Compressed Air Propulsion System to Power the Car of the Future

By Robert J. Richey

This book includes two United States patents. The current patent, US 9217329 B1, is titled Compressed Air Propulsion System. The previous one was US 8215111 B1 and was titled Electrical Generation from Explosives. The two patents are linked together in the book to provide propulsion to a car for the future.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Feb 24, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504981293

Robert J. Richey

This author earlier in life was an aerospace engineer for six years. Three of those years were devoted to performing analysis on various components of the outer shells of the Apollo command modules. Three other years involved being in an environmental group on a project for the Douglas Space Center. Eleven years were spent as a registered professional engineer in traffic engineering in California while employed by a county in California. Other projects involved designing the large traffic signs on California State Highway 85 and computerizing several expressway-signalized interconnected systems as a consultant. This author is presently retired.

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Published by AuthorHouse 02/23/2016

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INDEX

Introduction

Compressed air propulsion system

Abstract

Claims

Background of the Invention

Glossary Drawings 1 through 9

Drawings Not Included In the Patent

An Alternate Configuration Utilizing Cams to Operate The Inlet and Vent Valves

Specifications For the Cam Operated System

Patent us 8215111

Electrical generation from explosives

Abstract

Claims

Background of the Invention

An Alternate Explosive Substance to be used with Patent us 8215111

About the Author

Introduction

The world community today is faced with several dilemmas. The first of these is overpopulation. This problem is contributing to hunger and even starvation in parts of the third world. A second dilemma is pollution of the atmosphere and the waters of the world. This pollution is changing the world's atmosphere and causing global warming on a grand scale. The pollution of the continent waterways endangers human and animal health. Contamination of the planets seas and lakes endangers the survival of the fish and other creatures that dwell in the seas.

Some steps are being taken but not on a scale to address these problems that would lead to a final solution.

At least 86% of the world's energy is produced using fossil fuels. Hydroelectric sources produce about 6.5% while Nuclear produces about 8.5%. Unfortunately disposal of nuclear waste is a continuing problem. The life of nuclear waster stretches into the infinite. Production of energy from a variety of sources such as geothermal, solar and burning of waste only produces about 9%.

One of the most troublesome problems is a result of the increasing congestion on the nation's highways. Millions of vehicles sit idly in traffic for hours on end expelling millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The drivers of these vehicles and their passengers are engulfed in a river of monoxide on a daily basis. The potential for health issues in the future are catastrophic.

There is no solution to the production of the world's increasing need for electricity to supplement or replace fossil fuels in view today. Although the availability of fossil fuels is vast it still is limited.

Although there is no solution to the problems itemized here there are steps being taken in some measure to reduce the adverse effects of the mandatory use of fossil fuels. The installation of solar arrays is being pursued on an increasing scale.

The proposed invention on the pages of this book offers a new and different way of propelling vehicles on the nation's highway. It has the advantage of the electric in that it only operates when the vehicle is in motion. It also has the feature of being pollution free during operation. The air under pressure is merely expelled back into the atmosphere. The source of the compressed air is removed from the nations roadways and transferred to a large number of filling stations of the future located at convenient distances from each other or along the shoulders of the nation's various roadways.

Use of alternate means of propelling vehicles like the Car for the Future will save a lot of fossil fuels and