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US 4,363,989 AGranted
Pseudo electrode assembly
OwnerLester Johnsoninventor
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Abstract
A device for generating an electric current having a discharge chamber capable of containing an ionizable medium which provides free charges in said chamber, a means for ionizing the medium and releasing free charges therein, an accelerating means located external to said chamber to prevent its neutralization by the free charges therein and capable of exerting an accelerating field in the chamber to accelerate the free charges, and a means for collecting the free charges in said chamber and discharging them through a load circuit to generate an electric current.
Claims11
A device for generating an electric current comprising:
- a discharge chamber capable of containing an ionizable medium which provides free charges therein;
- means capable of ionizing said medium;
- accelerating means with said accelerating means being located outside of the discharge chamber to inhibit its neutralization by free charges when therein while being capable of exerting an accelerating field in said chamber to provide kinetic energy to said free charges;
- means for collecting free charges when in said chamber including, a first collector capable of collecting negative free charges, and a second collector capable of collecting positive free charges;
- each of said collectors adapted to connect to a load circuit to generate electric current therein;
- wherein operation of the device causes ionization of the medium which generates free charges in the chamber which are accelerated through the medium to the collectors causing continued ionization thereof and a build up of opposite charges on the respective collectors which is capable of being discharged through a load circuit.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.