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US 2011/0031827 A1Published application
Energy storage device comprising a flywheel
AssigneeEnergiestro
InventorAndre Rene Georges Gennesseaux
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Abstract
Energy storage device comprising a flywheel a stator arrangement and a housing. The flywheel, rotatably mounted around a rotation axis, comprises a shaft, a plurality of adjacent magnetic plates with magnetic poles, two kinetic plates, sandwiching the magnetic plates. The magnetic plates and kinetic plates are rotationally rigid with said shaft. The stator arrangement comprises a plurality of induction coils cooperating with the magnetic poles.
Claims16
An energy storage device comprising:
- a flywheel rotatably mounted around a rotation axis,
- said flywheel comprising a shaft and a plurality of magnetic poles,
- a stator arrangement, facing the magnetic poles of said flywheel, comprising a plurality of induction coils cooperating with said magnetic poles,
- a housing enclosing the flywheel and the stator arrangement,
- characterized wherein the flywheel comprises:
- a plurality of adjacent magnetic plates, mounted on said shaft, comprising radial protrusions forming the magnetic poles, and extending in parallel radial plates,
- a first and second kinetic plates, sandwiching the magnetic plates, parallel to said magnetic plates,
- wherein the magnetic plates and kinetic plates are rotationally rigid with said shaft, and extend radially relative to the shaft.
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