Electromagnetic augmentation of internal combustion engines

Patent · Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:5013138

Bradley, P

A description is given of an internal combustion engine having a paramagnetic engine block, including a paramagnetic engine head, and a paramagnetic engine block for movement within a cylinder of said paramagnetic engine block for movement within said cylinder in response to cyclic combustion of fuel within said engine; said engine being operably connected to a generating system; said generating system comprising generating means operably connected to said engine and to battery storage means; wherein the improvement comprises: a permanent magnet fixedly mounted within said paramagnetic piston, with the axis of magnetic polarity of said permanent magnet being disposed parallel to the direction of movement of said paramagnetic piston; electromagnetic coil means fixedly mounted in said paramagnetic engine hed for selectively generating a magnetic field for interacting with the magnetic field of said permanent magnet; first means connecting said electromagnetic coil means to said generating system, said first means being synchronized with the movement of said paramagnetic piston, so that said electromagnetic coil means exerts an attracting force, at least intermittently, upon said permanent magnet when said permanent magnet is approaching said electromagnetic coil means, and said electromagnetic coil means exerts a repelling force, at least intermittnetly, upon said permanent magnet when said permanent magnet is moving away from said electromagnetic coil means; said paramagnetic piston has a plural stroke cycle, wherein at least a portion of a first stroke is a compression stroke, and at least a portion of a second stroke is a power stroke; and said first means connects said electromagnetic coil means to said generating system so that said electromagnetic coil means exerts an attracting force upon said permanent said compression stroke, and exerts a repelling force upon said permanent magnet.

• Assignee: IFI; ERA-06-001047; EDB-80-123610
• Patent Number(s): US 4213428
• OSTI ID: 5013138
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 22 Feb 1977
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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