PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15979375
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["315", "111410"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods that facilitate the formation and maintenance of new High Performance Field Reversed Configurations (FRCs). An FRC system for the High Performance FRC (HPF) includes a central confinement vessel surrounded by two diametrically opposed reversed-field-theta-pinch formation sections and, beyond the formation sections, two divertor chambers to control neutral density and impurity contamination. A magnetic system includes a series of quasi-dc coils axially positioned along the FRC system components, quasi-dc mirror coils between the confinement chamber and the adjacent formation sections, and mirror plugs between the formation sections and the divertors. The formation sections include modular pulsed power formation systems that enable FRCs to be formed in-situ and then accelerated and injected (=static formation) or formed and accelerated simultaneously (=dynamic formation). The FRC system further includes neutral atom beam injectors, a pellet injector, gettering systems, axial plasma guns and flux surface biasing electrodes.

Claim (Index 16):
A method for generating and maintaining a magnetic field with a field reversed configuration (FRC) comprising\n generating magnetic field with a magnetic system coupled to a confinement chamber, first and second diametrically opposed FRC formation sections coupled to the confinement chamber, and first and second divertors coupled to the first and second formation sections, generating an FRC in each of the first and second formation sections and translating each FRC toward a midplane of the confinement chamber where the FRCs merge into a merged FRC, injecting neutral atom beams into the merged FRC from a plurality of neutral atom beam injectors coupled to the confinement chamber and oriented normal to the axis of the confinement chamber, and injecting plasma into the merged FRC from first and second axial plasma guns operably coupled to the first and second divertors, the first and second formation sections and the confinement chamber.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.78261
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13261901', '15078918', '15582426', '15405049', '10983012']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8072720061945678
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6446133964521789
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.791006145220329
- Mean Citation Score: 527.473196
- Max Citation Score: 668.8759
- Similarity Product: 577.2696270441829

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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