# US 11,310,900 B2 · Pulse laser-driven plasma capacitor > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,310,900 B2 - Document ID: US11310900B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/132,084 - Filed: 2018-09-14 - Published: 2019-04-25 - Granted: 2022-04-19 - Earliest claimed: 2016-04-27 - Applicants: Anthony Calomeris - Inventors: Anthony Calomeris - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11310900B2 ## CPC - F04B 53/10: Valves; Arrangement of valves - H05H 1/2406: {using dielectric barrier discharges, i.e. with a dielectric interposed between the electrodes} - F04B 19/24: Pumping by heat expansion of pumped fluid - F04F 7/00: Pumps displacing fluids by using inertia thereof, e.g. by generating vibrations therein - H01B 3/00: Insulators or insulating bodies characterised by the insulating materials; Selection of materials for their insulating or dielectric properties - H01G 4/018: Dielectrics - H02J 7/345: {using capacitors as storage or buffering devices} - H02J 2207/40: adapted for charging from various sources, e.g. AC, DC or multivoltage - H02J 2207/50: Charging of capacitors, supercapacitors, ultra-capacitors or double layer capacitors - F04B: POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS (machines for liquids, or pumps, of rotary-piston or oscillating-piston type F04C; non-positive-displacement pumps F04D; pumping of fluid by direct contact of another fluid or by using inertia of fluid to be pumped F04F) - H05H: PLASMA TECHNIQUE (apparatus or processes specially adapted for producing X-rays H05G2/00); PRODUCTION OF ACCELERATED ELECTRICALLY-CHARGED PARTICLES OR OF NEUTRONS; PRODUCTION OR ACCELERATION OF NEUTRAL MOLECULAR OR ATOMIC BEAMS - F04F: PUMPING OF FLUID BY DIRECT CONTACT OF ANOTHER FLUID OR BY USING INERTIA OF FLUID TO BE PUMPED {(evacuating by sorption F04B)}; SIPHONS {(conveying materials in bulk by flows of gas, liquid of foam B65G53/00)} - H01B: CABLES; CONDUCTORS; INSULATORS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING OR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES (selection for magnetic properties H01F1/00; waveguides H01P {; printed circuits H05K}) - H01G: CAPACITORS; CAPACITORS, RECTIFIERS, DETECTORS, SWITCHING DEVICES, LIGHT-SENSITIVE OR TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE DEVICES OF THE ELECTROLYTIC TYPE (selection of specified materials as dielectric H01B3/00; capacitors having potential barriers H10D1/62, H10K10/10) - H02J: ELECTRIC POWER NETWORKS; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY ## Abstract Systems and method of electrical power generation. The system and method controls the timescale of electron dynamics and makes use of avalanche ionization, electrodynamic flows, magnetic fields, polarization, radiation emissions, shock wave front, impulse pressure, and heat transfer, created by plasma generated by exposing a fluid to an ultrashort wavelength laser pulse from a femtosecond laser, a nanosecond laser combined with a femtosecond laser, or a typical laser enhanced by a discharge barrier, and the fluid guided by a shock reflecting tube, electro-laser wave guide, plasma discharge gap or check valves that create vortexes to resist backflow, through a capacitor. The fluid and plasma being accumulated and recombined in a storage chamber in a compressed state, or recycled for cyclical power generation. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A plasma capacitor system comprising: a capacitor comprising one or more sets of layers comprising: at least one first component layer made of an insulator, at least one second layer made of a conductor; a structural support: the capacitor is disposed around a center axis; a first lead connected to the at least one second layer, a second lead in electrical communication with the one or more sets, the first lead in electrical communication with a terminal of a first high voltage power supply via a first photosensitive switch, the second lead in electrical communication with a ground; the first lead also in electrical communication with a load via a second photosensitive switch; the second lead also in electrical communication with the load; and, a first laser pulse controller optically communicating through optical fibers to a splitter, an electro optic trigger delay controller, the first photosensitive switch, the second photosensitive switch, and an optical filter aligned with the center axis. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The system of claim 1, wherein the insulator may be a dielectric, semi-conductor, or ambient gas and the conductor may be formed as a solid plate or a wire mesh. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The system of claim 2, wherein the first laser pulse controller is capable of emitting an ultrashort femtosecond laser pulse. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The system of claim 3, further comprising a shock reflecting tube aligned with the center axis, surrounded by and in physical contact with the capacitor. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The system of claim 4, wherein the shock reflecting tube comprises a glass or dielectric cylinder with an inner diameter axial bore extending a first end into the cylinder, an expansion to a larger inner diameter bore, the larger inner diameter bore extending to a second end of the tube, wherein a focal point of the focusing piece is downstream of the expansion. ### Claim 6 (depends on 2) The system of claim 2, wherein the first laser pulse controller is capable of emitting a nanosecond laser pulse. