Patent ID: 9082517
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: G21B,H05H,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A steady-state fusion energy device comprising: (a) a vacuum tank having a plurality of outer tank faces, an inner tank volume, and a center of said inner tank volume; (b) a polyhedron having a plurality of faces and a center of said polyhedron, each of said plurality of faces being enclosed by a plurality of edges, each of said plurality of edges being disposed between one of said plurality of faces and an adjacent one of said plurality of faces, and said polyhedron disposed so as to place said center of said polyhedron approximately at said center of said inner tank volume; (c) a plurality of modules, each of said plurality of modules comprising (d) said modules disposed so as to place each of said annular shaped pressure vessels one-on-one onto each of said plurality of faces of said polyhedron, each of said annular shaped pressure vessels being disposed to create a plurality of gaps, each of said plurality of gaps being of predetermined width, each of said plurality of gaps defining an open space from each of said annular shaped pressure vessels to a next adjacent one of said annular shaped pressure vessels across each of said plurality of edges of each of said plurality of faces of said polyhedron; and (e) a plurality of annular shaped electromagnets each comprised of a plurality of associated power-connections and a plurality of associated coolant connectors, each of said plurality of annular shaped electromagnets contained inside said inner vessel volume of one of said plurality of modules, each of said plurality of power-connectors passing through a hollow interior of one of said plurality of hollow pressure-tight legs, and each of said coolant-connectors passing through a hollow interior of one of said plurality of hollow pressure-tight legs, whereby a plasma in an energy device can be confined in vacuum by a surrounding polyhedron of electromagnets, not touching each other and conveniently connected to services and operating in atmospheric air.