US 12,685,021 B2 · Composite hybrid inductive layered electric generator

Abstract

A method and apparatus for generating electricity using a thermodynamic inductor formed from a thermodynamic conductor winding that converts heat into a dynamic magnetic field density within the winding, inducing a current in the winding, which is electric power for loads. The winding may be a composite, including a coaxial arrangement of two or more superconducting layers. The first layer has a low critical magnetic field. When the field in the thermodynamic layer increases, the layer transitions to the intermediate state, cooling from the entropy increase, and absorbing heat. Subsequently when the field decreases, the layer resumes superconductivity, increasing available energy which is used to expel the field and induce generated electricity. The second conductive layer in the winding, in electrical contact with the first, remains in the superconducting state, reducing heating. A connected capacitor provides L-C oscillations and energy storage, maintaining cyclical operation, and powers connected and dissipating loads.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A method of operation of a composite hybrid inductive layered electric generator to implement a cyclical process, comprising:

disposing a magnetic field at a thermodynamic conductor winding, wound into a thermodynamic inductor disposed inside a cryostat, the winding contiguous with and electrically connected to a conductor having an electrical resistance less than or equal to the winding,
increasing the magnetic field above a critical field of the winding,
penetrating the winding with the magnetic field,
transferring heat from a heat source outside the cryostat to the winding, decreasing the magnetic field below the critical field of the winding, expelling the magnetic field from the winding,
generating an electric power in the winding,
transferring the electric power to a load circuit disposed substantially outside the cryostat,
increasing the electric power transferred to the load circuit when an internal temperature of the cryostat is increasing, and
decreasing the electric power transferred to the load circuit when the internal temperature of the cryostat is decreasing.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Composite hybrid inductive layered electric generator

Life of this patent

Composite hybrid inductive layered electric generator

Life of this patent

Abstract

Claims15