Vehicle mountable electrical generating system
First Claim
1. A vehicle-mountable electrical power generating system for a wheeled vehicle, comprising, in combination, a housing, first mounting means for mounting said housing along the axis of rotation of a wheel for rotation with said wheel, second mounting means in said housing extending along the axis of rotation of said wheel, pendulum means suspended from said second mounting means, a rotatable electrical potential generating means including a generator shaft means, said generating means mounted with said pendulum means in para-axial relation to the axis of rotation of said wheel, drive means mounted for rotation with said housing and connected to rotate said generator shaft means of said generating means, said drive means having a substantially different diameter than said generator shaft means whereby rotation of said wheel causes said drive means to rotate said generator shaft means of said generating means at a selected rate higher than the rate of rotation of said wheel thereby generate electrical power.
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Abstract
A vehicle-mountable electrical power generating mechanism and signal transmitter, combined to constitute a self-powered generating system mountable such as on a wheel to monitor and provide an indication of certain operating characteristics of the wheel, such as the pressure of the tire mounted thereon.
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17 Claims
- 1. A vehicle-mountable electrical power generating system for a wheeled vehicle, comprising, in combination, a housing, first mounting means for mounting said housing along the axis of rotation of a wheel for rotation with said wheel, second mounting means in said housing extending along the axis of rotation of said wheel, pendulum means suspended from said second mounting means, a rotatable electrical potential generating means including a generator shaft means, said generating means mounted with said pendulum means in para-axial relation to the axis of rotation of said wheel, drive means mounted for rotation with said housing and connected to rotate said generator shaft means of said generating means, said drive means having a substantially different diameter than said generator shaft means whereby rotation of said wheel causes said drive means to rotate said generator shaft means of said generating means at a selected rate higher than the rate of rotation of said wheel thereby generate electrical power.
- 5. A vehicle-mountable electrical power generating system for a wheeled vehicle, comprising, in combination, a housing, first mounting means for suspendably mounting said housing along the axis of rotation of a wheel to maintain said housing relatively stationary when said wheel is rotating, second mounting means in said housing extending along the axis of rotation of said wheel for rotation with said wheel, an electrical potential generating means mounted in offset relation to the axis of rotation of said wheel, a drive shaft for actuating said generating means, drive gear means mounted for rotation with said second mounting means, and driven gear means mounted to drive said shaft and connected to be driven by said drive gear means, whereby rotation of said wheel causes said generating means to generate electrical power.
- 6. A vehicle-mountable electrical power generating system for a wheel of a vehicle, comprising, in combination, a housing, first mounting means for mounting said housing along the axis of rotation of said wheel to permit said wheel to rotate relative to said housing, an armature shaft, a pancake armature mounted on said armature shaft, driven gear means mounted on said shaft, drive gear means mounted on said first mounting means to be rotatable upon rotation of said wheel, and engaged to drive said driven gear means and said armature shaft, and magnet means mounted in said housing and operatively coupled to said armature, where rotation of said armature causes an electrical potential to be generated.
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11. An electrical generator system for mounting on a rotating member about a substantially horizontal axis, said generator system powered by the rotation of said rotating member, said generator system comprising:
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a magnetic field source for producing a magnetic field; an armature, said field source and armature being rotatable with respect to one another, said armature having at least a portion of its windings disposed to be operatively energizable by said field to produce an electrical voltage; pendulum means journaled and disposed to be slideably suspended about the axis of rotation of said rotating member so as to be held in a substantially non-rotating condition during rotation of said rotating member; overspeed rotary drive means coupled to said rotating member and said pendulum means, and driven by the relative rotation therebetween; and output means for said drive means being disposed and coupled to produce a relative rotation between said magnetic field source and said armature at a rotation rate greater than the rotation rate of said rotating member. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13)
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- 14. A vehicle-mountable electrical power generating system for a wheeled vehicle, comprising, in combination, a housing, a mounting means for rotatably mounting said housing along the axis of rotation of a wheel, an internal coaxially-mounted shaft in said housing, a pancake armature, an armature hub, said armature affixed to said hub, a weight mounted to said hub, bearing means having an inner race and an outer race, said hub affixed to the outer race of said bearing means, said weight maintaining said armature hub substantially stationary, the inner race of said bearing means affixed to said shaft, whereby the pancake is substantially stationary with respect to said shaft and independent thereof, and a magnet means affixed to said housing and rotating therewith in operative association with said pancake armature, whereby rotation of said wheel causes said generating system to generate an electrical potential.
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17. An electrical power generating system, comprising, in combination:
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a housing; a drive shaft in said housing; a rotatable member; mounting means for said housing, said drive shaft being coaxial with said rotatable member to be rotatable therewith; pendulum means slideably mounted to and suspended from said drive shaft; an electrical potential generating means mounted on said pendulum para-axial to said drive shaft; an armature shaft for said generating means; drive gear means mounted on said drive shaft and rotatable with said housing; driven gear means mounted on said armature shaft to engage said drive gear means, whereby rotation of said rotatable member causes the drive gear to drive said driven gear and thereby control the ratio of speeds between said drive shaft and said armature shaft.
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Specification