Discs have to be as thin as possible, to preventturbulenceatdiscedges. The original patent has been cleaned up and enhanced to create an attractive display piece for your home or office. This type of radial expander is characterized by the absence of rotor blades, which are replaced by multiple parallel flat disks. Renewable energy conversion system with frameless tesla. Around the year 1900 nikola tesla, the inventor of the alternating current motor, developed a different kind of steam turbine. Download all of teslas inventions and go through the work of the man who electrified the world. Building the tesla turbine hobby magazines download. Tesla turbine boundary layer sheartorque bladeless test rig. This is a great way to put your interests and hobbies on display.
As you may remember, elon musk disavowed any patents owned by tesla motors, for several reasons that you know how to find. Tesla turbine also called friction or disc turbine is a valuable candidate to play an important role in the field of small and micro power generation. The turbine blades define a plurality of alternate spaces, with an airconducting cooling space positioned between each pair of turbine or working spaces. Its too early to tell, but there might not be any patent for tesla powerwall, or any tesla product in the future. Download all of nikola teslas patents here ancient code. In the second patent, tesla modified the basic design so it would work as a turbine. While hot working gas expands between blades in the turbine spaces, cooling air flows in the opposite direction in the adjacent cooling spaces to cool the turbine blades. The tesla turbine is also known as the boundarylayer turbine, cohesiontype turbine, and prandtllayer turbine after ludwig prandtl because it uses the boundarylayer effect and not a fluid impinging upon the blades as in a conventional turbine. Btw it seams that there are draconian changes like very old ideas being re patented. The tesla turbine us patent and plans sp500 generator.
Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology. This analysis allows a parametric study of turbine performance based on several nondimensional parameters. Tesla turbine design and the theory of operation of an. The principle of tesla turbine comes from two main rudiments of physics. Tesla turbine patent 19 patent prints, tesla invention. Some of tesla s patents are not accounted for, and various sources have discovered some that have lain hidden in patent archives. Us3999377a teslatype turbine with alternating spaces on. While walking in budapest park, hungary, nikola tesla had seen a vision of a. Pdf nikola teslas patents sixth international symposium. From where can i get the patents of the tesla powerwall. The pros and cons of tesla turbines are discussed in this article, as are those of the tesla pump. Tesla turbine download pdf info publication number. A tesla turbine is made of a set of parallel discs with nozzles, through.
But honestly, tesla did more than just electrify the world. Examine the original turbine patent descriptions and drawings for yourself and gain an even greater perspective of this amazing invention. Keywords tesla turbine, corotating discs, nonaxisymmetry, computational. Nikola teslas patents sixth international symposium nikola tesla, 2006. A tesla turbine has the disadvantage of having to rely on friction interaction between a smooth surface and a fluid. This document summarizes the development of an integral perturbation solution of the equations governing momentum transport in microchannels between disks of multipledisk drag turbines such as the tesla turbine. Design and optimization of a tesla turbine for orc. Tesla turbine patent print tesla wall art tesla print etsy. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith. And finally, with the third patent, he made the changes necessary to operate the turbine as an internal combustion engine. I, nikola tesla, electrical and mechanical engineer, citizen of the united states of american of no.
He was a true martyr for science and human progress. In the first patent, tesla introduced his basic bladeless design configured as a pump or compressor. There are a minimum of 278 patents issued to tesla in 26 countries that have been accounted for. Design, construction and testing of a tesla turbine. The tesla turbine is a bladeless centripetal flow turbine patented by nikola tesla in 19. This, more than anything, prevented the tesla turbine from becoming more widely used. When i started out with my first company, zip2, i thought patents were a good thing and worked hard to obtain them. A tesla type turbine including turbine blade cooling means is disclosed. The following list contains the patent applications for which there exists at least the information about the filing date and the application number under which the patent application was filed with the us patent office, irrespective of whether the title of invention, its description andor sketches and drawings were preserved. Tesla, through his patent on the tesla turbine in 19 01, which he referred to as a bladeless turbine or friction turbine. So all we can offer you at this time is the tesla turbine us patent. Tesla was denied a patent for a transmission he designed using his pump and turbine.
Multiple patents can be obtained by separating requests with a semicolon. It is simple in design and can be easy to construct from the us patent itself. It had no blades or buckets but only smooth disk closely spaced on the rotor shaft. The turbine is supplied on a aluminium base for display and demonstration purposes connected using two m6 hex cap screws. Teslas patents state that the device was intended for the use of fluids as motive agents, as distinguished from the application of the. Tesla turbine is commonly used as the steam turbine to generate electricity. Download all of tesla s inventions and go through the work of the man who electrified the. This analysis allows a parametric study of turbine performance based on several. As a pump it can do some really cools stuff as other people have posted. The high energy gasses like high pressure gas and high velocity gas can be useful if it is able to convert to. The tesla turbine is made of acrylic and aluminium.
