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8148935 Machine with flywheel-less buffer drive  
A machine has a basic body and a machine element. The machine element can be moved relative to the basic body by an electric working drive which is connected to an electric supply system via a...
8093773 Motor for treadmill  
A motor for a treadmill, containing at least a housing (1), a stator (2), a rotor (3) having a rotating shaft (4), a front end cover (9), a rear end cover (5), and a flywheel (13). The front end...
8074534 Flywheel having lubrication-flow passageway  
A flywheel includes a hub portion concentrically defined around a center of the flywheel. A body portion located peripherally around the hub portion has a driver-side face and a driven-side face. A...
8047175 In-line four cylinder engine for vehicle and vehicle provided with the engine  
A two-plane type crankshaft is provided. The weight of crank webs for the respective cylinders is divided between left and right half webs and balance ratios kL and kR of the half webs for the...
8006589 Engine flywheel  
In a flywheel in which narrow portions to be engaged with a coil spring included in the flywheel are formed of recessed portions made by recessing the surface of a flywheel cover, the portions of a...
7882765 Balancing assembly  
A balancing assembly for a rotor comprises a mass, a displacement arrangement for displacing the mass along a guide arrangement. The guide arrangement extends circumferentially and the displacement...
7536932 Spherical flywheel energy storage system  
A spherical flywheel is described and specified that stores rotational energy more efficiently than cylindrical flywheels. The spherical flywheel is composed of multiple layers of material with the...
7465146 Methods and systems for turbine rotor balancing  
Methods and apparatus for a balance weight access assembly are provided. The assembly includes an access cover, and an access tube including a first opening, a second opening, and a substantially...
7425807 Transient energy systems and methods for use of the same  
This disclosure relates to transient energy systems for supplying power to a load substantially instantaneously on demand. Transient energy systems may include a flywheel coupled the rotor of an...
7365461 Crash management system for implementation in flywheel systems  
A crash management system for implementation in a flywheel energy storage system (FESS) is provided. Implementation of such a system entails designing an FESS rim that is highly failure resistant,...
7302875 Rotation transmitting device and hydraulic drive unit  
A hydraulic drive device, comprising a hydraulic motor (10), a rotating body (20) connected to the drive shaft (11) of the hydraulic motor (10), functioning, by itself as a flywheel, and having an...
7240583 Dual function, highly damped, structurally and thermally compliant auxiliary bearing assembly  
An auxiliary bearing assembly for selectively engaging a shaft, preferably in an energy storage flywheel system, is configured to include a vibration damping seal, and an axial preload spring. The...
7174806 Flexible bearing damping system, energy storage system using such a system, and a method related thereto  
A bearing damping system for damping vibrations and conducting heat from vibration-producing, heat-generating devices, an evacuated energy storage system including such a bearing damping system for...
7091635 Motor/flywheel assembly with shrouded radial cooling fan  
A flywheel/motor assembly is disclosed that comprises a motor housing having a sidewall and an end wall extending substantially perpendicularly from the sidewall. The end wall enclose a motor...
7066050 Life counter for flywheel energy storage systems  
A life counter that calculates and records the life utilized of the flywheel in a flywheel energy storage system and indicates when it should be removed from service, based on operational history...
7053589 Long-life vacuum system for energy storage flywheels  
The invention, intended primarily for use in a steel flywheel power source (30), provides a vacuum system and a method of maintaining a vacuum inside a flywheel chamber (32) for the life of the...
6976827 Rotor balancing device and method  
The present invention includes a rotor assembly comprising a shaft, a first component coaxially attached to the shaft for performing a first function in the rotor assembly and acting as a first...
6845952 Flywheel prognostic health and fault management system and method  
A prognostic health and fault management system and method that accurately determines the health and rate of degradation of one or more flywheel systems, by comparing actual and simulated responses...
6160336 Peak power energy storage device and gravitational wave generator  
An energy storage device comprising a large scale flywheel supported by a fluid bearing. The energy storage device is a very large scale structure having a flywheel of a diameter greater than 100...
6109123 Rotational inertial motor  
An inertial motors utilizes a smoothly coordinated circular motion and converts the motion of circulating weights into a unidirectional series of impulses that drive a vehicle forward. Weights...
5660356 System for providing power and roll motion stability in a vehicle  
A dual flywheel assembly for use in an airborne vehicle for storing mechanical energy therein prior to flight and for permitting the extraction of electrical energy therefrom during flight, which...
5614777 Flywheel based energy storage system  
A compact energy storage system includes a high speed rotating flywheel and an integral motor/generator unit. The rotating components are contained within a vacuum enclosure to minimize windage...
5590568 Layered body having rotating adjacent layers with magnetic poles on facing surfaces  
A device for rotating a layered body includes multiple rotating plates arranged in equally spaced layers and coaxially aligned about an axis of rotation. Facing plate surfaces between each pair of...
5477748 Kinetic energy regenerating device  
A kinetic energy regenerating device utilizes the principle of perfectly elastic collision through an elastic member between a rotating body on the driving side and a flywheel to regenerate kinetic...
5427194 Electrohydraulic vehicle with battery flywheel  
A flywheel with electric batteries mounted thereon is provided for an electrical vehicle. The flywheel incorporates the weight of the batteries to store kinetic energy. The flywheel is suspended by...
