DYVERGA ENERGY CORPORATION Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140150419 | LOW DIFFERENTIAL TEMPERATURE ROTARY ENGINES - An engine is configured to generate power by extracting energy from a low temperature or pressure differential. A plurality of movable masses (e.g., fluid contained in and movable between vessels) is coupled to and arranged about a shaft. When subject to a pressure differential, mass moves to a higher vessel thereby increasing its potential energy and producing a gravitational moment that encourages rotation of the plurality of masses in the first direction. The pressure differential can be created by an increase in pressure that can be generated by exposing a substance (e.g., a volatile material) to heat. | 06-05-2014 |
20130000303 | LOW DIFFERENTIAL TEMPERATURE ROTARY ENGINES - An engine is configured to extract energy from a heat source as follows. A shaft is adapted to be rotatably coupled to a support and rotatable in a first direction. A plurality of vessels is coupled to and arranged about the shaft. At least a first vessel of the plurality of vessels includes a thermally insulative portion and a thermally conductive portion. A plurality of conduits connects the plurality of vessels together. Each of the plurality of vessels is in communication with at least one other of the plurality of vessels via at least one of the conduits. The plurality of vessels is arranged to allow the thermally conductive portion of the first vessel to encounter the heat source. The thermally conductive portion is capable of transferring heat to at least partially vaporize volatile fluid within the first vessel to cause a mass to at least partially move towards a connected vessel located above the first vessel. This produces a gravitational moment that encourages rotation of the shaft and the plurality of vessels in the first direction. | 01-03-2013 |
20110041499 | LOW DIFFERENTIAL TEMPERATURE ROTARY ENGINES - An engine for extracting energy from a heat source, comprising a support, a shaft rotatably coupled to the support and being rotatable in a first direction, a plurality of vessels coupled to and spaced about the shaft, a working fluid provided in the plurality of vessels, and a plurality of conduits connecting the vessels together in a circuitous fluid circuit. Each conduit has an outlet end connected to one of the plurality of vessels, an inlet end connected to another one of the plurality of vessels, and a one-way check valve configured to allow the working fluid to flow out of the one vessel via the outlet end, through the conduit and into the another vessel via the inlet end. The plurality of vessels and conduits are shaped and arranged about the shaft and the working fluid is selected so that when the one vessel is heated by the heat source the working fluid in the one vessel experiences an increase in vapour pressure causing at least part of the working fluid to flow from the one vessel into the another vessel located above the one vessel so as to produce a gravitational moment that encourages rotation of the shaft in the first direction. | 02-24-2011 |