Patents Assigned to HYPERLOOP TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
  • NON-CONTACT RADIAL SYNCHRONIZATION
    Publication number: 20200023745
    Abstract: A wheel, a magnet-wheel system and a method including a wheel for a transport vehicle movable along a guideway in a transportation system. The transportation system includes a conductive surface arranged substantially parallel to the guideway. The wheel includes at least one magnet is affixed to at least one of an exterior of the wheel or an interior of the wheel. The wheel is rotatably drivable by drag forces created in the conductive surface, which is spatially separate from the wheel in transport.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: Hyperloop Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kornel NIEDZIELA
  • Metamaterial null flux magnet bearing system
    Patent number: 10533289
    Abstract: Non-contact bearing system, such as a magnetic levitation system, having a geometry. The geometry includes a plurality of track elements arranged to nest together in a length direction. The plurality of track elements are shaped to define at least an upper and a lower null flux crossing and the plurality of nested track elements form a conductive metamaterial. Method for constructing a metamaterial null flux magnetic levitation track with tessellating elements of stamped conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: HYPERLOOP TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Casey Handmer, Brian Towle, James Coutre
  • SERIAL AIRLOCK ARCHITECTURE
    Publication number: 20190344806
    Abstract: An airlock system that includes a plurality of adjacent chambers successively arranged along a guide path. Predetermined pressures are produced in each chamber so that the predetermined pressure in each chamber is at a pressure different from the predetermined pressure produced in an adjacent chamber. Gate valves are positioned to separate adjacent chambers in order to maintain a pressure differential between the adjacent chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: Hyperloop Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Chiranjeev KALRA, Josh GIEGEL
  • TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190300301
    Abstract: A method of monitoring tube integrity of a high-speed transportation system. The high-speed transportation system includes at least one tube structure having at least one track, at least one capsule configured for travel through the at least one tube structure between a plurality of stations, a propulsion system adapted to propel the at least one capsule through the structure, and a levitation system adapted to levitate the capsule within the structure. The tube structure is maintained as a low-pressure environment. The method includes directing a vehicle having at least one sensor along a tube path; and detecting a plume of air leaked from the low-pressure environment using the at least one sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: HYPERLOOP TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Brogan BAMBROGAN, Joshua GIEGEL
  • Transportation system
    Patent number: 10370204
    Abstract: An off-shore port system includes a land-based port infrastructure area, an off-shore cargo ship docking area located in a body of water, and a transportation system having at least one tube connecting the land-based port infrastructure area and the off-shore cargo ship docking area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: HYPERLOOP TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Brogan Bambrogan, Joshua Giegel
  • TUNNEL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190226341
    Abstract: A tunnel system includes at least two adjacent tunnel lining systems and a sealing system. Moreover, the tunnel lining systems can include plural tunnel lining segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Hyperloop Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony BAUER
  • Dynamic linear stator segment control
    Patent number: 10326386
    Abstract: Method for controlling a dynamic linear motor. Method includes defining a path over which a rotor is to travel, placing stator segments at least along portions of the path where the rotor may be one of accelerated and decelerated and supplying a variable amplitude and frequency of voltage to power the stator segments in a synchronized manner so that, as the rotor approaches stator segments, the stator segments are powered and, as the rotor departs stator segments, the stator segments are depowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: HYPERLOOP TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Sandhya Rani Jetti, Brogan Bambrogan, Joshua Giegel, George O'Neal, Nima Bahrami, James Dorris, Jiaqi Liang
  • SEGMENTAL TUBES
    Publication number: 20190170276
    Abstract: A segmental tube section structure having a length and a circumference, the segmental tube section structure including a plurality of tube segments extending the length in a longitudinal direction of the segmental tube section structure and extending in a circumferential direction of the segmental tube section structure, wherein each tube segment of the plurality of tube segments extends in the circumferential direction to span an equal arc of the circumference of the segmental tube section, and wherein each of the plurality of tube segments are connected to adjacent tube segments of the plurality of tube segments in the circumferential direction to form the segmental tube section structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: Hyperloop Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andy HILGERS, Ryan Matthew Reneau, Matthew Thomas Matsumoto, Matthew Allan Mey, Sushant Chavan
  • Systems and methods for leak detection and sealing
    Patent number: 10309574
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting and sealing a leak in a low-pressure transportation system including a low-pressure environment having a wall with an outer and an inner surface and an interior, and a hole passing through the wall that defines the leak in the low-pressure transportation system. The systems and methods including at least two sensors provided within the interior of the low-pressure environment that are structured and arranged to detect the leak, a controller in communication with the at least two sensors, a membrane deployer in communication with the controller, and a sealing membrane deployable by the membrane deployer and structured and arranged to provide a pressure-tight seal over the hole on the outer surface of the wall to seal the leak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: HYPERLOOP TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Filip Finodeyev
  • Method and system for forming laser beam weld lap-penetration joints
    Patent number: 10286483
    Abstract: A method of forming an internally-arranged laser-beam weld from within a composite structure. The method includes arranging a welding apparatus within an internal passage of the composite structure, and emitting a laser beam from the welding apparatus to form the internally-arranged laser-beam weld between layers of the composite structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: HYPERLOOP TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Israel Stol, Kristen Hammer, Daniel Shafrir, Michael Gaunt, Thomas Ronacher, Kyle Cothern
