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4008407 |
Nuclear thermionic converter
A thermionic converter unit for use in a nuclear reactor to generate current, which can be constructed at low cost and which efficiently utilizes the nuclear fuel. The reactor utilizes an array of...
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4004210 |
Reversible thermoelectric converter with power conversion of energy fluctuations
A thermal converter for transmitting electric energy fluctuations of small circuits at a higher temperature across a thermal barrier to small circuits at a lower temperature for high efficiency...
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3983423 |
Thermionic converter
A gas-filled thermionic converter is provided with a collector and an emitter having a main emitter region and an auxiliary emitter region in electrical contact with the main emitter region. The...
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3980907 |
Method and apparatus for generating electricity magneto hydrodynamically
Closed cycle energy conversion system in which a magnetohydrodynamic generator operates on high temperature and high pressure water obtained by combustion of hydrogen in oxygen which is obtained by...
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3961211 |
Gyroscope motor
Gyroscope motor of the type comprising a magnetized rotor constituted by a permanent magnet in the shape of a toroid, within which are disposed the stator windings, the commutation being ensured by...
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3940641 |
Plasma jet electrode for magnetohydrodynamic generators
An anode assembly of an MHD generator has an opening in communication with the generator's main plasma stream. An inert gas is passed between the anode assembly's emitter and a positively biased...
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3933323 |
Solid state solar to microwave energy converter system and apparatus
Solid state spaced-oriented means convert solar radiation into microwave energy which is amplified and beamed to earth as a source of electrical power. A large number of semiconductor devices...
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3932776 |
Cold fuel thermionic converter
An energy source for a heat-utilizing device which includes a source of gamma radiation, an absorber of such radiation and a heat-utilization device in heat-transfer relationship with the absorber...
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3931532 |
Thermoelectric power system
A thermoelectric power system particularly adaptable for use in outer space in which a nuclear reactor heats a working fluid, which in turn supplies heat to a plurality of thermoelectric generators...
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3927337 |
Magneto hydrodynamic generator
An MHD generator has a Hall-type duct and uses plasma electrodes located with respect to the duct such that the generator's own magnetic field causes rotation of the arcs that produce the plasma.
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3922591 |
Heated wire servo motor control system
An electrical positioning device utilizing a temperature responsive material exhibiting contraction-elongation characteristics in response to an increase or decrease in temperature to vary the...
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3899696 |
Electric power generation system directly from laser power
A pool of liquid cesium is spaced apart from a collector in an enclosed vessel. A laser beam is directed to the liquid cesium pool. The beam is focused to provide sufficient laser power density at...
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3875435 |
Heat operated cryogenic electrical generator
An electrical generator useful for providing electrical power in deep space, is disclosed. The subject electrical generator utilizes the unusual hydrodynamic property exhibited by liquid helium as...
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3864614 |
ELECTRO-MAGNETIC POSITION TRANSDUCER FOR A THERMO-ELECTRIC LINEAR MOTOR FORCE REBALANCE SYSTEM
A position transducer comprising a magnetic circuit carrying a-c flux produced by an exciting winding. The magnetic circuit is interrupted with an air-gap into which extends an...
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3863081 |
SERIES-CONNECTED THERMIONIC ENERGY CONVERTERS
A series-connected assembly of thermionic devices for the generation of electrical power having a series of cylindrically spaced apart, axially aligned, heated cathodes, a tubular cooled anode...
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3843896 |
RADIOISOTOPIC THERMOINIC CONVERTER
Atomic diode battery or thermionic converter including a radioisotopic fuel pellet enclosed in a capsule having an emitter surface extending over substantially the entire capsule external area, a...
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3840431 |
SUBMARINE NUCLEAR REACTOR
The submarine reactor comprises a core made up of fuel elements, elements for the control of reactivity, and stacks of thermionic diodes in which each stack is surrounded by an inert gas envelope...
