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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2010
Frank J. Wessel, Irvine, CA (US);
Hafiz Ur Rahman, Riverside, CA (US);
Norman Rostoker, Irvine, CA (US);
Paul Ney, Moreno Valley, CA (US);
Frank J. Wessel, Irvine, CA (US);
Hafiz Ur Rahman, Riverside, CA (US);
Norman Rostoker, Irvine, CA (US);
Paul Ney, Moreno Valley, CA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
A fusible target is embedded in a high Z liner, ohmically heated and then shock wave heated by implosion of an enveloping high Z liner. The target is adiabatically heated by compression, fusibly ignited and charged-particle heated as it is being ignited. A shock front forms as the liner implodes which shock front detaches from the more slowly moving liner, collides with the outer surface of the target, accelerates inward, rapidly heating the target, adiabatically compressing the target and liner and amplifying the current to converge the liner mass toward a central axis thereby compressing the target to a fusion condition when it begins to ignite and produce charged particles. The charged particles are trapped in a large magnetic field surrounding the target. The energy of the charged particles is deposited into the target to further heat the target to produce an energy gain.