  • Bearing testing apparatus and method
    Patent number: 10288525
    Abstract: A testing apparatus includes a chamber, having an interior maintained at a predetermined pressure, a rotor rotatably disposed within the interior of the chamber, and a sensor disposed within the interior of the chamber. When the rotor rotates, the at least one sensor measures a testing characteristic of an object disposed within the interior of the chamber as the object interacts with the rotating rotor. A method includes setting a predetermined pressure of a chamber, rotating a rotor, and maintaining a gap between a surface of an object to be tested and a surface of the rotor by adjusting, with an actuator, the object to be tested or the rotor based upon a change, as measured by a laser, in the dimension of the object to be tested or the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: HYPERLOOP TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jett Ferm, James Coutre, Ryan Okerson, Cassandra Mercury, David Dehaan
  • AUGMENTED PERMANENT MAGNET SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190031045
    Abstract: A magnetic bearing system for controlling magnetic coupling between a mobile carriage and a guideway and a method for controlling the magnetic bearing system. The magnetic bearing system includes at least one engine, which includes at least two poles, at least one permanent magnet and at least one coil. The engine is configured to be magnetically coupled to the guideway through at least one air gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: Hyperloop Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Irfan USMAN, Tim LAMBERT
  • VEHICLE-BASED GUIDED SWITCHING
    Publication number: 20190023285
    Abstract: A track switching arrangement for a track-based guided transportation system, wherein the track switching arrangement forms diverging pathways and enables vehicle-side switching of a vehicle in the guided transportation system. The track switching arrangement includes an upstream pathway; two downstream pathways; and a path switching transition region having the diverging pathways between the upstream pathway and the two downstream pathways. Each of the pathways includes track elements configured to interact with one or more respective bearings of the vehicle to provide levitation to the vehicle and/or guidance for the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: Hyperloop Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Irfan USMAN, Alex JEDINGER, Mario HANSL
  • ACTIVE CONTROL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20190001780
    Abstract: An active control system for a mass traveling along a guideway and method for active control of a mass traveling along a guideway. The active control system includes at least one displacement sensor and at least one motion sensor. Signals from the at least one displacement sensor and the least one motion sensor are processed to adjust a displacement of a reference location on the mass from a fixed reference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: Hyperloop Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Irfan USMAN
  • Transportation system
    Patent number: 10093493
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing at least one transportation tube having a plurality of transportation tube sections for a high-speed transportation system. The method includes manufacturing the tube sections in-situ adjacent to an approximate path of the transportation system where the tube sections are to be positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: HYPERLOOP TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Brogan Bambrogan, Joshua Giegel
  • Gate valves and airlocks for a transportation system
    Patent number: 10088061
    Abstract: A system includes at least one tube forming a portion of a transportation path, wherein the tube is maintained as a low-pressure environment, a propulsion system configured to propel at least one capsule through the tube, a levitation system configured to levitate the capsule within the tube, and at least one tube sealer arranged along the at least one tube and configured to selectively create an airlock in the at least one tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: HYPERLOOP TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kyle Cothern, Michael Gaunt, Thomas Ronacher, Daniel Shafrir, Brogan Bambrogan, Joshua Giegel
  • Corrosion-resistant fluid membrane
    Patent number: 10077540
    Abstract: A corrosion-resistant cover system, having a corrosion-resistant cover structured and configured to be arrangeable around an object having one or more metallic surfaces that are susceptible to corrosion. The corrosion-resistant cover is operable to provide increased corrosion resistance to the object by preventing contact between the one or more metallic surfaces and ambient conditions exterior to the corrosion-resistant cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: HYPERLOOP TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Blake Cole, Israel Stol
  • Adjustable variable atmospheric condition testing apparatus and method
    Patent number: 10060824
    Abstract: An adjustable variable atmospheric condition testing apparatus for testing an object includes an outer chamber, an inner chamber positioned inside and in fluid communication with the outer chamber, a vacuum pump configured to remove gas from the inner and outer chambers, and further configured to expel the removed gas via an exhaust, an intake configured to selectively introduce gas from ambient into the inner chamber via a valve, such that the introduced gas interacts with the object, and a sensor positioned downstream of the object and configured to detect a characteristic of the gas interacting with the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: HYPERLOOP TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ryan Okerson, Andrew Doyle, Cameron Close, Filip Finodeyev, Joshua Giegel, Kaveh Hosseini
  • Low-pressure environment structures
    Patent number: 10046776
    Abstract: A structure having at least one flexible material structured and arranged to withstand a tensile load, at least one support structure configured to support the flexible material and structured and arranged to withstand a compressive load, and at least one enclosed volume at least partially defined by the at least one flexible material, the at least one enclosed volume being configured to be maintained as a low-pressure environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: HYPERLOOP TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: James T. Coutre, Joshua Giegel, Brogan Bambrogan, Filip Finodeyev, Casey Handmer, David Dehaan
  • VEHICLE GUIDANCE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180186389
    Abstract: Vehicle guidance system that includes a first guidance bogie selectively positionable in a first position for travel and a second position for direction change and a second guidance bogie selectively positionable in a third position for travel and a fourth position for direction change. At a common crossing, one of: the first guidance bogie is selectively positioned into the second position, or the second guidance bogie is selectively positioned into the fourth position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Applicant: Hyperloop Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kaveh HOSSEINI