Patent ID: 7592783
Filing Date: 2009-09-22
Classification: H02N

Abstract:
1. A method for implementing a P-Static Electrical Power System for the independent local generation of electricity on the external surfaces of aircraft or electrically ungrounded objects subjected to an airstream or wind containing charge producing ingredients respectively, and comprising: means for locally harvesting P-Static electrical charge which forms on the external surfaces of aircraft flying through the earths atmosphere or forms on the external surfaces of electrically ungrounded objects immersed in the wind due to the impact on them of said airstream or wind containing charge producing ingredients, respectively, including but not limited to rain, snow, sleet, dust, ash and/or fog or by any other atmosphere containing charging ingredients including the planetary atmosphere of Mars; means for causing enhanced local generation of said P-Static electrical charge utilizing a sheet of dielectric material such as Teflon attached or glued to the external surface of said aircraft or ungrounded object and upon which said airstream or wind containing said charge producing ingredients impacts with collection of said P-Static electrical charge so produced using a set of electrodes attached electrically to and covering a portion of the dielectric material; means for storing of said collected P-Static electrical charge in a high voltage rechargeable capacitor (or rechargeable battery) storage unit at several thousands volts or less with the choice of voltage level selected low enough that the electrical noise radiated by any corona discharge, if it should occur, is sufficiently reduced as to not interfere with the aircraft or ungrounded objects electrical or communications systems; means for providing a relay/solid state switching circuit which functions as a voltage controller to control the maximum voltage applied to said rechargeable capacitor (or rechargeable battery) storage unit as well as functioning to control the range of voltages used for recharging said capacitor or battery unit and also functions to limit the maximum voltage applied to the storage unit by switching the main circuit temporarily to an excess charge discharger unit to dump the excess charge overboard into the airstream or wind should said voltage controller fail to disengage at its maximum voltage setting and/or the voltage supplied from said dielectric charge generator exceeds a maximum allowable value; means for providing said excess charge discharger in the form an externally mounted metallic brush (or its equivalent) with a multitude of slender, finely pointed, conducting bristles, located downstream of the P-Static Electrical Power System, which discharges excess charge to the passing airstream or wind; means for converting the high voltage DC output from said rechargeable capacitor (or rechargeable battery) storage unit to much lower DC and/or AC voltage, in the order of a few volts, to power low voltage devices constructed from semiconductors, transistors or similar types of electronic elements by employing DC-to-DC and/or DC-to-AC step down converters of inverter, transformer and rectifier types; means for providing said down converted voltage output of said P-Static Electrical Power System to a device or devices to be powered and to a low power or ultra low power, low voltage wireless transmitter that relays information and data back to the main body of the carrying aircraft or ungrounded object for direct use or recording; means for provision of a lightning diverter unit adjacent to said P-Static Electrical Power System to protect said P-Static Electrical Power System from lightning strikes.