Microwave engines

• US 3,083,528 A
• Filed: 05/12/1959
• Issued: 04/02/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/1959
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: William C. Brown
• Original Assignee: William C. Brown
• Inventors: Brown, William C.
• Application Number:
  US03/812,697
• Time in Patent Office: 1,421 Days
• US Class Current: 60/203.1
• CPC Class Codes: F02K 7/08 the jet being continuous
• CPC Class Codes: F03H 1/00 Using plasma to produce a reactive propulsive thrust generating plasma H05H1/00 ion sources per se H01J27/02, ion sources for plasma processing or ion beams H01J37/08
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 50/60 Efficient propulsion technologies, e.g. for aircraft

Claims

1. IN A REACTION ENGINE INCLUDING A FLUID INLET AND A NOZZLE THROUGH WHICH FLUID IS EXPELLED PRODUCING THRUST, MEANS BETWEEN SAID INLET AND NOZZLE FOR HEATING SAID FLUID COMPRISING AN ELONGATED CHAMBER HAVING WALLS OF ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL, ONE END OF SAID CHAMBER BEING CONNECTED TO SAID INLET AND THE OTHER END OF SAID CHAMBER BEING CONNECTED TO SAID NOZZLE, MEANS IN SAID CHAMBER FOR ABSORBING MICROWAVE ENERGY WITHOUT SUBSTANTIALLY BLOCKING THE FLOW OF FLUID THERETHROUGH, MEANS SUBSTANTIALLY TRANSPARENT TO MICROWAVE ENERGY FORMING PART OF THE WALLS OF SAID CHAMBER BETWEEN SAID INLET AND SAID ABSORBING MEANS, AND MEANS BETWEEN SAID INLET AND SAID TRANSPARENT MEANS FOR REFLECTING MICROWAVE ENERGY WITHOUT SUBSTANTIALLY BLOCKING THE FLOW OF SAID FLUID THERETHROUGH.