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3839094 |
FLUIDIC THERMOELECTRIC GENERATOR
A thermoelectric generator that utilizes the high temperature generated by luid compression waves within a resonant tube that is subject to a supersonic air stream. The resonant tube, which may...
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3824448 |
CONTACT POTENTIAL GENERATOR SYSTEM
A contact potential generator comprising a ferro-electric generator excited into operation and maintained at that state to produce a useful output signal by the power input of an ignition section...
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3818304 |
THERMOELECTRIC GENERATOR
A heat-to-electricity converter is disclosed which includes a radioactive heat source and a thermoelectric element of relatively short overall length capable of delivering a low voltage of the...
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3807827 |
MEANS AND METHOD OF PROCESSING RESERVOIRLESS THERMIONIC CONVERTERS
Low temperature radioisotopic thermionic converter having a construction wherein the converter adsorption area to vapor volume ratio is sufficiently high at the converter's operating pressure to...
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3808056 |
BURNER MEANS FOR THERMOELECTRIC GENERATOR
An improved burner assembly, especially useful to heat a thermoelectric generator, comprising an ultrasonic atomizer for atomizing liquid fossil fuels into a mist of fine particles; baffle means...
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3801445 |
THERMIONIC REACTOR ELECTRICAL CONTROL SYSTEM
A thermionic reactor electrical hookup and control system which provides for regulation of plant electrical output, individual control of fuel element emitter temperatures, and isolation of fuel...
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3793542 |
THERMOIONIC CONVERTER
A thermoelectric converter diode in which the thermal energy required for the heating of the ionisable fluid which fills the space between the emitter and the collector is taken from the collector...
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3790829 |
THERMOELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM
A thermoelectromagnetic energy conversion system includes a p-n semiconductor junction having a space charge region on either side thereof and a magnet providing a magnetic flux through the space...
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3781647 |
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING SOLAR RADIATION TO ELECTRICAL POWER
Solar radiation is collected and converted to microwave energy by means maintained in outer space on a satellite system. The microwave energy is then transmitted to earth and converted to...
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3776780 |
MAGNETIC THERMOCOUPLE DEVICE
A non-magnetic metal wire is wound around a dissimilar magnetic metal core member in magnetic inductive relation and the dissimilar metals are connected at spaced junctions. A difference in...
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3743866 |
ROTARY CURIE POINT MAGNETIC ENGINE
A rotary magnetic engine in which Gadolinium as a transition material distorts lines of flux in a magnetic field to cause relative movement between a rotor and a stator. Magnets are mounted on the...
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3740592 |
THERMIONIC CONVERTER
A thermionic converter is provided in which a protective silicon carbide shell is provided around the refractory metal emitter of the converter to shield it from the hot gases of a fossil fuel heat...
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3736447 |
UNIFORM IONIZATION MEANS FOR MHD GENERATORS
Temperature limitations imposed by available materials require provision of other than purely thermal means for ionizing gas used in hot-gas magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) generators. Efficiency of such...
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3733499 |
PYROELECTRIC DETECTOR
A pyroelectric detector is disclosed which comprises a crystal of T1 3 AsSe 3 having two opposing faces with an electrically conducting electrode contacting each face. The detector is connected...
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3727083 |
ALL BONDED THERMIONIC ENERGY CONVERTER
A thermionic fuel element for electrical power generation having an all bonded sheath-sheath insulator collector assembly. The thus bonded assembly is provided with at least one internal groove by...
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3723777 |
ELECTROGASDYNAMIC GENERATORS
An electrogasdynamic generator uses a gas containing small particles as the working fluid. The gas is circulated in a thermodynamic cycle round a closed loop and in an expansion stage the particles...
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3719532 |
THERMOGENERATOR WITH THERMOELECTRIC ELEMENTS IN EXHAUST DUCTS
the hot heat exchangers of a plurality of p and n conductivity thermoelement legs positioned between hot and cold heat exchangers are housed in a combustion chamber and are heatable by combustion...
