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Gas turbine engine for vehicles

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5282592

A gas turbine engine for vehicles has an infinitely variable transmission in the form of a hydraulic transmission coupled to the engine. A flywheel stores and releases braking energy, and has a disengageable coupling connecting the flywheel with the variable transmission to at least one wheel drive shaft. The hydraulic transmission has a pump unit and a motor unit which are hydraulically operable. The pump unit and motor unit are reversible for braking the vehicle, whereby the motor is driven by the wheels of the vehicle and operates as a pump, and the pump unit operates as a motor.

Assignee:
Motoren- und Turbinen-Union Munchen GmbH
Patent Number(s):
US 4037409
OSTI ID:
5282592
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Related Subjects

25 ENERGY STORAGE
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DESIGN
ENERGY STORAGE
EQUIPMENT
FLYWHEEL ENERGY STORAGE
FLYWHEELS
GAS TURBINES
HYBRID SYSTEMS
HYDRAULIC EQUIPMENT
MACHINE PARTS
MECHANICAL TRANSMISSIONS
MOTORS
PUMPS
REGENERATIVE BRAKING
STORAGE
TRAINS
TRUCKS
TURBINES
TURBOMACHINERY
USES
VEHICLES