Additional drive system by diverting a fluid flow

• US 20070160472A1
• Filed: 02/23/2005
• Published: 07/12/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wolfgang Jobmann GmbH
• Original Assignee: Wolfgang Jobmann GmbH
• Inventors: Jobmann, Wolfgang, Stamme, Peter
• Application Number:
  US10/598,157
• Publication Number:
  US 20070160472A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 416/4
• CPC Class Codes: B63H 9/02 using Magnus effect
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 70/5236 Renewable or hybrid-electric solutions

Abstract

The invention relates to the use of a drive system worlding on the basis of the Magnus Effect which is used to provide a drive mechanism in addition to an existing drive device. The aim of the invention is to produce a drive directly in front of the front impacting fluid flow. The invention also relates to the use of a drive system for a relatively fast moving vehicle by means of a first drive system, said drive system comprising a rotating, horizontally arranged cylinder (20) provided with end disks (70) as an additional drive. A fluid flow (F), which is produced by the first drive system, enters into a channel (10) and is diverted (10″) in the direction thereof in said channel whereupon it impinges upon the rotating cylinder (20). The complimentary drive is produced in a desired direction based on the Magnus Effect.

Claims

1. Use of a propulsion system for a vehicle which is moved relatively quickly with a first propulsion system, which comprises a rotating, horizontally disposed cylinder (20), preferably with end plates (70), as an additional propulsion, a fluid flow (F) generated by the first propulsion system entering a channel (10) and being diverted in the channel in its direction (10″

) and impinging on the rotating cylinder (20), whereby the supplementary propulsion is generated on the basis of the Magnus effect in a desired direction.

3. The use according to claim 1, wherein the diversion (10″

) takes place upwards.

4. The use according to claim 1, wherein the diversion takes place downwards.

7. The use according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the diversion by an angle deviating from 90°

takes place.

8. The use according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the rotating cylinder is mounted in the center of the channel (10) behind the diversion point (10″

).

9. The use according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the rotating cylinder (20) is asymmetrically mounted in the channel, in particular closer to the side of the travel direction.

10. The use according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the channel (10) is covered by a baffle plate (80) to reduce a fluid resistance formed during the propulsion before the diversion section, in particular above and spatially above or before the bend point (10″

) of the channel (10, 10*).

11. The use according to claim 1 or 2 with only a single channel (10) with a rectangular cross-section.

12. The use according to claim 1 or 2 with several channels (10*) which have rectangular, elliptic or circular cross-sections.

13. The use according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the vehicle is a road or land vehicle, in particular a truck or an automobile.

14. The use according to claims 1 or 2, wherein the relatively rapid movement is less than 150 km/h, in particular describes the speed of the vehicle above the ground.

15. The use according to claims 1 or 2, wherein the relatively rapid movement is more than 10 km/h, in particular more than substantially 50 km/h, preferably in the range of between 60 km/h and 100 km/h.

16. The use according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the relatively rapid movement is a movement of more than 10 km/h, in a naval craft.

17. The use according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the vehicle is no aircraft.

18. A process according to any of claims 1 or 2, for the additional driving, in particular the driving of a vehicle, on which an additional drive system is mounted in addition to an independent main propulsion that is spaced from the additional drive.

19. The process according to claim 18, wherein a regular speed of the vehicle is between 50 km/h and 100 km/h, measured above ground.

20. The process according to claim 18, wherein the fluid flow is air and flows substantially from the front as a relative wind.

23. The use according to claim 13, wherein the relatively rapid movement is less than 150 km/h, in particular describes the speed of the vehicle above the ground.

24. The use according to claim 14, wherein the relatively rapid movement is more than 10 km/h, in particular more than substantially 50 km/h, preferably in the range of between 60 km/h and 100 km/h.

2. The use of a propulsion system on the basis of the Magnus effect with a rotating, vertically disposed cylinder (20), preferably with end plates, in addition to an existing propulsion system, wherein a fluid flow (F) in a channel (10), which is diverted in its direction, impinges onto the rotating cylinder (20) and generates a supplementary propulsion in a desired direction.

5. The use according to claim 2, wherein the diversion takes place laterally.

6. The use according to claim 2, wherein the diversion by 90°

takes place.

21. Additional drive system on the basis of the Magnus effect comprising a rotating, horizontally disposed cylinder (20) with end plates (17), characterized in that a fluid flow in a channel (10,10*), which is diverted in its direction, impinges on the rotor (20) in order to generate an additional propulsion (60) in a desired direction.

22. Additional drive system on the basis of the Magnus effect comprising a rotating, vertically disposed cylinder (20) with end plates (17), characterized in that a fluid flow in a channel, which is diverted in its direction, impinges on the rotor (20) in order to generate the propulsion (60) formed (in addition to a main propulsion) in a desired direction.