| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 376107000 | Fusion reaction by plural colliding plasmas or particle beams | 22 |
| 20080205573 | Cellular, Electron Cooled Storage Ring System and Method for Fusion Power Generation - A cellular electron cooled storage ring system and method for achieving particle-fusion based energy, including a vacuum chamber to allow electron beam and ion beam merging and separation, cathodes to generate the electron beams, collectors to collect the electron beams, and magnetic field generation devices to guide the electrons and ions on their desired trajectories as well as contain neutralizing particles. By overlapping the electron and ion beams, thermal energy is transferred from the ion beams to the electron beams, which allows the invention to overcome particle losses due to resonances, scattering and heating of the ion beams. Advantageously, ions are accelerated to an energy that is near optimum for fusion reactions to occur, and uses electron energies that maintain this advantageous situation. Advantageously, the recirculation of ions that do not fuse or scatter at too large of an angle is allowed, giving such ions additional chances to participate in a desired fusion reaction. Advantageously, the invention allows for a continual addition of new ions to be added to the circulating ions already in the system. This combination of advantages results in a significant improvement in the predicted output power to input power ratio over previous particle fusion technologies. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080226011 | Plasma Centrifuge Heat Engine Beam Fusion Reactor - A system and apparatus for a magnetized plasma nuclear fusion reactor, incorporating special design features which induce a plasma heat engine cycle in a rapidly rotating plasma. The heat engine operates either continuously or by oscillations. A continuous heat engine is formed in the open field outside a field reversed configuration. The oscillatory system operates in synchronism with cyclic acceleration, collision, and deceleration of plasma masses to produce nuclear fusion reactions at an economically useful rate with a relatively small driving power required. A special magnetic field design is combined with applied electrical voltages at the end of the field lines to produce required conditions. Design features allow recovery of large fraction of collision heat which would otherwise be dissipated as a parasitic loss. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090052603 | Method of and Apparatus for Generating Recoilless Nonthermal Nuclear Fusion - A method of and apparatus for generating recoilless nonthermal nuclear fusion reaction, wherein deuterium ions accelerated by pulsed gas discharge plasma are implanted onto a surface of an electrode ( | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090135980 | Nuclear Fusion Conducted at Near Absolute Zero Temperatures - A method for producing nuclear fusion in a fusion chamber, comprising the steps of: (a) Obtaining cooled high velocity nuclear particles; (b) Causing said particles to impact a target, and (c) Harvesting the energy thereby released. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090135981 | Method for transforming element and producing energy - To provide a reliable method for producing energy by means of nuclear condensation. | 05-28-2009 |
| 20090213975 | Method and Apparatus for Heat Production - A method and apparatus for producing heat is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of accelerating one or more first particle(s) to a first velocity; colliding the accelerated particles(s) with one or more second particles in a collision zone located within a housing causing the first particle(s) and second particle(s) to form one or more collision mass(es) comprising subatomic particles of the first and second particles; controlling the position of the collision mass(es) with electric or/and magnetic fields; and introducing one or more further particle(s) into the collision mass(es), the further particle(s) undergoing nuclear fusion with the one or more particles in the collision mass(es) producing fusion products and releasing heat. | 08-27-2009 |
| 20100104058 | Systems for Enhancing Preignition Conditions of Thermonuclear Fusion Reactions - Systems for enhancing preignition conditions of a fusion reaction are disclosed. A first system includes a target chamber for receiving a fusion fuel, and energy driving means oriented to direct plasma confinement structure onto to the fusion fuel to facilitate ignition of a controlled fusion reaction of said fusion fuel. A plurality of electron sources provides electron beams of a predetermined energy and one of fluence and quantity, directed onto and illuminating, a fusion fuel-derived plasma for controlling the ratio of ion temperature and electron temperature of the plasma. A second system comprises a central target chamber for receiving a spherical pellet of fusion target material and at least first and second pluralities of energy drivers oriented to supply temporally-staged X-ray pulses to the fusion target material in a 3-dimensionally symmetric manner about said pellet. A third system combines aspects of the first and second systems. