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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7982343 | Magnetohydrodynamic engergy conversion device using solar radiation as an energy source A magnetohydrodynamic energy conversion device has a tungsten housing containing a working fluid and a conduit leading from and reentering the housing under pressure developed by heating the fluid with by an optical concentrator which directs rays from the sun at th... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7973434 | Power supply system employing conductive fluid An electromotive cooling head includes a substrate, an N-pole magnet, and an S-pole magnet, and kept in intimate contact with the backside of the semiconductor integrated circuit so as to cover it. The substrate has a fluid channel having a micro-channel structure, ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7745962 | Thermal to electrical energy converter The invention is a converter for converting thermal energy into electrical energy. The energy conversion takes place by causing magnetic particles that are initially suspended in ferrofluid to circulate in the converter and to induce electric currents when they pass... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7554223 | Magnetohydrodynamic energy conversion device using a heat exchanger An energy conversion device for generating electricity includes a heat exchanger adapted to receive heat from a heat source. A closed magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) circuit includes a section for extracting heat from a heat exchanger so as to raise the temperature of the... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7438789 | Decomposition cell A decomposition cell having a first metal plate with a first layer of dielectric and a second metal plate with a second layer of dielectric wherein each layer of dielectric is sprayed onto the metal plates in molten form using a thermal plasma spray process. The pla... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7371052 | Embedded fluid mixing device using a homopolar motor A fluid displacement device (100) having a homopolar motor (110). The homopolar motor includes a rotatable disk (115) with at least one fluid displacement structure (120) disposed thereon. The fluid displacement structure can be a blade. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7368827 | Electrical assembly for monitoring conditions in a combustion turbine operating environment An electrical assembly for use in various operating environments such as a casing of a combustion turbine 10 is provided. The assembly may include an electrical energy-harvesting device 51 disposed in a component within the casing of the turbine to con... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365956 | Plasma driven, N-type semiconductor, thermoelectric power superoxide ion generator with critical bias conditions A plasma is generated inside a barrier enclosure made specifically of N-Type semiconductive material, said plasma thus generating a thermal gradient across said barrier which drives electrons through said barrier via the thermoelectric power of said N-Type semicondu... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7350559 | Systems and methods of electromagnetic influence on electroconducting continuum Thus, as shown by an exact electrodynamic computation of EMBF and the estimations described above of the velocity of turbulent flows arising due to their effect, application of amplitude- and frequency-modulated helically traveling (rotating and axially traveling) e... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7347294 | Power system for electrically powered land vehicle The power system for an electrically powered land vehicle extracts electrons from ambient air to generate adequate electrical power to operate the land vehicle electrical energy production and propulsion system. The extracted electrons generate enough electrical pow... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7304396 | Turbo-machine and method for operating the same A turbo-machine having a rotor, a stator, and a flow channel for an actuating fluid used to drive the rotor is disclosed. The turbo-machine has a magnet for producing a predeterminable magnetic field in the flow channel. The invention also relates to a method for op... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7300258 | Electromagnetic pump An electromagnetic pump has a supply section and a magnetic force pumping section wherein flow of a electrically conductive material through the supply section is opposite to the flow of the material in the magnetic force pumping section in some examples. Multiple c... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7278271 | Radial high energy acoustic device and the applied thermoacoutic device A radial acoustic driver uses to generate higher amplitude of pressure fluctuation with radial type standing wave. The radial acoustic driver includes a cyclic type resonance tube which is filled with a working fluid inside, and a ring type electricity-acoustic ener... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7276819 | Explosively driven power generation, method and device A method for generating power including an energetic charge is activated to produce a shockwave, which is imparted at an effective velocity and temperature on a gas to ionize the gas for creating plasma and to drive the plasma. The plasma is impacted on an electrica... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7262384 | Reaction vessel and method for synthesizing nanoparticles using cyclonic gas flow A reaction vessel and a method for efficiently producing and collecting nanoparticles in the reaction vessel using cyclonic gas flow. Gas is injected through an inlet tangentially positioned relative to the axis of the vessel to cause the gas to form an outer helica... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7218016 | Explosively driven radio frequency pulse generating apparatus A device for generating an intense radio frequency pulse through use of a helical Magneto-Cumulative Generator (MCG). The MCG provides a chemical explosion and acts as a converter to transform the chemical/mechanical energy into an electrical energy impulse. Due to ... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7166927 | Modular liquid-metal magnetohydrodynamic (LMMHD) power generation cell A LMMHD power generation cell, having a fluid channel in which a conductive fluid is forced to flow in response to an external force. A pair of pressure conveying members such as bellow reservoirs can be used for conveying the external force to the conductive flow. ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7154190 | All-weather energy and water production via steam-enhanced vortex tower The space-saving, long operating, and cheap vortex plants of large power intensively combine solar, either waste and secondary, or geothermal heating of slightly pressured water with use of wind, giving competitive electricity and water production without firing of ... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7139349 | Spherical neutron generator A spherical neutron generator is formed with a small spherical target and a spherical shell RF-driven plasma ion source surrounding the target. A deuterium (or deuterium and tritium) ion plasma is produced by RF excitation in the plasma ion source using an RF antenn... