WO2018073682A1 - Energy storage device - Google Patents

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WO2018073682A1
WO2018073682A1 PCT/IB2017/056139 IB2017056139W WO2018073682A1 WO 2018073682 A1 WO2018073682 A1 WO 2018073682A1 IB 2017056139 W IB2017056139 W IB 2017056139W WO 2018073682 A1 WO2018073682 A1 WO 2018073682A1
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F03MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS; WIND, SPRING, OR WEIGHT MOTORS; PRODUCING MECHANICAL POWER OR A REACTIVE PROPULSIVE THRUST, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03GSPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS; MECHANICAL-POWER PRODUCING DEVICES OR MECHANISMS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR OR USING ENERGY SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F03G3/00Other motors, e.g. gravity or inertia motors
    • F03G3/08Other motors, e.g. gravity or inertia motors using flywheels
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16HGEARING
    • F16H33/00Gearings based on repeated accumulation and delivery of energy
    • F16H33/02Rotary transmissions with mechanical accumulators, e.g. weights, springs, intermittently-connected flywheels
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16HGEARING
    • F16H7/00Gearings for conveying rotary motion by endless flexible members
    • F16H7/02Gearings for conveying rotary motion by endless flexible members with belts; with V-belts
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16HGEARING
    • F16H13/00Gearing for conveying rotary motion with constant gear ratio by friction between rotary members
    • F16H13/06Gearing for conveying rotary motion with constant gear ratio by friction between rotary members with members having orbital motion
    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16HGEARING
    • F16H37/00Combinations of mechanical gearings, not provided for in groups F16H1/00 - F16H35/00
    • F16H37/12Gearings comprising primarily toothed or friction gearing, links or levers, and cams, or members of at least two of these types
    • F16H2037/128Generating reciprocating motion by a planetary gear (ratio 2:1) using endless flexible members

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  • the invention is a device that is used to store mechanical energy storage in the form of the flywheel's rotational kinetic energy and kinetic energy of its orbital motion.
  • flywheel for energy storage has been used since the Neolithic period of about 4,500 BC.
  • the flywheels were used as turntable to provide steady rotation for clay molding in the production of ceramic ware of round shapes such as dishes, jars, pots, etc. More than 200 years ago, during the industrial revolution, flywheels were employed in steam engines to generate steadier rotational motion for engine shafts. When the invention of internal combustion engine equipped with flywheels appeared, flywheels also play a role of storing kinetic energy to keep the rotational motion of the engine's main shafts more steady, thus allow the internal combustion engine run smoother.
  • the flywheels using for energy storage in vehicles such as buses were tested and applied in several European countries between 1940 and 1960. Recently, flywheels have been used in power plants or power stations.
  • flywheels are also used to store energy in electricity storage devices, or in the braking system of vehicles to recover energy when vehicles decelerate or are applied a brake, etc.
  • flywheel energy since 4,500 BC, the progresses are limited at improving rational speed and durability of materials of the rotating parts of the flywheel to allow motion at high speeds. On the contrary, there has been no progress in mechanical principles for flywheel operation.
  • the energy storage devices equipped with the flywheel only follow the principle that the flywheel only rotates axially and the elements on the flywheel only travel with an orbital motion in a circular path whose circular orbital path length is a 360° arc when the flywheel completes a rotational cycle of a 360° rotation angle.
  • the path length of the flywheel is very short when the flywheel completes a rotational cycle with a 360° rotation angle, in order to store a large amount of flywheel energy at high densities, the flywheel must have a very high rotational speed.
  • flywheel energy storage devices typically hold kinetic energy generated from the rotational motion of the flywheel.
  • Several inventions of these flywheel are as follows:
  • Characteristics of inventions on mechanical energy storage devices in the form of kinetic energy are that motions of the elements on the flywheel body are only motions in a circular orbit, thus, the flywheels are capable of storing only low-density energy while require a high rotary speed. With the low energy storage density and the high rotational speed, such energy storage devices are less suitable for high energy storage demand such as energy storage in power plants. Such energy storage device will be too heavy or able to store too little energy compared to the energy required for mobile vehicles such as vehicles on land, waterborne vehicles, vehicles travel under underwater, in the atmosphere or in space. It is therefore essential to have an energy storage device which is capable of meeting three basic requirements: 1- Capability of high-density energy storage, 2- Low production cost, 3- High durability. To meet these requirements, energy storage devices in the form of kinetic energy must work on a new mechanical principle, and the energy storage device of this invention will meet all three basic requirements.
  • the characteristics of the mechanical energy storage device in the form of kinetic energy of this invention are that the motion of the elements on the flywheel body which moves in orbital motion with at least two or more orbital levels and the movement of the flywheel body element has a curly spring-shaped orbit (helical spring with thin filaments that makes it easy to bend to bend to depict the moving orbit of an element on the flywheel body in space), bent in circular shape and pressed flat between the two planar glass plates (to demonstrate the orbit of an element on the flywheel body that has both rotational motion and one-level orbital motion).
  • a curly spring-shaped orbit helical spring with thin filaments that makes it easy to bend to bend to depict the moving orbit of an element on the flywheel body in space
  • bent in circular shape and pressed flat between the two planar glass plates to demonstrate the orbit of an element on the flywheel body that has both rotational motion and one-level orbital motion.
