US 12,078,153 B2
Thermally managed electric propulsion systems
Scott N Roberts, Altadena, CA (US); Sean W Reilly, Pasadena, CA (US); Robert P Dillon, Costa Mesa, CA (US); Benjamin I Furst, Pasadena, CA (US); and Dan M Goebel, Pasadena, CA (US)
Assigned to CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Pasadena, CA (US)
Filed by CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Pasadena, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/721,026.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/175,481, filed on Apr. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0003202 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. F03H 1/00 (2006.01); B33Y 80/00 (2015.01)
CPC F03H 1/0031 (2013.01) [F03H 1/0075 (2013.01); B33Y 80/00 (2014.12)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electric propulsion (EP) system, comprising:
a discharge chamber with a longitudinal extension according to an axial direction of the EP system; and
a magnetic circuit for generation in the discharge chamber of a magnetic field according to a radial direction of the EP system,
wherein the magnetic circuit comprises:
a monolithic structure with an integrated continuous serpentine channel for provision of an embedded oscillating heat pipe (OHP).