Historical research guide · 0193 · 1992
The Shoulders EVO patent family (high charge density energy conversion)
Kenneth R. Shoulders · Jupiter Toy Co
In one minute
Between 1990 and 1991 Kenneth Shoulders and the Jupiter Toy Company filed six United States patents on one object: a micrometre-scale bundle of electrons that holds itself together and travels along a channel cut in a dielectric. This is the family sheet — the first patent has its own page. Read together the six divide into three jobs. Two make and steer the entities, with grooves in solid dielectric, biased counterelectrodes, deflectors that sort bundles by their charge, collectors, phosphor screens and x-ray targets. Two build circuits around them. And one, US 5,123,039, is the energy patent. Its granted claims describe launching a bundle, guiding it along a path, adding energy to it from an outside source while it travels, and taking the energy off a slow-wave conductor into a load — and then they name the source. Claim 19: the outside energy source includes a zero-point source. Claim 20: vacuum zero-point energy. Claim 21: zero-point radiation. That is the language of a granted 1992 US patent.
Connection
Chapter 6’s boldest document is not a paper but a patent: in 1992 the United States granted claims whose stated energy source is the zero-point field of the vacuum. Chapter 9 takes from the same family the closest laboratory relative of a self-organised ball of charge — one small enough to be made by microlithography and steered along a groove.
From the source
US 5,123,039 claims an energy converter comprising a source of a contained bundle of moving charged particles traversing a path, and a slow wave electrical conductor positioned so that energy transfers from the bundle to the conductor, which couples that energy to a load — the whole device operable in a vacuum envelope.US 5,123,039, claims 1, 8, 10, 11
The same patent claims the method with the source of the energy named: launching a bundle, guiding it along a path and adding energy to it from an outside energy source while it traverses the path, where claim 19 states that the outside energy source includes a zero-point source, claim 20 that the zero-point source includes vacuum zero-point energy, and claim 21 that it includes zero-point radiation.US 5,123,039, claims 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21
Shoulders writes that an entity forms when the charge density passes a threshold and Casimir or van der Waals type forces, whose origins are in the zero-point energy, cluster the charges into a single entity which is thereafter held together by zero-point energy forces; and that as the entity absorbs and emits electrons along the conductor, energy is delivered to the output whose ultimate source appears to be the zero-point radiation of the vacuum continuum. He calls emission a fission reaction and absorption a fusion process.US 5,123,039, description, sections 31 and 32
US 5,054,046 claims the guide architecture: a solid dielectric body with an elongated groove, an accelerating means and a capacitively coupled counterelectrode, arranged so that charged particles applied to the groove during a first interval charge the dielectric and thereby have an effect on charged particles subsequently propagating in it — plural discrete contained bundles running along the channel while the counterelectrode and accelerating biases are held constant and the source is activated to a single state.US 5,054,046, claims 1, 7, 100, 105
US 5,153,901 claims the manipulation set: bundles moved between electrodes under the influence of charge established in a solid dielectric; an optical energy pulse associated with the bundle and reflected by a mirror placed in its path; electrode means that select bundles as a function of differing charge properties; deflection into plural paths; a phosphor or x-ray target anode struck by the bundle; and a slow wave structure capacitively coupled to the bundle to derive an output.US 5,153,901, claims 1, 5, 7, 10, 13, 18, 28, 30
Scaling is claimed as well as operation: N sources, N paths and N slow wave conductors with means for combining the energy from all of them and the residual energy left in the paths, and a feedback path that couples energy derived from the slow wave conductor back to control the charged particles propagating from the source — the loop in which part of the output makes the next entity.US 5,123,039, claims 4, 5, 6, 7
The way in
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5123039A/enHow to cite it
Kenneth R. Shoulders, Jupiter Toy Co (1992) The Shoulders EVO patent family (high charge density energy conversion) US5123039A