Patents by Inventor Artem N. Smirnov
Artem N. Smirnov has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240120115Abstract: A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement chamber, divertors coupled to the ends of the chamber, neutral beam injectors positioned about the chamber, and a magnetic system comprising quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Michl W. Binderbauer, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov, Hiroshi Gota, Thomas Roche, Michael Meekins
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Publication number: 20230249002Abstract: Embodiments of systems, devices, and methods relate to a beam system. An example beam system includes a charged particle source configured to generate a beam of charged particles, a pre-accelerator system configured to accelerate the beam, and an accelerator configured to accelerate the beam from the pre-accelerator system. The pre-accelerator system can cause the beam to converge as it is propagated from the source to an input aperture of the accelerator. The pre-accelerator system can further reduce or eliminate source disturbance or damage caused by backflow traveling from the accelerator toward the source.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2022Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Alexander Dunaevsky, Artem N. Smirnov, Alexandr A. Ivanov, Vladislav Vekselman
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Patent number: 11524179Abstract: Embodiments of systems, devices, and methods relating to a beam system. An example beam system includes a charged particle source configured to generate a beam of charged particles, a pre-accelerator system configured to accelerate the beam, and an accelerator configured to accelerate the beam from the pre-accelerator system. The pre-accelerator system can cause the beam to converge as it is propagated from the source to an input aperture of the accelerator. The pre-accelerator system can further reduce or eliminate source disturbance or damage caused by backflow traveling from the accelerator toward the source.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Alexander Dunaevsky, Artem N. Smirnov, Alexandr A. Ivanov, Vladislav Vekselman
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Patent number: 11373763Abstract: A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections coupled to the vessel, and two divertor chambers coupled to the formation sections. A magnetic system includes quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components, quasi-dc mirror coils between the confinement chamber and the formation sections, and mirror plugs between the formation sections and the divertors. The formation sections include modular pulsed power formation systems enabling static and dynamic formation and acceleration of the FRCs. The FRC system further includes neutral atom beam injectors, pellet injectors, gettering systems, axial plasma guns and flux surface biasing electrodes. The beam injectors are preferably angled toward the midplane of the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Michel Tuszewski, Michl W. Binderbauer, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov
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Patent number: 11363708Abstract: A negative ion-based beam injector comprising a negative ion source and an accelerator. The ions produced by the ion source are pre-accelerated before injection into a high energy accelerator by an electrostatic multi-aperture grid pre-accelerator, which is used to extract ion beams from the plasma and accelerate to some fraction of the required beam energy. The beam from the ion source passes through a pair of deflecting magnets, which enable the beam to shift off axis before entering the high energy accelerator. The negative ion-based beam injector can be combined with a neutralizer to produce about a 5 MW neutral beam with energy of about 0.50 to 1.0 MeV. After acceleration to full energy, the beam enters the neutralizer where it is partially converted into a neutral beam. The remaining ion species are separated by a magnet and directed into electrostatic energy converters. The neutral beam passes through a gate valve and enters a plasma chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Yuri I. Belchenko, Alexander V. Burdakov, Vladimir I. Davydenko, Gennady I. Dimov, Alexandr A. Ivanov, Valeery V. Kobets, Artem N. Smirnov, Michl W. Binderbauer, Donald L. Sevier, Terence E. Richardson
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Publication number: 20220093280Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with superior stability as well as particle, energy and flux confinement and, more particularly, systems and methods that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with elevated system energies and improved sustainment utilizing neutral beam injectors with tunable beam energy capabilities.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Alexander Dunaevsky, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov, Michl W. Binderbauer
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Patent number: 11195627Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with superior stability as well as particle, energy and flux confinement and, more particularly, systems and methods that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with elevated system energies and improved sustainment utilizing neutral beam injectors with tunable beam energy capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Alexander Dunaevsky, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov, Michl W. Binderbauer
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Publication number: 20210345476Abstract: Embodiments of systems, devices, and methods relating to a charge exchange system having one or more guard apparatuses are described. The guard apparatuses can include one or more guard electrodes, optionally with one or more screen electrodes. Also described are embodiments of beam systems incorporating one or more charge exchange systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Artem N. Smirnov, Vladislav Vekselman, Vladimir I. Davydenko, Alexandr A. Ivanov, Michael Meekins, Blake Koop, Jr.
