Prime-mover dynamo plants – Miscellaneous – Drive gearing
Patent
1985-01-31
1986-09-30
Shoop, Jr., William M.
Prime-mover dynamo plants
Miscellaneous
Drive gearing
290 1C, F03G 300
Patent
active
046148752
ABSTRACT:
The present invention transforms the vast amount of existent vehicular travel into an equally-vast alternative energy resource employable for the generation of electricity. This transformation is achieved by means of a novel system which generally includes a momentum-conversion assembly configured to convert available vehicle momentum into operational momentum for an associated momentum-referenced electricity generator. The conversion assembly is accordingly structured to be responsive to the passage along an associated roadway of vehicles having predeterminable roadway-traversal momentum, with a portion of this momentum then being that which is cooperatively applied to the generator. The resulting double utilization of associated energy resources for both vehicle motion and electricity generation constitutes an effective increase in resource conversion efficiency.
In a convenient specific embodiment, the generator is of the rotor-and-stator variety and the conversion assembly is companionably configured to convert a given vehicular-momentum portion into rotational momentum for the associated rotor. For an embodiment of this nature, the conversion may then be more-specifically achieved by the particular means of an externally-threaded spindle mechanized to axially reciprocate through a matingly-rotated yoke carried on the interior of the rotor. The reciprocations of the spindle, and hence the rotations of the rotor, are induced by overpassing vehicles encountering a spindle-end which is interceptingly disposed in the vehicle roadway.
The invention yet-more-specifically provides that the subject system may be realized in a modular form entailing a plurality of readily-replaceable and conveniently-transported foldable roadway sections.
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patent: 4239975 (1980-12-01), Chiappetti
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patent: 4437015 (1984-03-01), Rosenblum
Diamond Donald
Duncanson Jr. W. E.
Shoop Jr. William M.
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