Patents Assigned to Acudyne Incorporated
  • Patent number: 8302403
    Abstract: A compressor-less micro gas turbine has a compressed working medium container for maintaining a gas turbine under pressure. A combustion chamber is in fluid communication with the compressed gas container for receiving a gas from the gas container and heating the gas within the combustion chamber to create an expanded gas. A heater heats the combustion chamber to expand the working gas therein. A turbine in fluid communication with the combustion chamber for receiving the expanded gas. The expanded gas drives the turbine. A generator is operatively coupled to the turbine. The turbine provides a mechanical input to the generator causing the generator to produce electricity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Acudyne Incorporated
    Inventors: Darren T. Engle, Jody W. Wilson