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Publication number: 20210168924Abstract: A negative ion-based beam injector comprising a negative ion source and an accelerator. The ions produced by the ion source are pre-accelerated before injection into a high energy accelerator by an electrostatic multi-aperture grid pre-accelerator, which is used to extract ion beams from the plasma and accelerate to some fraction of the required beam energy. The beam from the ion source passes through a pair of deflecting magnets, which enable the beam to shift off axis before entering the high energy accelerator. The negative ion-based beam injector can be combined with a neutralizer to produce about a 5 MW neutral beam with energy of about 0.50 to 1.0 MeV. After acceleration to full energy, the beam enters the neutralizer where it is partially converted into a neutral beam. The remaining ion species are separated by a magnet and directed into electrostatic energy converters. The neutral beam passes through a gate valve and enters a plasma chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Yuri I. Belchenko, Alexander V. Burdakov, Vladimir I. Davydenko, Gennady I. Dimov, Alexandr A. Ivanov, Valeery V. Kobets, Artem N. Smirnov, Michl W. Binderbauer, Donald L. Sevier, Terence E. Richardson
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Publication number: 20210138273Abstract: Embodiments of systems, devices, and methods relating to a beam system. An example beam system includes a charged particle source configured to generate a beam of charged particles, a pre-accelerator system configured to accelerate the beam, and an accelerator configured to accelerate the beam from the pre-accelerator system. The pre-accelerator system can cause the beam to converge as it is propagated from the source to an input aperture of the accelerator. The pre-accelerator system can further reduce or eliminate source disturbance or damage caused by backflow traveling from the accelerator toward the source.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2020Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventors: Alexander Dunaevsky, Artem N. Smirnov, Alexandr A. Ivanov, Vladislav Vekselman
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Publication number: 20210110936Abstract: A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections coupled to the vessel, and two divertor chambers coupled to the formation sections. A magnetic system includes quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components, quasi-dc mirror coils between the confinement chamber and the formation sections, and mirror plugs between the formation sections and the divertors. The formation sections include modular pulsed power formation systems enabling static and dynamic formation and acceleration of the FRCs. The FRC system further includes neutral atom beam injectors, pellet injectors, gettering systems, axial plasma guns and flux surface biasing electrodes. The beam injectors are preferably angled toward the midplane of the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Michel Tuszewski, Michl W. Binderbauer, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov
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Patent number: 10887976Abstract: A negative ion-based beam injector comprising a negative ion source and an accelerator. The ions produced by the ion source are pre-accelerated before injection into a high energy accelerator by an electrostatic multi-aperture grid pre-accelerator, which is used to extract ion beams from the plasma and accelerate to some fraction of the required beam energy. The beam from the ion source passes through a pair of deflecting magnets, which enable the beam to shift off axis before entering the high energy accelerator. The negative ion-based beam injector can be combined with a neutralizer to produce about a 5 MW neutral beam with energy of about 0.50 to 1.0 MeV. After acceleration to full energy, the beam enters the neutralizer where it is partially converted into a neutral beam. The remaining ion species are separated by a magnet and directed into electrostatic energy converters. The neutral beam passes through a gate valve and enters a plasma chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Yuri I. Belchenko, Alexander V. Burdakov, Vladimir I. Davydenko, Gennady I. Dimov, Alexandr A. Ivanov, Valeery V. Kobets, Artem N. Smirnov, Michl W. Binderbauer, Donald L. Sevier, Terence E. Richardson
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Patent number: 10790064Abstract: A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections coupled to the vessel, and two divertor chambers coupled to the formation sections. A magnetic system includes quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components, quasi-dc mirror coils between the confinement chamber and the formation sections, and mirror plugs between the formation sections and the divertors. The formation sections include modular pulsed power formation systems enabling static and dynamic formation and acceleration of the FRCs. The FRC system further includes neutral atom beam injectors, pellet injectors, gettering systems, axial plasma guns and flux surface biasing electrodes. The beam injectors are preferably angled toward the midplane of the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Michel Tuszewski, Michl W. Binderbauer, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov
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Publication number: 20200075179Abstract: A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections coupled to the vessel, and two divertor chambers coupled to the formation sections. A magnetic system includes quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components, quasi-dc mirror coils between the confinement chamber and the formation sections, and mirror plugs between the formation sections and the divertors. The formation sections include modular pulsed power formation systems enabling static and dynamic formation and acceleration of the FRCs. The FRC system further includes neutral atom beam injectors, pellet injectors, gettering systems, axial plasma guns and flux surface biasing electrodes. The beam injectors are preferably angled toward the midplane of the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Michel Tuszewski, Michl W. Binderbauer, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov
