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US 2025/0157677 A1Published application
Planar coil stellarator including removable field shaping units
AssigneeThea Energy, Inc.
InventorsDavid Allen GATES, Charles Pendleton Stuntz SWANSON, Andrew Thomas COTE
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Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to stellarators or assemblies including a stellarator including removable and/or replaceable components, such as removable field shaping units and/or removable shaping coils. In some embodiments, the stellarators of the present disclosure include a toroidal sector, which includes one or more removable field shaping units.
Claims20
A stellarator comprising:
- (a) a field-shaping coil system including at least two removable field shaping units, the field-shaping coil system defining a void adapted to confine a plasma, wherein each of the at least two removable field shaping units comprise (i) one or more structural mounting elements;
- and (ii) one or more shaping coils disposed on a surface of the one or more structural mounting elements;
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- b) a plurality of encircling coils which encircle the field-shaping coil system;
- wherein a first of the at least two removable field shaping units is at least partially surrounded by a first encircling coil of the plurality of encircling coils;
- and
- wherein a second of the at least two removable field shaping units is positioned entirely between the first encircling coil and a second encircling coil of the plurality of encircling coils.
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