  • the orbit of the element on the flywheel body has the shape of a common compression spring that is bent to secondary level and then the secondary spring is bent in circular shape and then pressed flat by two planar glass plates, and so on for type of moving orbit of the element on the flywheel of which the orbit has more levels.
  • the invention develops energy storage devices with flywheels that has both rotational and orbital motions simultaneously, and specifically develops energy storage devices with flywheels having both rotational motion and multi -level orbital motions (multi-level orbital motion will be highlighted in the following sections).
  • an example of multi-level orbital motion in nature can be used to illustrate the object which has both rotational and multi-level orbital motion: For example, if a natural satellite with rotational motion is considered as a flywheel, then the "satellite flywheel” rotates around the axis of the satellite and the elements on the "satellite flywheel” have a closed orbital motion around the axis of the "satellite flywheel” due to the rotation of "satellite flywheel” around its own axis, and the "satellite flywheel” orbiting around a planet is the first level of "flywheel satellite's orbital motion"; and the planet orbiting around the celestial stars is the second level of orbital rotation of the "flywheel satellite", and the celestial stars orbiting around the galaxy's central black hole are the third orbit
  • the characteristics of multi-level orbital motion is the path of an element on the "flywheel satellite” body that concurrently has both rotational motion and multi-level orbital motion is the path length of movement in space when "flywheel satellite” completes a single 360° rotation around the celestial black hole. This path length is very large compared to the path length that of a celestial star when it completes a 360° orbital motion cycle around the black hole at galactic center.
  • the flywheel's kinetic energy accumulated as storage energy in other words, the kinetic energy of all the elements on the flywheel body is accumulated as storage energy, then the orbital path length of an element on the flywheel body moving in space will be large, thus allow the elements on the flywheel body to be accelerated slowly to reach the high velocity of orbital motion in space. Meanwhile, it is harder to slowly accelerate the elements on the flywheel with only rotational motion, of which path length is very short due to the fact that it just moves in circular orbit.
  • the motion of the elements on the object body which has both rotational and multi-level orbital motion, will enable flywheel to have a very high total kinetic energy, including the rotational kinetic energy and the kinetic energy of multi-level orbital motion; each succeeding level of orbital motion has an exponential kinetic energy value compared to the kinetic energy of the previous orbital motion level. Therefore, the flywheel having both rotational motion and multi-level orbital motion is capable of storing energy at very high density (in-depth analysis regarding the ability to store energy with high density is in the following sections).
  • the orbital motion of the flywheel of the invention's energy storage device has both axial rotation and orbital motion with the rotational axis of the flywheel is in parallel with the direction of the center axis of flywheel's orbital motion.
  • the axial rotation of the flywheel is in the same direction as the direction of orbital orbital motion of the flywheel.
  • the orbital motion of the flywheel is generated by the fact that "orbital motion frame" has rotational motion; and axis and bearing of the flywheel are mounted with uniform spacing at the outer edge of this "orbital motion frame".
  • Inertial rotation effect of a rotating object occurs when the object is subjected to an acceleration motion or a change in direction of motion.
  • the inertial rotation effect also called the conservation of rotational motion effect compared to the external reference frame of an object when the object is subjected to orbital motion with radial acceleration or to orbital motion with variable direction (ignoring bearing friction and friction with air): "The object with axial rotation will preserve the velocity of axial rotation when the object is subjected to an accelerated motion or when the object is subjected to change in the direction of movement ( imposed on the object 's bearing) "
  • a rotating object is a flywheel of which axis is in parallel with the flywheel's orbital motion axis.
  • a simple model includes two flywheels of the same type and two axes of them held by the bearing at the two outer ends of the orbital motion frame; and this frame's axis lies in the middle of this orbital motion frame and is parallel to the direction of the rotational axis of the flywheel.
  • the term "lever arm" describes 1 ⁇ 2 part of the orbital motion frame.
  • the axis of rotational motion frame is held by the bearing of the orbital motion frame, and the bearing of this orbital motion frame is connected to the frame of the energy storage device. This system is operated by providing the two flywheels the same rotational speed.
  • the two flywheels After the two flywheels have the same rotational speed, it means they have given existing speed, then apply rotational motion on the orbital motion frame, and then the rotation of such orbital motion frame forces the orbital motion on the axis of the two existing rotating flywheels. If ignoring the friction of the bearing and the friction with the air, the speed of existing rotation of the two flywheels remain constant whether the two flywheels are applied the orbital motion in any speed or in any way. This effect is due to the rotational inertia of the flywheels which helps the rotational speed of the flywheel be preserved when the flywheels is subjected to orbital motion.
  • flywheel's motion means the motion of the flywheel which has both rotational and orbital form in which the rotational axis of the flywheel is in parallel with the orbital motion axis of the flywheel as described in this paragraph).
  • Inertial rotation effect of a rotating object occurs when the object with rotational motion is subjected to an accelerated motion or change in movement direction. "When impose an orbital motion on a flywheel having axial rotation, the object will rotate in a direction opposite to that of imposed orbital motion and will have the angle of rotation equal to the angle of the imposed orbital motion ".
