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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2001
Applicant:
Stephen W. Tsai, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventor:
Stephen W. Tsai, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Univesity, Stanford, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16F015/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A flywheel for use as an energy storage device is made of hoops of different fiber composite layers, the radial thickness of each hoop and the physical properties of the fiber composite in each loop being chosen by a computer modeling optimization procedure to maximize total energy of storage while minimizing radial stress.