Patents by Inventor Jérôme MANDRILLON

Jérôme MANDRILLON 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).

  • Patent number: 11456085
    Abstract: A facility for producing radioisotopes. The facility includes at least one target holder. The target holder is configured to receive a target that includes a compound to be irradiated with an accelerated particle beam. The facility includes a cyclotron for producing the accelerated particle beam. The cyclotron includes at least one accelerating cavity within which the beam is subjected to a radiofrequency electric field in order to be accelerated and to a magnetic field enabling it to travel through the cavity several times, describing orbits about an axis of the cyclotron. The magnetic field is produced by at least one coil. The at least one target holder is inside the at least one coil as observed along the axis of the cyclotron. The at least one coil does not have symmetry of revolution about the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: AIMA DEVELOPPEMENT
    Inventors: Pierre Mandrillon, Jérôme Mandrillon
  • Patent number: 11160159
    Abstract: A synchrocyclotron for extracting charged particles accelerated to an extraction energy includes a magnetic unit comprising N valley sectors and N hill sectors, and configured for creating z-component of a main magnetic characterized by a radial tune of the successive orbits. The synchrocyclotron includes a first instability coil unit and a second instability coil unit configured for creating a field bump of amplitude increasing radially. The amplitude of the field bump may be varied to reach the value of the offset amplitude at the average instability onset radius. The offset amplitude may be the minimal amplitude of the field bump at the average instability onset radius required for sufficiently offsetting the center of the orbit of average instability onset radius to generate a resonance instability to extract the beam of charged particle at the average instability onset radius.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Ion Beam Applications S.A.
    Inventors: Jérôme Mandrillon, Willem Kleeven, Jarno Van De Walle
  • Publication number: 20210282257
    Abstract: A synchrocyclotron for extracting charged particles accelerated to an extraction energy includes a magnetic unit comprising N valley sectors and N hill sectors, and configured for creating z-component of a main magnetic characterized by a radial tune of the successive orbits. The synchrocyclotron includes a first instability coil unit and a second instability coil unit configured for creating a field bump of amplitude increasing radially. The amplitude of the field bump may be varied to reach the value of the offset amplitude at the average instability onset radius. The offset amplitude may be the minimal amplitude of the field bump at the average instability onset radius required for sufficiently offsetting the center of the orbit of average instability onset radius to generate a resonance instability to extract the beam of charged particle at the average instability onset radius.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: Ion Beam Applications S.A.
    Inventors: Jérôme Mandrillon, Willem Kleeven, Jarno Van De Walle
  • Publication number: 20190228871
    Abstract: A facility for producing radioisotopes, including:—at least one target capable of receiving a compound to be irradiated with a beam of accelerated particles,—a cyclotron for producing the beam of accelerated particles, including at least one accelerating chamber within which the beam is subjected to a radiofrequency electric field in order to be accelerated and to a magnetic field enabling the beam to cross the chamber several times by describing orbits around an axis (Z) of the cyclotron, this magnetic field being produced by at least one coil, and a facility in which the target is inside the coil when same is viewed along the axis (Z) of the cyclotron, the coil not having rotational symmetry about this axis (Z).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Pierre MANDRILLON, Jérôme MANDRILLON