  • the rotational speed of the flywheel will be the sum of the two following elements: 1- In the case where the direction of rotation of the flywheel is in the same direction as the that of its orbital motion (circular trajectory), the rotational velocity of the circular disk compared to the ground shall be equal to the sum of the angular velocity of the flywheel compared to the frame of orbital motion for the flywheel, and the angular velocity of the flywheel's orbital motion frame compared to the ground, 2- In the case the rotation of the flywheel is in the opposite direction to its orbital motion's direction, then the rotational speed of the flywheel compared to the ground will be equal to the difference between the angular velocity of the flywheel compared to the orbital motion frame for the flywheel and the angular velocity of the flywheel's orbital motion frame compared to ground.
  • the object, having both axial rotation and multi-level orbital motion, used in the energy storage device discussed in this invention is a flywheel which has both axial rotation and orbital motion thanks to the rotation of the lever arm mentioned above.
  • the axis of the "first orbital motion frame” has another orbital motion thanks to the fact that this axis is mounted on the outer edge of the "second orbital motion frame”.
  • the "second orbital motion frame” rotates around its own axis, and this rotation generates the orbital motion of the "first orbital motion frame".
  • the same principle is applied so on to generate orbital motion for the second, third, or fourth orbital motion frame, etc.
  • the flywheel has both axial rotation and circular orbital motion of which orbital radius is small, and at the same time, the flywheel has another orbital motion with larger radius. Whenever there is an extra orbital motion level, the flywheel is called “higher level flywheel”.
  • the levels of motion of object, specifically, of the flywheel, are as follows:
  • level 1 orbital motion i.e., the orbital motion of the elements on the flywheel has only the rotation.
  • the length of the lifting lever arm that is the level 1 arm and also the rotation axis of the flywheel.
  • Two-level orbital motion or level 2 orbital motion is the motion of elements on the rotational flywheel and the flywheel has a circular orbital motion because the first orbital motion frame for the flywheel applied on the axis of the flywheel in a circular orbital motion.
  • the first orbital motion frame for the flywheel of which diameter should be double greater than that of the flywheel if the flywheels are mounted on the same side on the orbital motion frame of the flywheel.
  • Three -level orbital motion or level 3 orbital motion is the motion of elements on the flywheel which has both rotation and level 2 orbital motion, and additional level 3 orbital motion.
  • the axis of the level 2 orbital motion frame has additional orbital motion through the axes and bearings of the level 2 orbital motion frame mounted on the outer edge of the level 3 orbital motion frame and this frame has axial rotation.
  • the path length of multi-level orbital motion can be described by the image of common compression springs (select helical springs with thin filaments for easy shaping).
  • An original common helical spring which is called primary helical spring herein, is coiled into a second-level helical spring of which diameter is larger than that of the primary helical spring.
  • the second-level helical spring is coiled into a third-level helical spring of which diameter is larger than that of the second-level spring.
  • the second-level spring will be again coiled into the third-level spring of which diameter is larger than that of the second-level spring. This process is repeated in this fashion up to higher levels.
  • the coiled spring with the highest level is bent into one circle. This circle will be pressed between the two glass surfaces so that the spring filament can be located on a two-dimensional space.
  • the shape that a multi-level coiled spring made when pressed between two glass surfaces is the orbit of a particle on the flywheel body that has both rotation and orbital motion in space.
  • the law of kinetic energy stored on a moving object is the total kinetic energy of the orbital motion of all particles on the object body, and the greater the path length the particles travel, the larger the mechanical energy storage capacity oj all the particles in the object body is.
  • the length of the traveling path of an object increases with the type of the motion the object has, consequently, the kinetic energy storage capacity increases.
  • the energy storage capacity of an object depends on the type of orbital motion of particles on the object body.
  • the law of mechanical energy storage capacity of the moving object is given below.
  • the law of mechanical energy storage capacity of a moving object depends on the type of the orbital motion of the particles on the object: "The length of the path, that an object travels in space, as well as the amount of mechanical storage energy of a particle on an object, which have both rotational and orbital motion, increases in the following order: displacement, axial rotation, rotation around a center ( of which rotational axis change its direction in a cyclical manner), motion involves both axial rotation and orbital motion, motion involves both rotation around a center and orbital motion, motion involves both axial rotation and orbital motion whose axis ' direction changes in cyclical manner, motion involves both rotation around a center and orbital motion whose axis ' direction changes in a cyclic orbital motion, multi-level orbital motion, motion involves both axial rotation and multi-level orbital motion, motion involves both axial rotation and multi-level orbital motion of which every level 's axes ' direction changes in a cyclical manner, motion involves both rotation around a center and multi-level
  • the flywheel has only rotational motion, then the total kinetic energy of the flywheel will be the kinetic energy of axial rotation of the flywheel.
  • flywheel does not have rotation but orbital motion only, then the total kinetic energy of the flywheel (the system including lever arm and the flywheel, and if the kinetic energy of the lever arm is ignored) is equal to the kinetic energy of orbital motion of the flywheel.
  • flywheel circular flywheel
  • sum of kinetic energy of the flywheel compared to the device frame will include the rotational kinetic energy and kinetic energy of orbital motion of the flywheel; and the total kinetic energy compared to the device frame is as follows:
  • the lever arm is a half of a frame enabling rotation for the flywheel or a half of a frame enabling rotation for the axis of the lower level orbital motion frame.
