Patents by Inventor Michl W. Binderbauer
Michl W. Binderbauer 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: 20240120115Abstract: A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement chamber, divertors coupled to the ends of the chamber, neutral beam injectors positioned about the chamber, and a magnetic system comprising quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Michl W. Binderbauer, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov, Hiroshi Gota, Thomas Roche, Michael Meekins
-
Patent number: 11901087Abstract: Systems and methods utilizing successive, axially symmetric acceleration and adiabatic compression stages to heat and accelerate two compact tori towards each other and ultimately collide and compress the compact tori within a central chamber. Alternatively, systems and methods utilizing successive, axially asymmetric acceleration and adiabatic compression stages to heat and accelerate a first compact toroid towards and position within a central chamber and to heat and accelerate a second compact toroid towards the central chamber and ultimately collide and merge the first and second compact toroids and compress the compact merge tori within the central chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Michl W. Binderbauer, Vitaly Bystritskii, Toshiki Tajima
-
Patent number: 11901095Abstract: Systems and methods that facilitate the transmutation of long-lived radioactive transuranic waste into short-live radioactive nuclides or stable nuclides using an electrostatic accelerator particle beam to generate neutrons.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Toshiki Tajima, Michl W. Binderbauer, Ales Necas
-
Publication number: 20220208400Abstract: Systems and methods utilizing successive, axially symmetric acceleration and adiabatic compression stages to heat and accelerate two compact tori towards each other and ultimately collide and compress the compact tori within a central chamber. Alternatively, systems and methods utilizing successive, axially asymmetric acceleration and adiabatic compression stages to heat and accelerate a first compact toroid towards and position within a central chamber and to heat and accelerate a second compact toroid towards the central chamber and ultimately collide and merge the first and second compact toroids and compress the compact merge tori within the central chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Michl W. Binderbauer, Vitaly Bystritskii, Toshiki Tajima
-
Patent number: 11373763Abstract: A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections coupled to the vessel, and two divertor chambers coupled to the formation sections. A magnetic system includes quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components, quasi-dc mirror coils between the confinement chamber and the formation sections, and mirror plugs between the formation sections and the divertors. The formation sections include modular pulsed power formation systems enabling static and dynamic formation and acceleration of the FRCs. The FRC system further includes neutral atom beam injectors, pellet injectors, gettering systems, axial plasma guns and flux surface biasing electrodes. The beam injectors are preferably angled toward the midplane of the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Michel Tuszewski, Michl W. Binderbauer, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov
-
Patent number: 11363708Abstract: A negative ion-based beam injector comprising a negative ion source and an accelerator. The ions produced by the ion source are pre-accelerated before injection into a high energy accelerator by an electrostatic multi-aperture grid pre-accelerator, which is used to extract ion beams from the plasma and accelerate to some fraction of the required beam energy. The beam from the ion source passes through a pair of deflecting magnets, which enable the beam to shift off axis before entering the high energy accelerator. The negative ion-based beam injector can be combined with a neutralizer to produce about a 5 MW neutral beam with energy of about 0.50 to 1.0 MeV. After acceleration to full energy, the beam enters the neutralizer where it is partially converted into a neutral beam. The remaining ion species are separated by a magnet and directed into electrostatic energy converters. The neutral beam passes through a gate valve and enters a plasma chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Yuri I. Belchenko, Alexander V. Burdakov, Vladimir I. Davydenko, Gennady I. Dimov, Alexandr A. Ivanov, Valeery V. Kobets, Artem N. Smirnov, Michl W. Binderbauer, Donald L. Sevier, Terence E. Richardson
-
Patent number: 11337294Abstract: A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections coupled to the vessel, and two divertor chambers coupled to the formation sections. A magnetic system includes quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components, quasi-dc mirror coils between the confinement chamber and the formation sections, and mirror plugs between the formation sections and the divertors. The formation sections include modular pulsed power formation systems enabling static and dynamic formation and acceleration of the FRCs. The FRC system further includes neutral atom beam injectors, pellet or CT injectors, gettering systems, axial plasma guns and flux surface biasing electrodes. The beam injectors are preferably angled toward the midplane of the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Michl W. Binderbauer, Eusebio Garate, Sergei Putvinski, Hiroshi Gota
-
