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The method of operation of a vortex chamber which has a fluid connection which can be controlled at times to send fluid from the chamber to a cavity, containing a movable mass, and which can allow fluid to travel from the cavity through the same fluid connection into the chamber to later exit from t

The method of operation of a vortex chamber which has a fluid connection which can be controlled at times to send fluid from the chamber to a cavity, containing a movable mass, and which can allow fluid to travel from the cavity through the same fluid connection into the chamber to later exit from the vortex chamber exit is disclosed. The vortex chamber, in a preferred embodiment, has a tangential power fluid input, an output at the center, and a radial combined input-output communicating with the movable mass container. The vortex chamber is used to reduce pressure at the fluid output when and only when control fluid input enters the chamber at the fluid input. Exhaust fluid from the movable mass container can easily pass radially through the vortex chamber to its output. The cavity containing the movable mass, which can be switched between locations, vortex chambers, connecting channels, and an electrically controlled switch to control the inputs to the vortex chambers are shown as an electrical relay produced in substrate form.

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A device comprising a first component, said first component being a chamber having an axis of substantial circular symmetry, said chamber having at least one first type fluid connection acting as an exit for working fluid from said chamber and being located on the axis of substantial circular symmet

A device comprising a first component, said first component being a chamber having an axis of substantial circular symmetry, said chamber having at least one first type fluid connection acting as an exit for working fluid from said chamber and being located on the axis of substantial circular symmetry of said chamber, working fluid being defined as that type of fluid of which some travels through said chamber and out again during operation of said device, said chamber having at least one second type fluid connection acting as an entrance for working fluid to said chamber, said second type fluid connections each being placed so that working fluid enters at a place away from said axis and being so oriented that working fluid entering at said second type fluid connections and exiting from said chamber at said first type fluid connections will cause a fluid circulation about said axis within said chamber, the circulation and resultant centrifugal forces in turn being the predominant cause of a pressure drop from said second type fluid connections to said first type fluid connections, said chamber having at least one third type fluid connection acting for working fluid both as an entrance at times to said chamber and as an exit at some other times from said chamber, said third type fluid connections being located substantially away from said axis of substantial circular symmetry, said third type fluid connections being oriented so that, in the absence of other flow, working fluid entering said chamber at said third type fluid connections and exiting from said chamber at said first type fluid connections travels through said chamber without circulation about said axis, said device further comprising a second component containing a cavity, said second component comprising at least one movable mass, part of the surface of said movable mass comprising one wall of said cavity, the volume of said cavity changing when said movable mass moves, the volume of said cavity being non-zero for most, if not all, positions of said movable mass, which said cavity communicates, through at least one opening in said cavity, whenever its volume is within a given range representing more than half the total range of volumes attained during operation of said device, in the sense of being able to exchange working fluid, with said first component by way of said at least one third type fluid connection, said movable mass being related to the rest of said second component in such a way that said movable mass substantially blocks entrance and exit of working fluid with respect to said cavity at said mass, whenever the volume of said cavity is within said given range, the blocking of working fluid being enough to be effective so that, during normal operation of the device, when the movable mass moves to sufficiently reduce the volume of said cavity within the said given range then working fluid is expelled, by motion of the movable mass, from said cavity at said at least one opening communicating with said third type fluid connection.