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100284501 | Modular Apparatus for Confining a Plasma - An embodiment of a hardware module for confining a plasma of electrons and ions in a nuclear fusion energy generating device. In this embodiment, a complete energy generating device is composed of six identical modules, spaced close together in the shape of a cube. The modules confine the plasma inside a cubical enclosure, compress it to high density, and heat it to high temperature. The embodiment of the module is robust and easy to maintain. Other embodiments are described and shown. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100303188 | Interactions of Charged Particles on Surfaces for Fusion and Other Applications - A method of generating a chemical and nuclear reactions includes providing a surface formed between a first medium and a second medium, the first medium having a first dielectric constant, ∈, and the second medium having a second dielectric constant, ∈ | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110044416 | PROCESS OF CONTROLLED NUCLEAR FUSION - It comprises a process for controlled nuclear fusion of deuterium atoms that takes place inside a combustion chamber after the combustion of a gaseous fuel that comprises deuterium atoms in the presence of an oxidizing gas and a gaseous catalyst, under positive pressure. It also comprises a controlled nuclear fusion reactor for carrying out the process described, and also the internal combustion engine that comprises the controlled nuclear fusion reactor and a motorized vehicle that comprises said internal combustion engine. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110044417 | END OF EINSTEIN-BOHR AND MECHANISMS OF NUCLEAR FORCES: FACILITATED FUSION AND FISSION - The Physical Revolution (with End of Einstein-Bohr and PostEinstein-Bohr Physics) continues its numerous convergent confirmations. With general structure of neutron, proton and neutro, I resolved the very concrete mechanisms of “Strong” and “Weak” Nuclear Forces, which are, finally, similar, in basis, to mechanisms of Electromagnetic and Gravitational Forces, resolved by me earlier. Consequently, the use of rays (summary or individual) of particles, which are in origins of these Nuclear Forces, must provoke facilitated nuclear fusions and nuclear fissions, liberating colossal energies, never seen. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110158369 | Cellular, electron cooled storage ring system and method for fusion power generation - A cellular electron cooled storage ring system and method for achieving particle-fusion based energy, including a vacuum chamber to allow electron beam and ion beam merging and separation, cathodes to generate the electron beams, collectors to collect the electron beams, and magnetic field generation devices to guide the electrons and ions on their desired trajectories as well as contain neutralizing particles. By overlapping the electron and ion beams, thermal energy is transferred from the ion beams to the electron beams, which allows the invention to overcome particle losses due to resonances, scattering and heating of the ion beams. Advantageously, ions are accelerated to an energy that is near optimum for fusion reactions to occur, and uses electron energies that maintain this advantageous situation. Advantageously, the recirculation of ions that do not fuse or scatter at too large of an angle is allowed, giving such ions additional chances to participate in a desired fusion reaction. Advantageously, the invention allows for a continual addition of new ions to be added to the circulating ions already in the system. This combination of advantages results in a significant improvement in the predicted output power to input power ratio over previous particle fusion technologies. The invention will also enable improved yields of fast neutrons for materials testing. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110293056 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE GENERATION, HEATING AND/OR COMPRESSION OF PLASMOIDS AND/OR RECOVERY OF ENERGY THEREFROM - Method and apparatus for heating and/or compressing plasmas to thermonuclear temperatures and densities are provided. In one aspect, at least one of at least two plasmoids separated by a distance is accelerated towards the other. The plasmoids interact, for instance to form a resultant plasmoid, to convert a kinetic energy into a thermal energy. The resultant plasmoid is confined in a high energy density state using a magnetic field. One or more plasmoids may be compressed. Energy may be recovered, for example via a blanket and/or directly via one or more coils that create a magnetic field and/or circuits that control the coils. