Patent Application
20120206112
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Electrolysis is a known tool in the field of chemistry. The direct application of electricity to a sample of water yields hydrogen and oxygen for instance. Oscilloscopes have been around for years. With an oscilloscope you can vary both frequency and voltage. However all the oscilloscopes that are manufactured today are used for electronics and therefore operate at low voltages. My idea is to make a high voltage oscilloscope that can be used for electrolysis where you could vary the frequency and voltage of electricity directed at the sample at high voltages that you cannot get with the oscilloscopes that are manufactured today. This could be useful because the experimenter could hone in on the sample with frequencies that are compatible with hydroxyl groups or double bonds while having enough voltage to break a chemical bond. The oscilloscopes made today are not strong enough to do this.
The invention has a high voltage motor generator powered by a power source and controlled by a rheostat (rheostat 1). Because this rheostat controls how fast the generator spins it also controls the frequency produced by said generator at the test site. The second rheostat (rheostat 2) is located after the generator and therefore controls the voltage of said generator at the test site. Therefore my invention the high voltage oscilloscope has methods of controlling both frequency and voltage at the test site at high voltages.
The drawing shows a motor generator that is powered by a power source and controlled by rheostat 1. The electricity produced by the generator is then controlled by rheostat 2 before it gets to the test site.
Referring more particularly to the drawing . A high voltage motor generator is powered by a power source and controlled by rheostat 1. Because rheostat 1 controls how fast the high voltage generator spins it therefore controls the frequency of the electricity produced by the high voltage generator at the test site. There is also a rheostat 2 that controls the electricity produced by the high voltage generator before it gets to the test site. Therefore rheostat 2 controls the voltage produced by the generator at the test site.
Therefore the described invention has means of controlling both frequency and voltage at the test site. These are the basic controls of an oscilloscope. Furthermore because the generator produces high voltages the invention shows how these high voltages can be controlled by frequency and voltage in a way no standard oscilloscope could do at high voltages.
The application of this high voltage oscilloscope is that it could be used for electrolysis of liquids. Because it can vary both frequency and voltage at the test site in high voltage a researcher can hone in on a molecules frequency and voltage before it breaks. This can be done in alternating current with this high voltage oscilloscope instead of just direct current. Because it can be done in alternating current now at high voltages it might lead to new discoveries by honing in on frequencies that are compatible with double bonds or hydroxyl groups for instance. Furthermore this invention controls high voltage alternating current at the test site for use in experimentation. In the past only direct current was used. The advantages of alternating current with this invention are described above. This might have use in the search for synthetic fuels.
