MUMBAI, India, June 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647076179 A) filed by Exotrail on June 19, 2026, for Cathode For A Hall-Effect Ion Thruster.
Inventor includes Kurt, Huseyin.
The application for the patent was published on June 26, 2026, under issue no. 26/2026.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a cathode for an ion thrust device, the cathode having a cylindrical shape extending along a main axis A-A' between a downstream end (10A) comprising an electron outlet (18) and an upstream end (10B) comprising a gas admission inlet (22). The cathode comprises a hollow cylindrical cathode body (14), an electron emitter (12) made of heat-emissive material arranged inside the cathode body (14), a cylindrical internal electrode (21) coaxially surrounding the cathode body (14) and positioned at a distance from the cathode body (14), a hollow cylindrical dielectric support (17) coaxially surrounding the internal electrode (21) and positioned at a distance from the internal electrode (21), a heating filament (13) arranged in spiral form on an internal face of the dielectric support (17), the internal electrode (21) comprising a plurality of through-openings (25) configured to allow the passage of the thermal radiation emitted by the heating filament (13), in order to heat the cathode body (14).
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