Magneto-turbine electric charging

• US 20040189008A1
• Filed: 03/26/2003
• Published: 09/30/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Constantinos Tsatsis
• Original Assignee: Constantinos Tsatsis
• Inventors: Tsatsis, Constantinos
• Application Number:
  US10/396,244
• Publication Number:
  US 20040189008A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 290/1A
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/30 using propulsion power stored mechanically, e.g. in fly-wheels
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/14 for charging batteries from dynamo-electric generators driven at varying speed, e.g. on vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 9/066 characterised by the use of dynamo-electric machines H02J9/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries

Abstract

Method and apparatus for electrical storage and magneto-turbine charging, by having the turbine driven by pressure, supplemented by motor action, to operate a generator that produces electrical energy that is stored, for example in a battery to operate a motor vehicle; when the stored charge falls below a prescribed level the turbine is operated until the prescribed level stored charge is reached. The electrical storage thus produced may be used as an emergency source of electricity, for example, to provide power when a source, such as a public utility, in interrupted in an emergency.

Claims

1. Apparatus comprising

means for storing electrical energy;

and

pressure means for operating a turbine to charge the electrical storage means;

wherein the operation of said turbine is supplemented by motor action.

2. Apparatus as defined in claim 1 wherein said electrical storage means comprises a battery for providing an alternative source of electric power, including emergency power for household operation in the event of an interruption in public utility power.

3. Apparatus as defined in claim 2 wherein said battery is installed to supply motive power for a vehicle, including automobiles.

4. Apparatus as defined in claim 1 wherein said compressed fluid is air produced by a compressor system, and said motor action supplementing the operation of said turbine is through a clutch.

5. Apparatus as defined in claim 4 wherein said pressure means includes means for generating electrical charges and said compressor system includes a low-pressure compressor and a high-pressure compressor.

6. Apparatus as defined in claim 4 wherein said means for generating electrical charges comprises a pressure storage source for driving a turbine which also is driven by said motor.

7. Apparatus as defined in claim 6 wherein the charges on said electrical storage means are monitored and said means for generating electrical charges is operated when said charge on said electrical storage means falls below a prescribed level and the generating means is connected to a transmission.

8. Apparatus as defined in claim 7 wherein the operation of said means for generating electrical energy is terminated when said charge on said electrical storage means returns to said prescribed level and said compressor system includes a saturator and a combustor.

9. A method of electrical charging comprising

storing electrical energy in electrical storage means;

and

charging said electrical storage means by motor means and means for storing compressed fluid.

10. The method of claim 9 including storing electrical energy in a battery charged by a generator driven from a motorized turbine through a transmission.

11. The method of claim 10 including installing said battery in a vehicle to supply motive power therefore and charging said means for storing compressed fluid through a compressor system.

12. The method of claim 9 including storing compressed air in said pressure means by said compressor system.

13. The method of claim 9 wherein said compressed fluid originates in a low-pressure compressor of said compressor system.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein said pressure means includes means for generating alternating current electrical charges for providing emergency power.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein said means for generating electrical charges comprises a pressure storage tank connected to a turbine which is connected to a generator having a conventional magnetized rotor and a conventional stator winding which supplies additional magnetization to the rotor windings.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the charge on said electrical storage means is monitored and said means for generating electrical charges is operated when said charge on said electrical storage means falls below a prescribed level.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the operation of said means for generating electrical energy is terminated when said charge on said electrical storage means returns to said prescribed level.

18. A method of fabricating electrical charging apparatus comprising the steps of;

(a) providing means for storing electrical energy; and

(b) providing means for pressure charging the electrical storage means by a compressed gaseous fluid operating a motorized turbine.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein said electrical storage means comprises a battery for moving a vehicle, said pressure means comprises means for storing a compressed gaseous fluid and includes means for generating electrical charges from a pressure storage tank connected to a turbine which is connected to a generator, and the charge on said electrical storage means is monitored to operate when said charge on said electrical storage means falls below a prescribed level, and the operation of said means for generating electrical energy is terminated when said charge on said electrical storage means returns to said prescribed level.