Patents by Inventor William S. Jarnagin

William S. Jarnagin 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: 4639348
    Abstract: This is one of a series of nuclear fusion (vs. fission) inventions by this physicist-inventor. This invention is designed to burn the cleanest of all known fusion fuels: boron hydride (B-H, or p-.sup.11 B). Boron hydride has no free neutrons on either side of its reaction equation: p+.sup.11 B=3.alpha.+W. If this fuel can be made to fuse as planned the many problems associated with neutron-based fuels, deuterium-tritium (D-T) in particular, can be obviated. D-T gives off 80% of its energy in the form of neutrons. These make the apparatus radioactive; and the neutrons may be used to breed weapons grade fission material. Whereas, p-.sup.11 B cannot be used to make fission bomb material; its product particles are entirely safe inert helium particles. B-H fuel is abundant, available and inexpensive. Boron hydride comes in gas, liquid or solid form, stable or unstable. The invention at hand proposes to accelerate macromolecular ions of boron hydride (such as B.sub.2 H.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Inventor: William S. Jarnagin
  • Patent number: 4607132
    Abstract: This invention relates to producing electricity and heat by means of a hybrid solar panel. Some of the energy (about 10%) is taken off electrically at the top. The rest goes through as infrared heat to an exchange fluid below. The invention includes a means of producing photovoltaic (not just photoconductive) surfaces continuously on copper sheet substrates, without pulling or cutting conventional crystalline boules or ribbons. Significant time, labor, and cost may be saved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1986
    Inventor: William S. Jarnagin
  • Patent number: 4202725
    Abstract: This invention consists of a system which generates clean inexpensive electrical power by fusing isotopes of hydrogen or other lightweight material. Not unlike a cyclotron "turned wrong-side out" ions are accelerated each time they cross a gap between two perforated "bowls" across which is placed high frequency-high voltage. Accelerated ions leave the bowls and go into magnetic gaps or mirror-tubes arranged radially thereon and are generally reflected back through the center of the system between the bowls. By controlled leakage highly energetic ions go out the ends of the mirror tubes and into Return Tubes surrounded by sector or other magnets. Ions are recirculated rapidly and repeatedly through the center of the system. Densities are anticipated to be at least 10.sup.15 and perhaps 10.sup.20's ions per cc. Probabilities of head-on collision are greatly enhanced by converging the beams of ions or jets of plasma head-on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 13, 1980
    Inventor: William S. Jarnagin
  • Patent number: 4189346
    Abstract: This invention consists of a system for generating clean controllable inexpensive electrical power by nuclear fusion (not fission) of light weight atoms and/or isotopes of hydrogen such as deuterium. Fusionable ions are accelerated head-on from many directions through the middle of a reaction chamber. Such ions are produced by especially designed cyclotrons aimed at one another. Since the orbital motion and escape velocity of an ion is controlled by the magnetic field of its originating cyclotron, said ion cannot hit the outer wall of the opposite magnet (which is of equal strength). Hence the system's plasma is operationally contained. The system can produce plasmas of practically any desired average velocity hence temperature; and in densities approaching 10.sup.20's per cc at the center of the reaction chamber. These conditions are abundantly ample for practical production of fusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1980
    Inventor: William S. Jarnagin