Electron field generator

• US 4,743,275 A
• Filed: 08/25/1986
• Issued: 05/10/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Flanagan G. Patrick
• Original Assignee: Flanagan G. Patrick
• Inventors: Flanagan, G. Patrick
• Primary Examiner(s): Prunner, Kathleen J.
• Application Number:
  US06/899,713
• Time in Patent Office: 624 Days
• Field of Search: 55/2, 55/123, 55/146, 55/150, 55/155, 55/138, 361/225, 361/226, 361/230, 361/231
• US Class Current: 95/28
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 9/22 Ionisation
• CPC Class Codes: B03C 3/38 Particle charging or ionising stations, e.g. using electric discharge, radioactive radiation or flames
• CPC Class Codes: H01T 23/00 Apparatus for generating ions to be introduced into non-enclosed gases, e.g. into the atmosphere

Abstract

A negative field generator has a dielectric slab which is doped with discrete conductive members and sandwiched between a pair of electrodes. The electrodes and the dielectric member are encapsulated in a dielectric material and the electrodes are connected across a source of high frequency high A.C. voltage.

Claims

1. Apparatus for generating an electric field of the type comprising a solid dielectric member sandwiched between first and second electrodes and a high voltage, high frequency energy source connected between said electrodes, the improvement wherein said dielectric member comprises,

a dielectric material having a plurality of discrete, conductive members dispersed therein.

2. Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein

said conductive members are semiconductive.

3. Apparatus according to claim 2 wherein

said conductive members are formed of silicon carbide.

4. Apparatus according to claim 2 wherein

said conductive members are silicon carbide granules randomly dispersed in said dielectric material.

5. Apparatus according to claim 4 wherein

said dielectric material is parafinic.

6. Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein

said conductive members are paramagnetic.

7. Apparatus according to claim 6 wherein said dielectric material is parafinic.

8. A method of purifying air, comprising the steps of:

placing in proximity to said air a capacitor including a pair of electrodes spaced apart by a solid dielectric material in which a plurality of mutually spaced apart conductive pieces are dispersed,

applying between said electrodes an A.C. voltage of at least 5000 volts having a frequency of at least 20 kiloHertz.

9. A method according to claim 8 wherein

said capacitor is encapsulated in a solid insulating material.

10. A method according to claim 9 wherein

a plurality of members selected from the group of conductive and semiconductive materials are dispersed in said insulating material.

11. A method of purifying the air in an environmental area, comprises the steps of

placing at respectively spaced locations in said area a plurality of capacitors each having first and second spaced electrodes separated by a solid dielectric member formed of a dielectric material in which a plurality of conductive pieces are dispersed, and

connecting between the associated ones of said first and second spaced electrodes an A.C. voltage of at least 5000 volts and having a frequency of at least 20 kiloHertz.

12. A method according to claim 11 wherein

said pieces are semiconductive.

13. A method acording to claim 11 wherein

said pieces are paramagnetic.