System and method for power generation system

• US 8,963,380 B2
• Filed: 07/09/2012
• Issued: 02/24/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Correlated Magnetics Research, LLC
• Original Assignee: Correlated Magnetics Research, LLC
• Inventors: Fullerton, Larry W., Roberts, Mark D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lam, Thanh
• Application Number:
  US13/544,755
• Publication Number:
  US 20130015667A1
• Time in Patent Office: 960 Days
• Field of Search: 310 15- 37, 310/12.12, 310/12.21
• US Class Current: 310/12.12
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 21/24 with magnets axially facing the armatures, e.g. hub-type cycle dynamos
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 35/02 with moving magnets and stationary coil systems
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/1884 structurally associated with free piston engines

Abstract

A power generation system comprises a tube, a coil assembly, a magnetic assembly, and a direct detonation source. The coil assembly comprises at least one coil configured outside the tube. The magnetic assembly comprises at least one magnet inside the tube. The magnetic assembly is configured to move relative to the tube. The direct detonation source produces a detonation impulse that causes one of the tube or the magnetic assembly to move thereby generating power based on the movement of the magnet assembly relative to the coil assembly where the direct detonation source produces the detonation impulse at an ignition point without requiring a period of deflagration.

Claims

1. A power generation system, comprising:

a tube;

a coil assembly comprising at least one coil configured outside said tube;

a magnetic assembly comprising at least one first magnet inside said tube, said magnetic assembly being configured to move relative to said tube; and

a first direct detonation source for producing a first detonation impulse that causes one of said tube or said magnetic assembly to move thereby generating power based on the movement of said magnet assembly relative to said coil assembly, said first direct detonation source being configured to produce said first detonation impulse by producing a detonation having a supersonic flame propagation velocity without a period of deflagration.

2. The power generation system of claim 1, further comprising:

a spring, wherein said first detonation impulse causes one of said tube or said magnetic assembly to move in a first direction and said spring causes said one of said tube or said magnetic assembly to move in a second direction that is opposite said first direction.

3. The power generation system of claim 1, further comprising:

a second magnet in a repel orientation to said magnetic assembly, wherein said first detonation impulse causes said magnetic assembly to move in a first direction and said second magnet causes said magnetic assembly to move in a second direction that is opposite said first direction.

4. The power generation system of claim 1, wherein said first direct detonation source produces a first spark at a first ignition point within a first flowing fuel oxidant mixture to cause said first detonation impulse to be produced substantially at said first ignition point.

5. The power generation system of claim 1, further comprising:

a second direct detonation source for producing a second detonation impulse, wherein said first detonation impulse causes one of said tube or said magnetic assembly to move in a first direction and said second detonation impulse causes said one of said tube or said magnetic assembly to move in a second direction that is opposite said first direction, said second direct detonation source being configured to produce said second detonation impulse by producing a detonation having a supersonic flame propagation velocity without a period of deflagration.

6. The power generation system of claim 5, wherein said second direct detonation source produces a second spark at a second ignition point in a second flowing fuel-oxidant mixture to cause said second detonation impulse to be produced substantially at said second ignition point.

7. The power generation system of claim 1, further comprising:

at least one spacer.

8. The power generation system of claim 7, wherein said at least one spacer is configured outside said tube and between two adjacent coils of said coil assembly.

9. The power generation system of claim 7, wherein said at least one spacer is between two adjacent first magnets of said magnetic assembly.

10. The power generation system of claim 7, wherein said at least one spacer is ferromagnetic.

11. The power generation system of claim 1, further comprising:

at least one control system for controlling the timing of repetitive first detonation impulses produced by said first direct detonation source to cause an oscillation of the movement of the magnetic assembly relative to said coil assembly.

12. The power generation system of claim 11, wherein said at least one control system controls said second direct detonation source to cause an oscillation of the movement of the magnetic assembly relative to said coil assembly.

13. The power generation system of claim 1, further comprising:

at least one exhaust opening.

14. The power generation system of claim 1, further comprising:

a ferromagnetic shield configured outside said coil assembly.

15. The power generation system of claim 1, wherein said magnetic assembly comprises a plurality of first magnets, said plurality of first magnets being axially magnetized and being configured to maintain an alternating polarity-orientation pattern.

16. The power generation system of claim 15, wherein said coil assembly comprises a plurality of coils wired in accordance with said alternating polarity orientation pattern.

17. The power generation system of claim 1, wherein said magnetic assembly comprises a plurality of first magnets, said plurality of first magnets being axially magnetized and being configured to maintain a coded polarity-orientation pattern.

18. The power generation system of claim 17, wherein said coil assembly comprises a plurality of coils wired in accordance with said coded polarity-orientation pattern.

19. The power generation system of claim 1, wherein one of said magnetic assembly or said coil assembly is configured to produce an in-phase and quadrature phase relationship between said magnetic assembly and said coil assembly.

20. The power generation system of claim 1, wherein one of said magnetic assembly or said coil assembly is maintained in a fixed position.