Energy converter

• US 3,073,974 A
• Filed: 06/17/1959
• Issued: 01/15/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/1959
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Richard Hoh Siegfried
• Original Assignee: Richard Hoh Siegfried
• Inventors: RICHARD HOH SIEGFRIED
• Application Number:
  US03/821,029
• Time in Patent Office: 1,308 Days
• US Class Current: 62/3.1
• CPC Class Codes: H01G 7/02 Electrets, i.e. having a permanently-polarised dielectric
• CPC Class Codes: H01G 7/04 having a dielectric selected for the variation of its permittivity with applied temperature
• CPC Class Codes: H01J 45/00 Discharge tubes functioning as thermionic generators structural combination of fuel element with thermoelectric element G21C3/40; nuclear power plants using thermionic converters G21D7/04; structural combination of a radioactive source with a thermionic converter, e.g. radioisotope batteries G21H1/10; generators in which thermal or kinetic energy is converted into electrical energy by ionisation of a fluid and removal of the charge therefrom H02N3/00
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 44/085 with conducting liquids
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 7/54 by dynamic converters
• CPC Class Codes: H10N 15/10 Thermoelectric devices using thermal change of the dielectric constant, e.g. working above and below the Curie point

Claims

6. THERMODIELECTRIC HEAT TRANSFER APPARATUS COMPRISING AT LEAST ONE THERMODIELECTRIC CAPACITOR ELEMENT HAVING A SPECIFIC HEAT CHARACTERISTIC WHICH VARIES WITH AN ADIABATICALLY APPLIED ELECTRIC CHARGE, CHARGING MEANS COUPLED TO SAID ELEMENT FOR ADIABATICALLY TRANSFERRING AN ELECTRICAL CHARGE TO SAID ELEMENT, A THERMALLY ISOLATED ENCLOSURE, FIRST MEANS COUPLED TO SAID ELEMENT FOR THERMALLY LINKING SAID ELEMENT TO SAID ENCLOSURE, DISCHARGE MEANS COUPLED TO SAID ELEMENT FOR ADIABATICALLY DISCHARGING SAID ELEMENT, AN AMBIENT HEAT SINK, SECOND MEANS COUPLED TO SAID ELEMENT FOR THERMALLY LINKING SAID ELEMENT AND SAID HEAT SINK, AND CYCLIC CONTROL MEANS FOR CYCLICALLY AND SEQUENTIALLY COUPLING SAID ELEMENT TO SAID CHARGING MEANS, SAID FIRST MEANS SAID DISCHARGING MEANS AND SAID SECOND MEANS, TO THEREBY CHARGE SAID ELEMENT SO AS TO ABSORB HEAT FROM SAID ENCLOSURE AND TO DISCHARGE SAID ELEMENT TO INCREASE THE TEMPERATURE THEREOF AND THEREBY DELIVER SAID ABSORBED HEAT TO SAID HEAT SINK.