Energy storage flywheel system
AssigneesTadashi Fukao, Akira Chiba, Chikara Michioka, Seiko Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha, Nikkiso Co., Ltd., Ebara Corporation
InventorsTadashi Fukao, Akira Chiba, Chikara Michioka
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Abstract
A flywheel for storing inertial energy is integral with a rotor which is rotatable around a stator. The stator has main windings that provide a number of poles for rotating the rotor and auxiliary control windings that provide a number of poles different from the number of poles provided by the main windings. When currents are supplied to the main windings, the rotor and hence the flywheel are rotated. When control currents are supplied to the auxiliary control windings, radial forces acting on the rotors are generated thereby to support the rotor out of contact with the stator.
Claims8
An energy storage flywheel system comprising:
- stator means;
- a rotor surrounding said stator means and being rotatable with respect thereto;
- a flywheel for storing energy integrally attached to said rotor;
- said stator means including a pair of axially spaced actuators each having a stator portion containing a first set of windings comprising main windings that provide a number of poles for rotating said rotor and a second set of windings comprising auxiliary windings that provide a number of poles different from the number of poles provided by said first set of windings;
- power supply means for supplying voltages or currents to said first set of windings and to said second set of windings;
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- control means for supplying voltages or currents to said first set of windings to rotate said rotor, and to said second set of windings to produce radial forces acting on said rotor to support said rotor out of contact with said stator.
An energy storage flywheel system comprising:
- a pair of stators;
- a pair of axially adjacent rotors, each of which rotors is rotatable with respect to a separate stator, each of said rotors surrounding its associated stator and concentrically mounting a flywheel for storing energy;
- each of said stators having main windings that provide a number of poles for rotating the rotor and auxiliary control windings that provide a number of poles different from the number of poles provided by said main windings, said main windings of the stators comprising three-phase windings connected in different phase sequences;
- a single power converter for supplying currents to said main windings to rotate said rotors in opposite directions for thereby canceling out gyro moment vectors produced on said flywheels;
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- four power converters for supplying control currents to said auxiliary control windings to produce radial forces acting on said rotors to support said rotors out of contact with said stators.
An energy storage flywheel system comprising:
- a pair of stators;
- a pair of axially adjacent rotors, each of which rotors is rotatable with respect to a separate stator, each of said rotors concentrically mounting a flywheel for storing energy;
- each of said stators having main windings that provide a number of poles for rotating the rotor and auxiliary control windings that provide a number of poles different from the number of poles provided by said main windings;
- a pair of power converters for supplying currents to said main windings to rotate each of said rotors in opposite directions for thereby canceling out gyro moment vectors produced on said flywheels;
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- four power converters for supplying control currents to said auxiliary control windings to produce radial forces acting on said rotors to support said rotors out of contact with said stators.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.