Radiant system in accumulators and resultant product

[0002] This application is a continuation of Ser. No. 09/230,510, filed Jan. 26, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,294,893, which is a 371 of PCT/BR98/00027, filed May 20, 1998.

[0003] The present invention is related to a system for the automatic recharge in accumulators and or capacitors, in order to optimize the generation, storage and usage of energy, allowing costs reductions through ultra fast recharging cycles by a pulsing process that generates high frequency radiation, through superior tensions that are used on the actual recharging cycles, with no prejudice on the actual usage of electricity, allowing than facilities on its applications.

[0004] The purpose of accumulators and or capacitors is to maintain, even though transitory, a determinate electromotive force, between the two terminals of one electric charge to be fed. For energy recharging, the circuits have two impedances: the internal, from the self accumulator and or capacitor and the one due to the recharging equipment, here reported for illustrative objectives for the lead-acid accumulator, that is the most common used. Herein an accumulator and or capacitor is referred to only by the word accumulator.

[0005] The actual systems used on accumulators recharging do not use the effects due the corpuscular radiation properties, that allows better efficiency on the transference of power in one circuit with the same impedance, neither the constructive principles described as follows, so, restricted to equipment that stay long periods of time for recharging of slow charge rates, due the limitations of the adopted systems. The accumulators on use today operate when charging and discharging cycles on the same energetic being, by only one pair of terminals the electric current is spread on all the plates simultaneously, showing higher impedance to the current passage and others inconveniences that limits the minimum time for fast recharging cycle.

[0006] The present invention adopts a cycle process, operating with two accumulators in a parallel regime of charging and discharging, or it means that, when one of the two accumulators supplies energy for the system, the other receives the charge and vice versa. The accumulators use preferentially several pairs of conductors branch lines with adequate isolation, plugged preferentially on the center of the inferiors edges of the plates to proceed the automatic charging or the self supported operation on the accumulators of high frequency radiant effect activated by the inferior border of the plates through continuous current used by the system, originated by the cyclic pulsation of the operational tension preferentially superior of the usual tensions adopted on the usual system, energizing the plates, in the case of more than one pair by cell, preferentially by sequence, on the way of the pairs from the plates from the borders to the center, acting simultaneously on all the cells, independent of the actual system, that is preserved for the service of cyclic discharges on the accumulators by the superior part of the plates, through terminals used nowadays, preferentially symmetrical, it means, in the center of the superior borders of the plates at normal tension, that are characteristics obtained by the potential of the material of the pairs of electrodes used on the plates, and the number of cells that constitutes the accumulator and the manner that are associated the cells in serial or parallel connection.

[0007] In the present invention were developed new elements, based on the process that adopt corpuscular properties of radiation, for the transference of electric charges with more facility, speed and efficiency, through of radiation iterating with the matter based on the Quantum Physics, particularly on the Theory elaborated by Albert Einstein in 1905 about the photoelectric effect, on the atomic model by Niels Bohr in 1913, as well as on the Quantum studies of the multielectronic atoms made by Douglas Hartree and collaborators, started since 1928 up to nowadays. The charge transference is done through a completely new radiant process that is obtained by, transferring on each half cycle, plates of one of the sets of the accumulator as a conductor, of inverse polarization, of the output of the other accumulator associated in parallel and vice versa, through a system controlled by electronic circuits designed for this purpose, developed with well known components and dedicated software, transforming itself in a logic monitor and totally safe. During the transfer of charges of inside the accumulator, the electric current should locate preferentially on the data recommended by the accumulator supplier, but, with efficiency incremented by the radiant effects of the photons of the electromagnetic iterations of the electrons, obtained through a pulsing voltage preferentially over 12.1 Volts at the specific case of the lead acid accumulator, as well as on the transmission of high power that justifies the reduced recharge time of accumulators, based on the theory of Hideki Yukawa in 1935 partially checked by Carl David Anderson in 1937 and finally discovered by Cecil Frank Powell in 1947; the mesons and the start of the particles physics.

[0008] A more complete appreciation of the present invention and many of the attendant advantages thereof will be readily obtained as the same becomes better understood by reference to the following detailed description when considered in connection with the accompanying drawings.

[0009] A process where the radiation interacts with the matter, the photoelectric effect, the Compton effect and the Production of Pairs, that covers the scattering or absorption of the radiation by the matter, is shown on the graph of FIG. 1. In order to make the comprehension easier of the constructive method adopted at the radiant system, the subject of this invention, is shown in FIGS. 2A-2C and 3, that are shown only as reference and not restrictive to the final shape of the invention.

[0010] On the graphic of FIG. 1, are shown the cross section measured for an atom of the ₈₂Pb as a function of the energy of the photon hν:

[0011] The scattering cross section indicates the probability of the scattering occurs or by the Thomson Process or by the Compton Process. In the case of the lead that has a high atomic number and so, electrons with strong connection, when the energy of the photon is lower than 10⁵eV, the Quantum results confound with the classical results and the Thomson scattering is dominant. The discontinuity of the Photoelectric cross section occur at the binding energy of the different electrons of the atom; when hν decreases bellow the binding energy of a specific atom, the photoelectric process involving this electron is impossible. The Production of Pairs cross section grows from zero when hν pass over the limit energy 2m_oc²necessary to materialize one pair. The total cross section of FIG. 1 specifies the probability of photon having any kind of iteration with an atom. We can note on FIG. 1 that the intervals of energy of where each one of the three process gives the most important contribution for the total cross section σT for the Lead are approximately:

