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 17):
The method of  claim 16  further comprising confining particles in the merged FRC for a period of time that is greater by at least a factor of two (2) deviations than the particle confinement time of an FRC having substantially the same radius of a magnetic field null (R) and particle confinement scaling that substantially depends on the ratio R 2 /\u03c1 i , where \u03c1 i  is an ion lamor radius evaluated in an externally applied field.

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): 0.8127899935002482
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.621934658114042
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7937044599616275
- Mean Citation Score: 527.473196
- Max Citation Score: 668.8759
- Similarity Product: 506.4740691775144

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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