US 2026/0290629 A1Published application

Advanced Fuel Oscillating Fusion Reactor

AssigneeTibbar Plasma Technologies, Inc.

InventorsRichard A. Nebel, William Loane Gibson, Daniel Karmgard, Walter Lee Davis, Keith Robert Moser, Pamela A. Paine

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Abstract

A fusion device includes vacuum chamber, a center electrode, electromagnetic coils, memory that stores operational instructions, and processing module(s) operably coupled to the memory and configured to execute the operational instructions. The vacuum chamber has a cylindrical shape and is configured to contain a plasma having elements suitable for nuclear fusion. The and processing module(s) is configured to facilitate generation of vacuum or near vacuum within the vacuum chamber and also to facilitate driving of electric current signal(s) within the electromagnetic coil(s) to generate a magnetic field within the vacuum chamber. The magnetic field is configured to form the plasma into plasma toroid rings and to effectuate the plasma toroid rings to undergo simple harmonic motion axially within the vacuum chamber such that at least some of the elements within the plasma toroid rings undergo collision and nuclear fusion to generate the nuclear fusion particles.

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Dependent claims

A fusion device comprising:

a vacuum chamber having a cylindrical shape and configured to contain a plasma having elements suitable for nuclear fusion;
a center electrode implemented axially within the vacuum chamber;
a first electromagnetic coil implemented around an exterior of the vacuum chamber;
a second electromagnetic coil implemented within an interior of the center electrode;
a direct energy converter implemented at an end of the vacuum chamber and configured to output energy based on nuclear fusion particles received from the vacuum chamber;
memory that stores operational instructions;
and
one or more processing modules operably coupled to the memory and configured to execute the operational instructions to:
facilitate generation of vacuum or near vacuum within the vacuum chamber;
and
facilitate driving of one or more electric current signals within the first electromagnetic coil and the second electromagnetic coil to generate a magnetic field within the vacuum chamber, wherein the magnetic field is configured to form the plasma into a plurality of plasma toroid rings around the center electrode and to effectuate the plurality of plasma toroid rings to undergo simple harmonic motion axially within the vacuum chamber such that at least some of the elements within the plurality of plasma toroid rings undergo collision and nuclear fusion to generate the nuclear fusion particles.

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A fusion device comprising:

a vacuum chamber having a cylindrical shape and configured to contain a plasma having elements suitable for nuclear fusion;
a center electrode implemented axially within the vacuum chamber;
a first electromagnetic coil implemented around an exterior of the vacuum chamber;
a second electromagnetic coil implemented within an interior of the center electrode;
memory that stores operational instructions;
and
one or more processing modules operably coupled to the memory and configured to execute the operational instructions to:
facilitate generation of vacuum or near vacuum within the vacuum chamber;
and
facilitate driving of one or more electric current signals within the first electromagnetic coil and the second electromagnetic coil to generate a magnetic field within the vacuum chamber, wherein the magnetic field is configured to form the plasma into a plurality of plasma toroid rings around the center electrode and to effectuate the plurality of plasma toroid rings to undergo simple harmonic motion axially within the vacuum chamber such that at least some of the elements within the plurality of plasma toroid rings undergo collision and nuclear fusion to generate nuclear fusion particles.

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