Electromagnetic Generator Transformer Shunt Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electromagnetic generators are inefficient due to heavy and expensive rotors, low efficiency, and reliance on moving parts, which increases manufacturing costs and reduces performance.
Innovation Solution
An electromagnetic generating transformer with a fixed magnetic field source and conductor, utilizing a shunt with varying magnetic permeability to alter the magnetic field strength or polarity, induced by a motive source or controller, to generate electrical current without moving parts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional electromagnetic generators use rotors and stators with moving parts, then electrical current can be generated through relative motion, but the device becomes heavy, expensive to manufacture, and less efficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and eliminates the rotor-stator moving parts from the generator system. Instead of using traditional rotating components, the invention uses a stationary transformer core with primary and secondary windings, where the magnetic field is varied through the shunt mechanism rather than through relative motion between components.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical rotation system with an electromagnetic field control system. The shunt, controlled by a motive source, varies the magnetic field strength or polarity through changes in magnetic permeability rather than through mechanical movement of the magnetic field source or conductor, thereby eliminating the need for heavy rotating components.
2Productivity
If traditional electromagnetic generators use rotors and stators, then current generation is achieved, but manufacturing costs increase due to heavy components
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the expensive rotor-stator assembly from the generator design. The stationary transformer construction with separate primary and secondary windings on a common core is significantly simpler and less costly to manufacture than precision-machined rotating components with magnetic attachments.
Solution Approach 2:
The shunt component, which may be made of magnetically permeable material with alternating permeable and impermeable segments, provides a low-cost mechanism for varying the magnetic field. This simple mechanical or electromechanical shunt replaces expensive precision-machined rotor-stator assemblies while achieving the same current generation function.
3Reliability
If traditional electromagnetic generators rely on moving parts, then magnetic field variation is achieved, but device complexity and manufacturing cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent substitutes the complex mechanical rotor-stator system with a stationary electromagnetic field control mechanism. The shunt, which can be actuated by a simple motive source (mechanical, electrical, or thermal), controls the magnetic field variation through changes in magnetic permeability rather than through complex mechanical rotation and alignment of multiple components.
4Productivity
If traditional electromagnetic generators use rotating components, then current is induced, but efficiency decreases due to mechanical losses
Solution Approach 1:
The patent eliminates mechanical losses by replacing the rotating mechanical system with a stationary electromagnetic field control system. The shunt mechanism varies the magnetic field through changes in magnetic permeability without the friction, windage, and mechanical inefficiencies inherent in rotating components, thereby improving overall energy generation efficiency.
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
This design enhances efficiency and reduces manufacturing costs by eliminating the need for heavy, expensive moving parts, while maintaining or improving energy generation capabilities.
Implementation Method 1
vary the strength or polarity of the flux in the magnetic field of the magnetic field source, and thereby induce electrical current in the conductor
Data Source
AI summary
An electromagnetic generating transformer comprises one or more flux assembly having one or more magnetic field source having a positive pole and a negative pole and a magnetic field passing in a path between the positive pole and the negative pole and a conductor magnetically coupled with the one or more magnetic field source, the magnetic field source and the conductor being fixed relative to one another; a shunt is coupled with a motive source and configured to move the shunt into a primary position and a secondary position, wherein the magnitude of the magnetic field passing between the positive pole and the negative pole varies when the shunt is moved between the primary position and the secondary position.