WO2011143809A1

WO2011143809A1 - A motionless lead-out energy resonance generator

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Publication number: WO2011143809A1
Application number: PCT/CN2010/072896
Authority: WO
Inventors: Chun Ling Lawrence Tseung; Wing Ho James Wong; Chun Yin Lau
Original assignee: Treasure Star Development Limited
Priority date: 2010-05-18
Filing date: 2010-05-18
Publication date: 2011-11-24

Abstract

A motionless lead-out energy resonance generator includes at least one transformer and a pulse source energized and coupled to a core of the transformer provided with at least one hole penetrating its volume. The hole is placed to intercept the flux generated from wire conductors coupled into the core. A first wire coil is wound around the core for one purpose of moving the coupled magnetic flux within the core. A second wire coil is routed through the hole for another purpose of intercepting this moving magnetic flux, thereby inducing an output electromotive force. A changing voltage applied to the first wire coil causes coupled magnetic flux to move within the core relative to the hole so as to induce an electromotive force along the wires passing through the hole in the core. The mechanical action of an electrical generator is thereby synthesized without use of moving parts.

Description

Motionless Lead-Out Energy Resonance Generator

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

This invention relates to a method and device for generating electrical power using solid state means.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

It has long been known that moving a magnetic field across a wire will generate an electromotive force (EMF), or voltage, along the wire. When this wire is connected in an electrical closed circuit, in order to perform work, an electric current is driven through this closed circuit by the induced electromotive force.

It has also long been known that this resulting electric current causes the closed circuit to become encircled with a secondary, induced magnetic field, whose polarity opposes the primary magnetic field that first induced the EMF. This magnetic opposition creates mutual repulsion as a moving magnet moves toward such a closed circuit and attraction as that moving magnet then moves away from the closed circuit. Both these actions tend to slow, or "drag" the progress of the moving magnet generating the EMF, causing the electric generator to act as a magnetic brake, in direct proportion to the amount of electric current produced.

Gas engines, hydroelectric dams and steam-fed turbines have historically been used to overcome this magnetic braking action occurring within mechanical electric generators. A large amount of mechanical power is ultimately required to produce a large amount of electrical power, since the magnetic braking interaction resulting from induced electrical current is generally proportional to the amount of power being generated.

There has been a long felt need for a generator which reduces or eliminates this well-known magnetic braking interaction, while nevertheless generating useful electric power. The need for convenient, economical, and powerful sources of renewable energy remains urgent. When the magnetic fields within a generator are caused to move and interact by means other than applied mechanical force, electric power can be supplied without the necessity of consuming limited natural resources, thus with far greater economy.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

It has long been known that the source of the magnetism within an electrical transformer is a spinning electric current within atoms of certain elements, persisting indefinitely in accord with well-defined quantum rules. This atomic current encircles each atom, thereby causing each atom to emit a magnetic field, as a miniature electromagnet.

This magnetic atomic current does not exist in magnets alone. It also exists in ordinary metallic iron, and in any element or metallic alloy that is electrical conductive and can be "magnetized", that is, exhibits ferromagnetism. All ferromagnetic atoms and "magnetic metals" contain such quantum atomic electromagnets.

In specific ferromagnetic materials, the orientation axis of each atomic electromagnet is flexible. The orientation of magnetic flux within, as well as external to the material, easily pivots. Such materials are referred to as magnetically "soft", due to this magnetic flexibility.

In physics, a system oscillates at its resonant frequency and his harmonic which is larger amplitude at some frequencies than at others. In the pendulum system, it vibrates at its resonant frequency in which the energy transfers from kinetic energy to potential energy and so forth. However, the energy loses from cycle to cycle. This is called the damping.

The axis of circular current flow in one ferromagnetic atom can direct the axis of magnetism within another ferromagnetic atom, through a process known as spin exchange. This gives a soft magnetic material, like raw iron, the useful ability to aim, focus, and redirect the magnetic field emitted from a magnet.

