NON-POLLUTION MOTOR WITH GAS TUBE CONDUCTORS

• US 3,870,942 A
• Filed: 08/27/1973
• Issued: 03/11/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Harold L. Boese, Thomas R. Hencey Jr
• Original Assignee: Harold L. Boese, Thomas R. Hencey Jr
• Inventors: Boese, Harold L., Hencey, Thomas R. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Miller, J. D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hickey, Robert J.
• Application Number:
  US05/391,544
• Time in Patent Office: 561 Days
• Field of Search: 320/2,15,61 339/15,16RC,16R,117R 60/36 290/50 310/54 180/65 318/139 322/DIG.1
• US Class Current: 322/35
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 3/02 of piston type
• CPC Class Codes: F01B 17/025 using liquid air
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 15/005 Adaptations for refrigeration plants
• CPC Class Codes: F01K 15/02 for driving vehicles, e.g. locomotives
• CPC Class Codes: F01K 25/10 the vapours being cold, e.g. ammonia, carbon dioxide, ether
• CPC Class Codes: F01K 27/02 Plants modified to use their waste heat, other than that of exhaust, e.g. engine-friction heat
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/613 Cooling or keeping cold
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/656 characterised by the type of heat-exchange fluid
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

Non-pollution power plant wherein a cryogenic fluid cools an electric drive motor and/or electric generator driven by a gas motor operated by flow of the evaporated cryogenic fluid therethrough. Tubular conduits conduct the cryogenic fluid as well as electrical current to the drive motor from batteries charged by the generator.

Claims

1. In combination with a source of liquefied cryogenic fluid conducted in heat exchange relation to an electric motor energized from battery storage means charged by a generator, means for conducting electrical energy from the battery storage means to the electric motor, including a plurality of tubing sections made of electrically conductive material, insulating connector means interconnecting said tubing sections in electrically non-conductive relation to each other for establishing a continuous flow path between the battery storage means and the electric motor to exhaust for the cryogenic fluid, and means connecting the electrically conductive tubing sections to the electric motor and the battery storage means for conducting unidirectional current through the electric motor.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein said cryogenic fluid absorbs heat from the electric motor and the battery storage means.

3. The combination of claim 2 wherein said battery storage means includes a plurality of batteries, at least one pair of said batteries being interconnected in series and another pair of said batteries being interconnected in parallel, said series connected and parallel connected pairs of batteries being connected in series to the electric motor and switch means connected to the electric motor for alternatively completing a motor energizing circuit through both pairs of said batteries or through the series connected pair of batteries in by-pass relation to the parallel connected pair of batteries.

4. The combination of claim 3 wherein the battery storage means further includes converter means connected to the generator for establishing a source of d.c. voltage connected across both pairs of interconnected batteries.

5. The combination of claim 1 wherein said battery storage means includes a plurality of batteries, at least one pair of said batteries being interconnected in series and another pair of said batteries being interconnected in parallel, said series connected and parallel connected pairs of batteries being connected in series to the electric motor and switch means connected to the electric motor for alternatively completing a motor energizing circuit through both pairs of said batteries or through the seriEs connected pair of batteries in by-pass relation to the parallel connected pair of batteries.

6. The combination of claim 5 wherein the battery storage means further includes converter means connected to the generator for establishing a source of d.c. voltage connected across both pairs of interconnected batteries.

7. In combination with a battery source of electrical energy and an electrodynamic device, a source of cryogenic fluid, a heat exchanger, conduit means including portions respectively interconnecting the source of fluid with the heat exchanger, the battery source and the source and the electrodynamic device, said portion connecting the battery source to the electrodynamic device;

conducting electrical current to the electrodynamic device through the conduit means while the cryogenic fluid is absorbing heat from the battery source.

8. The combination of claim 7 wherein said conduit means includes a plurality of tubing sections made of electrically conductive material, and insulating connector means interconnecting said tubing sections in electrically non-conductive relation to each other for limiting flow of electrical current unidirectionally while establishing a continuous flow path for the cryogenic fluid.

9. The combination of claim 8 wherein said conduit means conducts the cryogenic fluid in heat transfer relation to the electrodynamic device.

10. The combination of claim 9 wherein said heat exchanger is an evaporator.

11. The combination of claim 10 wherein said battery source comprises a plurality of batteries, at least one pair of said batteries being interconnected in series and another pair of said batteries being interconnected in parallel, said series connected and parallel connected pairs of batteries being connected in series to the electrodynamic device and switch means connected to the electrodynamic device for alternatively completing an energizing circuit through both pairs of said batteries or through the series connected pair of batteries in by-pass relation to the parallel connected pair of batteries.

12. The combination of claim 7 wherein said conduit means conducts the cryogenic fluid in heat transfer relation to the electrically energized device.

13. The combination of claim 12 wherein said heat exchanger is an evaporator.