Patents by Inventor Marc-Yves Delaunay

Marc-Yves Delaunay 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).

  • Publication number: 20120160168
    Abstract: A plasma-generation device with electron cyclotron resonance, includes two adjacent sealed vacuum chambers configured to contain plasmas, an injector configured to inject a high-frequency wave into the chambers, a magnetic structure to generate a magnetic field in the chambers including a plurality of parallelepipedal permanent magnets and generating at least two plasmas according to the magnetic field lines, the module of the magnetic field having a magnetic mirror configuration with at least one electron cyclotron resonance area per plasma, the magnetic structure including at least one permanent magnet contributing to the formation of a plasma in each one of the chambers, such that the chambers share the same at least one permanent magnet on the common wall thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: Commissariat a l'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventors: Marc-Yves Delaunay, Denis Hitz
  • Publication number: 20110262313
    Abstract: A device includes a chamber to contain plasma, a water vapor injector to inject water vapor into the chamber, a high-frequency wave injector to inject a high-frequency wave inside the chamber, a magnetic structure to generate a magnetic field in the chamber and to generate plasma along the magnetic field lines, a module of the magnetic field presenting a magnetic mirror configuration with at least one electron cyclotron resonance zone to at least partially dissociate the water molecules introduced in vapor phase and to at least partially ionize the products of dissociation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: Commissariat Á L'Énergie Atomique Et Aux Énergies Alternatives
    Inventors: Denis Hitz, Marc-Yves Delaunay
  • Publication number: 20110262314
    Abstract: A device for producing hydrogen from electron cyclotron resonance plasma, includes a sealed vacuum chamber to contain plasma, a water vapor injector to inject water vapor into the chamber, a generator to generate a high-frequency wave that is provided inside the chamber, a magnetic structure to generate a magnetic field in the chamber and to generate a plasma surface along the magnetic field lines, the module of the magnetic field presenting a magnetic mirror configuration with at least one electron cyclotron resonance zone to at least partially dissociate water molecules introduced in vapor phase and to at least partially ionize the products of dissociation, a cryogenic condenser, placed in the sealed chamber to freeze oxygen coming from the dissociation without freezing hydrogen coming from the dissociation, a hydrogen recovery unit to recover the hydrogen coming from the dissociation, the oxygen being trapped by the cryogenic condenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: Commissariat a L'energie atomique et aux energies alternatives
    Inventors: Denis Hitz, Marc-Yves Delaunay