Pulsed electrolytic cell

This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/161,158, filed May 30, 2002, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/294,537, filed May 30, 2001.

This invention relates generally to the use of electrolytic cells and more particularly to a power generator that includes an electrolytic cell across whose anode and cathode electrodes electrical power is applied in a predetermined pattern.

The main object of this invention is to provide a power generator that includes a cell having a pair of electrodes immersed in an electrically-conductive heavy or light water based electrolyte, to which electrodes electrical pulses are applied which are in a predetermined pattern.

The significant feature of the present invention which distinguishes it from a prior cell in which the current through the electrolyte is pulsed, is that in a cell in accordance with the invention, pulsing takes place in a unique, novel and nonobvious pattern.

More specifically, an object of this invention is to provide a power generator that yields more energy in the form of heat than is applied to the cell in the form of electricity.

Briefly stated, these objects are attained in a power generator provided with an electrolytic cell containing an electrically-conductive hydrogen or deuterium containing electrolyte in which is immersed an electrode pair whose anode and cathode are formed of platinum, palladium, titanium, nickel or any other suitable metal. The electrolyte may be based on any suitable fluid such as light water, heavy water, and liquid metals, etc. or may also be a suitable solid material. Applied across these electrodes is a train of voltage pulse packets, each comprised of a cluster of pulses.

The amplitude and duration of each pulse in the packet, the duration of the intervals between pulses, and the duration of the intervals between successive packets in the train are in a predetermined pattern in accordance with superlooping waves in which each wave is modulated by waves of different frequency. Each packet of voltage and current pulses gives rise to a surge of current in the electrolyte which flows between the electrodes and causes the electrolyte (e.g., heavy or light water) to decompose, oxygen being released, for example, at the platinum anode while hydrogen (or isotopic hydrogen, e.g., deuterium) ions migrate toward, for example, the palladium cathode. The successive surges of ions produced by the train of pulse packets bombard the cathode to bring about dense hydrogen or deuterium packing. The dense packing in the cathode results in the generation of energy in the form of heat. The energy generated in the form of heat is greater than the electric energy applied to the electrolytic cell.