Fluid entering through the inlets spirals inwards between disks, transferring power to the rotor shaft. Home download center electrical engineering books and technical guides electrical engineering guides complete patents of nikola tesla nikola tesla, the man who electrified the world nikola tesla 18561943, was the discoverer of the alternating current light and power system in use all over the world today. Here are teslas suppressed inventions economically published all in one place in clear english and 42 illustrations. Jun 12, 2014 tesla motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. The design of a 1 kw tesla turbine was carried using iterative process for head and discharge for main dimensions of the turbine. Also included in this book are step by step instructions in the form of detailed photos and drawings showing. An airflow driven electrical generator incorporating a funnelled or coned particle collector a to augment turbulent airflow, convert it to laminar airflow b and direct it through a series of nozzles e to between a series of rotational shaft mounted disks of a tesla turbine i. Previous work tesla turbine was patented by nikola tesla in 1903. Some of teslas patents are not accounted for, and various sources have discovered some that have lain hidden in patent archives.
This patent is actually for a turbopump, but it was the only picture i had at the time. A, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following. We are also including 2 color photos of 2 different size tesla turbine motors made by 2 of our customers constructed in a machine shop. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Disk turbine, tesla coil, highfrequency lighting, magnifying. Industrial tesla turbines may be used in hybrid cars or in commercial applications. In the present article, a mathematical theory for the flow field within a tesla disc turbine has been formulated in the appropriate cylindrical coordinate system. I spent a couple of hours today at the patent repository.
This is a print of the patent drawing for a nikola tesla turbine patent in 19. He is the man who envisioned the future and what our planet should look like before anyone else. Nikola tesla 18561943, was the discoverer of the alternating current light and power system in use all over the world today. Nikola tesla was an inventor who obtained around 300 patents worldwide for his inventions. The turbine is used to drive a high speed generator formed from a radial halbach array of magnets m. As a result, model s acceleration is instantaneous, silent and smooth. Design and operation of tesla turbo machine a state of the. The theory of operation of a tesla turbine relies on boundary layer effects, which makes for good efficiency for the tesla turbine.
This is your opportunity to immerse yourself in the world and mind of nikola tesla and go through all of his patents. Nikola tesla was an croatian inventor who obtained around 300 patents worldwide for his inventions. Here are tesla s suppressed inventions economically published all in one place in clear english and 42 illustrations. This weak friction does not create very high torque, which makes a tesla turbine useless for any application that requires that high torque such as power generation. Treatment of a bladeless turbine designed by nikola tesla is given. Using the searches in these multiple links you can then use the website. Nikola tesla is commonly said to be the man who electrified the world. Continuously printed since 1988, this is the bestseller of the famous tesla technology series from high voltage press. A, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the. Our tesla turbine design represents the ideal, economical and efficient way to convert the ecat thermal heat into electricity.
Design patents, patent patents, pregrant publications, reissues, and statutory invention registrations are all included. Complete specification improvements in the construction of steam and gas turbines. Pdf development of tesla turbine for green energy applications. Jun 02, 2015 its too early to tell, but there might not be any patent for tesla powerwall, or any tesla product in the future. Have you ever wanted to go through all of nikola tesla s patents. Adhesion and viscosity, instead of the conventional energy transfer mechanism in traditional turbines. At the lowhead and lowflow region, the tesla cmscale turbine operating range is superimposed. The turbine housing pieces were cut from standard 0. Patent 7695242 was issued in 2010 for wind turbine intended for generation of electric. Renewable energy conversion system with frameless tesla turbine used as steam turbine in coastal areas, has turbine with fluid outlet and fluid inlet having funnelshaped attachment, which is located tangentially to disc pack assembly.
Design and operation of tesla turbo machine a state of. Nikola tesla 18561943, was the discoverer of the alternating current light and. And maybe they were good long ago, but too often these. Tesla turbine download pdf info publication number us20020182054a1. Also included in this book are step by step instructions in the form of detailed photos and drawings showing how to construct your very own tesla turbine. Download books and patents of nikola tesla internet archive. Design and computational analysis of 1 kw tesla turbine.
Many of teslas patents were in the united states, britain, and. A theory of tesla disc turbines sayantan sengupta, abhijit. Complete patents of nikola tesla electrical engineering portal. On october 8th, 2014 andrea rossi publicly released his third party independent report of his hot cat lenr cold fusion reactor, which ran nonstop for 32 days and reached approx. The librarian there showed me to the u s patent main page, we can read patent applications, patents and with a free download of t i f f view the drawings.
Complete patent searching database and patent data analytics services. Barriers to tesla turbine commercialization howstuffworks. History of tesla turbines a tesla turbine is a quite unique technology. The tesla patent database contains all of teslas patents meticulously restored and for the first time, in a searchable index. It was invented and patented by nikola tesla on the 21st october 1909 at the united states patent office from experiments done in england. Yet power plants use this very design to pump fly ash through a 21 stage vacumn system, 14 inch dia. See more ideas about nikola tesla patents, tesla patents and nikola tesla. The evaluation of numerical methods for determining the efficiency. Boundary layer tesla turbine page stanford university. His inventions should have made him a multimillionaire, but he died in relative poverty.