The invention concerns an energy converter, comprising a boiler, a turbine (11), a condenser, a feed pump (16) and a generator (17) and, if required, a recuperator and a pre-feeding pump. The thermal energy to be supplied to the boiler has been arranged to maintain a Rankine process driving the generator (17) and thus to produce electricity. The turbine (11), the generator (17) and the feed pump (16) have a joint rotor shaft (36). The rotor (36) is rotatably carried with gas-dynamic bearings (24...

An energy collection system may collect and use the energy generated by an electric field. Collection fibers are suspended from a support wire system supported by poles. The support wire system is electrically connected to a load by a connecting wire. The collection fibers may be made of any conducting material, but carbon, graphite, carbon/carbon, or a mixture thereof are preferred. Diodes may be used to restrict the backflow or loss of energy.

An energy absorber comprises a helically coiled stores of at least partially yielding material that is drawn over a roller, or two rollers on perpendicular rotational axes, and securely fixed to a base that is attached to fragile structure such as a roof so that when an external force of sufficient size is applied to the roller or rollers through a connecting attachment eye the coil together with roller or rollers moves away from the attachment to the base whilst the coiled material is deployed ...

An energy collection system may collect and use the energy generated by an electric field. Collection fibers are suspended from a support wire system supported by poles. The support wire system is electrically connected to a load by a connecting wire. The collection fibers may be made of any conducting material, but carbon and graphite are preferred. Diodes may be used to restrict the backflow or loss of energy.

A device for energy storage and energy transformation is described, in particular an ignition coil of an ignition system of a motor vehicle, having a magnetically active I core, which is surrounded by a first coil former having a winding connected to a supply voltage, and a second coil former having a winding connected to a high-voltage terminal, and having a peripheral core forming a magnetic circuit with the I core and enclosing the system made up of the first and second coil formers. In its c...

Compact and integral arrangements for an energy-conditioning arrangement having various predetermined energy pathways utilized in part for the purpose of conditioning energies of either one or multiple of circuitry. Some energy-conditioning arrangement variants can be operable to provide multiple, energy-conditioning operations.

An energy converter of the type primarily intended for transforming thermal energy into mechanical energy. The converter accomplishes this transformation by using heat to expand a fluid, resulting in movement of a mass which is in turn attached to a flywheel surrounding an axle. Moving the mass imbalances the flywheel causing its rotation. A usable work force is generated by this rotation.

There is disclosed an .OMEGA.-filter for use with an electron microscope. This filter has only one parameter that controls the exciting currents supplied to four magnets M.sub.1 -M.sub.4. Only those electrons of incident electrons that have a given energy pass through the successive magnets and emerge from the filter. The coils of the magnets M.sub.1 and M.sub.4 are identical in number of turns and connected in series. Similarly, the coils of the magnets M.sub.2 and M.sub.3 are identical in numb...

An extruded polycarbonate article suitable as an energy absorber is disclosed. The article includes a plurality of honeycomb chambers that are aligned substantially in the same direction, extend in the direction of the extrusion and are disposed adjacent to one another. A method of using the article entails aligning the honeycomb chambers in a direction parallel to the direction of the impact energy.

An energy machine generating hydraulic energy by the use of a plurality of wheels driven around a table surface, each wheel operating in turn a lever for operating a double acting hydraulic piston for producing output hydraulic energy.