Patents by Inventor Michael L. Gotcher

Michael L. Gotcher 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).

  • Publication number: 20110298222
    Abstract: A system of embedded cylindrical rollers is mounted in an underground containment system in spaced transverse channels beneath a road surface. Power is generated from the passage of motor vehicles over the rollers converting rotary energy into electrical energy. Each roller is designed as a power generator which can be networked together to produce electrical energy directly to a storage battery or grid, thereby eliminating the need to couple the roller to an external generator as in prior art. The system activates when the vehicles contact the embedded rollers in a prescribed direction, and transfer vehicular movement into rotational motion, thus generating electrical energy produced insitu without the need for an external generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Inventors: Matthew R. Bailey, Jacob B. Angelo, Michael L. Gotcher
  • Patent number: D351988
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Inventor: Michael L. Gotcher