公开(公告)号：US10123495B2

公开(公告)日：2018-11-13

申请号：US14596451

申请日：2015-01-14

Applicant: GENERAL ATOMICS

Inventor： David W. Ordway ,  David A. Hazlebeck

IPC: C12M1/04 ,  A01G33/00 ,  B01D53/14 ,  C12M1/34 ,  C12M1/00 ,  C12M1/36

Abstract: A system and method for creating a useful carbon-enriched media in a reactor which will assimilate carbon into an algae biomass, requires measuring a respective carbon concentration of the media, C(measured), as it enters, and as it leaves the reactor. Operationally, desired carbon concentration values are preset, C(set), and are provided along with values obtained for C(measured) as input to a system controller. Respective differentials between C(measured) and C(set) at the reactor's input and output ports are determined by the controller and are used to control a volumetric fluid flow rate of the media through the reactor. Specifically, the controller establishes a volumetric fluid flow rate of the media as it is passed through an absorber where the media is carbon-enriched by interaction with combustion gases from an external source (e.g. a power plant).

公开(公告)号：US20170334002A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-23

申请号：US15158219

申请日：2016-05-18

Applicant: General Atomics

Inventor： Michelangelo DiMartino ,  Charles P. Moeller

IPC: B23C3/02 ,  H01P3/12 ,  B23C3/34 ,  B23C3/28

CPC classification number: B23C3/02 ,  B23C3/28 ,  B23C3/34 ,  B23C5/14 ,  B23C2210/088 ,  B23C2220/36 ,  B23C2220/40 ,  B23C2250/12 ,  B23C2265/12 ,  H01P3/12 ,  H01P3/123 ,  H01P3/127 ,  H01P11/002

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting annular corrugations in an interior surface of a cylindrical tube having a cutter head comprising a plurality of cutting teeth; a drive shaft coupled to the cutter head for spinning the cutter head; a mandrel coupled to the cutter head, wherein the mandrel defines a longitudinal axis, wherein an axis of rotation of the cutter head is parallel to, but in a position not coaxial with the axis of rotation of the cutter head; an outer eccentric coupled to mandrel, wherein the outer eccentric rotates the mandrel, wherein the axis of rotation orbits around the longitudinal axis.

公开(公告)号：US20170271934A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-21

申请号：US15070833

申请日：2016-03-15

Applicant: GENERAL ATOMICS

Inventor： William P. Creedon ,  George T. Santamaria ,  John Charles Hirschy Wick

IPC: H02K1/28 ,  H02K9/04 ,  H02K15/03 ,  H02K1/27

CPC classification number: H02K1/28 ,  H02K1/274 ,  H02K1/278 ,  H02K9/04 ,  H02K15/03

Abstract: Some embodiments provided rotor assemblies, comprising: a rotor core barrel comprising a wall extending, and at least two compression bridges each formed in the wall proximate one of the lateral ends and separated by a distance; an array of a plurality of magnets positioned on and spaced along the wall between the compression bridges and about a circumference of the rotor core barrel; and one or more pre-stress wraps wrapped over the plurality of magnets and about the rotor core barrel along at least a portion of a length of the rotor core barrel between the compression bridges, wherein the compression bridges enable radial compression deflection, induced by radial compression of the rotor core barrel by the one or more pre-stress wraps, of the wall of the rotor core barrel at the compression bridges relative to the wall of the rotor core barrel proximate the lateral ends.

公开(公告)号：US09722236B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-01

申请号：US13843489

申请日：2013-03-15

Applicant: General Atomics

Inventor： Aaron J. Sathrum

IPC: H02J7/00 ,  H01M2/34 ,  H01M10/06 ,  H01M10/44 ,  H01M10/46

CPC classification number: H01M2/342 ,  H01M10/06 ,  H01M10/44 ,  H01M10/46 ,  H02J7/0068 ,  Y02E60/126

Abstract: Some embodiments provide energy storage systems that comprise: a first electrode; a second electrode; an electrolyte; the first electrode, the second electrode and the electrolyte are positioned such that the electrolyte is in contact with at least the first electrode; and a polarity reversal system electrically coupled with the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the polarity reversal system is configured to allow the energy storage system to operate while a first polarity to charge and discharge electrical energy while operating in the first polarity, and the polarity reversal system is configured to reverse the voltage polarity across the first and second electrodes to a second polarity to allow the energy storage system to continue to operate while the second polarity is established across the first electrode and the second electrode to continue to charge and discharge electrical energy while operating in the second polarity.