公开(公告)号：US20200245445A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-30

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

IPC: H05H1/24

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.

公开(公告)号：US20210217536A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-15

申请号：US17056716

申请日：2018-02-28

Applicant: GENERAL FUSION INC.

Inventor： Michel Georges LABERGE ,  Kelly Bernard EPP ,  Blake Kenton RABLAH ,  Meritt Wayne REYNOLDS ,  Alexander Douglas MOSSMAN ,  Stephen James HOWARD

IPC: G21B1/21 ,  G21B1/05 ,  H05H1/04

Abstract: A system for generating magnetized plasma and sustaining plasma's magnetic field comprises a plasma generator for generating magnetized plasma and a flux conserver in which the generated magnetized plasma is injected and confined. A central conductor comprises an upper central conductor and a lower central conductor that are electrically connected forming a single integrated conductor. The upper central conductor and an outer electrode form an annular plasma propagating channel. The lower central conductor extends out of the plasma generator and into the flux conserver such that an end of the inner electrode is electrically connected to a wall of the flux conserver. A power system provides a formation current pulse and a sustainment current pulse to the central conductor to form the magnetized plasma, inject such plasma into the flux conserver and sustain plasma's magnetic field.

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

IPC: C03C17/23 ,  H05H1/24 ,  H01B3/08 ,  H01B3/12

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.

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

IPC: G21B1/05 ,  G21B1/13 ,  G21B1/15 ,  G21B1/17

CPC classification number: G21B1/05 ,  G21B1/13 ,  G21B1/15 ,  G21B1/17

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.