Patents by Inventor George M. Weyler, Jr.

George M. Weyler, Jr. has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of manufacture of bonded fiber flywheel
    Patent number: 4190626
    Abstract: The method of manufacture of a fiberglass-epoxy flywheel wherein layers of fiberglass cloth, generally forming a circular mass, are pre-stressed by rotation during the curing of epoxy which surrounds and thereby couples together fibers and layers of the cloth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1980
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventor: George M. Weyler, Jr.
  • Rotatable mass for a flywheel
    Patent number: 4098142
    Abstract: An improved rotatable mass for a flywheel characterized by a plurality of coaxially aligned, contiguous disks mounted on a spin shaft, each disk of the plurality being formed of a plurality of woven fibers disposed in a plane transversely related to an axis of rotation with the fibers of alternate disks being continuous throughout their length, while the midportion of the fibers of the remaining disks of the plurality is removed for defining annular voids concentrically related to the spin shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1978
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
    Inventor: George M. Weyler, Jr.