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7116004 | Method for regulating the operation of a device for generating electric energy by means of a generator driven by a free-piston internal combustion engine The present invention relates to a method for controlling an electrical generator comprising a two-stroke free piston internal combustion engine having a first cylinder and a second cylinder aligned on a common axis, a first piston pair comprising a first piston and... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7105935 | Device of micro vortex for ferrofluid power generator A ferrofluid power generator with micro vortex generator is disclosed, which is capable of generating an induced current by enabling a ferrofluid having a plurality of magnetic particles to flow in a closed circuit, the device comprising a vortex generator and a ind... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7105940 | Mobile renewable energy generator A method and apparatus for a portable renewable energy generator includes; a movable platform adapted for one of towing and transport to a remote area, a redundant renewable energy source generator including a wind energy extraction device configured for transport o... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7098559 | Engine using the transition state of a superconductor to produce energy The inventive method uses a superconductor to generate energy. The superconductor is alternated between a temperature above and below a critical temperature defined by a transition between the superconducting and non-superconducting states. The superconductor intera... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7095143 | Device and method for ferrofluid power generator and cooling system A device and method for ferrofluid power generator and cooling system, wherein the waste heat of electronic device is used as a heat source to vaporize fluid and form bubbles as a forwarding pump of the ferrofluid. The fluid with magnetic nano particles is pumped fo... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7084572 | Plasma-accelerator configuration The invention relates to various advantageous embodiments of a plasma-accelerator configuration, especially for the configuration and design of electron sources used for ionizing the working gas and/or neutralizing the discharged plasma jet. ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7061129 | Electric generator having a magnetohydrodynamic effect The generator comprises at least one source of pressurized gas and a closed hydraulic circuit containing a solution comprising an electrically conducting vehicle liquid in which a charge of micro- or nanoparticles of a metal material is dispersed. The circuit has | 06/13/2006 |
| 7057313 | Cooling of voice coil motors A voice coil motor used, for example, in a positioning device associated with either a first object table or a second object table in which the coil is cooled with a cooling jacket in thermal contact with the coil, the cooling jacket comprising at least one channel ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7053565 | Electrostatic fluid accelerator for and a method of controlling fluid flow An electrostatic fluid acceleration and method of operation thereof includes at least two synchronously powered stages with final or rear-most electrodes of one stage maintained at substantially the same instantaneous voltage as the immediately adjacent initial or f... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7015616 | System and method for providing coil retention in the rotor windings of a high speed generator A coil retention system for a rotor of a high speed electrical generator, such as an aircraft generator, that uses compliant material to fill variable dimension voids and/or gaps in the coils wound around the rotor of an electrical machine. During processing of the ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012341 | Electric power generator equipment In order to obtain an electric power generator equipment capable of efficiently generating electric power and capable of reducing cost, without a water bath and constructive maximum height, the electric power generator equipment comprises a floating member for float... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7009310 | Autonomous power source An autonomous power source comprises a power harvester mounted on a movable structure. The power harvester includes a coil, a magnet, and a low-friction ferrofluidic bearing in contact with the magnet, arranged such that the magnet and coil move with respect to each... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7004238 | Electrode design for electrohydrodynamic induction pumping thermal energy transfer system An electrode configuration for use in association with a heat transfer member provided in a thermal energy transfer system. Separate multiple electrical conductors are each received on a respective first surface alteration. Each of the multiple conductors is connect... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7002126 | Projectile steering by plasma discharge A device and method for guiding or steering projectiles (self-propelled or non-self-propelled), or missiles, and for steering a supersonic projectile, or a missile, having a nose, generally in the shape of a cone, having a more or less pointed end, and capable of cr... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6982501 | Magnetic fluid power generator device and method for generating power A device for generating power includes a fluid including magnetic particles. A source magnetizes the fluid thereby inducing rotations in the magnetic particles for creating a magnetic flux. The rotations of the magnetic particles induce an electromagnetic force in a... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6979917 | Permanent-magnetically excited electrical motor A permanent-magnetically excited electric machine comprising a stator part (2) and a moving part (30) movable relative to the stator part (2), as well as an air gap (8) between the stator part (2) and the moving part (30), w... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6971262 | System and method for rheological characterization of granular materials A system for characterizing rheological properties of granular material. A cylindrical measurement cup containing granular material is subject to a uniform vibration induced by a vibration exciter at a user-determined frequency. At the same time, a rotation or an os... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6959549 | Micro-power unit A micro power unit comprises a Rankine cycle circuit powered by combustion of hydrocarbon fuel from tank (2). Combustion takes place on a combustion catalyst (6) in a chamber (5). The fluid circuit includes a boiler (10), turbine (11 | 11/01/2005 |
| 6927510 | Cooling electromagnetic stirrers Cooling of the electrical coils of an electromagnetic stirrer is effected using a ferrofluid. ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6861770 | Using the transition state of a superconductor to produce energy A method of using a superconductor to generate energy. The superconductor is alternated between a temperature above and below a critical temperature defined by a transition between the superconducting and non-superconducting state. The superconductor interacts with ... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6696774 | Magnetohydrodynamic power extraction and flow conditioning in a gas flow turbine This invention provides an apparatus and a method which utilizes magnetohydrodynamic means for conditioning flow in a gas flow turbine or turbojet and for achieving power extraction to increase relative velocity. Moreover, the power, which is so extracted... | 02/24/2004 |
