(1) Velcro Electrical Polycarbon Wire (2) Photon to

[Archimedes Plutonium]

In article <5b27cp$o...@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu>
kin...@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu (Mark Kinsler) writes:

> In article <5b1e0e$pl5$1...@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>,
> >
> > I am convinced that a hook and loop Velcro electrical connector made
> >from organic conducting materials is feasible. I will rate the two
> >types of design, the hook & loop and the ball & socket.
> >
> > I have until 8Jan1998 to file patent application for the hook & loop
> >Velcro electrical connectors. There may be a problem with the
> >nonexistence of room temperature organic carbon polymer conductors. If
> >no room temperature one exists I will look into engineering one.
> >
> > The greatest application for these would be car batteries but with
> >the advent of electric cars the demand for the Velcro electrical
> >connector should be enormous.
>
> I'll agree with you that a spade-type connector is pretty lousy for a
> bicycle generator. Sturmey=Archer used a screw, and that was pretty
> lousy as well.
>
> Usually what you want to do with any electrical connector is to exclude
> air. Copper oxides are not conductive, and unless connections are either
> pressed tightly together so that air can't penetrate or they are soldered
> or otherwise sealed, you'll lose electrical continuity. Silver oxides
> _are_ conductive, which is why we silver-plate connectors quite often.
> Even better than that is gold, which doesn't oxidize at all. Thus your
> computer and the RJ-11 connector on your telephone line have gold-plated
> contacts.
>
> I think that you are correct in noting that there aren't any really good
> polymer conductors--at least none with any structural strength. For an
> application like your bicycle light, which must handle a lot of current,
> this is a big problem, and I imagine that a bit of research along this
> line will make you long for metallic connectors.
>
> Bear in mind that there are lots of very fine waterproof connectors
> available. Ford Motor Co. has one of the best--it's a bullet-shaped
> connector that's shielded with some sort of rubber that is utterly
> ageless and indestructable: The Beloved 1964 Econoline Van is equipped
> with these, and none has ever failed.
>
> The Mother Church of connector research would be the Burndy Corp in
> Norwalk, Connecticut. They've made precious-metal contacts for years,
> and you can sometimes see the armored trucks delivering their raw
> materials on the Connecticut Turnpike.
>
> Another possible line of inquiry might be an investigation of the
> conductive tape used by EKG people. Probably not much conductivity, but
> interesting stuff nonetheless.
>
> Mark Kinsler

Thanks for the interesting information Mark. After I posted the
Velcro Electrical Polycarbon Connector, for let us face facts, the
world has a dearth of excellent electrical connectors, I thought why
restrict myself to the connectors, why not simplify the whole entire
electrical wire and connector business.
I envision some day that the electrical wire and connector industry
will be virtually all organic polycarbonates. Material that is strong
and lightweight. I analogize to the clothing industry that cotton and
wool were humanities first good clothing material but nylon and other
polycarbonates have furnished humanity with new clothes that are
superior in several circumstances, not all but several. (Cotton is
still the best hot weather clothing.)
Anyway, I thought to myself last night that why restrict myself to
the connector and instead go real bigtime. Incorporate the invention to
the entire wire. Thus, make the entire wire a Velcro polycarbonate that
the field worker can just pull apart where need be and fasten at the
proper distance. Saving the pulled apart to attach to other wire.
Connectors is rather superfluous because a worker can just pull apart
the wire wherever it suits him/her and retach whereever it suits
her/him. Thinking last night, that if I can engineer a electrical
Velcro connector, why in the world limit my scope, my vision? Go for
the entire wire and make the entire wire one connector.

So, I am seeking another patent invention call it the Velcro
Electrical Polycarbon Wire.

I seek these properties.

(1) Lighter weight and stronger and more durable than any metal or
metal-rubber covered wire

(2) Equal or better in electrical current carrying to any metal
conductor

(3) Room temperature use

I must review the field of work of the above. This much I do know.
That fiber optics can carry photons well. Since this is already
reality, implies to me that fiber electrical conduction is also
possible. That I either do some fancy physics on the already existing
fiber optic cables to turn those photons into electricity, or, I redo
the fiber optic cable into a new chemistry of a polycarbon molecule
that is electrical conductive. One of those two is the easiest route to
Electrical Polycarbon Wire. The first accepts the present state of the
art of fiber optics and converts photon energy into electrical energy,
thereby keeping the fiber optics and tinkering around with a conversion
box, such as at the power plant and at the home where the photons are
converted into electrical energy. The second method plays with the wire
itself, in the making of a polycarbon wire that handles electric
current as good or better than metal conduction.

I have until 9January 1998 to file patent for the Velcro Electrical
Polycarbon Wire and a second patent for the Photon to Electricity
Converter Devices.