FWIW, patent is *extremely* close to what we have been working with.
Note, however, EEStor may very well have moved on to "advanced technology" from this now granted patent, first filed in August of 2004.
This granted Patent continues one quirk, that to my mind, is a slipped decimal point. The table of the results of pulverizing aluminum powder (Column denoted as 10, line numbers 31 - 45) from a % volume of 2.5% to .41% seem to have their decimal point shifted 1 digit to the right, multiplying their size in µm by 10. Also, the "Average aluminum particle size = 2.4 µm". Going to be tough to make ~1 µm electrodes / plates, from particles with a minimum diminsion of 2.4 µm, don't you think?
Whereas on the last page, Claim 3, the average aluminum particle is .24 µm, which makes much more sense, if the electrodes / plates are to be ~1 µm thick.
This apparent conflict was also present in the application.
Either I'm mis-reading it, or it just slipped through.
A little table that always got glossed over.
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In addition to some minor re-wording of the cryogenic "cooling" aspect, the phrase "which also indicates that dielectric saturation has not been reached." has been deleted from the end of the sentence about 5000V of what is now Claim 11 (versus Claim 12 in the Application).
What significance that has, if any, is left to the reader.
What the hell is an Exciton, anyhow?
