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US 5,175,466 AGranted
Fixed geometry plasma and generator
OwnerDeWitt C. Seward, IIIinventor
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Abstract
A fixed geometry plasma and a method of generating such a plasma wherein a stream of charged particles follows a spiral path. Said spiralling plasma is containable in a magnetic field such that a toroid is formed.
Claims10
A fixed geometry charged particle energy storage device comprising;
- a vacuum chamber for housing a plurality of charged particles;
- a magnetic field generating means for providing a magnetic field having closed magnetic field lines within the vacuum chamber;
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- injecting means for providing a plurality of charged particles each having the same electrical charge, the charged particles being injected into a predetermined path within the chamber and having a substantially uniform velocity such that said path comprises a spiral about an axis that is parallel to a closed magnetic field line of the magnetic field, the spiral having a fixed geometry relative to the vacuum chamber.
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A method of generating a fixed geometry of charged particles for energy storage comprising the steps of:
- providing a vacuum chamber for housing a plurality of charged particles;
- forming a magnetic field having closed magnetic field lines within the chamber;
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- injecting the plurality of charged particles into said field, each particle having the same electrical charge such that the field causes the particles to follow a path that spirals within the chamber about a closed magnetic field line of the field.
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An energy storage device for providing a fixed geometry of charged particles comprising:
- a toroidally shaped vacuum chamber for housing a plurality of charged particles consisting essentially of electrons;
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- a magnetic field source positioned about the chamber wherein the plurality of electrons are contained in a spiral path at a substantially uniform velocity within the vacuum chamber by the magnetic field provided by the source within the vacuum chamber such that said path spirals substantially about magnetic field lines of the magnetic field in the shape of the toroid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.