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OwnerFranklin Dun-jen Hwang, Ching Ching Huang +3inventors
InventorsFranklin Dun-jen Hwang, Ching Ching Huang, Jennifer Peng, Francis N. Hwang, Francine N. Hwang
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The sun imparts 174 petawatt per second on the earth, and a large portion of this energy is absorbed by the earth's atmosphere in the form of translational energy for the gaseous molecules, i.e. continuous random motion in the average speed range of 500 meters per second on earth's surface. This invention utilizes a partition with large number of through-holes which all have the characteristic of providing greater cross section for gas molecules to transit from one side to the other than the reverse, thus creating a higher statistical probability for the molecules to move from one side of the partition to the other side. By stacking a number of such partitions to emphasize the direction of movement probability of the gas molecules within a container having two open ends, the number of gas molecules at the end of the stack will be more numerous than at the head, thus a pressure differential is established, and this pressure difference is used to push against the stacks of the partition to provide thrust on the container or to drive a turbine to generate electricity or to perform works.
An engine, deriving its power from the translational energy of atmospheric molecules, is formed by an open ended container within which there are one or more flat and/or curved partitions in parallel with each other, and each partition has numerous through-holes with specifically designed shape aligned from partition to partition to provide a direction on the translation of the atmospheric gas molecules with higher statistical probability than the opposite direction, which is from one side of the partition toward the other side vs. traveling the reverse direction, thus resulting in more gas molecules moving toward one end of the container vs. the other. This preference in movement due to higher statistical probability results in a pressure difference between the two ends of the container, and this pressure difference can then be used for propelling the container, for rotating a turbine to generate electricity, for performing works, for compressing gases and/or for performing rapid expansion to achieve a cooling effect. This engine shall be designated as a molecular engine as referred to in the subsequent claims.
A container as described in claim 14 can further be placed in front of a jet engine to provide compressed air to mix with fuel vapor for ignition to produce additional propulsion thrust than just a molecular engine can. This usage may also eliminate the typical air compression intake turbine blades and afterburner turbine blades (which is used to rotate the air intake turbine blades), thus providing added thrust for the jet engine.
The utilization of one or more containers as described in claim 15 in conjunction with a fossil fuel supply to deliver additional thrust to increase acceleration and speed of a vehicle, an airplane, a platform or any object.
The utilization of one or more containers as described in claim 15 to propel and levitate a manned or unmanned weapon system, such as bombs, missiles, fighter airplanes, armored fighting vehicles, explosive projectiles, fighting ships, aircraft carriers and floating network of explosive cells for missile defense. The unmanned explosives can become a distributed stationary minefield in the sky and/or sequential penetrators of cave or underground bunkers.
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