Stan Meyer's 1986 generator with no brushes and no slip rings: US 4,613,779

In 1986 Stan Meyer patented a generator with no brushes and no slip rings: US 4,613,779, the Electrical Pulse Generator. Two rings of electromagnets face each other across a gap, a coil ring on a spinning disc cuts through every field, and the clever part: that spinning coil powers a second set of magnets on the same disc, so the power comes out of a coil that never moves. Big power-station generators drop their brushes the same basic way. Every drawing is on the site.

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Sources

• Stan Meyer lecture · Deer Creek, Ohio
• Stan Meyer · US 4,613,779 · 1986
• Stan Meyer · US 4,613,779, Fig. 1
• Stan Meyer · US 4,613,779, Fig. 2
• Stan Meyer · US 4,613,779, Fig. 3
• Stan Meyer, US 4,613,779, Electrical Pulse Generator, filed 29 July 1983, granted 23 September 1986 — stanslegacy.com/documents/us4613779-electrical-pulse-generator
• Stan Meyer at Deer Creek, Ohio: "no electrical connection between the armature and the pickup ring" at 0:51 — stanslegacy.com
• Short: the-alternator, the deregulated car alternator this patent sets out to replace