| 摘要 |
The MagnaFloat, an energy generation device using gravity, buoyancy, pressure differentials, speed controls and linear motors to control the movement of buoyant canisters over and through a series of open, non-restricted pathways. Each canister has a magnet inside. While moving downward through Air (Drop Phase), ascending through Fluid (Floatation-ascent Phase), and upward through Air, these magnet-canisters pass through permanently attached inductors and electricity is produced. At conclusion of Floatation-ascent Phase, canisters exit Fluid and continue moving upward through Air into Pivot Bucket; Pivot Bucket is then rotated and canisters are ejected onto Inclined Platform. At bottom of overall device Passive Roller System changes direction of travel for canisters from downward vertical motion to horizontal motion, then later to upward vertical motion. While traveling horizontally, kinetic energy is extracted from fast moving canisters by acquiring and storing increased hydraulic pressure, which is converted into electricity. |
| 主权项 |
1. A method of generating electricity, said method comprising:
allowing multiple canister-like objects to move along a series of open, non-enclosed pathway sections, and whereby each pathway section leads into the next pathway section; using a set of four or more buoyant canister-like objects to cause electricity to be generated at certain points along these open, non-enclosed pathway sections, and whereby the buoyant property of each canister-like object is relative to the specific gravity of the water-like non-air fluid that is held in a fluid column-like pathway section; positioning two or more inductors along certain areas of these open, non-enclosed pathway sections, and
allowing electricity to be generated each time the magnet attached to or located inside a canister-like object passes in proximity to an inductor; having one of the pathway sections in the overall device be a fluid column-like pathway section which: a) is open on both ends, b) is partially filled with a water-like non-air fluid, c) is positioned in a vertically-oriented manner so that one of the open ends is approximately directly above the other open end, d) has a no-leak seal-like component fixed in and around the open end that is at a lower vertical point than the other higher open end, and whereby the exact shape of the inner area of such no-leak seal-like component is constructed so that this shape matches, as closely as possible, the shape of the outer surface of the main portion of the body of each canister-like object, and e) where none, or very little, of the water-like non-air fluid ever leaks out through the lower open end of this fluid column-like pathway section because the main portion of the body of a canister-like object is always inside of, and making tight enough contact with such no-leak seal-like component, to prevent any such leakage of water-like non-air fluid from ever occurring; at all times to have the main portion of the body of a canister-like object positioned in a vertical or almost vertical direction, and also to be positioned inside of, and making tight contact with the no-leak seal-like component that is fixed in and around the lowest open end of the fluid column-like pathway section, and
causing a lower canister-like object to elevate an upper canister-like object, in a process that: a) pushes the upper canister-like object to a vertical point so that the bottom surface of the upper canister-like object is elevated higher than the topmost point of the no-leak seal-like component, b) to stop elevating the two canister-like objects at the precise vertical point where the lower canister-like object has reached the same vertical elevation that the upper canister-like object was at when such upper canister-like object was being suspended prior to contact being made between the two canister-like objects, and c) to have the bodies of the canister-like objects constructed in such a way that as a lower canister-like object moves into the same vertical position the respective upper canister-like object was at before such elevation process started, which also includes pushing such respective upper canister-like object through and past the no-leak seal-like component, none, or very little, of the water-like non-air fluid being held in the fluid column-like pathway section leaks out; beginning each new repetitive cycle of movement for a respective canister-like object by allowing such canister-like object to move downward from a vertical point where the downward motion of this canister-like object had previously been stopped, and as a result of the force of gravity, allowing such canister-like object to drop off of the bottommost edge of an inclined platform-like structure and to continue falling downward in a freefall state, but
even before the initial start-up of the device, to pre-configure the arrangement of the canister-like objects so that in another pathway section, basically on the other side of the device from where a canister-like object drops off of the inclined platform-like structure and begins a new repetitive cycle, two canister-like objects are vertically coupled together, with an upper canister-like object positioned directly on top of, and making contact with, a lower canister-like object, andwhereby the vertical position of the upper canister-like object is such that: a) some portion of the body of this upper canister-like object is making contact with a no-leak seal-like component, b) some upper portion of this canister-like object's body is making contact with the water-like non-air fluid that is being held in the fluid column-like pathway section, and c) the lower portion of the body of this upper canister-like object is exposed to the air, andwhereby the bottom surface of the lower canister-like object is sitting on a coupled canister platform-like component, andthis coupled canister platform-like component has the ability to move up and down, along a vertical axis; for the first repetitive cycle when the device is first put into operation, and for all other repetitive cycles after that, on or around the same time a respective canister-like object begins a new repetitive cycle by dropping off of the bottommost edge of an inclined platform-like structure and entering a freefall state heading downward, in a completely different pathway section on the other side of the overall device, causing the coupled canister platform-like component, with two canister-like objects stacked on top of each other and with the bottom surface of the lower canister-like object sitting on, and making contact with, such coupled canister platform-like component, to be elevated to a precise vertical height, which is a height whereby the bottom surface of the upper canister-like object is elevated completely above the topmost point of the no-leak seal-like component, and therefore the body of this upper canister-like object becomes completely surrounded by the water-like non-air fluid that is being held in the fluid column-like pathway section, and therefore as a result of the buoyancy such upper canister-like object has, the upper canister-like object begins floating upwards, and also
when such elevation process stops, the vertical position of the lower canister-like object is exactly the same vertical position the upper canister-like object was at before such elevation process started; changing the downward motion of a descending canister-like object that is traveling in the pathway section a canister-like object moves along when descending in a freefall state, and changing such downward direction of motion to a horizontal or semi-horizontal direction of motion, as that same canister-like object moves into and along the next pathway section; allowing a canister-like object to continue moving in a horizontal or semi-horizontal direction of motion, on a pathway section that connects the pathway section where the downward motion of a descending canister-like object is changed to a horizontal or semi-horizontal direction of motion with the pathway section that changes the direction of motion a canister-like object is traveling in from a horizontal or semi-horizontal direction of motion to a vertical or semi-vertical upward direction of motion; in another pathway section, changing the horizontal or semi-horizontal direction of motion a canister-like object is travelling in to a vertical or semi-vertical upward direction of motion, and allowing such canister-like object to continue ascending out of this pathway section and to continue heading upwards; whereupon an ascending canister-like object exits the top of the fluid column-like pathway section, to cause such canister-like object to be deposited back onto some portion of the surface of the inclined platform-like structure, and whereby this surface of such inclined platform-like structure is the same overall surface the respective canister-like object falls off of, at the lowest point of this surface, to begin a repetitive cycle. |
