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Plasma confinement system

US4863671A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 2, 1987
Grant dateSep 5, 1989
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Expiry dateJun 2, 2007

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02E30/10
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A plasma confinement system comprising a toroidal vacuum chamber, a toroidal coil which generates a magnetic field in a toroidal direction within the vacuum chamber, current transformer coils which are wound in the toroidal direction, equilibrium magnetic field coils which are wound in the toroidal direction in order to control a plasma, alternating current coils which are wound mainly in the toroidal direction and through which alternating currents are caused to flow for enabling forming and rotating of a deformed magnetic surface and for causing rotation of the plasma in a poloidal direction, and power sources which cause currents to flow through the various coils.

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