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Publication number: 20190387606Abstract: A negative ion-based beam injector comprising a negative ion source and an accelerator. The ions produced by the ion source are pre-accelerated before injection into a high energy accelerator by an electrostatic multi-aperture grid pre-accelerator, which is used to extract ion beams from the plasma and accelerate to some fraction of the required beam energy. The beam from the ion source passes through a pair of deflecting magnets, which enable the beam to shift off axis before entering the high energy accelerator. The negative ion-based beam injector can be combined with a neutralizer to produce about a 5 MW neutral beam with energy of about 0.50 to 1.0 MeV. After acceleration to full energy, the beam enters the neutralizer where it is partially converted into a neutral beam. The remaining ion species are separated by a magnet and directed into electrostatic energy converters. The neutral beam passes through a gate valve and enters a plasma chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: Yuri I. Belchenko, Alexander V. Burdakov, Vladimir I. Davydenko, Gennady I. Dimov, Alexandr A. Ivanov, Valeery V. Kobets, Artem N. Smirnov, Michl W. Binderbauer, Donald L. Sevier, Terence E. Richardson
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Publication number: 20190318831Abstract: Systems and methods that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with superior stability as well as particle, energy and flux confinement and, more particularly, systems and methods that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with elevated system energies and improved sustainment utilizing neutral beam injectors with tunable beam energy capabilities.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Alexander Dunaevsky, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov, Michl W. Binderbauer
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Patent number: 10438702Abstract: A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections coupled to the vessel, and two divertor chambers coupled to the formation sections. A magnetic system includes quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components, quasi-dc mirror coils between the confinement chamber and the formation sections, and mirror plugs between the formation sections and the divertors. The formation sections include modular pulsed power formation systems enabling static and dynamic formation and acceleration of the FRCs. The FRC system further includes neutral atom beam injectors, pellet injectors, gettering systems, axial plasma guns and flux surface biasing electrodes. The beam injectors are preferably angled toward the midplane of the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Michel Tuszewski, Michl W. Binderbauer, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov
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Patent number: 10398016Abstract: A negative ion-based beam injector comprising a negative ion source and an accelerator. The ions produced by the ion source are pre-accelerated before injection into a high energy accelerator by an electrostatic multi-aperture grid pre-accelerator, which is used to extract ion beams from the plasma and accelerate to some fraction of the required beam energy. The beam from the ion source passes through a pair of deflecting magnets, which enable the beam to shift off axis before entering the high energy accelerator. The negative ion-based beam injector can be combined with a neutralizer to produce about a 5 MW neutral beam with energy of about 0.50 to 1.0 MeV. After acceleration to full energy, the beam enters the neutralizer where it is partially converted into a neutral beam. The remaining ion species are separated by a magnet and directed into electrostatic energy converters. The neutral beam passes through a gate valve and enters a plasma chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Yuri I. Belchenko, Alexander V. Burdakov, Vladimir I. Davydenko, Gennady I. Dimov, Alexandr A. Ivanov, Valeery V. Kobets, Artem N. Smirnov, Michl W. Binderbauer, Donald L. Sevier, Terence E. Richardson
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Publication number: 20190035509Abstract: A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections coupled to the vessel, and two divertor chambers coupled to the formation sections. A magnetic system includes quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components, quasi-dc mirror coils between the confinement chamber and the formation sections, and mirror plugs between the formation sections and the divertors. The formation sections include modular pulsed power formation systems enabling static and dynamic formation and acceleration of the FRCs. The FRC system further includes neutral atom beam injectors, pellet injectors, gettering systems, axial plasma guns and flux surface biasing electrodes. The beam injectors are preferably angled toward the midplane of the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Michel Tuszewski, Michl W. Binderbauer, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov
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Publication number: 20180235068Abstract: A negative ion-based beam injector comprising a negative ion source and an accelerator. The ions produced by the ion source are pre-accelerated before injection into a high energy accelerator by an electrostatic multi-aperture grid pre-accelerator, which is used to extract ion beams from the plasma and accelerate to some fraction of the required beam energy. The beam from the ion source passes through a pair of deflecting magnets, which enable the beam to shift off axis before entering the high energy accelerator. The negative ion-based beam injector can be combined with a neutralizer to produce about a 5 MW neutral beam with energy of about 0.50 to 1.0 MeV. After acceleration to full energy, the beam enters the neutralizer where it is partially converted into a neutral beam. The remaining ion species are separated by a magnet and directed into electrostatic energy converters. The neutral beam passes through a gate valve and enters a plasma chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Yuri I. Belchenko, Alexander V. Burdakov, Vladimir I. Davydenko, Gennady I. Dimov, Alexandr A. Ivanov, Valeery V. Kobets, Artem N. Smirnov, Michl W. Binderbauer, Donald L. Sevier, Terence E. Richardson