Inventors: James O. Burke, James O. Burke
Current U.S. Classification: 310/301
Patent number: 3530316
提交日期：1968年3月1日
发行日期：1970年9月22日
摘要本公开
一种用于使用放射性物质的产生和/或放大电流的方法和装置。来自合适源的电流通过导体与放射性物质的影响或在放射性物质的影响下，以产生比输入电流更高幅度的电流。电流可以通过含有导电的可以含有放射性物质，围绕或分散在放射性物质内的金属棒或设置在放射性物质周围的线圈进行的导电杆进行。
发明概述
因此，本发明的主要目的是提供一种放大或扩大现有电能或电流的方法，进一步提供利用放射性排放或辐射的新型电力系统。
Another object of this invention is to provide a method and system of enlarging or amplifying electric current by employing a metal conductor and a source of radioactive emissions in association with each other. Another object is to provide and improve electrical power supply systems which may be relatively lightweight and small in size and, therefore, adaptable for advantageous use, for example, in high altitude apparatus and craft.
从以下实施本发明的最佳方式和其实例的描述中，本领域技术人员将变得显而易见，与所附的附图一起制造，其中：
FIG. 1 schematically illustrates a circuit embodying the basic principle of this invention;
FIG. 2 is a perspective of another embodiment of the invention;
图。如图3和4所示，示出了又一实施例，如将描述的。
参考示意图。如图1所示，示出了所示的最佳实施方式，示出了一种电路，该电路包括填充有放射性锶90的铜罐1。当盖子从其相对的端部延伸并且导电连接的相同材料的导电触头2并导电连接利用合适的电导体，例如铜线3.在该实施例中的电能4的源极优选地是电池供应到罐1的电流，在那里它通过盖子进行并经受包含在锶的锶的辐射。箱，导致电池电流的放大。
然后通过导体3传递通过罐和被放大的电流通过导体3到负载5。
罐1中的放射性物质优选为锶90，但可以是任何放射性发射器，发射α，β，γ或以其他方式指定的颗粒或波，包括中子，质子等和/或其任何组合。
The radioactive material contained in cannister 1 may be heated from an external source or from the heat of nuclear radiation of the radioactive material itself, to increase the amplifying effect on the current in the circuit described in FIG. 1, but such heating is not necessary or essential to the current amplification system described in connection with FIG. 1. Current passing through the conductive cannister is enhanced by the emissions from the radioactive material in either case resulting in a current in excess of that produced by the battery and the radioactive material indirectly.
From the description of FIG. 1, it can be seen that this invention relates to the amplification of electric current by the emission of radioactive material through or about which current is caused to flow, and also the enhancement of electric discharge by causing an electric current to flow through the radioactive material. There are many possible physical arrangements whereby an electric current can be made to pass through a radioactive material, and broadly speaking, the present invention is intended to encompass any such invention in which … Click images below to continue reading
