US 11,758,638 B2
Apparatus for producing a filamented auxiliary discharge for an apparatus for producing x-radiation and particle radiation and also for a fusion reactor with the apparatus for producing x-radiation and particle radiation and method for producing x-radiation and particle radiation
Paul Höß, Munich (DE)
Assigned to PAUL HOSS KG, Munich (DE)
Appl. No. 17/252,238
Filed by Paul Höß KG, Munich (DE)
PCT Filed Jun. 3, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/064368
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 14, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/238458, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 102018114295.1 (DE), filed on Jun. 14, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0259088 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. H05H 1/48 (2006.01); H05G 2/00 (2006.01)
CPC H05G 2/003 (2013.01) [H05G 2/008 (2013.01); H05H 1/48 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. Device for generating X-ray radiation and particle radiation by means of nuclear fusion, comprising:
an anode and a cathode, which are separated from each other by an insulator and are arranged coaxially to each other, wherein the anode and the cathodes are arranged at least partially in a reactor chamber;
a pre-discharge device for generating a filamented pre-discharge forming a low impedance bridging over the insulator;
a gas that is contained in the reactor chamber;
an electrical pre-discharge source, especially with high internal resistance, which is connected to the pre-discharge device; and
an electric discharge source electrically connected to the anode and the cathode, wherein a dense magnetically confined plasmoid is generated in front of the anode as a result of an electrical discharge from the electrical discharge source and emits one or more ion beams, one or more X-ray beams, or combinations thereof,
wherein the pre-discharge device comprises a first auxiliary electrode and a second auxiliary electrode separated from each other by the insulator and arranged axially parallel to each other, wherein the first auxiliary electrode and the second auxiliary electrode are partially arranged in the reactor chamber, the first auxiliary electrode having a plurality of first auxiliary-electrode electrodes and the second auxiliary electrode having a plurality of second auxiliary-electrode electrodes, and wherein the first auxiliary electrode and the second auxiliary electrode are configured to form a filamented pre-discharge between the first auxiliary-electrode electrodes and the second auxiliary-electrode electrodes.