Method for microwave transmission of energy with superconducting apparatus
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
InventorG. John Dick
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Abstract
A superconducting microwave engine that achieves mechanical to microwave rgy conversion or microwave to mechanical energy conversion. Such is accomplished by employing a superconducting resonator to increase the decay time of the microwaves inside the resonator and thereby provide the resonator with sufficient time to adiabatically deform and change its eigenfrequency so as to effect a change in the frequency and corresponding energy state of such microwaves in accordance with the Boltzmann-Ehrenfest Theorm. This invention may be in the form of a cylindrical cavity and piston combination, a cavity and vibrating diaphragm combination, or a cylindrical cavity and concentric rotor combination.
Claims4
A method of transmitting energy in the form of microwaves comprising:
- a. converting work and microwaves having an initial energy level into microwaves having an energy level higher than said initial energy level at a superconducting temperature at a first location;
- b. transmitting said microwaves having said higher energy level from said first location to a second location;
- c. receiving said microwaves having said higher energy level at said second location;
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- d. rectifying said microwaves having said higher energy level into useful work at a superconducting temperature at said second location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.