Method for controlling an electrical discharge using electrolytes and other electrically conductive fluid materials

• US 20040145354A1
• Filed: 01/14/2004
• Published: 07/29/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Walter W. Stumberger
• Original Assignee: Walter W. Stumberger
• Inventors: Stumberger, Walter W.
• Application Number:
  US10/756,517
• Publication Number:
  US 20040145354A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 320/166
• CPC Class Codes: F02P 23/00 Other ignition
• CPC Class Codes: F41A 1/04 Missile propulsion using the combustion of a liquid, loose powder or gaseous fuel, e.g. hypergolic fuel
• CPC Class Codes: F42B 3/14 Spark initiators F42B3/195 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F42C 19/12 electric
• CPC Class Codes: F42D 3/04 for rock blasting
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 15/06 using electric discharge

Abstract

The method of this invention uses a selected substance such as common saltwater to electrically connect electrically charged electrodes and pass electricity through the selected substance thereby discharging some or all of the electrical charge accumulated in a power system without the need for complex and un-reliable electrical triggering mechanisms.

Claims

1. is a method for discharging a charged electrical system through the introduction of a selected fluid substance of lesser resistance across a gap of higher resistance between electrically charged electrodes and

with said selected fluid substance providing an electrical connection between the said electrically charged electrodes and transferring electrical energy.

2. is a method for discharging a charged electrical system through the introduction of a selected fluid substance of lesser resistance across a gap of higher resistance between electrically charged electrodes and

with said selected fluid substance providing an electrical connection between the said electrically charged electrodes and transferring electrical energy and

with said selected substance changing its chemical and physical properties as a result of conducting said electricity and exiting the gap between the electrodes and restoring higher electrical resistance between the said electrodes.