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3719837 |
THERMOIONIC CONVERTER WITH PLURAL SOLID RESERVOIRS
Self - regulating reservoir for ionizable material, incorporated in a thermoionic converter, having a two-stage structure, one stage masking the other, in which the masked section, of large...
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3715237 |
VARIABLE ELECTRIC CURRENT GENERATING DEVICE
Inside a sealed case there is a photoelectric core that is sensitive to ultraviolet radiations and that is provided with a multiplicity of openings communicating with its outside. Surrounding the...
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3709781 |
SPACE NUCLEAR PLANT
A nuclear power plant for space stations having a heating core, a reflector at least partially pivotal about the core and a system of heat pipes penetrating into the core. The heat pipes supply...
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3702408 |
MULTI-CONVERTER THERMIONIC ENERGY MODULE
Vacuum-cast method for dielectric bonding of refractory metals for providing an aluminum oxide electrical insulator between concentric molybdenum cylinders for forming a trilayer sandwich...
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3691408 |
METHOD AND MEANS FOR THERMOELECTRIC GENERATION OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY
A system is disclosed in which gas produced from a hydrocarbon reservoir is directed through a vortex tube to separate hot and cold fractions therefrom. The fractions are passed across heat...
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3683209 |
REACTOR CORE FOR THERMIONIC NUCLEAR REACTOR
This invention relates to a reactor core for a nuclear reactor, particularly for a "fast" type nuclear reactor, provided with nuclear fuel, for direct conversion into electrical energy of released...
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3673440 |
UNINSULATED IN-CORE THERMIONIC DIODE
A thermionic energy converter is provided by a plurality of diodes externally heated by a reactor and externally connected in series-parallel arrangement. Each diode assembly comprising a tubular...
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3668070 |
NUCLEAR REACTOR WITH HEAT PIPES FOR HEAT EXTRACTION
A nuclear reactor with a heat extraction system comprising two groups of heat pipes which extend through the reactor core and which deliver heat to heat sinks disposed outside the core. All pipes...
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3664881 |
THERMOMAGNETIC DEVICE
A thermomagnetic device for generating voltage from heat comprising at least one thin bifurcated ribbon of a thermoelectrically active neutral element or alloy material, the bifurcation therein...
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3663840 |
THERMIONIC CONVERTER WITH ADDITIVES
A method and device for providing both electronegative and electropositive adsorbates to the emitter and collector surfaces of thermionic converters. The adsorbates are contained in a single...
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3662283 |
HIGH FREQUENCY ELECTRONIC PULSE GENERATOR
An electronic generator of very high voltage pulses at a very high freque constituted by a tube enclosing a cathode fed with a very high voltage, said cathode being constituted by mercury in which...
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3630020 |
SOLAR ORIENTATION DEVICE
A servomechanism apparatus which will continuously track a moving heat source through its plane of travel. A plurality of bimetallic elements are connected to a crank on an orientation shaft in a...
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3629063 |
VENT FOR NUCLEAR-THERMIONIC FUEL ROD
Cesium vapor, ordinarily lost to space, is carried through a venting tube to an area where a lowered temperature causes it to condense onto a wick and to be carried by capillary action back to an...
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3623947 |
NUCLEAR REACTOR AND THERMIONIC CONVERTER CELLS THEREFOR
A nuclear thermionic converter has a vertical stack of annular or ring-shaped nuclear fuel members. Within the ring-shaped members is reflector material. Thermionic diodes are mounted on the...
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3623946 |
NUCLEAR REACTOR
A nuclear reactor comprising: An elongated cylindrical core longitudinally divided into quadrants, each core quadrant being neutronically subcritical; Means for flexibly fastening together two...
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3613773 |
CONSTANT TEMPERATURE OUTPUT HEAT PIPE
A heat pipe is provided with a noncondensible gas reservoir at the condenser end. The pressure of the gas and the size of the reservoir are selected to prevent a large change in the operating...
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