Patents by Inventor Thane C. Heins

Thane C. Heins 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).

  • Patent number: 10291162
    Abstract: This invention pertains to a solution to the parasitic problem of motor armature reaction/generator action in electric motors which causes undesired effects such as neutral plane shift and flux weakening. Prior art interventions such as interpoles and compensating windings add to complexity and cost of electric motors without satisfactorily solving the problematic issues. This invention pertains to a novel method of employing the same primary magnetic field multiple times—first to change electrical input power to mechanical output power and then to reconvert this same stored electromagnetic field energy back into electric energy for storage and reuse. The primary electromagnetic field energy is used a second time after it has been used to create the desired change in kinetic energy of the secondary magnetic field being acted upon when it is allowed to collapse back into electric storage as it would do naturally once the input current is removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Inventor: Thane C. Heins
  • Patent number: 10103591
    Abstract: The present invention relates to electrical generators and, in particular, to improvements to efficiency in electromechanical energy conversion in electrical generators and electric motors. The regenerative acceleration generator coil according to the present invention takes advantage of the structure of a high impedance multiple-loop salient pole winding or low impedance bi-filar windings to create a positive armature (accelerative) reaction rather than a negative (decelerative) reaction as exhibited by prior art generators which only have low impedance multiple loops of wire making up their rotor armature. The generator of the present invention reverses these negative effects by delaying current flow in the coil until the rotating magnetic field reaches TDC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Inventor: Thane C. Heins
  • Patent number: 9230730
    Abstract: The present invention relates to electrical transformers and, in particular, to improvements to efficiency in energy conversion in electrical transformers. The improved transformer has a bi-toroidal circuit topology in which the magnetic flux passing through the primary and secondary coils are different. The turns ratio displays an “effective magnification” like an impedance transformed by a feedback loop. The result is a transformer which displays virtually no primary input current increase from no-load to on-load and an on-load power factor of zero for a purely resistive load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Inventor: Thane C. Heins
  • Publication number: 20140253271
    Abstract: The present invention relates to electrical transformers and, in particular, to improvements to efficiency in energy conversion in electrical transformers. The improved transformer has a bi-toroidal circuit topology in which the magnetic flux passing through the primary and secondary coils are different. The turns ratio displays an “effective magnification” like an impedance transformed by a feedback loop. The result is a transformer which displays virtually no primary input current increase from no-load to on-load and an on-load power factor of zero for a purely resistive load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventor: Thane C. Heins
  • Publication number: 20140111054
    Abstract: The present invention relates to electrical generators and, in particular, to improvements to efficiency in electromechanical energy conversion in electrical generators and electric motors. The regenerative acceleration generator coil according to the present invention takes advantage of the structure of a high impedance multiple-loop salient pole winding or low impedance bi-filar windings to create a positive armature (accelerative) reaction rather than a negative (decelerative) reaction as exhibited by prior art generators which only have low impedance multiple loops of wire making up their rotor armature. The generator of the present invention reverses these negative effects by delaying current flow in the coil until the rotating magnetic field reaches TDC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Inventor: Thane C. Heins