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US 12,270,387 · App. 17/752,350 · Granted Apr 8, 2025

Waveform disks for use in a disk-pack turbine

Inventor: Whitaker B. Irvin, Sr. (Kamas, UT)
Assignee: QWTIP LLC
F03G7/119B01D35/06B01D45/12B01D45/14B01D47/16B01D53/24B03C3/00B04B1/04B04B5/12F04D5/00F04D5/001B01D2259/814B03C2201/00B03C2201/16B03C2201/22F04D17/161
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Patent No.
US 12,270,387
App. No.
17/752,350
Granted
Apr 8, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A pair of waveform disks for use in a disk-pack turbine used, for example, in systems and methods in at least one embodiment for separating fluids including liquids and gases into subcomponents by passing the fluid into an expansion chamber and then through at least a portion of a waveform pattern present between at least two disks. The disks having waveform patterns on at least one side.

Claims (31)

1. A waveform disk for use in a disk-pack turbine, the waveform disk having

an opening passing therethrough at an axial center of the disk;

a plurality of mounting holes passing therethrough spaced around the opening; and

a surface with a waveform pattern centered about the axial center of the disk around the opening and the plurality of mounting holes, and

wherein the waveform pattern includes an inner set of circular waveforms, a middle set of waveforms, and an outer set of circular waveforms; the middle set of waveforms are biaxial, sinusoidal, and/or hyperbolic waveforms where each waveform is intersected twice by a diameter taken along the surface with the waveform pattern.

2. The waveform disk according to claim 1 , wherein the middle set of waveforms includes mirrored waveforms about a central waveform.

3. A disk-pack turbine comprising three waveform disks according to claim 1 stacked with the middle disk having a second surface with a second waveform pattern centered about the axial center of the disk and around both the opening and the plurality of holes, and

wherein the second waveform pattern includes an inner set of circular waveforms, a middle set of waveforms, and an outer set of circular waveforms, the middle set of waveforms are biaxial, sinusoidal, and/or hyperbolic waveforms where each waveform is intersected twice by a diameter taken along the second surface.

4. The disk-pack turbine according to claim 3 , wherein the waveform patterns include ridges and grooves such that the ridges and the grooves of neighboring waveform patterns overlap with each other.

5. The waveform disk according to claim 1 , further comprising a flat flange around a periphery of the disk on an outside of the outer set of waveforms.

6. The waveform disk according to claim 1 , wherein the middle set of waveforms have nested waveforms.

7. The waveform disk according to claim 1 , wherein the inner set of circular waveforms includes 2 or 3 waveforms.

8. The waveform disk according to claim 7 , wherein the middle set of waveforms includes 4 waveforms.

9. The waveform disk according to claim 8 , wherein the outer set of circular waveforms includes 3 waveforms.

10. The waveform disk according to claim 1 , wherein the inner set of circular waveforms includes 4 waveforms.

11. The waveform disk according to claim 7 , wherein the middle set of waveforms includes 5 waveforms.

12. The waveform disk according to claim 8 , wherein the outer set of circular waveforms includes 4 waveforms.

13. The waveform disk according to claim 1 , wherein the middle set of waveforms includes 4 or 5 waveforms.

14. The waveform disk according to claim 13 , wherein the outer set of circular waveforms includes 3 or 4 waveforms.

15. The waveform disk according to claim 1 , wherein the outer set of circular waveforms includes 3 or 4 waveforms.

16. The waveform disk according to claim 1 , wherein the surface includes flat areas between each set of waveforms.

17. The waveform disk according to claim 1 , further comprising a second surface with a second waveform pattern centered about the axial center of the disk around the opening and the plurality of mounting holes, and

wherein the second waveform pattern includes an inner set of circular waveforms, a middle set of waveforms, and an outer set of circular waveforms; the middle set of waveforms are biaxial, sinusoidal, and/or hyperbolic waveforms where each waveform is intersected twice by a diameter taken along the surface with the second waveform pattern.

18. The waveform disk according to claim 17 , wherein the waveform pattern and the second waveform pattern mirror each other.

19. A disk-pack turbine comprising:

a first rotor;

a second rotor; and

the waveform disk according to claim 1 located between the first rotor and the second rotor, the waveform disk having a second surface with a second waveform pattern centered about the axial center of the disk and around both the opening and the plurality of mounting holes, and

wherein the first rotor and the second rotor each having a rotor waveform pattern on a first surface and a flat second surface, the rotor waveform pattern facing the waveform disk, and

wherein the rotor waveform patterns and the second waveform pattern includes an inner set of circular waveforms, a middle set of waveforms, and an outer set of circular waveforms, the middle set of waveforms are biaxial, sinusoidal, and/or hyperbolic waveforms where each waveform is intersected twice by a diameter taken along the second surface.

20. The disk-pack turbine according to claim 19 , wherein the waveform patterns include ridges and grooves such that the ridges and the grooves of neighboring waveform patterns overlap with each other.

Continuity (4)
Division 15469547 · Mar 26, 2017
Continuation 13213452 · Aug 19, 2011
Provisional Application 61376438 · Aug 24, 2010
Related Publication 20220282715A1 · Sep 8, 2022
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