In the present invention, the same effect can be applied to the transformer. If a pulse vibrates in the resonant frequency of the ferrite coil or magnet, the damping pulse keep vibrates in the coil. In Figure 1, a resonant direct current (DC) pulse pass through a filter circuit to improve the Q factor then go in to the primary coil. The dc pulse transfers the electricity energy to magnetic pulse. Because of the DC pulse, the magnetic flux flows in uni-direction. The magnetic energy keeps remain in the ferrite coil and the energy lose from cycle to cycle as the damping in the pendulum system.

The present invention synthesizes virtual motion of magnets and their magnetic fields, producing an electrical generator described herein, which does not require mechanical action or moving parts. Owing to the electricity can be generated by the change of magnetic flux. When the damping effect oscillates in the coil, for one pulse in and several pulses received. So, the electricity gain can be obtained by the damping effect. The present invention describes an electrical generator wherein magnetic braking phenomena, known as expressions of Lenz's Law, do not oppose the means by which the magnetic field energy is caused to move. Electricity is generated by resonance and damping effect in transformer. The synthesized magnetic motion thereby manifests without mechanical or electrical resistance. This synthesized magnetic motion is aided by forces generated in accordance with Lenz's Law, in order to produce acceleration of the synthesized magnetic motion, instead of physical "magnetic braking" common to mechanically-actuated electrical generators. Because of this novel resonance state magnetic interaction, the solid-state static generator of the present invention is a robust lead-out energy generator, requiring only a small electric force to operate.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

So that the above-recited features of the present invention can be understood in detail, a more particular description of the invention, briefly summarized above, may be had by reference to various embodiments, some of which are illustrated in the appended drawings. It is to be noted, however, that the appended drawings illustrate only typical embodiments of this invention and are therefore not to be considered limiting of its scope, for the invention may admit to other equally effective embodiments.

FIG. 1 is the basic pulsing filter circuit of this invention;

FIG. 2 is the control system of the generator of this invention;

FIG. 3 is a diagram of the transformer occurring within the generator of FIGS. 1 and 2;

FIG. 4a) is the input circuit response diagram, illustrating one method of electrically operating the generator of this invention;

FIG. 4b) is the output circuit response diagram, illustrating one method of electrically operating the generator of this invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

Figure 1 depicts a partially exploded view of an embodiment of an electric generator of this invention. The parts have been numbered, with the numbering convention applied to FIGS. 1, 2, and 3. In Figure 1, a resonant dc pulse goes through a filter circuit to improve the Q factor. The pulse then goes in to the primary coil. The dc pulse transfers the electricity energy to magnetic pulse. Because of the dc pulse, the magnetic flux flows in uni-direction. The magnetic energy keep rebounds in the ferrite coil and the energy loses from cycle to cycle as the damping in the pendulum system.

Owing to the electricity can be generated by the change of magnetic flux. When the damping effect oscillates in the coil, for one pulse in and several pulses received. So, the electricity gain can be obtained by the damping effect. The damping pulse also generates back current to the primary coil. It resists the current flow into system. As a result, it uses less electricity in the primary coil than the secondary coil.

Because of the resonant frequency depends on the physical dimension of the ferrite coil or magnet. A control system with microprocessor is necessary to tune the DC pulse, the filter circuit and the switching circuit. In Figure 2, (3) is a microcontroller control system, it monitors the output from the secondary coil. The control system can adjust the DC Pulse’s frequency, duty cycle and the amplitude in (1) and also it can adjust the variable capacitor which may contain piezoelectric materials and the variable inductor in (2) and the switching circuit in (5). When a pulse hits the resonant frequency of the ferrite coil, the pulse keeps vibrate in the ferrite coil and the pulse lose with the damping shape (Figure 4a) and 4b)). When the damping is happened the back EMF induces in the primary coil. In this case, a switching circuit or similar circuit in (5) can switch the primary coil as the receiving coil. The switching circuit is controlled by the control system in (3). In practice, this circuit may include the use of piezoelectric materials, or embedded in specific sections of the core, including or not including the magnets, while remaining within scope of the present invention.

