Vehicle turbine system

• US 10,358,039 B1
• Filed: 09/14/2018
• Issued: 07/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Edward Michael Frierman
• Original Assignee: Edward Michael Frierman
• Inventors: Frierman, Edward Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Shriver, II, James A
• Assistant Examiner(s): Clemmons, Steve
• Application Number:
  US16/131,190
• Time in Patent Office: 312 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 15/07 of gas tanks
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2015/0637 the fuel tank is arranged in the front of the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2016/006 wind power driven
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/0007 Measures or means for preventing or attenuating collisions
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 8/006 Converting flow of air into electric energy, e.g. by using wind turbines
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 3/002 the axis being horizontal
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 3/02 having a plurality of rotors
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 9/25 the apparatus being an electrical generator F03D9/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 9/32 on moving objects, e.g. vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2240/941 which is a land vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/728 Onshore wind turbines
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/74 Wind turbines with rotation axis perpendicular to the wind direction
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/90 Energy harvesting concepts as power supply for auxiliaries' energy consumption, e.g. photovoltaic sun-roof

Abstract

A vehicle has a plurality of turbines. Each turbine includes a housing with a spindle. Each spindle has a central axis and a rotor with outwardly extending blades. Each turbine also includes a stator positioned adjacent to an associated rotor.

Claims

1. A turbine vehicle system (10) utilizing wind for rotating turbines in a vehicle when moving and for powering the vehicle in response to the rotating, the system comprising:

a vehicle body (14) having a forward end (16) and a rearward end (18), an upper portion (20), a lower portion (22), and laterally spaced first and second sides (24)(26);

the body having first and second lower air intake ducts (28)(30) and first and second lower air outlet ducts (32)(34);

the body having first and second upper air intake ducts (36)(38) and a common upper air outlet duct (40);

a forward lower turbine (46) and a rearward lower turbine (48) within the lower portion of the vehicle body, a forward upper turbine (50) and a rearward upper turbine (52) within the upper portion of the vehicle body;

each turbine including a housing (56) with a turbine within each housing, each housing having a generally rectilinear configuration formed of an upper plate (58) and a parallel lower plate (60) separated by a height, each housing having a forward end (62) and a rectilinear periphery (64);

a vertically oriented spindle (68), upper and lower spindle brackets (69) encompassing the vertically oriented spindle, the upper and lower brackets centrally positioned within each housing and turbine, the spindle having a central axis; and

a rotor (78) having a circular rotatable plate with magnets (80) imbedded in the rotatable plate.

2. The system as set forth in claim 1 wherein, the magnets are shaped in the form of eight rectangles extending radially at 45 degrees with respect to each other.

3. The system as set forth in claim 2 and further including stators (82) above and below the rotatable plate, a circular fixedly positioned plate with coils of coiled wires (84), the wires being secured on the fixedly positioned plate adjacent to the rotating magnets.

4. The system as set forth in claim 3, wherein the wires are shaped in the form of eight isosceles triangles with legs extending radially at 45 degrees, the wires of the triangles being coupled to each other and then extending exteriorly of the turbines to provide electrical current to the system when the magnets are rotated with respect to the wires.

5. The system as set forth in claim 3 wherein:

the stators and the rotors in the housings form upper and lower turbines, the lower turbines being part of the undercarriage of the vehicle, the lower turbines being adapted to seal off through sliding doors (86) to form air-tight chambers, compressed air tanks (88) located in a hood section of the vehicle force compressed air through an inlet nozzle (90) against vanes (92) attached to the rotors located in the air-tight chambers, control of the compressed air being through compressor (87) and vacuum pump (89), an outlet port laterally spaced from the inlet nozzle allowing escape of the compressed air from the lower tubines after rotating the rotor, once the rotor is turning at a predetermined speed and the vehicle is moving, the sliding doors open and the flow of air through the housing keeps the rotors rotating and the vehicle powered.

6. The system as set forth in claim 5 wherein the forward upper turbine and the rearward upper turbine are located in the roof of the vehicle and constitute external air turbines, the upper turbines being powered by air rushing over the vehicle, the upper turbines counter rotating, the upper turbines being activated after the lower turbines have put the vehicle in motion, a gear train (96) to multiply the speed of the rotors.

7. The system as set forth in claim 6 and further including an electric motor (94) within the vehicle, the turbines being adapted to power the electric motor and the motor being adapted to drive the vehicle.