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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2007
Applicants:
David R. Hall, Provo, UT (US);
Francis Leany, Salem, UT (US);
Jacob Hannon, Payson, UT (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 25/10 (2006.01); B60K 17/356 (2006.01); B60K 7/00 (2006.01); B60K 17/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In one aspect of the present invention, an energy storage system has an elastic hydraulic fluid vessel with an internal variable volume and being coupled to a hydraulic rotary mechanism. The elastic hydraulic fluid vessel has an elastic material adapted to store a potential energy within its fibers when the internal volume is increased by a hydraulic fluid. The hydraulic rotary mechanism is adapted to be accelerated by the release of the potential energy of the fibers of the elastic vessel by ejecting the hydraulic fluid from the internal variable volume into the rotary mechanism.