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US 4,792,711 AGranted
Electric generator for inducing current in the field coil
OwnerBerry E. Smith, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
An electric generator having a stationary field coil, a rotatable armature of permanent magnets, and between the coil and the armature a stationary cylindrical cage of strips of a conductor of magnetic flux extending across the coil and the magnets, the magnets being mounted on a wheel or disc structure adjacent to the field coil.
Claims15
An electric generator including a stationary field coil, a rotatable armature, and a stationary cage of magnetically conductive material positioned between the coil and the armature;
- said coil comprising a plurality of turns of electrically conductive wire in an electrically nonconductive frame with a tubular passageway therethrough;
- said armature comprising a rotatable shaft, a wheel structure mounted on said shaft with an even number of permanent magnets mounted on the circumference thereof in an arrangement alternating polarity, said wheel being positioned adjacent to but outside of said field coil;
- said cage comprising a plurality of elongated linear strips of thin magnetically conductive material equally spaced in cylindrical arrangement parallel to the central axis of the cylinder and extending through the tubular core of said field coil and outwardly to a position adjacent the magnets on said wheel, with said strips being spaced apart such that at any instant all of said strips are conducting the same polarity from said magnets.
An electric generator including a field coil, a magnetic flux propagating cage, and an armature;
- said field coil comprising a frame having a central tubular core and two spaced end plates perpendicular to the axis of said core, a plurality of turns of electrically conductive wire wrapped around said core in the space between said end plates;
- said propagation cage comprising a cylindrical arrangement of equally spaced parallel strips of magnetically conductive material contiguous to the inside surface of said tubular core and extending outwardly of one of said end plates;
- said armature comprising a shaft with a disc-like structure adjacent one end thereof with a plurality of permanent magnets mounted around the periphery of said disc structure in an arrangement whereby alternating magnets having opposite polarity facing outwardly, the outside diameter of said magnets being closely adjacent to the inside diameter of said cage at said end which is outwardly of one end plate, the number and size of said magnets and the number and size of said strips being coordinated such that the width of each said strip is substantially equal to the width of each said magnet, and the number and spacing of said strips are such that at any instant said strips are all conducting the same polarity from said magnets.
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