The coil (4) in Figure 3 is the sample of the transformer in is wired, the wire of the primary coil and the secondary coil are wired parallel and both wires are wrapped to the ferrite coil or magnet. The wires can mount in a fix position but the ferrite coil and magnet should have enough space for the vibration. A suitable suspension system of the ferrite coil may provide improvements.

Numeral (4) indicates the transformer core. This core is a critical member of the generator, determining the characteristics of output power capacity, optimal magnet type, electrical impedance, and operating frequency range. This core may be any shape, composed of any ferromagnetic substance, formed by any process (sintering, casting, adhesive bonding, tape winding, etc). A wide spectrum of geometries, materials, and processes are known in the art of magnetic cores. Effective common materials include, but are not limited to, amorphous metal alloys (such as that sold under the trademark designation "Metglas" by Metglas Inc., Conway S.C.), nanocrystalline alloys, manganese and zinc ferrites as well as ferrites of any suitable element including any combination of magnetically "hard" and "soft" ferrites, powdered metals and ferromagnetic alloys, laminations of cobalt and/or iron, and silicon-iron "electrical steel". This invention successfully utilizes any ferromagnetic material, while functioning as claimed. In an embodiment of the invention, and for the purpose of illustration, a circular "toroid" core is illustrated. In an embodiment of the invention, the composition may be bonded iron powder, commonly available from many manufacturers.

Regardless of core type, the core is prepared with hole(s), through which wires may pass, which have been drilled or formed to penetrate the core's ferromagnetic volume. The toroidal core shown a hole as a common center. If, for example stiff wire rods were to be inserted through each of the hole, these wires would meet at the center point of the core, producing an appearance similar to a spoke wheel. If a long tube in square or rectangular core (not illustrated) is used instead, the hole(s) are preferably oriented parallel to the core's flat sides, causing stiff rods passed through the holes to form a square grid pattern, as the rods cross each other in the interior "window" area framed by the core. While in other embodiments of the invention, the hole(s) may take any possible orientation or patterns of orientation within the scope of the present generator, a simple row of radial holes is illustrated herein as one example.

Figure 3: The red wire is the primary coil and the blue wire is the secondary coil.

Figure 4 are the result measures by the Fluke 8840AF, 5.5 digits true RMS meter and HP54600B digital oscilloscope. For one pulse input in the primary coil, we receive one pulse output with damping. The power gain has been demonstrated in the input and output graph. The extra damping in the secondary coil is the electricity gain.

In Figure 3 the blue depicts a wire or bundle of wires, i.e. the secondary output wire, that pick-up and carry the generator's output power. Typically this wire is composed of insulated copper, though other output mediums such as aluminum, iron, dielectric material, polymers, and semiconducting materials may be substituted. It may be seen in Figure 3 that the blue wire(s), which serves as an output medium, passes alternately through the core hole formed in the transformer core. The path taken by blue wire undulates, passing in an opposite direction through the hole. If a number of holes is used, the wire may emerge on the same side of the core it first entered on, once all holes are filled. The resulting pair of trailing leads may be twisted together or similarly terminated, forming the output terminals of the generator. Output blue wire may also make multiple passes through each hole in the core. Though the winding pattern is not necessarily undulatory; this basic form is shown by way of example. Many effective connection styles exist; this illustration shows the simplest. All successful connection methods pass blue wire at some point through the hole(s) in the core.

Figure 3 also points to an illustration of the input winding, or inductive coil used to generate and shift the magnetic fields within the core. Typically, this wire coil encircles the core, wrapping around it. For the toroidal core presented, input red coil resembles the outer windings of a typical toroidal inductor, a common electrical component. For the sake of clarity, only a few turns of coil are shown in drawing Figure 3. In practice, this coil may cover the entire core, or penetrating specific sections of the core, including or not including the magnets, while remaining within scope of the present invention.

