EPICYCLOIDAL INDUCTION-REDUCING COUPLER FOR MACHINES WITH A VERY HIGH ROTATING SPEED

摘要

In this gearless, induction-type planetary reducing coupling, electric currents induced in the collars of the driving rotor react with the inductive magnetic field carried by the self-excited planet wheels causing the planet wheel hubs to roll along circular tracks. Skidding is prevented by similar electromagnetic interaction in other, stationary rings. Said rolling action drives planet wheel carriers attached to the output shaft, effecting a power take-off with speed reduction from a very high rotational speed. The device is thus suitable for miniature turbines, whether driven by gas or steam, operating too fast for mechanical gear trains, and can be used to manufacture low-cost turbomotors and turbogenerators, for example using existing turboblowers converted into gas turbines by adding a combustion chamber and burner; this coupling, being reversible, serves as the starter therein.