Classifications

• • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
  • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
  • F16F—SPRINGS; SHOCK-ABSORBERS; MEANS FOR DAMPING VIBRATION
  • F16F15/00—Suppression of vibrations in systems; Means or arrangements for avoiding or reducing out-of-balance forces, e.g. due to motion
  • F16F15/30—Flywheels

Definitions

• Object of the present invention is a flywheel improved in its features of mechanical energy storage .
• a flywheel usually has the shape of a wheel or disc, suitably shaped to increase the moment of inertia of the shaft to which it is applied. It tends to contrast every attempt of change in its angular speed, thus stabilizing the rotation of a shaft when a periodical torque is applied, as in the piston engines, or when the applied load is intermittent, as for example in the piston pumps or hammers .
• the flywheel fixed to an end of the driving shaft, which stores mechanical energy during the useful phases to release it during the passive ones.
• the flywheel is used to store mechanical energy produced by a low-power engines in a long time to release it with high power in a short time.
• the flywheels usually have a large diameter (as it is particularly clear in the old steam engines) and most of the mass arranged on the periphery, which is connected to the hub by means of the spokes. In this way their weight is limited, while their moment of inertia remains the desired one.
• flywheel to store energy in vehicles provides a better energetic capacity/mass relation with respect to storage batteries.
• the flywheel is used in trams, where weight and volume limitations are less stringent than in cars. Its function is to store kinetic energy produced during braking and in more developed applications, the energy produced by fuel cells to use it during acceleration.
• theoretical studies of trams with flywheel free of engines are known, where the flywheel is frequently recharged at suitable stations.
• Object of the present invention is to provide a solution for the technical problem concerning the reduced efficiency of small flywheels.
• the present invention provides the pursued aims since it is a flywheel improved in its features of accumulator of mechanical energy comprising a disc housed at the end of a shaft with the features described in claim 1.
• Fig. 1 shows the side view of the invention
• Fig. 2 represents the exploded side view of the invention of fig. 1, with the distribution of load highlighted;
• Fig. 3 shows an embodiment of distributed load of the flywheel/
• Fig. 4 shows a summary scheme of possible sections of the flywheel with a variable number of sectors and applied loads
• Fig. 5 represents the scheme of an embodiment of a flywheel with twenty sectors with the features of load applied when the flywheel is in function
• Figs. 6 1 and 6 1 1 represent respectively schemes for embodiments of a flywheel with forty sectors, the first one being an example of flywheel sectioned in forty sectors (fig. 6 1 ), while the second one defines the load applied when the flywheel is in function (fig. 6' 1 ) .
• the improved flywheel according to the utility model is generally indicated with 1. It comprises a disc 2, housed at the end of a shaft 3, with a plurality of sectors 4 arranged on a plane, with axis passing through the centre of rotation 5 of the disc 2, of equal base area, characterized in that said sectors 4 have a mass difference equal to at least a sample mass unit, defined as the minimum mass difference of two sectors 4 of the disc 2 as well as the greatest common denominator between the masses of the same sectors (4 ) .
• said disc 2 is characterized in that a couple of opposite sectors 4, arranged on a plane with axis passing through the centre of rotation 5 of the disc 2, has a mass difference equal to a multiple of sample unit greater than 1. Each sector 4 has an uniformly distributed mass.
• Said disc 2 is housed by means of means for reducing friction, as for example bushes, bearings, bushings on fixed or movable elements and rotates on the shaft 3 in both the directions as indicated in fig. 2.
• the disc 2 is a component of a complex kinematic system comprising a plurality of discs 2 in series and/or in parallel .
• said improved flywheel 1 in a particular embodiment, is characterized in that it comprises 10 circular sectors, of which opposed sectors with unitary load respectively 9-5, 5-6, 4-5.
• a couple of opposed sectors 4 has a mass difference equal to 4 sample unit greater than one unit, resulting from the difference between 9 and 5, while the remaining couples of sectors have a difference of sample mass unit equal to one unit resulting from the difference between 5 and 6 and 4 and 5.
• the dimensioning of the system varies in function of requirements to be satisfied. In particular, the choose of the quantity of sections suits the need for optimization of the system.
• the quantity of sectors varies to the infinitesimal level.
• Fig. 4 shows possible solutions of sections in sectors 10 to 180.
• an embodiment of a flywheel sectioned in 40 sectors (fig. 6 1 ) with load applied to the flywheel in function in the two semi-sectors has a difference of more or less twenty with respect to the position of balance in which the semi-sectors have an applied load of 600 units (fig. 6 1 1 ) .
• the aim of the invention is therefore to store kinetic energy.

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• 2010
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