  • the multi-level flywheel system reduces centrifugal effect on material's particles and rotary parts of the device which has both axial rotation and circular orbital motion with direction of axial rotation's axis being the same as the direction of orbital axis. This allows the device to be manufactured without using super-durable materials, which is essential to traditional flywheel to avoid damaging the materials or moving parts when they are rotated at high speeds.
  • the multi -level flywheel system is also highly effective, thanks to its small mass, for maintaining and controlling the movement direction in space by using a multi-level flywheel system as a gyroscope to maintain and control the movement direction of the system.
  • Multi-level system flywheels used for transport vehicles have the flywheel shafts perpendicular to the ground so that when the transport vehicles moves in curve, they will be less influenced by moment of inertia.
  • transport vehicles can employ flywheel systems consisting of several multi-level flywheel component assemblies which will be positioned on a circular arc which is in parallel with the ground, thus, axis of the flywheel is also parallel to the ground.
  • the path traveled in space by an element on the rim of the flywheel is just a circle with a 360° arc of which radius is equal to that of the flywheel when the object completes a rotational cycle of a 360° angle.
  • the flywheel has rotational motion whose rotational speed is maintained by an external force to maintain constant rotational speed in relative with the lever arm, and the flywheel is simultaneously applied orbital motion in a circular trajectory (as the flywheel model which has both rotational motion and orbital motion using the lever arm as mentioned above), then an element on the rim of the flywheel will travel in space with a very long orbital path (the path is described as a steel helical spring pressed between two planar glass plates, and length of the path is the length of that spring).
  • the travel distance in the space of one element on the flywheel rim will increase exponentially after the flywheel has an extra level of orbital motion.
  • Rotating parts such as the axes and bearings of the orbital motion frames still have the same relative velocities to each other, the same as relative velocity between the axis and flywheel bearing; this means that parts related to the factional rotation do not require high velocity resistance, because the final rotational speed of the flywheel in relative to the external reference system will be increased gradually by each level of the flywheel's orbital motion. Therefore, the traveling distance of an element on the flywheel with multi-level orbital motion helps the velocity of one element on the flywheel to easily and proportionally increases many times over. In other words, it will have the ability to store energy with a density which can be a thousand times more than that of a rotational flywheel with no orbital motion.
  • the device employed herein still has flywheels of which axial rotational direction is the same direction of the orbital motion of the flywheels, the lever arm imposes a circular orbital motion on the flywheel, and the rotational axis of the flywheel is in parallel with the flywheel orbital motion axis of the flywheel as mentioned above.
  • the velocity of the elements on the flywheel ring near the axis of the orbital motion is different from the velocity of elements on the flywheel ring far away from the axis of orbital motion.
  • the elements on the flywheel ring far away from the orbital motion's axis will have a smaller velocity than that of the lever arm as these elements move in the same direction with the lever arm.
  • elements on flywheel ring near the orbital motion's axis will have a higher velocity than that of the lever arm because these elements travel in the opposite direction compared to that of the lever arm.
  • centripetal force on the flywheel elements This centripetal force's direction points toward to the flywheel shaft or toward the axis of the orbital motion frames.
  • centripetal effect is important in helping the flywheel elements to resist centrifugal forces, which can easily destroy the flywheel construction when the flywheel rotates at a high rotational speed.
  • the inertia oj direction (in the form of centrifugal force but with a direction aiming toward orbital motion axis in the case that the rotational direction of the object is the same as the direction of the orbital motion of the object) arises on the elements on the object, direction of this inertia is directed from the elements with slower velocity and aims toward the elements with faster velocity on the body; in this case, the inertial force is directed from the axis of rotation toward the axis of orbital motion of the object.
  • acceleration energy differs significantly from the total energy required to accelerate the elements with similar translational velocities on the object without rotational motion.
  • Acceleration of an object having rotational motion or orbital motion means acceleration of moving elements on the object, specifically these elements tend to move in the opposite direction with the direction of the acceleration. Therefore, acceleration of the object with existing rotational or orbital motion is much "heavier" than that of an object with no rotational or orbital motion, which means in spite of the same rest mass, the object with rotational or orbital motion will get energy density far greater than those of object with no rotational or orbital motion.
  • accelerating the atomic nucleus will lead to acceleration occurring on two sides of the nucleus and with varied acceleration force, in which the force required for positive acceleration on the side, which moves in the same direction as the direction of object's motion, is always greater than that of the opposite side; and vice versa, i.e. the force required for negative acceleration on the side, which moves in of the same direction as the direction of object's motion, is always smaller than the opposite side. Consequently, this causes the elements in the object to be pulled backwards when the object accelerates positively, and causes the elements in the object to be pushed forward when the object has negative acceleration.
  • Fig. 1 The front-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and one-level orbital motion.
  • Fig. 2 The rear-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and one-level orbital motion.
  • Fig. 3 The side-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and one-level orbital motion.
  • Fig. 4 The front-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and two-level orbital motion.
  • Fig. 5 The rear-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and two-level orbital motion.
  • Fig. 6 The side-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and two-level orbital motion.
