Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for power conversion employing an electrostatic motor driving an electromechanical battery
- Patent Title (中): 使用驱动机电电池的静电马达进行功率转换的系统和方法
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Application No.: US13038213Application Date: 2011-03-01
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Publication No.: US08174164B2Publication Date: 2012-05-08
- Inventor: Kimberly Peacock
- Applicant: Kimberly Peacock
- Agency: Gordon & Jacobson, P.C.
- Main IPC: H02N1/00
- IPC: H02N1/00

Abstract:
A system for generating electrical power supply signals includes at least one heat engine having a chamber that undergoes heating/cooling cycle and corresponding pressure variations. At least one piezoelectric transducer is deformed in response to the pressure variations of the heat engine. A power converter transforms the electric signals generated in response to deformation of the piezoelectric transducer(s) to a desired electrical power supply signal. The heat engine preferably uses a geothermal source of cold and an ambient source of hot or vice-versa. Hydrogen can be used as a working fluid, and metal hydride material can be used for absorbing and desorbing hydrogen during the cycle of heating and cooling of the heat engine. A phase change material can also be used. The power converter preferably includes an electromechanical battery with a flywheel storing rotational energy and possibly an electrostatic motor that adds rotational energy to the flywheel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110148122A1 Apparatus for energy conversion Public/Granted day:2011-06-23
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