Abstract: Disclosed is an electrolytic direct energy converter (EDEC) having a cell that produces electrical energy based on the dynamics of electrically mobile ions within a gel, fluid or solid state electrolyte that is in electrical contact with a pair of electrodes of the cell. The pair of electrodes are physically separated from one another within an electrolyte such that an electric field is generated therebetween. The motion of the ions in the electrolyte causes more of the positive ions to move to one of the pair of electrodes and more of the negative ions to move to the other one of the pair of electrodes whereby to produce a potential voltage. An external electrical load impedance is electrically connected between the pair of electrodes such that the potential voltage is produced by the cell across the load impedance and a current flows through the load impedance.

Abstract: A lattice energy converter (LEC) is disclosed that produces ionizing radiation and/or electricity based on the thermal energy in the lattice of a specially prepared working electrode comprised in whole or in part of hydrogen host materials that are occluded with hydrogen or the isotopes of hydrogen and wherein the hydrogen host materials may include vacancies, superabundant vacancies, and other lattice defects. When the hydrogen host material is occluded with hydrogen, the LEC was found to self-initiate the production of ionizing radiation and, when the hydrogen host materials are in fluidic contact with a gas or vapor containing hydrogen or isotopes of hydrogen, the LEC was found to self-sustain the production of ionizing radiation. When the LEC includes one or more additional electrodes or electrode structures, the ionizing radiation was found to be converted to electrical energy. Materials that are normally considered to be radioactive are not required.

Abstract: A lattice energy converter (LEC) is disclosed that produces ionizing radiation and/or electricity based on the thermal energy in the lattice of a specially prepared working electrode comprised in whole or in part of hydrogen host materials that are occluded with hydrogen or the isotopes of hydrogen and wherein the hydrogen host materials may include vacancies, superabundant vacancies, and other lattice defects. When the hydrogen host material is occluded with hydrogen, the LEC was found to self-initiate the production of ionizing radiation and, when the hydrogen host materials are in fluidic contact with a gas or vapor containing hydrogen or isotopes of hydrogen, the LEC was found to self-sustain the production of ionizing radiation. When the LEC includes one or more additional electrodes or electrode structures, the ionizing radiation was found to be converted to electrical energy. Materials that are normally considered to be radioactive are not required.

Abstract: A gaseous-phase ionizing radiation generator for the voltage controlled production, flux, and use of one or more forms of ionizing electromagnetic and/or particulate radiation including: embodiments to collect and convert the particulate radiation that is generated by the radiation generator into electricity; embodiments that generate electricity from the ionized gas within the radiation generator by means of an auxiliary electrode structure composed of interdigitated individual electrodes of alternating work function; and a method or procedure for the fabrication and the activation of at least one working electrode composed in part of a metal hydride host material that is not formally considered to be radioactive.

Abstract: This application relates to the production, storage, and controlled release of hydrogen for use in the hydrogen economy. More specifically, it relates to a novel electrolysis system design that utilizes electrolysis of ionized vapors and gasses to produce and store hydrogen in a hydrogen host material and the capability to reverse the electrolysis potential to provide safe, controlled hydrogen release.

Abstract: A gaseous-phase ionizing; radiation generator for the voltage controlled production, flux, and use of one or more forms of ionizing electrornagnetic and/or particulate radiation including: embodiments to collect and convert the particulate radiation that is generated by the radiation generator into electricity; embodiments that generate electricity from the ionized gas within the radiation generator by means of an auxiliary electrode structure composed of interdigitated individual electrodes of alternating work function; and a method or procedure for the fabrication and the activation of at least one working electrode composed in part of a metal hydride host material that is not formally considered to be radioactive.

Abstract: A torsional mode, acoustic delay line is disposed over a strip of conduct, non-magnetic material having aligned teeth along its edges. A voltage source is impressed across the ends of the delay line to produce a quiescent concentric magnetic field thereabout. One or more code wires are interlaced through successive pairs of aligned slots between the teeth. The wire is encoded to act as a matched filter sense wire for a binary sequence by selection of the sense of circumferential direction in which the wire passes across the delay line at each pair of slots. The encoding wire is laced across the rear to the tooth-edge strip in order to allow it to be passed through each next successive pair of slots in the desired direction. These lacings on the rear side do not inductively couple with the delay line because of shielding by Eddy current effects produced by presence of a strip of conductor.

Abstract: Two kinds of apparatus for combining N.sub.2 chirp-Z transform (CZT) modu of length N.sub.1 to perform a discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of length N.sub.1 N.sub.2. The first method uses an auxiliary parallel-input, parallel-output, DFT device of size N.sub.2 and allows the transform of size N.sub.1 N.sub.2 to be performed in the same time as is required for a single CZT module to perform a size N.sub.1 transform. The second method uses an auxiliary parallel-input, serial-output, DFT device of size N.sub.2. If the second method is implemented entirely in a single technology, such as with charge-coupled devices (CCDs), it performs the size N.sub.1 N.sub.2 transform in N.sub.2 times the amount of time required for a single CZT module to perform a size N.sub.1 transform. If N.sub.2 is a composite number, say N.sub.2 = M.sub.1 M.sub.2, the second method also permits the same hardware to perform M.sub.1 simultaneous transforms of length N.sub.1 M.sub.2.

Abstract: Apparatus useful for mapping fields in the range of infrasonic to ultraso, comprising a distributed electrostatic transducer, functioning as a strip transmission line, which includes a flat, substantially rectangular, metal plate, one surface of which is rough, the plate having a length generally in the range of 10 to 100 wavelengths of the frequency at which the mapping is to be done. A rectangular strip of dielectric foil is disposed under tension on the rough surface of the metal plate so that the foil touches only the most protruding parts of the surface. A long, narrow, rectangular, metallic strip is disposed on and attached to the dielectric foil, the strip being exposed to, and therefore defining, an acoustic pressure field.A duplexer is electrically connected to the metallic strip and to the flat plate, and is connectable to a source of input signals, and has output terminals at which the output signal may be measured.

Abstract: An apparatus for the generation of a two-dimensional discrete Fourier transform of an input signal developed from data within a data block, or field, having a size of N.sub.1 by N.sub.2 data points, N.sub.1 and N.sub.2 being relatively prime with respect to each other, the transforms being in a form suitable for subsequent electronic processing. The apparatus comprises an input scan apparatus connectable to the N.sub.1 by N.sub.2 two-dimensional data field comprising the input signal, such as a television viewing field. The apparatus receives and scans in proper order, or sequence, the N.sub.1 by N.sub.2 input data so that the subsequently generated one-dimensional Fourier transform of the length N.sub.1 N.sub.2 serial data string is identical to an N.sub.1 by N.sub.2 two-dimensional discrete Fourier transform of the N.sub.1 by N.sub.2 input data samples.