Title:
AC MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC GENERATOR
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPS6225870
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
A pair of resonant combustion chambers are interconnected by means of a narrow channel. Magnetic pole pieces are positioned in opposing relationship on opposite sides of the channel to establish a magnetic flux across said channel. Fuel is fed to the combustion chambers and ignited alternately by resonant detonation, first in one chamber and then the other to generate combustion gases to develop an ionized body of gas or plasma in the chambers. Shock waves are formed in the chambers with lumped constant resonant acoustic vibration of the plasma being established in each of the chambers. With the detonation in each chamber, the shock wave developed causes a cohesive mass or "slug" of gas to be propelled from the fired chamber through the interconnecting narrow channel surrounded by the pole pieces into the non-fired chamber. On the next half cycle, a slug of gas is propelled from the second chamber to the first in like manner, thereby resulting in an oscillatory shock wave of gas to be propelled between the pole pieces, first in one direction and then the other. The oscillatory propulsion of the ionized gas between the pole pieces results in the generation of an alternating electric current which is taken as an electrical output from the plasma by means of suitable electrodes.
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Inventors:
ARUBAATO JII BOODEIN
Application Number:
JP14931586A
Publication Date:
February 03, 1987
Filing Date:
June 24, 1986
Export Citation:
Assignee:
ARUBAATO JII BOODEIN
International Classes:
H02K44/24; H02K44/18; (IPC1-7): H02K44/24
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kenro Shinmi