Energy storage flywheel apparatus and methods
CA 2245557 C · Owner: Active Power, Inc. · Inventors: Little, Scott R.; Clifton, David B.; Pinkerton, Joseph F.
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A flywheel energy conversion device (10) provides highly efficient conversion between kinetic and electrical energy. The flywheel (10) produces increased output by providing armature coils (44) in an air gap (46) formed about the flywheel (both radial and axial embodiments are described). In preferred embodiments, field coils (30, 32) of a magnetic circuit are energized with DC drive current that creates homopolar flux within a rotating solid rotor (12) having teeth (14) cut from a flat disk. The total reluctance of the magnetic circuit and total flux remain substantially constant as the rotor rotates. The flux may travel radially outward and exit the flat disk through the teeth …
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- Filed February 5, 1997 and granted July 9, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 5, 2017.
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