  • Fig. 7 The front-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and ono-level orbital motion with a transmission mechanism between the main spindle of the energy storage device and the flywheel shaft is the pulley and belt transmission mechanism.
  • Fig. 8 The rear-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and ono-level orbital motion with a transmission mechanism between the main spindle of the energy storage device and the flywheel shaft is the pulley and belt transmission mechanism.
  • Fig. 9 The side-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and ono-level orbital motion with a transmission mechanism between the main spindle of the energy storage device and the flywheel shaft is the pulley and belt transmission mechanism.
  • Fig. 10 The front-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and ono-level orbital motion with a transmission mechanism between the main spindle of the energy storage device and the flywheel shaft is the intermediate roller transmission mechanism.
  • Fig. 11 The rear- view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and ono-level orbital motion with a transmission mechanism between the main spindle of the energy storage device and the flywheel shaft is the intermediate roller transmission mechanism.
  • Fig. 12 The side-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and ono-level orbital motion with a transmission mechanism between the main spindle of the energy storage device and the flywheel shaft is the intermediate roller transmission mechanism.
  • Fig. 13 The orbital motion in the space of partial flywheel body of which has both rotation and one level orbital motion and rotational direction of the flywheel in the same direction of the orbital motion of the flywheel.
  • a mechanical energy storage device in the form of kinetic energy of which flywheel has both rotation and one level orbital motion, and energy is loaded by water jet (the term “energy storage device” is used for short):
  • the upper end of frame 2 has axle and bearing 4, one end of shaft 4 is pulley 11, which is used to drive rotational movement from inside of the energy storage device to the outside.
  • the remaining end of shaft 4 has frame 5, which serves as a lever arm and its center is attached to a fixed shaft 4.
  • the frame 5 is responsible for creating an orbital motion for the shaft of the flywheel 6.
  • Two ends of the frame 5 have two shafts 6 of which one end is fixed with frame 5 and the remaining end has a bearing 6a, functioning as the bearing of flywheel 7.
  • the device is operated by pulley 11, which transfer rotational movement outside of the energy storage device and the pulley of the external device is equipped with the switch that is in separation so that pulley 11 is capable of idle rotating.
  • a high-velocity water injector 8 or compressed air jet
  • the water injector Upon reaching the high velocity, the water injector will stop spraying and the stored energy are ready for use.
  • Parts from 1 to 5 of the energy storage device in this section are the same as those stated in 1 to 5 of the energy storage device in section 1, part 10a is the axis of the movement generating frame 7a, and parts 10a and 10b are the shaft and bearing of the flywheel 10.
  • the device operates in the same way as the energy storage device stated in section 1 , whereby the pulley 11 will transmit the rotational motion outward, through the pulley of the external device equipped with a switch, which will be in isolated state so that the pulley 11 is in state of idle rotation.
  • a high-velocity water injector 8 or compressed air jet
  • the flywheels 10 When loading energy into the energy storage device, pulley 11 is in state of idle rotation then a high-velocity water injector 8 (or compressed air jet) is sprayed onto the surface of the rim of the two flywheels 10, which enable the flywheels 10 to be subject to simultaneously rotation and one level orbital motion, causing the frame 7 to rotate. And the orbital motion of shaft 10a of the frame 7a will consequently make the frame 5 rotate. This will accordingly cause the shaft 4 rotate.
  • the pulley switch of such device When any external device need to use energy, the pulley switch of such device will be loaded to employ energy from the energy storage device from the pulley 11 transferred to ones of the external devices.
  • the kinetic energy of the flywheel 10 will include the axial rotational kinetic energy of the shaft 10a of the flywheel 10 and the kinetic energy of the two-level orbital motion generated by the rotation of the frame 5 and of the frame 7a.
  • Parts from 1 from 5 of the energy storage device in this section are the same as those from 1 to 5 of the device in section 1, and in the section 4, there are 2 pulleys 12a and 12b.
  • the shaft 4 is also the shaft of the frame 5 and the pulley 12a fixes securely frame 5 so that the pulley and frame 5 have the same direction of rotation compared to that of shaft 4.
  • the two outmost ends of frame 5 are the two shafts 6 which are also the axis of the two flywheel 7. And on the flywheel 7 there is the bearing 6c.
  • On shaft 6 of the first flywheel there is the pulley 12b and on the shaft 6 of the first flywheel 7, it is pulley 12c.
  • the pulley 12b is pulled by the belt 13a from the pulley 12a of the shaft 4, and the pulley 12c is pulled by the belt 13b from pulley 12b of shaft 4.
  • the energy storage device operates by charging external energy through the pulley 11 to receive rotary motion from this external device's rotating part.
  • the rotation of pulley 11 gives rise to rotational motion to the shaft 4, and this consequently makes the frame 5 and pulley 12a rotate.
  • the rotation of pulley 12a will cause the belt 13a and 13b to move.
  • the movement of pulley 13a causes pulleys 12b and 12c to rotate.
  • the energy storage device in this section is depicted in illustration in Fig. 10, 11, and Fig. 12.
  • the parts from 1 to 5 of the energy storage device in this section are the same as those from 1 to 5 of the device in section 1.
