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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 1981
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
Torkil H Jensen, Del Mar, CA (US);
Nobuyoshi Ohyabu, La Jolla, CA (US);
Chung-Lih Hsieh, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
General Atomic Company, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
176-3 ; 176-9 ; 176-5 ;
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for merging of tokamak plasmas, having applications including pseudo steady-state tokamak operation, refueling, impurity removal and plasma heating. In such systems, currents of two merging tokamak plasmas are provided in the same direction so that the plasma columns attract each other, and the merging of the plasmas is carried out under the control of appropriate guiding fields.