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Converging beam fusion system

  • US 4,202,725 A
  • Filed: 03/08/1978
  • Issued: 05/13/1980
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/08/1978
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A converging beam nuclear fusion system comprising a plurality of diametrically opposed wedges joined to form a spherical reaction chamber, said wedges having an interior surface positioned at a predetermined fixed distance from the center of said chamber so as to form an interior spherical space;

  • a first plurality of said wedges containing electromagnet means of C-shape cross section, a second plurality of said wedges containing magnetic mirror means, two hemispherical electrically conductive bowls located in the interior spherical space so as to form a gap therebetween, said bowls each having at least one perforation;

    a high frequency high voltage power source connected across said bowls;

    at least one ion injection means operatively connected to at least one of said bowls, at least one output means operatively connected to at least one of said bowls, a vacuum pump means connected to said reaction chamber, wherein ions are injected into said bowls, therein accelerated across the gap of said bowls toward one of said spherical wedges whereupon said ions are deflected and returned to one of said bowls, accelerated across said gap to the diametrically opposed wedge where it is again deflected to return to other of said bowls so as to form a plurality of beams having figure eight pathways, and where the intersection of each FIG. 8 pathway is located at the center of the reaction chamber for the purpose of enhancing the density and probability of head-on collision of the ions.

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