Method and apparatus for an electromagnetic propulsion system
OwnerRodolfo E. Diazinventor
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Abstract
A method and apparatus to amplify the magnetic field in an electromagnetic circuit is provided. Amplification factors of several orders of magnitude may be obtained. The system is applicable to a number of different systems, including melt levitation and electromagnetic pumping and propulsion. One embodiment of the invention uses a non-conducting permeable core wound around a dielectric core. An alternating voltage source is connected to a solenoid which is wound around a section of the permeable core. The permeable core has a gap within which a flux concentrating cold crucible is provided. Melt levitation processing takes place within the cold crucible.
Claims12
A pump, comprising:
- a magnetic coaxial transmission line comprising and outer cylinder made of a first lossy permeable material and an inner cylinder made of a second lossy permeable mateial, said coaxial transmission line having a first end and a second end;
- an end plate sealably coupled to said first end, said end plate made of a third lossy permeable material, wherein said end plate shorts said coaxial transmission line;
- a barrier sealably coupled to an inner wall of said outer cylinder and sealably coupled to an outer wall of said inner cylinder, said barrier located approximately a quarter wave away from said first end plate, and wherein said barrer is substantially transparent to electromagnetic waves within said resonant amplifier;
- a dielectric filler located between said outer and inner cylinders and between said end plate and said barier;
- a conducting pump fluid located between said outer and inner cylinders and between said barrier and said second end;
- at least one conducting pump fluid intake port in said outer cylinder, said at least one conducting pump fluid intake port located between said barrier and said second end;
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- an input magnetomotive force source connected to said quarter wave resonant amplifier.
A method of pumping a conducting fluid, comprising the steps of:
- coaxially locating a first lossy permeable cylinder within a second lossy permeable cylinder;
- sealably coupling a permeable shorting end plate to a first end of said first and second cylinders;
- sealably coupling a barrier plate to an inner wall of said second cylinder and an outer wall of said first cylinder, said barrier plate located approximately a quarter wave away from said shorting end plate, and wherein at least conducting fluid intake port is located within said outer cylinder and between said barrier plate and a second end of said outer and inner cylinders;
- locating a dielectric filler between said first and second cylinders and between said barrier plate and said shorting end plate;
- locating said conducting fluid between said first and second cylinders and between said barrier plate and said second end of said outer and inner cylinders;
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- applying a magnetomotive force to said first cylinder.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.