Above ground energy resource device that utilizes a vehicle's spinning tire, and is made serviceable by utilizing magnets, pins and brakes
View Patent ↗This device generates electricity when a vehicle tire rolls over a platform containing a cylindrical roller that spins. Friction causes a vehicle tire to roll the cylinder. The spinning roller drives gears of an overdrive transfer box. The output of the overdrive box is a spinning shaft. The spinning shaft turns a differential, which drives a time-gear set. The time-gear set establishes the timing of a spinning shaft from the time-gear set and drives a motor generator suitable to supply electricity to an electric utility grid. To facilitate maintenance of the electrical generating system, brakes are utilized to hold fast the time-gear set; magnets hold fast the cylindrical roller; and a pin can lock the overdrive shaft.
1. An energy production system having an energy generating apparatus, and means for driving said apparatus comprising:
an ingress ramp, a housing platform, a roller, and an exit ramp,
and said roller, which said roller is cylindrical in shape, is fitted inside said housing platform, supported by carrier bearings and knuckles in said housing platform, and in which said roller rolls when a vehicular tire interacts with a protruded surface of said roller, causing said roller to spin,
and such said spinning action of said roller causes a driven gear, attached to a shaft of said cylindrical roller, to turn and revolve,
and said driven gear turns a smaller radius receiving gear to increase the rotational speed of said receiving gear, and where both said receiving gear and said driven gear are supported and mated together in an overdrive transfer box,
and which said overdrive transfer box is provided bearings and knuckles in said overdrive transfer box as a support foundation for said driving gear and said receiving gear,
and where an output shaft is connected from said receiving gear to a universal joint, and which said universal joint is directly connected to an input shaft,
and where said input shaft is directly connected to a differential, which said differential changes the direction of the rotating energy of said cylindrical roller,
and where the output of said differential is directly connected to said driving gear of a time-gear set,
and where an output that rotates, of said time-gear set, is an input to a generator set, said generator set which has a regulated voltage output and frequency output of compatible wattage to an electrical distribution grid.
2. The device of claim 1 , wherein a magnetic field is utilized to slow, and then to stop, and then to hold fast, as a brake holds fast, said cylindrical roller for service and maintenance activities.
3. The device of claim 1 , wherein said input shaft to said differential has a formed structure to allow a pin to be fastened to a pin base,
and when fastened, said pin holds fast said input shaft during service and maintenance activities.
4. The device of claim 1 , wherein said time-gear set utilizes an electric caliper brake set to slow, and then to stop, and then to hold fast said time-gear set during service and maintenance activities.
5. The device of claim 1 , wherein said time-gear set utilizes a tensioner wheel to hold taut a belt/chain.
6. The device of claim 1 , wherein battery storage is utilized to provide control power to activate a lift motor for neodymium magnets, and to an electric caliper brake set.