Motor vehicles – With fluid or mechanical means to accumulate energy to power...
Patent
1997-10-23
1999-05-11
Graham, Matthew C.
Motor vehicles
With fluid or mechanical means to accumulate energy to power...
B60K9/04
Patent
active
059018046
ABSTRACT:
One object of the present invention is to avoid loss of energy during deceleration of a vehicle. Another object is to decelerate an aircraft after its landing and to utilize the energy of said deceleration to taxi that aircraft or for its immediate take-off. This invention can be incorporated in a wheel within which a plurality of energy collectors, or spheres 8', can be housed circumferentially and be so connected as to spin, each about its own axis 20, and to accelerate under the impact of centrifugal force 60 produced by the rotation of said wheel. Each sphere 8' can include two hemispherical chambers 21 that form that sphere. The hemispherical chambers 21 can spin faster than the column of fluid that parallels centrifugal force 60 which acts on that column of fluid in an outward direction along line 22". The accelerated speed of hemispherical chambers 21 is the product of centrifugal 60 impacting on the corresponding fluid in the respective hemispherical chamber 21, because there line 22" becomes perpendicular to centrifugal force 60. The higher speed of hemispherical chambers 21, than that of the column of fluid in each sphere 8', could force some fluid from each column of fluid to exit from the outward aperture 22 and the same amount of fluid to enter the inward aperture 22. This fluid movement can take place through the connecting tunnels 22' and through the spaces around each hemispherical chamber 21. The Energy Wheel has, therefore, clear advantage over other devices that recover energy for immediate use because it can be of light weight and can maintain the necessary storage capacity with a few components simply combined.
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