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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 1981
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Sid Russell, Suffield, CT (US);
Assignee:
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
429 17 ; 429 20 ; 429 51 ;
Abstract
The disclosure is directed to a method of generating electrical current in a controlled fashion from ionically conductive fuels such as hydrazine based fuels by bringing the fuel up to its dissociation temperature between two electrodes of dissimilar material which are initially thermally energized by dissociating the fuel by contact with a decomposition catalyst. The electrical current produced is extracted from the system by means of electrical leads connected to the electrodes. Apparatus comprising a fuel source conduit, a porous membrane for dispersing the fuel, metal screen electrodes, and a fuel decomposition catalyst are also described.