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20120033775 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INTERMEDIATE CONTROLLED FUSION PROCESSES - A method and apparatus for producing usable heat by fusion of two atoms within a vessel filled with a gas. The fusion is performed under pressure within an electric arc between two electrodes within the vessel. The electron clouds of the atoms are deformed into a toroidal shape by a magnetic field of the electric arc, thereby exposing the nuclei of both atoms. Upon such exposure, a trigger such as a sudden change in the arc or a sudden increase of pressure in the vessel forces the nuclei of the atoms to fuse, producing a new atom. Selection of the gas, the electrodes, as well as the operating power, pressure and flow through the arc results in the production of energy that is greater than the electric energy consumed by the arc. Heat produced by the fusion is used for the production of electricity or other commercial use. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120057666 | FUSION ENERGY PRODUCTION - Systems and methods are described for carrying out fusion reactions by changing the Coulombic energy barrier via Muon Catalyzed Fusion. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120069945 | INTERACTIONS OF CHARGED PARTICLES ON SURFACES FOR FUSION AND OTHER APPLICATIONS - A method of generating an energy release reaction including providing a surface or interface formed between a first medium and a second medium. Depositing a plurality of like-charged particles in the first medium adjacent to the surface wherein a potential binding energy between the plurality of like-charged particles and the repulsive force that exists between the like charged particles causes the particles to move until a state of equilibrium is reached. Wherein the movement of the particles over said surface generates dissipation energy. Further wherein the state of equilibrium results in a distance between at least two of the like-charged particles to be sufficiently small to result in reaction of the at least two like-charged particles. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120148003 | Systems for Enhancing Preignition Conditions of Thermonuclear Fusion Reactions - Systems for enhancing preignition conditions of a fusion reaction are disclosed. A first system includes a target chamber for receiving a fusion fuel, and energy driving means oriented to direct plasma confinement structure onto to the fusion fuel to facilitate ignition of a controlled fusion reaction of said fusion fuel. A plurality of electron sources provides electron beams of a predetermined energy and one of fluence and quantity, directed onto and illuminating, a fusion fuel-derived plasma for controlling the ratio of ion temperature and electron temperature of the plasma. A second system comprises a central target chamber for receiving a spherical pellet of fusion target material and at least first and second pluralities of energy drivers oriented to supply temporally-staged X-ray pulses to the fusion target material in a 3-dimensionally symmetric manner about said pellet. A third system combines aspects of the first and second systems. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120170700 | Nuclear Fusion - Our device realize nuclear (or proton) fusion in void thanks to 2 or more nuclear (or proton) beams. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20130148770 | METHOD FOR GENERATING NEUTRONS - The present invention relates, in particular, to a method for generating neutrons comprising at least the series of steps that consists of: a) placing at least one beam of electrons and at least one beam of nuclei selected from among protons, deuterons and tritons into a predefined spin state and/or an interference state; and b) causing said at least one beam of nuclei and said at least one beam of electrons to collide. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20150010123 | Electromagnetic Element Reactor - A method and device for production of helium and recoverable energy is provided. The system directs a first directionalized flow of a of a first streaming population of deuterium ions to an intersection with a second directionalized flow of a second streaming population of deuterium ions opposite the first stream. At or proximate to an intersection of the two streams helium and waste energy are produced and captured. | 01-08-2015 |
| 20150294743 | FUSION POWER BASED ON A SYMMETRICAL PLASMA BEAM CONFIGURATION - A thermonuclear reaction system for generating a thermonuclear fusion reaction includes a reaction chamber and a number of particle beam emitters. The reaction system has at least four particle beam emitters supported spatially around oriented toward a common focal region of the reaction chamber for directing at least four plasma beams that are spatially symmetrical in three dimensional space. Each of the plasma beams are directed towards a plasma region in the geometric center. A stable collapse of the plasma region permits a controllable and sufficiently long confinement time, which in combination with necessary temperature and density conditions may ignite and sustain fusion reactions and achieve a net energy output. Optionally, laser beams or other input energy devices may also be oriented around and toward the common focal region to direct high-energy laser beams at the plasma ball to assist with instigation of the fusion reaction. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20180025792 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE GENERATION, HEATING AND/OR COMPRESSION OF PLASMOIDS AND/OR RECOVERY OF ENERGY THEREFROM | 01-25-2018 |
