THERMIONIC CONVERSION OF MICROWAVE ENERGY TO DIRECT CURRENT

• US 3,432,690 A
• Filed: 08/31/1966
• Issued: 03/11/1969
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1966
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alan E. Blume
• Original Assignee: Alan E. Blume
• Inventors: Blume, Alan E.
• Application Number:
  US04/576,800
• Time in Patent Office: 923 Days
• US Class Current: 310/306
• 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

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