US 20140035435A1

(19) United States

(12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2014/0035435 A1
Weber
(54)

(43) Pub. Date:

SYSTEM FOR GENERATION OF USEFUL

(52)

Feb. 6, 2014

US. Cl.

ELECTRICAL POWER FROM ISOTOPIC

CPC ..................................... .. G21H 1/00 (2013.01)

EMISSIONS

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(71) Applicant: David Weber, Lauderdale Lakes, FL

(Us)

(57)

(72) Inventor:

Particles emitted by radio-isotopic by-products of nuclear

David Weber, Lauderdale Lakes, FL

(US)

ABSTRACT

?ssion are used as a power source at the cathode of a magne

tron system. Particles include high energy electrons having a

large associated EMF. In the system a radial electrical vector
E, between the cathode and anode, interacts with an axial

(21) Appl' NO: 13/961125

(22) Filed:
Aug_ 7, 2013

magnetic vector B vector to produce an E><B force that rotates

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the particles about the system axis. These emissions are

(63) continuationdmpart of application NO 11/601,493,

within a set range 'of velocities. The angular velocity and

?led on NOV 17 2006 now abandoned

geometry of a rotating ?eld, known as a space charge wheel

(SCW), may be modulated by an external RF inputs to cavi

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ties of an anode block and the use of concentric biasing grids

between the cathode and anode block. The SCW induces LC

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values into cavities of the anode, exciting them and producing

G21H 1/00

(2006.01)

electrons resonance which may be used to generate power.

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