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The system of claim 6, wherein a second laser pulse controller optically communicating through optical fibers with the optical filter, wherein the second laser pulse controller is capable of emitting a femtosecond laser pulse. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The system of claim 7, wherein the second laser pulse controller may be triggered by a trigger circuit sensing current from the first high voltage source. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The system of claim 8, wherein the delay controller may be triggered by a trigger circuit sensing current along the center axis, caused by the nanosecond laser pulse. ### Claim 10 (depends on 2) The system of claim 2, further comprising a first probe downstream of the one or more sets of capacitor layers, electrically connected to a second high voltage source. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The system of claim 10, further comprising a second probe upstream of the one or more sets of capacitor layers, electrically connected to a common ground. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The system of claim 11, wherein the second high voltage source is in electrical communication with a trigger circuit which senses change of electrical current along the center axis. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The system of claim 12, wherein the first laser pulse controller emits a nanosecond laser pulse. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The system of claim 13, wherein the optical filter may be a discharge barrier device comprising a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric separating the electrodes, wherein the first electrode and the second electrode are electrically coupled to a third high voltage source. ### Claim 15 A method of powering a load via a plasma capacitor comprising: charging a plasma capacitor via a first high voltage power supply; emitting a laser pulse from a first laser pulse controller; splitting the laser pulse to a delay controller and an optical filter, said optical filter aligning the laser pulse to the plasma capacitor; increasing the charge of the plasma capacitor by producing an electromagnetic field and exposing the plasma capacitor to the electromagnetic field, wherein in the step of producing the electromagnetic field comprises creating a plasma flow within a laser driven plasma system using the laser pulse; isolating the first high voltage source by emitting a first delayed laser pulse from the delay controller to a first photosensitive switch; powering a load by closing a circuit between the capacitor and the load, wherein the step of closing the circuit comprises emitting a second delayed laser pulse from the delay controller to a second photosensitive switch discharging the capacitor to the load, and upon termination of the pulse resetting the first photosensitive switch and the second photosensitive switch, recharging the capacitor with the first high voltage power supply, and repeating until the load no longer requires power. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method of claim 15 further comprising, wherein the step of emitting a laser pulse from a first laser pulse controller comprises emitting a nanosecond laser pulse. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The method of claim 16 further comprising, producing a preplasma state via the nanosecond laser pulse. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The method of claim 17 further comprising, sensing a first current flow in the preplasma via a first trigger circuit. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The method of claim 18 further comprising, receiving a signal from the first trigger circuit and energizing a high voltage probe from a second high voltage source. ### Claim 20 (depends on 18) The method of claim 18, wherein the step of emitting a first delayed laser pulse further comprises, further comprises receiving a signal from the first trigger circuit. ### Claim 21 (depends on 18) The method of claim 18 further comprising, sensing a drop in current of the first high voltage power supply via a second trigger circuit. ### Claim 22 A method of powering a load via a plasma capacitor comprising: emitting a laser pulse from a first laser pulse controller to an optical filter; aligning the laser pulse to the plasma capacitor via the optical filter, increasing the charge of the plasma capacitor by producing an electromagnetic field and exposing the plasma capacitor to the electromagnetic field, wherein in the step of producing the electromagnetic field comprises creating a plasma flow within a laser driven plasma system using the laser pulse; powering a load by discharging the capacitor to the load, and repeating until load no longer requires power. ### Claim 23 (depends on 22) The method of claim 22, further comprising: charging a plasma capacitor via a first high voltage power supply; splitting the laser pulse to a delay controller and the optical filter; isolating the first high voltage source by emitting a first delayed laser pulse from the delay controller to a first photosensitive switch; emitting a second delayed laser pulse from the delay controller to a second photosensitive switch, wherein powering the load comprises closing a circuit between the capacitor and the load; and upon termination of the pulse resetting the first photosensitive switch and the second photosensitive switch, recharging the capacitor with the first high voltage power supply.