5398571 Flywheel storage system with improved magnetic bearings  
A stationary flywheel energy storage system mounted to rotate in a horizontal orientation. The system includes a motor/generator wherein the rotor is positioned externally of the stator. Magnetic...
5269197 Principle and structure of actively driving or centrifugal linear following dynamic flywheel effect  
A device for storage and release of energy having a body rotatably connected to a center shaft and two fins pivotably connected to the body. The pins have arms which each have an inertia block on...
5251503 Electro-mechanical power controller for a gear shift mechanism  
An electro-mechanical controller for a transmission selector in a synchronized countershaft transmission, includes a selector shaft which is driven linearly and rotatably by a power actuator...
5214981 Flywheel energy storage with superconductor magnetic bearings  
A flywheel having superconductor bearings has a lower drag to lift ratio that translates to an improvement of a factor of ten in the rotational decay rate. The lower drag results from the lower...
5167163 Energy transfer device  
An apparatus for converting rotational movement into linear movement in vehicles comprises a flywheel rotated about a center by a rotary motion producing motor. The flywheel has rotatably mounted...
5136174 Multi-paddlewheel system for generating electricity from water canal  
A generator for electricity, utilizing one or two groups (29A and 29B) of separately placed water-driven paddlewheels (31) placed side by side in man-made canal. Each group is coupled together by a...
5086664 Energy storage flywheels using fluid transfer to vary moments of inertia  
The invention includes liquid weighted, variable inertia flywheels of various designs together with subsystems to selectively control the addition of liquid into and the removal of liquid from the...
5050448 Wet flywheel housing  
A wet flywheel housing is disclosed wherein a central web member separates the flywheel housing into first and second cavities in which a flywheel and a driven gear set are respectively rotatable....
4930371 Apparatus for locking a flywheel  
Apparatus for locking a flywheel on an internal combustion engine whereby ignition timing can be efficiently accomplished. The apparatus includes a threaded, hollow body portion that can be...
4926107 Variable inertia energy storage system  
A variable inertia energy storage system for storing large amounts of mechanical energy for an extended period of time on land or on a mobile vehicle includes a fly wheel having a rotating hub with...
4862763 Method and apparatus for manufacturing high speed rotors  
A composite, carbon-carbon rotor or rotor hub (20) for use in power translating devices, such as in a turbine engine or in fluid pumps, includes a plurality of carbon-carbon laminate plies (P1-P25)...
4819502 Flywheel device  
A flywheel device in which a rotating body is rotatably supported within a casing, the rotating body comprising a rotor rotated at a high speed and a flywheel rotated integrally with the rotor to...
4735382 Space craft cellular energy generating and storage device  
A space craft cellular energy generating and storage device for generating electrical power in space and storing the power for extended periods of time. The space craft generating and storage...
4725766 Multiple spoke energy storage system for space environment  
A multiple spoke energy storage system used in a space environment for storing large amounts of mechanical energy for extended periods of time. The storage system also provides means for generating...
4631456 Inertial energy storage device and synchronous rotary electrical machine for use therein  
An inertial energy storage device including a synchronous rotary electrical machine for bidirectional conversion between mechanical and electrical energy including: a stator having two axially...
4609165 Helicopter auxiliary energy system  
Autorotation in helicopters at low altitudes can be achieved even when the inherent design of the helicopter would prohibit successful entry into the autorotation mode. Angular kinetic energy from...
4588040 Hybrid power system for driving a motor vehicle  
A triple hybrid power system for driving a motor vehicle utilizing an internal combustion engine to drive an electric generator to charge a bank of batteries that provide electrical energy to drive...
4546264 Relating cellular energy generating and storage device  
A rotating cellular energy generating device for generating electrical power for extended periods of time. The generating device characterized by having an annular rotating housing having a...
4520688 Variable capacity flywheel  
A variable capacity flywheel comprises a main flywheel coupled with the rotating shaft of an engine and at least one rotatable auxiliary flywheel. Both are selectively engaged and disengaged with...
4502349 Method of realization of high speed rotor and rotor obtained thereby  
A high speed rotor for use with a flywheel comprising a hub, a rim centered with respect to said hub, connecting arms, each in the form of an elongated loop connecting said rim to said hub. The...
4499965 Hybrid drive arrangement  
The invention concerns a hybrid drive arrangement for vehicles, with an engine drive and with a flywheel storage drive, which includes a storage flywheel supported concentrically relative to the...
4498015 Flywheel device for a moving vehicle  
An energy storage device comprising three flywheels mounted mutually perpendicular on said shafts in three dimensions within a rigid enclosure. The shafts are interconnected within the enclosure...
4487173 Apparatus for starting an internal combustion engine  
Apparatus for starting an internal combustion engine, wherein the engine is started in automatic response to engagement of a clutch between the flywheel and the crankshaft of the engine, has an...
4481840 Layered flywheel with stress reducing construction  
A flywheel having elastic spokes carrying an elastic rim; and a hub coupling the spokes to a shaft and deforming in response to centrifugal force to match the radial distortion of the spokes.
4411171 Vehicle drive  
A vehicle having an internal combustion engine and flywheel includes a first clutch arranged between the flywheel and the vehicle drive shaft and a second clutch arranged between the flywheel and...
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