Patents Examined by S. A. Cangiglosi
  • Mirror plasma apparatus
    Patent number: 4260455
    Abstract: A mirror plasma apparatus which utilizes shielding by arc discharge to form a blanket plasma and lithium walls to reduce neutron damage to the wall of the apparatus. An embodiment involves a rotating liquid lithium blanket for a tandem mirror plasma apparatus wherein the first wall of the central mirror cell is made of liquid lithium which is spun with angular velocity great enough to keep the liquid lithium against the first material wall, a blanket plasma preventing the lithium vapor from contaminating the plasma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1978
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1981
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Unites States Department of Energy
    Inventor: Ralph W. Moir