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Title: Stub shaft for connection with a flywheel rotor

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1493485

An energy storage system including a solid steel flywheel rotor, journals, and separate stub shafts for connecting to the journals has improved material properties offers improved energy storage at reduced cost.

Research Organization:
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
OE-0000232
Assignee:
Amber Kinetics, Inc. (Fremont, CA)
Patent Number(s):
10,167,925
Application Number:
14/811,012
OSTI ID:
1493485
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: 2015 Jul 28
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (10)

Rotational Energy Accumulator, Especially for Electrically Driven Vehicles patent April 1969
Energy Strong Mass and Method for Making patent February 1970
Method of Explosively Shocking Solid Materials patent September 1971
Apparatus for Homogeneous Refining and Continuously Casting Metals and Alloys patent August 1973
Flywheel rotor particularly suitable for accumulating energy patent December 1979
Rimmed and edge thickened Stodola shaped flywheel patent October 1983
Flywheel assembly for dynamometers patent August 1987
Age hardenable alloy with a unique combination of very high strength and good toughness patent February 1999
Axially free flywheel system patent March 2004
Uninterruptible power supply using a high speed cylinder flywheel patent November 2004

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