Patents by Inventor Robert B. Wehrle

Robert B. Wehrle has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Contra-rotating homopolar motor-generator for energy storage and return
    Patent number: 4086506
    Abstract: An apparatus for receiving electrical energy in amounts of the order of hundreds of megajoules, converting the electrical energy to mechanical energy for storage, and delivering the stored energy as electrical energy in times of the order of a second comprises a sequence of stacked electrically conducting cylindrical shells having a common axis. The conducting shells are free to rotate and are separated by stationary insulating cylindrical shells. Adjacent conducting shells are connected electrically by brushes at the edges and a radial magnetic field is caused to pass through the conductors. The apparatus permits the reversal in a plasma heating coil of electric currents of amplitudes up to 100,000 amperes in a time of the order of a second.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1978
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the United States Department of Energy
    Inventors: Robert L. Kustom, Robert B. Wehrle