  • a roller 14 on frame 5 there is a roller 16a with bearing 16c and 16a fixed with and perpendicular to the frame 5 (and the same with symmetrical rollers on the other end of frame 5), on frame 5, there is shaft 6 and flywheel bearing 7; on the shaft 6 of the flywheel 7, there is a roller 7a fixed to the shaft 6 of the flywheel 7.
  • the energy storage device operates by charging external energy through the pulley 11 to receive rotary motion from this external device's rotating part and belt.
  • the rotation of pulley 11 gives rise to rotational motion to the shaft 4, and this consequently makes the frame 5 and roller 14 rotate.
  • the rotation of roller 14 will cause the roller 16a to rotate.
  • the movement of roller 16a causes shaft 6 to rotate and consequently so does the flywheel 7.
  • the flywheel 7 therefore has both orbital motion of the flywheel, which is generated by the orbital motion of the shaft 6 of the flywheel 7 on frame 5, and frame 5 has rotational motion.
  • the rotational direction of the roller 14 is in the same direction as the rotation of the frame 5 and in the same direction as those of the flywheel.
  • the flywheel 7 will transmit the rotational kinetic energy to the roller 16a, at the same time, flywheel 7's orbital motion will enable the roller 14 to have more rotational kinetic energy.
  • the roller 14 rotates, forcing the shaft 4 to rotate and the shaft 4 rotates, enabling the pulley 11 to rotate.
  • the pulley 11 causes the external device's belt of pulley to spin.
  • the energy storage device in this section is depicted with illustrations in Fig. 13.
  • Parts from 1 to 5 of the energy storage device in this section are the same as those stated from 1 to 5 of the energy storage device in section 1 and on the shaft 4 there is a motor 22, of which the stator and rotor located in the frame 4 and the electric motor 22.
  • This motor used for generating the rotational motion for the frame 5 and powered by the pair of electric wires 19a from the frame 21a with shunt line which goes to the electric motor 22.
  • the pair of electric wires 19a after goes through the pair of metal rings 18a, are guided along shaft 4 to frame 5 and drive to motor 23 with electric motor 23, which generates a rotary motion for frame 7a.
  • the electric wire pair 19 is branched to the frame 21b and to the elastic metal bar pair 19b which will sweep onto the metal ring 18b and goes straight to the shaft 7b and along the shaft 7b to frame 7a and go in frame 7a to the electric motor 24, which will generate rotary motion for the flywheel.
  • the current in the wire pair 19 will trigger the electric motor 22, forcing the shaft 4 to rotate.
  • the rotation of shaft 4 causes frame 5 to rotate.
  • the frame 5 contains the pair of wires 19, which makes the electric motor 23 operate.
  • the wire pair 19 branched to frame 21b and leads to a pair of elastic bars 17b which will sweep onto the metal ring 18b.
  • pair of wires 19c connected to ring pair 18b then travel along the shaft 7b to frame 7a and travels in frame 7a to motor 24 and triggers electric motor 24.
  • the operation of the electric motor 24 enables flywheel 10 to rotate.
  • the kinetic energy of the flywheel 10 has kinetic energy of the axial rotation of the flywheel 10a and the two levels of orbital motion including the orbital motion generated by the rotation of the frame 7a and the orbital motion generated by the rotation movement of frame 5.
  • the electric motor 22 may act as a counter-generator to generate power by the kinetic energy of the energy storage device for the externally powered device.

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The mechanical energy storage device in the form of kinetic energy with flywheels which has an axial rotation and an orbital motion. The rotational axis of the flywheels is parallel to axis of the orbital motion, and rotational direction of the flywheel is the same as the flywheel's orbital direction. The orbital motion of the flywheels in the energy storage device is generated by flywheel axes located uniformly at external edge of the first rotational frame. The second frame has axis and bearing at its center, and this axis is perpendicular to the second frame, in order for the first framed to be mounted on the rim of the second frame so that the second frame can generate orbital motion for the axis of the first frame. This process may be repeated in similar fashion with respect to the fact that any frame with higher ordinal number will generate orbital motion for the axis of any frame with the next smaller ordinal number. Multilevel orbital motion of the elements on the flywheel of the energy storage device ensures energy storage by the flywheel with high density.

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ENERGY STORAGE DEVICE
Description of the invention:
Title of the invention High-density energy storage device using flywheels with rotational and orbital motion
Technical field The invention is a device that is used to store mechanical energy storage in the form of the flywheel's rotational kinetic energy and kinetic energy of its orbital motion.
Background of the invention
The flywheel for energy storage has been used since the Neolithic period of about 4,500 BC. The flywheels were used as turntable to provide steady rotation for clay molding in the production of ceramic ware of round shapes such as dishes, jars, pots, etc. More than 200 years ago, during the industrial revolution, flywheels were employed in steam engines to generate steadier rotational motion for engine shafts. When the invention of internal combustion engine equipped with flywheels appeared, flywheels also play a role of storing kinetic energy to keep the rotational motion of the engine's main shafts more steady, thus allow the internal combustion engine run smoother. The flywheels using for energy storage in vehicles such as buses were tested and applied in several European countries between 1940 and 1960. Recently, flywheels have been used in power plants or power stations. In addition, the flywheels are also used to store energy in electricity storage devices, or in the braking system of vehicles to recover energy when vehicles decelerate or are applied a brake, etc. When it comes to the development of flywheel energy, since 4,500 BC, the progresses are limited at improving rational speed and durability of materials of the rotating parts of the flywheel to allow motion at high speeds. On the contrary, there has been no progress in mechanical principles for flywheel operation.
