ENERGY STORAGE AND DRIVE DEVICE

• US 20130207400A1
• Filed: 09/28/2011
• Published: 08/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Al-Jobory Fawaz Saleem Hassan
• Original Assignee: Al-Jobory Fawaz Saleem Hassan
• Inventors: Hassan, Al-Jobory Fawaz Saleem
• Application Number:
  US13/880,654
• Publication Number:
  US 20130207400A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 290/1.E
• CPC Class Codes: F03G 1/00 Spring motors spring-driven toys A63H; springs in general F16F; precision time mechanisms, e.g. for clocks or watches, G04B
• CPC Class Codes: F03G 5/08 for combined actuation by different limbs, e.g. hand and leg
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 53/00 Alleged dynamo-electric perpetua mobilia
• CPC Class Codes: H02K 7/1853 driven by intermittent forces

Abstract

A Mechanical Energy Storage and Drive Device, The device stores elastic energy in its storage equipment (The springs) and creating resonance/pendulum phenomena inside its equipment (the springs and its coupled mass) after releasing the charged springs by using continuous external energy source feeds the electric motor/solenoid that produce the small vibrated power applied on the springs and its coupled mass for creating the resonance/pendulum phenomena inside the device.

After releasing the springs the stored elastic energy will be converted to kinetic and potential energy. So, the main advantages for creating resonance/pendulum phenomena inside the device after releasing the springs are;

• • 1. Keeps storing the Kinetic & potential energy inside the device/springs at No-Load condition.
  • 2. As consequences, consumption and convert the stored kinetic and potential energy into electric energy via electric generator gradually and smoothly at toad condition and in accordance to/proportional to the connected load power, wherein the low power load will consumption the stored power at longer time period, while the high power load will consumption the stored kinetic and potential energy at shorter period.
    the current invention device has energy storage equipment (The springs coupled to mass) associated with mechanical compression, support and release mechanisms, supplementary linear electric Motor/Solenoid connected to external electric energy source output terminals via Voltage regulator and micro switch (Bell Type Switch), electric generator and electric convertor.

The springs that stores stored energy. The springs system has an input for storing elastic energy via compression/charging mechanism (The Jack/Hydraulic system) that operates in response to external force/energy such as renewable energy sources (sea waves, Stream River, wind turbine) or human body force or any energy sources able to produce mechanical energy that can be coupled to the input of the compression/charging mechanism and has another input connected to external electric power source via supplementary linear electric Motor/Solenoid for applying periodic vibrated force/energy on the mass after charging, holding and releasing the springs system to create resonance phenomena on the springs system and its coupled mass and has an output for releasing the stored elastic energy in response to external force wherein the resonance phenomena keeps storing the kinetic and potential energy inside the springs at No-Load condition after releasing the stored elastic energy. Permanent magnet electrical generator consumption and converts the stored kinetic and potential energy inside the springs into electric energy at Load condition gradually and smoothly in accordance to/proportional to the connected load power. The generated electrical power feeds electrical loads via an electric convertor.

Claims

1. An energy storage and drive device, comprising:

one or more springs coupled to a mass and configured to store and release energy;

a compression mechanism for charging the one or more springs with energy to be stored and released by the charged one or more springs;

a support and release mechanism for supporting and fixing the charged one or more springs at a fully charged position and releasing the charged one or more springs in response to an external release signal;

a supplementary drive for applying an external force on the mass once the charged one or more springs are released by the support and release mechanism so as to create resonance within the one or more springs; and

an electric generator coupled to the mass for converting the energy released by the one or more springs through the mass into electric energy.

2. An energy storage and drive device as recited in claim 1, wherein the electric generator includes a rotor and a shaft for driving the rotor, wherein the support and release mechanism includes a main frame to which one side of the one or more springs are fixed, and wherein another side of the one or more springs is coupled to the mass that drives the shaft of the electric generator in linear velocity or in rotational velocity via a linear to rotational motion transducer.

3. An energy storage and drive device as recited in claim 1, wherein the compression mechanism includes a jack/hydraulic system for charging the one or more springs with energy via an external energy force coupled to an input of the jack/hydraulic system.

4. An energy storage and drive device as recited in claim 1, wherein the supplementary drive is a linear electric motor or solenoid, further comprising:

a sensor for monitoring an instantaneous velocity of the one or more springs and producing a control signal;

an external energy source for producing an electric power signal for powering the supplementary drive;

an electric regulator for receiving the electric power signal and generating a regulated electric power signal; and

a micro switch for receiving the control signal from the sensor and for receiving the regulated electric power signal and connecting and disconnecting the regulated electric power signal to the supplementary drive that applies the external force to the mass.

5. An energy storage and drive device as recited in claim 4, wherein the linear electric drive or solenoid applies the external force to the mass via a movable shaft at a (frequency substantially in phase with a natural frequency of oscillation of the one or more springs coupled to the mass after the one or more springs are released.

6. An energy storage and drive device as recited in claim 4, wherein the micro switch connects the regulated electric power signal to the linear electric drive or solenoid when the sensor detects the instantaneous velocity of the one or more springs is zero.

7. An energy storage and drive device as recited in claim 1, wherein the mass drives the electric generator in linear velocity or in rotational velocity via linear to a rotation motion transducer.

8. An energy storage and drive device as recited in claim 1, wherein the supplementary drive is a mechanical source applied directly to the mass via a mechanical mechanism.

9. An energy storage and drive device as recited in claim 1, wherein the energy in the one or more springs is kinetic and potential energy, and wherein the electric generator converts the kinetic and potential energy into electric energy during a load condition.

10. An energy storage and drive device as recited in claim 5, wherein the natural frequency of oscillation of the one or more springs coupled to the mass is increased/decreased by increasing/decreasing a number of the one or more springs, an overall stiffness (K) of the one or more springs, or the coupled mass.

11. An energy storage and drive device as recited in claim 1, wherein the electric energy capacity of the device is increased by increasing a number of one or more springs in parallel, increasing an overall stiffness (K) of the one or more springs or reducing the coupled mass.

12. An energy storage and drive device as recited in to claim 1, wherein the device is connected to an electric network for storing energy from the electric network inside the one or more springs at off-peak demand of the electric network and releasing energy to the electric network during peak demand of the electric network.

14. An energy storage and drive device as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more springs and the mass are fixed inside a vacuum compartment or gas compartment to reduce energy loss during motion of the one or more springs and the mass.

15. An energy storage and drive device as recited in claim 3, wherein the external energy force is a renewable energy source.

16. An energy storage and drive device as recited in claim 3, wherein the external energy force is a human source.

17. An energy storage and drive device as recited in claim 3, wherein the external energy force is a vehicle source.

13. A method comprising:

storing energy inside one or more springs coupled to a mass by compressing the one or more springs with an external energy force;

releasing the one or more springs to release the stored energy;

applying a periodic force to the mass and the one or more springs at a frequency substantially equal to a natural resonant frequency of the one or more springs and the mass after the one or more springs are released to create a resonance phenomenon within the one or more springs; and

converting the energy released by the one or more springs into electric energy during a Load condition.