University of Houston System

Mark Alan Lamb

Wei-Kan Chu

Chase K McMichael

Ki-Bui Ma

Quark Yung-Sung Chen

Ignatius S Tsong

Rodger Sheldon Cooley

Harold Zule Xia

Disclosed is a flywheel system for storing kinetic energy which utilizes a high temperature superconductor/magnet system for the flywheel bearings. The flywheel includes a first magnet, and having a ring magnet defining an opening. The levitation system includes a magnet for attractively interacting with first flywheel magnet, with a high temperature superconductor interposed between them, and further includes a magnet system for repulsively interacting with and partially inserted into the ring magnet.

Magnet-superconductor flywheel and levitation systems

An isolation system for isolating a first object from vibrations from a second object. Such vibrations will have three orthogonal components, one oriented along a line between the objects, and two oriented 90.degree. apart in a plane normal to that line. The system includes three superconductor/magnet stages, each stage designed to extinguish one of the orthogonal components.

Vibration-free levitated platform

Growing community of inventors

Houston, TX, United States of America

Mark Alan Lamb