Regarding mechanical principles, until now the energy storage devices equipped with the flywheel only follow the principle that the flywheel only rotates axially and the elements on the flywheel only travel with an orbital motion in a circular path whose circular orbital path length is a 360° arc when the flywheel completes a rotational cycle of a 360° rotation angle. As the path length of the flywheel is very short when the flywheel completes a rotational cycle with a 360° rotation angle, in order to store a large amount of flywheel energy at high densities, the flywheel must have a very high rotational speed. However, at very high rotational speeds, it will cause lots of adverse technical problems such as materials, which are used to make flywheels and rotating parts, must be very strong and durable to withstand centrifugal force and friction due to the high rotational speeds generated in bearings. The operation at high speed additionally makes the parts difficult to be manufactured and production costs high because great symmetry for the rotation without unevenness is required. Moreover, in case of storing as much energy as in power plants or for long-distance vehicles, it is necessary to increase the flywheel mass as well as flywheel radius. The increase in flywheel mass will consequently make the production costs of flywheels high and reduce efficiency when the energy storage flywheel is equipped for vehicles, and especially ineffective due to the large flywheel mass for the means of transportation flying in the Earth atmosphere or in outer space.
Up to now, there have up to now been no inventions of mechanical energy storage devices storing kinetic energy generated from the flywheel which operates in the principle that the flywheel has rotational rotation and orbital motion simultaneously (i.e the flywheel's shaft has an orbital motion). Typically, the flywheel has the rotational motion and its shaft also has an orbital motion, and rotational axis of the flywheel is in parallel with the orbital motion axis of the flywheel, and the flywheel rotates in the same direction as the orbital motion of the flywheel does.
In the past, flywheel energy storage devices typically hold kinetic energy generated from the rotational motion of the flywheel. Several inventions of these flywheel are as follows:
- The invention of "gyroscope" by inventors Crutcher J and Davis L, US Patent No. US3742769 A was issued July 3, 1973, in which a gyroscope's rotor optimizes the energy to mass ratio due to the double-axed gimbal mount, and its spin axis's oscillations. - The invention "Spherical flywheel energy storage system" by James Brown, US Patent No. US 7536932 B l issued on May 26, 2009, in which the flywheel of such invention is in shape of a hollow sphere so that the mass generating kinetic energy is highly focus on the surface of this sphere. In addition, the outer surface of the hollow sphere has dimples like the outer surface of a golf ball to reduce the friction to the air when such spherical flywheel rotates.
Characteristics of inventions on mechanical energy storage devices in the form of kinetic energy are that motions of the elements on the flywheel body are only motions in a circular orbit, thus, the flywheels are capable of storing only low-density energy while require a high rotary speed. With the low energy storage density and the high rotational speed, such energy storage devices are less suitable for high energy storage demand such as energy storage in power plants. Such energy storage device will be too heavy or able to store too little energy compared to the energy required for mobile vehicles such as vehicles on land, waterborne vehicles, vehicles travel under underwater, in the atmosphere or in space. It is therefore essential to have an energy storage device which is capable of meeting three basic requirements: 1- Capability of high-density energy storage, 2- Low production cost, 3- High durability. To meet these requirements, energy storage devices in the form of kinetic energy must work on a new mechanical principle, and the energy storage device of this invention will meet all three basic requirements.
Summary of the invention:
The characteristics of the mechanical energy storage device in the form of kinetic energy of this invention are that the motion of the elements on the flywheel body which moves in orbital motion with at least two or more orbital levels and the movement of the flywheel body element has a curly spring-shaped orbit (helical spring with thin filaments that makes it easy to bend to bend to depict the moving orbit of an element on the flywheel body in space), bent in circular shape and pressed flat between the two planar glass plates (to demonstrate the orbit of an element on the flywheel body that has both rotational motion and one-level orbital motion). Or the flywheel has an additional second orbital level, the orbit of the element on the flywheel body has the shape of a common compression spring that is bent to secondary level and then the secondary spring is bent in circular shape and then pressed flat by two planar glass plates, and so on for type of moving orbit of the element on the flywheel of which the orbit has more levels.
The invention develops energy storage devices with flywheels that has both rotational and orbital motions simultaneously, and specifically develops energy storage devices with flywheels having both rotational motion and multi -level orbital motions (multi-level orbital motion will be highlighted in the following sections). Based on mechanical effects and mechanical laws derived from mechanical experiments on objects that concurrently have rotational motion by "concurrently imposing orbital motion on a rotating object" by the author. Analyzing and inferring these effects and mechanical laws will be set forth below as a basis for demonstrating the effectiveness of the energy storage device of the invention in which the efficiency gaining include three basic points: 1- High-density energy storage device, 2- Speed of rotational motion of rotating parts such as axis and bearings in the energy storage device is not necessary to be so fast. 3- Rotating parts in the energy storage device are not subjected to a large centrifugal force.
