Abstract: An auxiliary motor vehicle heating system that supplements the motor vehicle's main heating system. The auxiliary motor vehicle heating system is not dependent upon the same heat energy source as the motor vehicle's main heating system. Consequently, the auxiliary heating system can provide heat when the main heating system is not able to provide heat. This permits the auxiliary motor vehicle heating system to operate and provide heat when the main motor vehicle heating system is not capable of providing heat. Consequently, this invention provides the capability for the windshield and other glass areas of the vehicle to be cleared and heat provided to the occupants of the vehicle even when the motor vehicle engine is not operating and warm. In one embodiment, the heating system is also capable of providing cooling air for cooling as an alternative to heat.

Abstract: A permanent magnet thermal generator having at least one stationary permanent magnet and a rotatable rotor assembly for producing and absorbing heat from the magnetic flux from the permanent magnet as the rotatable rotor is rotated. The rotor assembly serves as a heat absorber, an impeller to move a heat transfer fluid around the rotor assembly and to transfer heat to the heat transfer fluid that moves around the rotating rotor. In one embodiment the strength of the permanent magnets can be varied by adding or subtracting magnets and in another embodiment the rotor assembly is constructed in such a manner that the heat transfer fluid is recycled around the rotor assembly. Furnace, stream boiler and refrigeration systems incorporating a permanent magnet thermal generator are also set forth.

Abstract: An improved magnetic thermal generator has axially aligned, spaced-apart shafts, each with an electric motor at the outer end and on each inner end a permanent cylindrical magnet rotor with alternate north-pole and south-pole disposition of magnets parallel to each other in a circle about the shaft axis. In the spacing between the inner ends of the shafts a boiler is axially affixed. The boiler is of steel, is cylindrical in cross-sectional shape, and has at each end a steel disk-shaped end closure on the outside of which is bolted a copper disk of the same size. Fixed to the copper disk and extending hermetically through the end closure are a plurality of copper heat sinks, with axially alternative larger and smaller diameters; preferably the copper heat sinks from the respective ends are coaxially disposed and terminate within the boiler adjacent to each other but not touching.