Publication number: 20220093280Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with superior stability as well as particle, energy and flux confinement and, more particularly, systems and methods that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with elevated system energies and improved sustainment utilizing neutral beam injectors with tunable beam energy capabilities.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Alexander Dunaevsky, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov, Michl W. Binderbauer
-
Patent number: 11200990Abstract: Systems and methods utilizing successive, axially symmetric acceleration and adiabatic compression stages to heat and accelerate two compact tori towards each other and ultimately collide and compress the compact tori within a central chamber. Alternatively, systems and methods utilizing successive, axially asymmetric acceleration and adiabatic compression stages to heat and accelerate a first compact toroid towards and position within a central chamber and to heat and accelerate a second compact toroid towards the central chamber and ultimately collide and merge the first and second compact toroids and compress the compact merge tori within the central chamber.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Michl W. Binderbauer, Vitaly Bystritskii, Toshiki Tajima
-
Patent number: 11195627Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with superior stability as well as particle, energy and flux confinement and, more particularly, systems and methods that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with elevated system energies and improved sustainment utilizing neutral beam injectors with tunable beam energy capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Alexander Dunaevsky, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov, Michl W. Binderbauer
-
Publication number: 20210358650Abstract: Systems and methods that facilitate the transmutation of long-lived radioactive transuranic waste into short-live radioactive nuclides or stable nuclides using an electrostatic accelerator particle beam to generate neutrons.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Toshiki Tajima, Michl W. Binderbauer, Ales Necas
-
Publication number: 20210168924Abstract: A negative ion-based beam injector comprising a negative ion source and an accelerator. The ions produced by the ion source are pre-accelerated before injection into a high energy accelerator by an electrostatic multi-aperture grid pre-accelerator, which is used to extract ion beams from the plasma and accelerate to some fraction of the required beam energy. The beam from the ion source passes through a pair of deflecting magnets, which enable the beam to shift off axis before entering the high energy accelerator. The negative ion-based beam injector can be combined with a neutralizer to produce about a 5 MW neutral beam with energy of about 0.50 to 1.0 MeV. After acceleration to full energy, the beam enters the neutralizer where it is partially converted into a neutral beam. The remaining ion species are separated by a magnet and directed into electrostatic energy converters. The neutral beam passes through a gate valve and enters a plasma chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Yuri I. Belchenko, Alexander V. Burdakov, Vladimir I. Davydenko, Gennady I. Dimov, Alexandr A. Ivanov, Valeery V. Kobets, Artem N. Smirnov, Michl W. Binderbauer, Donald L. Sevier, Terence E. Richardson
-
Publication number: 20210110939Abstract: Systems and methods utilizing successive, axially symmetric acceleration and adiabatic compression stages to heat and accelerate two compact tori towards each other and ultimately collide and compress the compact tori within a central chamber. Alternatively, systems and methods utilizing successive, axially asymmetric acceleration and adiabatic compression stages to heat and accelerate a first compact toroid towards and position within a central chamber and to heat and accelerate a second compact toroid towards the central chamber and ultimately collide and merge the first and second compact toroids and compress the compact merge tori within the central chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Michl W. Binderbauer, Vitaly Bystritskii, Toshiki Tajima
-
Publication number: 20210110936Abstract: A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections coupled to the vessel, and two divertor chambers coupled to the formation sections. A magnetic system includes quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components, quasi-dc mirror coils between the confinement chamber and the formation sections, and mirror plugs between the formation sections and the divertors. The formation sections include modular pulsed power formation systems enabling static and dynamic formation and acceleration of the FRCs. The FRC system further includes neutral atom beam injectors, pellet injectors, gettering systems, axial plasma guns and flux surface biasing electrodes. The beam injectors are preferably angled toward the midplane of the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Michel Tuszewski, Michl W. Binderbauer, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov
-