[0012] The Quantum models developed allows to determinate with a reasonable precision approach, the minimum energies for an ultraviolet photon or x ray photon being absorbed on several layers of the atom by photoelectric effect. Using the following rough description of the results from Hartree's Theory to estimate the excitation energy: $E=\frac{m_0{e}^4}{{\left(4\pi {ϵ}_0\right)}^{2}2{\hslash }^2}{\left(\frac{Z_n}{n}\right)}^2={E_b\left(\frac{Z_n}{n}\right)}^2$

[0013] Where:

[0014] For the lead atom, chosen only as a reference and not restrictive, we have the following distribution of electrons on the layers:

[0015] Following, after tabling the theoretical estimating of hv energy from the incident photon, for producing a hole on each of the two firsts and the last layer more crowded external, at the fundamental state of the lead atom, where Z_nis the effective Z for the layer and E* (eV) experimental value related to Fermi's level:

[0016] What, inside the available scientific literature, and from the adopted energies on the forecasted system, very bellow 5×10⁵eV, demonstrates that the process where radiation is iterating with the lead from the accumulator plates, shown in invention, is predominately photoelectric.

[0017] Generalizing, it is important to mention that for other accumulators with electrodes made with materials of other chemical elements, with atomic number lower than 82, the minimum energies for a photon being absorbed by photoelectric effect in one of the corresponding absorption boards are much lower.

[0018] On FIGS. 2A-2C, consider the three view as being a generic accumulator, but, for elucidative purpose, the mostly common accumulator of the industry was adopted, that is, a lead-acid battery with six cells with serial connection and a nominal tension of 12V, constituted by the common elements used:

[0019] (1) Cell or vase, at this particular case in number of six

[0020] (2) Case or frame of the accumulator

[0021] (3) Crossbar or bars for cells interconnection

[0022] (4 ) Air vent, not necessary for the armoured configuration

[0023] (5 ) Terminal or positive pole

[0024] (6) Terminal or negative pole

[0025] (7) Appropriate carton sheet

[0026] The present invention uses, as shown in FIGS. 2A-2C, preferentially two groups of accumulators in a parallel connection having each of them, one or more accumulators in a serial connection, because the efficacy of the system is proportional of the operational voltage, adding to the conventional accumulators, preferentially “2n’ polarized terminals, being half of the terminals with positive polarization (8) and the other half of negative polarization (9) to serve preferentially “4n” conductors branch lines, being the positive conductors lines (10) and the negative conductors lines (11), adopting one branch conductor line for each positive plate (12) and other for the negative plate (13). The inferior borders of the positive conductors (10) and from the negative conductors (11), that are appropriately isolated for operation in aggressive electrolytes, are connected preferentially as close as possible of the center of the inferior borders of each positive plate (12) and each negative plate (13) of the accumulator, than, at this illustration, are “2n” conductors branch lines of positive polarization and “2n” lines of negative polarization (11). The superior borders of the conductors branch lines (10) and (11) are symmetric connected to the correspondent polarized terminals (8) and (9). The number of positive polarized terminals (8) and negative polarized terminals (9) is directly related to the electrical conductivity of the adopted materials, the accumulator capacity, the number and dimensions of the plates and to the cell heating (1), caused by the impedance of the circuits that serve the electrodes, forcing then, that the transmission of the radiant energy occur in a orientated sequential way in all the cells. The practice, starts using preferentially the number of negative plates (13), of lead identical to the number of positive plates (12), of lead peroxide PbO₂. The system is cellular and sequential, because the terminals of positive polarization (8) and the terminals of negative polarization (9) where the cells plates (1) are excited through the electrical field, are linked between the cells, preferentially in a parallel connection, receiving and transmitting radiant energy through the conductors branch lines on all the cells (1) simultaneously, but, with a random distribution of cyclical way in the time and sequential way in the space, because each of the terminals of positive polarization (8) and each terminal of negative polarization (9) energizes preferentially two positive conductors branch lines (10) and two negative conductors branch lines (11), neighbors lines, that serve the respective positive (12) and negative (13) plates in strategic pre-defined regions to guarantee the optimization of the homogeneity of the thermodynamic effects on the cells.

[0027] In FIG. 3 is shown only the plan of junctions for one cell (1) for the excited recharging through radiant energy, ultra fast of high power, through the terminals of positive polarization (8), pictorially represented in a darker color and the negative polarization terminals (9) in a lighter color, that feed respectively the positive branch lines (10) in darker lines and the negative branch lines (11) in dotted lines, that cause the radiant energy on the positive plates (12) and negative plates (13) activated by the respective inferior borders, that are separated by an appropriate canon sheet (7). The energization order of the illustrated polarized terminals is symmetric, with the positive polarization terminals in a clockwise sequence and the negative polarization terminals in the opposite way, or vice versa, but with a synchronized symmetry random starting in any pair. At the particular case of this illustration with a lead acid accumulator preferentially adopting plates with a smaller thickness and small quantities of electrolytes in solutions with H₂SO₄concentrations, that could be different from the usual, allowing the usage of additives like salts, preferentially Na₂SO₄, for increasing the speed of the reactions through a primary saline effect, that spreads to all the ionic species present on the solution and not only the reactive ions; so with plain charges densities, that could be different of 1.26 g/cm³, depending on the objective to attend: a faster recharging or a longer life to the accumulator.

[0028] The present invention revolutionizes by a totally new process the energy generators systems and the process of recharging accumulators making the charges available through radiant energy by a new process of high energetic efficiency by higher tensions than the used on the actual recharges, in distinct cells, in a pre-defined sequence, optimizing the temperature gradients and allowing to make ultra fast charges on accumulators.