DC to DC electrical transformer
Abstract
An electrical transformer system using helical electrodes applied to a plasma. Systems and methods transform DC voltages and currents to different DC voltages and currents. Instead of using wires and iron cores similar to known transformers, the present DC to DC transformer system exploits plasma, helical electrodes, an axial magnetic field and radial magnetic field coils, with a control system to specify a radial magnetic field at the edge of a specified magnitude. A DC input voltage is applied, and an output is taken from electrodes at opposite the ends of the central apparatus. The system and apparatus contains a radial magnetic field embedded in the helical electrodes; the secondary current is taken from either solid or split (slotted) electrodes. Methods are disclosed for changing the output voltage and current relative to the input values. The system can function as either a stepup or a stepdown transformer.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Tibbar Plasma Technologies, Inc., Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1568503
- Patent Number(s):
- 10334713
- Application Number:
- 15/601,899
- Assignee:
- Tibbar Plasma Technologies, Inc. (Los Alamos, NM)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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H - ELECTRICITY H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS H01F - MAGNETS
H - ELECTRICITY H02 - GENERATION H02M - APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC, OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS
- DOE Contract Number:
- AR0000677
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 05/22/2017
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING; 24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION; 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
Citation Formats
Finn, John, Nebel, Richard, Moser, Keith, Popa-Simil, Liviu, Akcay, Cihan, Barnes, Daniel, Fernandez, Juan, Gibson, William, and McEvoy, Aaron. DC to DC electrical transformer. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web.
Finn, John, Nebel, Richard, Moser, Keith, Popa-Simil, Liviu, Akcay, Cihan, Barnes, Daniel, Fernandez, Juan, Gibson, William, & McEvoy, Aaron. DC to DC electrical transformer. United States.
Finn, John, Nebel, Richard, Moser, Keith, Popa-Simil, Liviu, Akcay, Cihan, Barnes, Daniel, Fernandez, Juan, Gibson, William, and McEvoy, Aaron. Tue .
"DC to DC electrical transformer". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1568503.
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title = {DC to DC electrical transformer},
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abstractNote = {An electrical transformer system using helical electrodes applied to a plasma. Systems and methods transform DC voltages and currents to different DC voltages and currents. Instead of using wires and iron cores similar to known transformers, the present DC to DC transformer system exploits plasma, helical electrodes, an axial magnetic field and radial magnetic field coils, with a control system to specify a radial magnetic field at the edge of a specified magnitude. A DC input voltage is applied, and an output is taken from electrodes at opposite the ends of the central apparatus. The system and apparatus contains a radial magnetic field embedded in the helical electrodes; the secondary current is taken from either solid or split (slotted) electrodes. Methods are disclosed for changing the output voltage and current relative to the input values. The system can function as either a stepup or a stepdown transformer.},
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