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公开(公告)号:US11711884B2
公开(公告)日:2023-07-25
申请号:US17756405
申请日:2020-12-02
申请人: GENERAL FUSION INC.
发明人: James Hastings Wilkie , Joerg Zimmermann , Martin Clifford Wight , Cody John Pavel Esau , Ivan Victorovich Khalzov
CPC分类号: H05H1/24 , F04B35/00 , F04B37/18 , F04B39/0011 , F04B53/14 , F04B53/162 , H05H1/50 , H05H2245/20
摘要: 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:US11064601B2
公开(公告)日:2021-07-13
申请号:US16634129
申请日:2018-04-16
申请人: GENERAL FUSION INC.
发明人: Joerg Zimmermann , David Franklin Plant , Robert Vlastimil Bouchal , Troy Nickolas Tyler , Victoria Suponitsky , Michael Harcourt Delage , Michel Georges Laberge , Malcolm Newton Williams
摘要: 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:US20230003205A1
公开(公告)日:2023-01-05
申请号:US17756405
申请日:2020-12-02
申请人: GENERAL FUSION INC.
发明人: James Hastings Wilkie , Joerg Zimmermann , Martin Clifford Wight , Cody John Pavel Esau , Ivan Victorovich Khalzov
摘要: 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
申请人: GENERAL FUSION INC.
发明人: Joerg Zimmermann , David Franklin Plant , Robert Vlastimil Bouchal , Troy Nickolas Tyler , Victoria Suponitsky , Michael Harcourt Delage , Michel Georges Laberge
摘要: 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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