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  • Magnet-superconductor flywheel and levitation systems
    Patent number: 5831362
    Abstract: Disclosed is a flywheel system for storing kinetic energy which utilizes a high temperature superconductor/magnet system for the flywheel bearings. The flywheel includes a first magnet, and having a ring magnet defining an opening. The levitation system includes a magnet for attractively interacting with first flywheel magnet, with a high temperature superconductor interposed between them, and further includes a magnet system for repulsively interacting with and partially inserted into the ring magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1998
    Assignee: The University of Houston
    Inventors: Wei-Kan Chu, Quark Yung-Sung Chen, Ki-Bui Ma, Harold Zule Xia, Mark Alan Lamb, Rodger Sheldon Cooley, Chase Kenyon McMichael