Patents by Inventor Bruno Coppi

Bruno Coppi 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: 5174945
    Abstract: A fusion power generating device is disclosed having a relatively small and inexpensive core region which may be contained within an energy absorbing blanket region. The fusion power core region contains apparatus of the toroidal type for confining a high density plasma. The fusion power core is removable from the blanket region and may be disposed and/or recycled for subsequent use within the same blanket region. Thermonuclear ignition of the plasma is obtained by feeding neutral fusible gas into the plasma in a controlled manner such that charged particle heating produced by the fusion reaction is utilized to boot-strap the device to a region of high temperatures and high densitities wherein charged particle heating is sufficient to overcome radiation and thermal conductivity losses. The high density plasma produces a large radiation and particle flux on the first wall of the plasma core region thereby necessitating replacement of the core from the blanket region from time to time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: FDX Patents Holding Company, N.V.
    Inventors: Robert W. Bussard, Bruno Coppi
  • Patent number: 5049350
    Abstract: A fusion power generating device is disclosed having a relatively small and inexpensive core region which may be contained within an energy absorbing blanket region. The fusion power core region contains apparatus of the toroidal type for confining a high density plasma. The fusion power core is removable from the blanket region and may be disposed and/or recycled for subsequent use within the same blanket region. Thermonuclear ignition of the plasma is obtained by feeding neutral fusible gas into the plasma in a controlled manner such that charged particle heating produced by the fusion reaction is utilized to bootstrap the device to a region of high temperatures and high densities wherein charged particle heating is sufficient to overcome radiation and thermal conductivity losses. The high density plasma produces a large radiation and particle flux on the first wall of the plasma core region thereby necessitating replacement of the core from the blanket region from time to time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1991
    Assignee: FDX Patent Holding Company, N.V.
    Inventors: Robert W. Bussard, Bruno Coppi
  • Patent number: 4851180
    Abstract: A magnetic coil arrangement for fusion reactors, wherein toroidal field coils and poloidal field coils are combined, the current paths of the toroidal field coils being led helically around the central axis of the fusion reactor at an angle of contact adapted to the requirements in each case. The current paths of the toroidal coils in this way generate at the same time a poloidal field. This achieves an energy saving with the same reactor parameters. Furthermore, the coil system can be supplemented with additional integrated or independent toroidal and poloidal field coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1989
    Assignee: BBC Brown Boveri AG
    Inventors: Bruno Coppi, Alfred Koch, Lorenzo Lanzavecchia, Jon Rauch
  • Patent number: 4836972
    Abstract: A fusion power generating device is disclosed having a relatively small and inexpensive core region which may be contained within an energy absorbing blanket region. The fusion power core region contains apparatus of the toroidal type for confining a high density plasma. The fusion power core is removable from the blanket region and may be disposed and/or recycled for subsequent use within the same blanket region. Thermonuclear ignition of the plasma is obtained by feeding neutral fusible gas into the plasma in a controlled manner such that charged particle heating produced by the fusion reaction is utilized to bootstrap the device to a region of high temperatures and high densities wherein charged particle heating is sufficient to overcome radiation and thermal conductivity losses. The high density plasma produces a large radiation and particle flux on the first wall of the plasma core region thereby necessitating replacement of the core from the blanket region from time to time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Assignee: FDX Patents Holding Company, N.V.
    Inventors: Robert W. Bussard, Bruno Coppi
  • Patent number: 4363775
    Abstract: A fusion power generating device is disclosed having a relatively small and inexpensive core region which may be contained within an energy absorbing blanket region. The fusion power core region contains apparatus of the toroidal type for confining a high density plasma. The fusion power core is removable from the blanket region and may be disposed and/or recycled for subsequent use within the same blanket region. Thermonuclear ignition of the plasma is obtained by feeding neutral fusible gas into the plasma in a controlled manner such that charged particle heating produced by the fusion reaction is utilized to bootstrap the device to a region of high temperatures and high densities wherein charged particle heating is sufficient to overcome radiation and thermal conductivity losses. The high density plasma produces a large radiation and particle flux on the first wall of the plasma core region thereby necessitating replacement of the core from the blanket region from time to time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1982
    Assignee: International Nuclear Energy Systems Co.
    Inventors: Robert W. Bussard, Bruno Coppi