In practice, the free, unattached ends of the generator's core may be left as-is, in open air, or provided with a common ferromagnetic path linking unused North and South poles together, as a magnetic "ground". This common return path is typically made of steel, iron or similar material, taking the form of a ferrous enclosure housing the device. It may serve the additional purpose of a protecting chassis. The magnetic return may also be another ferromagnetic core in repetition of the present invention, forming a stack or layered series of generators, sharing common magnets between generator cores. Any such additions are without direct bearing on the functional principle of the generator itself, and have therefore been omitted from these illustrations.

The resulting sweeping motion of the primary pulsing magnetic fields in the red wire causes their flux to brush back and forth over the hole and blue wire passing through. Just as in a mechanical generator, when magnetic flux brushes or "cuts" sideways across a conductor in this way, EMF or voltage is induced. By connecting an electrical load across the ends of this wire conductor a current is allowed to flow through the load in a closed circuit, delivering electrical power able to perform work. Input of a pulsing voltage across the input coil generates an alternating magnetic field causing the fields of magnetic atomic current shift within the core, inducing electrical power through a load (attached to(3)), as if the fixed core itself was physically moving. However, no mechanical motion is present.

In a mechanical generator, induced current powering an electrical load returns back through output wire creating a secondary induced magnetic field, exerting forces which substantially oppose the original magnetic field inducing the original EMF. Since load currents induce their own, secondary magnetic fields opposing the original act of induction in this way, the source of the original induction requires additional energy to restore itself and continue generating electricity. In mechanical generators, the energy-inducing motion of the generator's magnetic fields is being physically actuated, requiring a strong prime mover (such as a steam turbine) to restore the EMF-generating magnetic fields' motion, against the braking effect of the output-induced magnetic fields (the induced field, and the inducing field), destructively in mutual opposition. It is this inductive opposition which ultimately must be overcome by physical force, which is commonly produced by consumption of other energy resources.

The electric generator of the present invention is not actuated by mechanical force. The generator of the present invention also makes use of the induced, secondary magnetic field resonate in such a way as to not cause opposition, but instead addition, and resulting acceleration of magnetic field motion. Because the present invention is not mechanically actuated, and because the magnetic fields do not act to destroy one another in mutual opposition, the present invention does not require consumption of natural resources in order to generate electricity.

The present generator's induced magnetic field, resulting from electric current flowing through the load and returning through output wire, is that of a closed loop encircling the hole(s) in the core admitting the output conductor or conductive medium. The present generator's induced magnetic fields create magnetic flux in the form of closed loops within the ferromagnetic core. The magnetic field "encircles" each hole in the core carrying output wire, similar to the threads of a screw "encircling" the shaft of the screw.

Within this generator, the magnetic field from output medium or blue wire immediately encircles each hole formed in the core carrying this medium or blue wire. Since blue wire may take an opposing direction through each turn of the wire, the direction of the resulting magnetic field will likewise be opposite. The directions of the induced flux, each opposing one another while generating electricity.

Since the magnetic interaction herein is a combination of magnetic flux opposition and magnetic flux acceleration due to resonance, there is no longer an overall magnetic braking, or total opposition effect. The braking and opposition is counterbalanced by a simultaneous magnetic acceleration within the core. Since mechanical motion is absent, the equivalent electrical effect ranges from idling, or absence of opposition, to a strengthening and overall acceleration of the electrical input signal (within coil (4)). Proper selection of the wire material and flux density, core material magnetic characteristics, core hole pattern and spacing, and output medium connection technique create embodiments wherein the present generator will display an absence of electrical loading at the input and/or an overall amplification of the input signal. This ultimately causes less input energy to be required in order to work the generator. Therefore, as increasing amounts of energy are withdrawn from the generator as output power performing useful work, decreasing amounts of energy are generally required to operate it.