Publication number: 20210045223Abstract: A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections coupled to the vessel, and two divertor chambers coupled to the formation sections. A magnetic system includes quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components, quasi-dc mirror coils between the confinement chamber and the formation sections, and mirror plugs between the formation sections and the divertors. The formation sections include modular pulsed power formation systems enabling static and dynamic formation and acceleration of the FRCs. The FRC system further includes neutral atom beam injectors, pellet or CT injectors, gettering systems, axial plasma guns and flux surface biasing electrodes. The beam injectors are preferably angled toward the midplane of the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2020Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Michl W. Binderbauer, Eusebio Garate, Sergei Putvinski, Hiroshi Gota
-
Patent number: 10887976Abstract: A negative ion-based beam injector comprising a negative ion source and an accelerator. The ions produced by the ion source are pre-accelerated before injection into a high energy accelerator by an electrostatic multi-aperture grid pre-accelerator, which is used to extract ion beams from the plasma and accelerate to some fraction of the required beam energy. The beam from the ion source passes through a pair of deflecting magnets, which enable the beam to shift off axis before entering the high energy accelerator. The negative ion-based beam injector can be combined with a neutralizer to produce about a 5 MW neutral beam with energy of about 0.50 to 1.0 MeV. After acceleration to full energy, the beam enters the neutralizer where it is partially converted into a neutral beam. The remaining ion species are separated by a magnet and directed into electrostatic energy converters. The neutral beam passes through a gate valve and enters a plasma chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Yuri I. Belchenko, Alexander V. Burdakov, Vladimir I. Davydenko, Gennady I. Dimov, Alexandr A. Ivanov, Valeery V. Kobets, Artem N. Smirnov, Michl W. Binderbauer, Donald L. Sevier, Terence E. Richardson
-
Patent number: 10790064Abstract: A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections coupled to the vessel, and two divertor chambers coupled to the formation sections. A magnetic system includes quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components, quasi-dc mirror coils between the confinement chamber and the formation sections, and mirror plugs between the formation sections and the divertors. The formation sections include modular pulsed power formation systems enabling static and dynamic formation and acceleration of the FRCs. The FRC system further includes neutral atom beam injectors, pellet injectors, gettering systems, axial plasma guns and flux surface biasing electrodes. The beam injectors are preferably angled toward the midplane of the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Michel Tuszewski, Michl W. Binderbauer, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov
-
Patent number: 10743398Abstract: A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections coupled to the vessel, and two divertor chambers coupled to the formation sections. A magnetic system includes quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components, quasi-dc mirror coils between the confinement chamber and the formation sections, and mirror plugs between the formation sections and the divertors. The formation sections include modular pulsed power formation systems enabling static and dynamic formation and acceleration of the FRCs. The FRC system further includes neutral atom beam injectors, pellet or CT injectors, gettering systems, axial plasma guns and flux surface biasing electrodes. The beam injectors are preferably angled toward the midplane of the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Michl W. Binderbauer, Eusebio Garate, Sergei Putvinski, Hiroshi Gota
-
Patent number: 10665351Abstract: Systems and methods utilizing successive, axially symmetric acceleration and adiabatic compression stages to heat and accelerate two compact tori towards each other and ultimately collide and compress the compact tori within a central chamber. Alternatively, systems and methods utilizing successive, axially asymmetric acceleration and adiabatic compression stages to heat and accelerate a first compact toroid towards and position within a central chamber and to heat and accelerate a second compact toroid towards the central chamber and ultimately collide and merge the first and second compact toroids and compress the compact merge tori within the central chamber.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: TAE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Michl W. Binderbauer, Vitaly Bystritskii, Toshiki Tajima
-
Publication number: 20200075179Abstract: A high performance field reversed configuration (FRC) system includes a central confinement vessel, two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections coupled to the vessel, and two divertor chambers coupled to the formation sections. A magnetic system includes quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components, quasi-dc mirror coils between the confinement chamber and the formation sections, and mirror plugs between the formation sections and the divertors. The formation sections include modular pulsed power formation systems enabling static and dynamic formation and acceleration of the FRCs. The FRC system further includes neutral atom beam injectors, pellet injectors, gettering systems, axial plasma guns and flux surface biasing electrodes. The beam injectors are preferably angled toward the midplane of the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Michel Tuszewski, Michl W. Binderbauer, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov