Energy converter

• US 3,243,687 A
• Filed: 02/03/1960
• Issued: 03/29/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Richard Hoh Siegfried
• Original Assignee: Richard Hoh Siegfried
• Inventors: RICHARD HOH SIEGFRIED
• Application Number:
  US04/006,395
• Time in Patent Office: 2,246 Days
• US Class Current: 322/2.00R
• CPC Class Codes: H01G 7/02 Electrets, i.e. having a permanently-polarised dielectric
• 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

1. AN ENERGY CONVERTER COMPRISING AN ENERGY STORAGE ELEMENT HAVING A GIVEN RANGE OF DECREASING PERMITTIVITIES OVER A GIVEN INCREASING TEMPERATURE RANGE, MEANS COUPLED TO SAID ELEMENT TO STORE ELECTRICAL CHARGE THEREON AT A GIVEN POINT IN SAID TEMPERATURE RANGE AT A GIVEN VOLTAGE, AND MEANS TO SUBJECT SAID ELEMENT TO A SOURCE OF HEAT TO VARY THE THERMAL ENERGY AND PERMITTIVITY OF SAID ELEMENT, AND UTILIZATION MEANS COUPLED TO SAID ELEMENTS TO EXTRACT SAID CHARGE AT A VOLTAGE WHICH IS INCREASED OVER SAID GIVEN VOLTAGE WITH AN INCREASE IN SAID THERMAL ENERGY.