In an embodiment of this invention, FIG. 4 illustrates a typical operating response employing the generator of this invention. A square-wave input signal, furnished by appropriate transistorized switching means, is applied at the input terminals. The secondary winding of the input transformer may be a single turn, in series with a capacitor and the generator input coil, forming a series resonant circuit. The frequency of the applied square wave must either match, or be an integral sub-harmonic of the resonant frequency of this 3-element transformer-capacitor-inductor input circuit.

Generator output winding is connected to resistive load. When load is connected, generated power is dissipated, which is any resistive load, for example, an Light Emitting Diode (LED) lamp or resistive heater. The output quality may be improved by Synchronized Switch Harvesting techniques.

Once output resonance is achieved, and the square wave input frequency applied is such that the combined reactive impedance of total inductance is equal in magnitude to the opposing reactive impedance of capacitance, the electrical phases of current through, and voltage across, generator input coil will flow with phase shift in resonant quadrature. Power drawn from the square wave input-energy source applying power to will now be at a minimum.

In this condition, the resonant energy present at the generator input may be measured by connecting a voltage probe across the test points, situated across the generator input coil, together with a current probe around point, situated in series with the generator input coil.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that a square (or other) wave may be applied directly to the generator input terminals without use of other components. While this remains effective, advantageous re-generating effects may not be realized to their fullest extent with such direct excitation. Use of a resonant circuit, particularly with inclusion of a capacitor as suggested, facilitates recirculation of energy within the input circuit, generally producing efficient excitation and a reduction of required input power as loads are applied.

While the foregoing is directed to embodiments of the present invention, other and further embodiments of the invention may be devised without departing from the basic scope thereof, and the scope thereof is determined by the claims that follow.

Claims

1. A device for generating electricity, the device including One or more wires; An electricity conductive core, pulsing magnetic current send from associated electrical and electronic circuitry and emitted from said conducting wires, and wound with one or more wire coils acting to magnetically modulate said core; One or more core holes penetrating the volume of said core; One or more output wires passing through said core holes, wherein said core holes intercept magnetic flux from said wires bearing on said core.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the wire coils wound around said core modulate exposure and interaction between flux from said magnets and said core holes carrying said output wires.

3. The device according to claim 2, wherein said modulation of exposure generates electromotive force along said output wires routed through core holes in said core.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein further containing a resonant circuit comprised of a capacitor in association with said wire coil wound around said core for purpose of magnetically modulating said core.

5. The device according to claim 3, wherein further containing a resonant circuit comprised of a capacitor in association with said output wires passing through said core-holes for delivering output power.

6. The device according to claim 5, wherein incorporating impedance-matching transformers, inductors, and inductor-capacitor networks in said resonant circuit.

7. The device according to claim 2, wherein means of magnetically modulating said core is achieved by exposure to an externally generated magnetic field, such as the Earth's magnetic field, or other independent source of externally generated magnetic flux, in substitution of, or in conjunction with said wire coil wound around said core.

8. The device according to claim 3, wherein one or more of said permanent magnets are substituted with one or more electromagnets to generate the required magnetic flux.

9. The device according to claim 2, wherein said output wire carries a superimposed DC current bias generating the required magnetic flux, in substitution of, or in conjunction with said permanent magnets.

10. The device according to claim 2, wherein further containing a circuit comprised of one or more electrical reactances in association with said wire coil wound around said electricity conductive core for magnetically modulating said core, wherein said electrical reactance comprises a capacitor, an inductor, a transformer and combinations thereof.

11. The device according to claim 2, wherein further containing a circuit comprised of one or more electrical reactances in association with said wire coil wound around said electricity conductive core for magnetically modulating said core, wherein said electrical reactance comprises variable capacitors, variable inductors, piezoelectric materials, a transformer, mircoprocessors and combinations thereof.