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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 1980
Filed:
May. 10, 1978
Charles E Knight, Jr, Knoxville, TN (US);
Roy E Pollard, Powell, TN (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Department of Energy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to an improved rim or a high-performance rotary inertial energy storage device (flywheel). The improved rim is fabricated from resin impregnated filamentary material which is circumferentially wound in a side-by-side relationship to form a plurality of discretely and sequentially formed concentric layers of filamentary material that are bound together in a resin matrix. The improved rim is provided by prestressing the filamentary material in each successive layer to a prescribed tension loading in accordance with a predetermined schedule during the winding thereof and then curing the resin in each layer prior to forming the next layer for providing a prestress distribution within the rim to effect a self-equilibrating compressive prestress within the windings which counterbalances the transverse or radial tensile stresses generated during rotation of the rim for inhibiting deleterious delamination problems.