Patents by Inventor Cody John Pavel Esau

Cody John Pavel Esau 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).

  • Plasma compression driver
    Patent number: 11711884
    Abstract: A plasma compression driver is connected to a plasma containment vessel containing a liquid medium that forms a liquid liner containing plasma, and comprises a pair of coaxially aligned pistons that are sequentially driven towards the liquid liner. A pusher bore containing a pusher piston is coaxial with and has a smaller diameter than a driver bore containing a driver piston such that an interconnecting annular face surface is defined at the junction of the driver and pusher bores. During the compression operation, a prime mover accelerates the driver piston towards the pusher piston and compresses a compression fluid, which accelerates the pusher piston and pushes the liquid medium in the pusher bore into the vessel, causing the liquid liner to collapse, and compressing the plasma. Outward forces on the vessel wall caused by compression driver recoil and increased vessel pressure is counteracted by an inward force applied by the compression fluid on the annular face surface during the compression operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: General Fusion Inc.
    Inventors: James Hastings Wilkie, Joerg Zimmermann, Martin Clifford Wight, Cody John Pavel Esau, Ivan Victorovich Khalzov
  • PLASMA COMPRESSION DRIVER
    Publication number: 20230003205
    Abstract: A plasma compression driver is connected to a plasma containment vessel containing a liquid medium that forms a liquid liner containing plasma, and comprises a pair of coaxially aligned pistons that are sequentially driven towards the liquid liner. A pusher bore containing a pusher piston is coaxial with and has a smaller diameter than a driver bore containing a driver piston such that an interconnecting annular face surface is defined at the junction of the driver and pusher bores. During the compression operation, a prime mover accelerates the driver piston towards the pusher piston and compresses a compression fluid, which accelerates the pusher piston and pushes the liquid medium in the pusher bore into the vessel, causing the liquid liner to collapse, and compressing the plasma. Outward forces on the vessel wall caused by compression driver recoil and increased vessel pressure is counteracted by an inward force applied by the compression fluid on the annular face surface during the compression operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: James Hastings Wilkie, Joerg Zimmermann, Martin Clifford Wight, Cody John Pavel Esau, Ivan Victorovich Khalzov