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US 12,119,726 B2Granted
Electric generator
OwnerMiguel Garcesinventor
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Abstract
A electrical generator that uses wasted heat that emanates from an external heat source to generate electricity. The generation of electricity is based on known thermo-electric principles, electro-chemical principles, magneto-hydro-dynamic principles, the Hall Effect, and electro-static principles. The electrical generator uses a plurality of plates of different thermo-electric conductive materials to generate electricity. Those plurality of plates are stacked on top of the other in a certain order. Each plate has the same array of through holes. Those through holes form an array of lineal channels through the stacked plurality of plates.
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An electrical generator that generates electricity from a wasted heat source that is generated by an external heat source, the electrical generator comprises:
- a housing that has an inlet channel and an outlet channel, the housing has a positive terminal at a first position of the housing and a negative terminal at a last position of the housing, the inlet channel is configured to be connected to an external fluid source that allows a fluid to enter inside the housing and the outlet channel of the housing is configured to allow the fluid to exit the housing;
- a plurality of plates, the plurality of plates has an A plate, at least one B plate and at least one C plate, wherein each individual plate will be referred as an A plate, a B(1) plate, a C(1) plate, a B(2) plate, a C(2) plate to a B(n) plate, and a C(n) plate and the plurality of plates are stacked as a column thereby forming a cartridge, the cartridge is housed within the housing, the A plate is the first plate of a cartridge and the C(n) plate is the last plate of the cartridge, the plurality of plates are stacked so that below the A plate there is always a B plate and below the B plate there is always a C plate and below the C plate there is another B plate and below the B plate there is another C plate until reaching a last C(n) plate;
- the plurality of plates are compressed together to form a bond that will be impermeable to any liquid, wherein the A plate is made of a thermo-electrical conductive material, and each B plate is made of a electrical insulator material, and each C plates is also made of a thermo-electrical conductive material, yet the C plates thermo-electric conductive material is different from the thermo-electric conductive material of the A plate, a first B plates first isolates the A plate from the C(1) plate and then the B plates separate the remaining C plates from each other until reaching the C(n) plate, the C(n) plate being a last plate of the cartridge, a difference of electro-chemical potential is found between the A plate and the C plates, the difference is an Output Voltage of the electrical generator;
- a plurality of through holes are defined in the plurality of plates of the cartridge, the through holes are defined as an array of holes, the array of holes of the plurality of plates are aligned to form a plurality of linear channels that pass through the cartridge, the plurality of linear channels are configured to allow a fluid, from the wasted heat source to pass through the linear channels thereby allowing an electrical charge to pass from the A plate to the C plates and also between each C plates, the number of linear channels within the plurality of plates and the fluid temperature are factors that contributes directly and proportionally to a generated direct electrical current that is generated by the electrical generator;
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- the fluid is placed within the inlet channel of the housing, and the fluid is configured to flow toward the outlet channel of the housing thereby moving the electrical charge between the plates,
- the positive terminal is attached to the A plate and the negative terminal is attached to the C(n) plate, the positive and the negative terminals are configured to take a direct electrical current generated by the electrical generator out to an environment that uses or stores the direct electrical current.
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An electrical generator that generates electricity from a wasted heat source that is generated by an external heat source, the electrical generator comprises:
- a housing that has an inlet channel and an outlet channel, the housing has a positive terminal at a first position of the housing and a negative terminal at a last position of the housing, the inlet and the outlet of the housing are configured to be connected to the external fluid source so that a re-circulating system is formed;
- a plurality of plates, the plurality of plates has an A plate, at least one B plate and at least one C plate, wherein each individual plate will be referred as an A plate, a B(1) plate, a C(1) plate, a B(2) plate, a C(2) plate to a B(n) plate, and a C(n) plate and the plurality of plates are stacked as a column thereby forming a cartridge, the cartridge is housed within the housing, the A plate is the first plate of a cartridge and the C(n) plate is the last plate of the cartridge, the plurality of plates are stacked so that below the A plate there is always a B plate and below the B plate there is always a C plate and below the C plate there is another B plate and below the B plate there is another C plate until reaching a last C(n) plate;
- the plurality of plates are compressed together to form a bond that will be impermeable to any liquid, wherein the A plate is made of a thermo-electrical conductive material, and each B plate is made of a electrical insulator material, and each C plates is also made of a thermo-electrical conductive material, yet the C plates thermo-electric conductive material is different from the thermos-electric conductive material of the A plate, a first B plates first isolates the A plate from the C(1) plate and then the B plates separate the remaining C plates from each other until reaching the C(n) plate, the C(n) plate being a last plate of the cartridge, a difference of electro-chemical potential is found between the A plate and the C plates, the difference is an Output Voltage of the electrical generator;
- a plurality of through holes are defined in the plurality of plates of the cartridge, the through holes are defined as an array of holes, the array of holes of the plurality of plates are aligned to form a plurality of linear channels that pass through the cartridge, the plurality of linear channels are configured to allow a fluid, from the wasted heat source to pass through the linear channels thereby allowing an electrical charge to pass from the A plate to the C plates and also between each C plates, the number of linear channels within the plurality of plates and the fluid temperature are factors that contributes directly and proportionally to a generated direct electrical current that is generated by the electrical generator;
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- the fluid is placed within the inlet channel of the housing, and the fluid is configured to flow toward the outlet channel of the housing thereby moving the electrical charge between the plates,
- the positive terminal is attached to the A plate and the negative terminal is attached to the C(n) plate, the positive and the negative terminals are configured to take a direct electrical current generated by the electrical generator out to an environment that uses or stores the direct electrical current.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.