Moment free toroidal magnet

Patent · 01 January 1983

OSTI ID:864529

Bonanos, Peter ^[1]

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1. East Brunswick, NJ

A toroidal magnet for confining a high magnetic field for use in fusion reactor research and nuclear particle detection. The magnet includes a series of conductor elements arranged about and fixed at its small major radius portion to the outer surface of a central cylindrical support each conductor element having a geometry such as to maintain the conductor elements in pure tension when a high current flows therein, and a support assembly which redistributes all or part of the tension which would otherwise arise in the small major radius portion of each coil element to the large major radius portion thereof.

• Research Organization: Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-02-3073
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 4378545
• OSTI ID: 864529
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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