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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2024
Applicant:
Energy Vault, Inc., Westlake Village, CA (US);
Inventor:
Andrea Pedretti, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Assignee:
Energy Vault, Inc., Westlake Village, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16C 3/00 (2006.01); F03G 3/00 (2006.01); H02K 7/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F03G 3/094 (2021.08); H02K 7/1807 (2013.01);
Abstract
An energy storage and delivery system includes an elevator cage, where the elevator cage is operable to move one or more blocks from a lower elevation to a higher elevation to store energy (e.g., via the potential energy of the block in the higher elevation) and operable to move one or more blocks from the higher elevation to the lower elevation (e.g., by gravity) to generate electricity (e.g., via the kinetic energy of the block when moved to the lower elevation). The blocks are moved between the lower elevation and the higher elevation by an equal vertical distance.