Protective interior wall and attach8ing means for a fusion reactor vacuum vessel

Patent · 31 December 1987

OSTI ID:866702

Phelps, Richard D ^[1]; Upham, Gerald A ^[2]; Anderson, Paul M ^[3]

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1. Greeley, CO
2. Valley Center, CA
3. San Diego, CA

An array of connected plates mounted on the inside wall of the vacuum vessel of a magnetic confinement reactor in order to provide a protective surface for energy deposition inside the vessel. All fasteners are concealed and protected beneath the plates, while the plates themselves share common mounting points. The entire array is installed with torqued nuts on threaded studs; provision also exists for thermal expansion by mounting each plate with two of its four mounts captured in an oversize grooved spool. A spool-washer mounting hardware allows one edge of a protective plate to be torqued while the other side remains loose, by simply inverting the spool-washer hardware.

• Research Organization: GA TECHNOLOGIES INC
• DOE Contract Number: AT03-76ET51011
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by United States (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 4767592
• OSTI ID: 866702
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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