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Cold fuel thermionic converter

US3932776A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 9, 1966
Grant dateJan 13, 1976
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Expiry dateDec 9, 1986

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG21H1/106
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An energy source for a heat-utilizing device which includes a source of gamma radiation, an absorber of such radiation and a heat-utilization device in heat-transfer relationship with the absorber of gamma radiation. The enclosure of the energy source is so constructed that additional heat-utilizing device may also be energized from the same source of gamma radiation.

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