Patents Represented by Law Firm Fitch, Even, Tabin, Flannery & Welch
  • Self-imploding liner system for magnetic field compression
    Patent number: 4252605
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for compressing a lower strength magnetic field to produce high flux densities, such as about one megagauss, employing a hollow, rotating, electrically conductive liquid liner to trap the magnetic flux, and in which the rotating liner is magnetically forced to implode. Energy to drive the implosion is derived from the rotational energy of the liner. Energy may be recovered subsequently as rotational energy upon expansion or rebound of the liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1981
    Assignee: General Atomic Company
    Inventor: Michael J. Schaffer