Francis Halpin Mills

US Patent:

20160149519, May 26, 2016

Filed:

Nov 25, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/952713

Inventors:

- Ann Arbor MI, US
Dawn White - Ann Arbor MI, US
Joseph McElroy - Ann Arbor MI, US
Francis Mills - Ann Arbor MI, US
Mike Bosserman - Ann Arbor MI, US

International Classification:

H02N 3/00

Abstract:

An electrohydrodynamic system configured to harvest electrical energy from a wind stream flowing along a wind vector, including: a charged droplet generator configured to generate a first electric field, the charged droplet generator including: a manifold, a plurality of channels extending through the manifold thickness along a downstream face of the manifold, and a field shaper configured to generate a substantially uniform charging field proximal the plurality of channels that charges the droplets to a single polarity, wherein the first electric field opposes charged droplet movement along the wind vector.