Buoyancy Energy Extraction Device Using Sealed Liquid Room

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Solution Overview

Problem

There is no practical method to harness and utilize the extra energy present in liquids due to buoyancy and the change in potential energy of displaced water, which remains constant when an object moves up and down.

Innovation Solution

A device comprising an inner body, a shell body, a sealing strip, and an energy transformer, where the inner body rotates between a sealed liquid room and a gas communicating room, utilizing buoyancy and gravity to convert internal energy into mechanical energy, with the energy transformer storing and outputting mechanical energy.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Use of energy by moving object

If an object moves up and down in water utilizing buoyancy, then the potential energy of displaced water changes continuously, but no work is done to the outer system and the total energy remains constant

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinternal energy extractionVSAvoidenergy utilization efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Use of energy by moving objectVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a sealed liquid room as an intermediary system between the buoyant object and the external environment. The liquid room captures the changing potential energy of displaced water during the object's vertical movement and converts it into usable mechanical work through pressure differential, thereby enabling energy extraction that would otherwise be unavailable in direct buoyancy motion.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces direct mechanical buoyancy motion with a fluid pressure-based system. Instead of relying on the object's direct movement to perform work, the system uses the liquid room to convert buoyancy-induced pressure changes into mechanical energy through the liquid's incompressibility and pressure transmission, achieving energy capture that traditional mechanical buoyancy systems cannot accomplish.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Power

If the inner body rotates between sealed liquid room and gas communicating room, then internal energy is transformed into mechanical energy, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemechanical energy outputVSAvoidstructure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
PowerVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the shell body into distinct functional segments: a sealed liquid room and a gas communicating room, separated by a movable sealing strip. This segmentation allows each section to perform its specific function independently - the liquid room captures pressure energy while the gas room provides atmospheric reference pressure - simplifying the overall design by assigning dedicated roles to each component rather than requiring a complex integrated system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs dynamic elements including the rotatable inner body connected to an axle, and the movable sealing strip that dynamically separates the liquid and gas rooms. These dynamic components enable continuous energy conversion as the inner body rotates, automatically adjusting the sealing position according to the pressure differential without requiring complex control mechanisms, thus achieving power output with moderate structural complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The device continuously transforms internal energy from the liquid into mechanical energy, maintaining the total energy constant, allowing for the utilization of previously ignored extra energy by rotating the inner body between weightlessness and the gravity field.

Implementation Method 1

an immersed object has a feature called 'weightlessness'. When an object moves up and down in water, it does no work to the outer system

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectBuoyancy: Archimedes' Principle (Buoyancy)

Implementation Method 2

a weight of the inner body does a work Wg under gravity after being free from buoyancy of the liquid, which means that the work is done in a rotation form in a gravity field

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectGravity: Gravitation

Implementation Method 3

inputting the liquid having a pressure P into the sealed liquid room of the shell body through the liquid entrance, wherein the liquid puts a horizontal force F on the inner body

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPressure force: Pressure Increase

Data Source

PatentUS8919111B2Device for obtaining internal energy from liquid by utilizing buoyancy and method therefor
Publication Date: 2014.12.30 SUN RONGJUN
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AI summary

A device for obtaining internal energy from liquid by utilizing buoyancy includes: an inner body (2); a sealing strip (3); a shell body (5); an axle (1) and liquid, wherein the sealing strip (3) is mounted between the shell body (5) and the inner body (2), a liquid entrance (6) is provided at a bottom portion of the shell body (5), the inner body (2) is connected to the axle (1), an energy transformer is connected to the axle (1) or the shell body (5). Internal energy not used in the liquid is transformed into mechanical energy by a combination of the liquid, the inner body (2) and the axle (1). The present invention also provides a method for obtaining internal energy from liquid by utilizing buoyancy.