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US 12,392,330 · App. 17/750,578 · Granted Aug 19, 2025

Waveform disks and a system using the waveform disks

Inventor: Whitaker B. Irvin, Sr. (Kamas, UT)
Assignee: QWTIP LLC
F03G7/119B01D35/06B01D45/12B01D45/14B01D47/16B01D53/24B01F27/1152B01F27/93B03C3/00B04B1/04B04B5/08B04B5/12F04D5/00F04D5/001B01D2259/814B03C3/017B03C2201/00B03C2201/16B03C2201/22B04B2005/125B04B9/06F04D17/161
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Patent No.
US 12,392,330
App. No.
17/750,578
Granted
Aug 19, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A disk-pack turbine for use, for example, in systems and methods in at least one embodiment for separating fluids including liquids and gases into subcomponents by passing the fluid through a vortex chamber into an expansion chamber and then through at least a portion of a waveform pattern present between at least two rotors and/or disks. The rotors and/or disks having waveform patterns on at least one side. In at least one embodiment, the waveform patterns include a plurality of hyperbolic waveforms travelling around an axial center of the disk with each hyperbolic waveform having a varying diameter along the waveform.

Claims (17)

1. A waveform disk set comprising:

a first waveform disk having divergent exit ports spaced around a periphery of the first waveform disk,

a second waveform disk having convergent exit ports spaced around a periphery of the second waveform disk;

the first and second waveform disks each having matched waveform patterns located on a surface of the disks that include hyperbolic waveforms travelling substantially around an axial center of the disk with each hyperbolic waveform having a varying diameter along the waveform.

2. The waveform disk set according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second waveform disks includes two levels of hyperbolic waveforms and three levels of substantially circular waveforms.

3. The waveform disk set according to claim 2 , wherein the hyperbolic waveforms change height as the waveform travels around the waveform disk as measured in a radial direction.

4. The waveform disk set according to claim 1 , wherein when the first and second waveform disks are assembled, each convergent exit port aligns with one respective divergent exit port to form a convergent/divergent port pair.

5. The waveform disk set according to claim 4 , wherein the hyperbolic waveforms change height as the waveform travels around the waveform disk as measured in a radial direction.

6. The waveform disk set according to claim 5 , wherein each waveform pattern having waveforms each being intersected twice by a diameter taken along said surface with the waveform pattern.

7. The waveform disk set according to claim 5 , wherein

the first waveform disk having an opening passing through its height and located at an axial center of the first waveform disk; and

a fluid pathway exists for directing fluid through the axial center opening and through a passageway between the waveform disks towards the peripheries of the waveform disks.

8. The waveform disk set according to claim 1 , wherein each waveform disk including a plurality of flanges horizontally extending from the periphery of said disk, each flange having a plurality of openings passing therethrough.

9. The waveform disk set according to claim 1 , wherein each waveform pattern having waveforms each being intersected twice by a diameter taken along said surface with the waveform pattern.

10. The waveform disk set according to claim 1 , wherein

the second waveform disk having an opening passing through its height and located at an axial center of the second waveform disk; and

a fluid pathway exists for directing fluid through the axial center opening and through a passageway between the waveform disks towards the peripheries of the waveform disks.

Continuity (4)
Division 15469547 · Mar 26, 2017
Continuation 13213452 · Aug 19, 2011
Provisional Application 61376438 · Aug 24, 2010
Related Publication 20220275791A1 · Sep 1, 2022
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