Mechanical effects, analysis, and mechanical laws derived from experiments of imposing orbital motion on objects that concurrently have rotational motion or mechanical effects, analysis, and laws of the object have both rotational and orbital motion simultaneously as follows:
1- The concept of concurrent rotational and orbital motion of object and the orbital motion of the elements on the body of object which has both rotational and orbital motion simultaneously and the object with both rotational and orbital motion can be considered to be a flywheel that has both rotational and orbital motion so that the elements on flywheel have both rotational kinetic energy and kinetic energy of multi-level orbital motion of which concept is as follows:
Mechanical experiments on the imposition of orbital motion on an object that has an existing axial rotational motion will consider the case when the object's rotation axis is in parallel to the axis of orbital motion of the object and the rotational direction of the object are in the same direction as the orbital motion of the object is.
To visualize an object that has both rotational motion and a multi-level orbital motion, of which the axis of rotation is in close parallel with the axis of multi-level orbital motion of the object, an example of multi-level orbital motion in nature can be used to illustrate the object which has both rotational and multi-level orbital motion: For example, if a natural satellite with rotational motion is considered as a flywheel, then the "satellite flywheel" rotates around the axis of the satellite and the elements on the "satellite flywheel" have a closed orbital motion around the axis of the "satellite flywheel" due to the rotation of "satellite flywheel" around its own axis, and the "satellite flywheel" orbiting around a planet is the first level of "flywheel satellite's orbital motion"; and the planet orbiting around the celestial stars is the second level of orbital rotation of the "flywheel satellite", and the celestial stars orbiting around the galaxy's central black hole are the third orbital motion of the flywheel satellite. But if the motion of an element on the body of the "flywheel satellite", with rotational motion whose axis is "flywheel satellite's axis", is considered as the first level of orbital motion, then the orbital motion of the "flywheel satellite" around the planet will produce second level" of orbital motion for the elements on the body of "flywheel satellite", and the motion of the planet around the celestial star will produce a third level of orbital motion for the elements on the body of the "flywheel satellite", and the orbital motion of the celestial star around the black hole of the galaxy creates the forth level of orbital motion for elements on the "flywheel satellite" body.
The characteristics of multi-level orbital motion is the path of an element on the "flywheel satellite" body that concurrently has both rotational motion and multi-level orbital motion is the path length of movement in space when "flywheel satellite" completes a single 360° rotation around the celestial black hole. This path length is very large compared to the path length that of a celestial star when it completes a 360° orbital motion cycle around the black hole at galactic center.
If the flywheel's kinetic energy accumulated as storage energy, in other words, the kinetic energy of all the elements on the flywheel body is accumulated as storage energy, then the orbital path length of an element on the flywheel body moving in space will be large, thus allow the elements on the flywheel body to be accelerated slowly to reach the high velocity of orbital motion in space. Meanwhile, it is harder to slowly accelerate the elements on the flywheel with only rotational motion, of which path length is very short due to the fact that it just moves in circular orbit. The motion of the elements on the object body, which has both rotational and multi-level orbital motion, will enable flywheel to have a very high total kinetic energy, including the rotational kinetic energy and the kinetic energy of multi-level orbital motion; each succeeding level of orbital motion has an exponential kinetic energy value compared to the kinetic energy of the previous orbital motion level. Therefore, the flywheel having both rotational motion and multi-level orbital motion is capable of storing energy at very high density (in-depth analysis regarding the ability to store energy with high density is in the following sections).
2- The orbital motion of the flywheel of the invention's energy storage device: The flywheel employed in the energy storage device has both axial rotation and orbital motion with the rotational axis of the flywheel is in parallel with the direction of the center axis of flywheel's orbital motion. The axial rotation of the flywheel is in the same direction as the direction of orbital orbital motion of the flywheel. The orbital motion of the flywheel is generated by the fact that "orbital motion frame" has rotational motion; and axis and bearing of the flywheel are mounted with uniform spacing at the outer edge of this "orbital motion frame".
- Inertial rotation effect of a rotating object occurs when the object is subjected to an acceleration motion or a change in direction of motion.
• The inertial rotation effect, also called the conservation of rotational motion effect compared to the external reference frame of an object when the object is subjected to orbital motion with radial acceleration or to orbital motion with variable direction (ignoring bearing friction and friction with air): "The object with axial rotation will preserve the velocity of axial rotation when the object is subjected to an accelerated motion or when the object is subjected to change in the direction of movement ( imposed on the object 's bearing) "
Note: This inertial rotation effect is also true for objects that rotate around a center given that this rotation is axial rotation and there is a change in direction of the rotational axis in repeat cycle (like natural satellites which has axial rotation and direction of its rotational axis will change in repeat cycle while the satellite orbits around the planet attracting it.)
Consider the case when a rotating object is a flywheel of which axis is in parallel with the flywheel's orbital motion axis. A simple model includes two flywheels of the same type and two axes of them held by the bearing at the two outer ends of the orbital motion frame; and this frame's axis lies in the middle of this orbital motion frame and is parallel to the direction of the rotational axis of the flywheel. The term "lever arm" describes ½ part of the orbital motion frame. The axis of rotational motion frame is held by the bearing of the orbital motion frame, and the bearing of this orbital motion frame is connected to the frame of the energy storage device. This system is operated by providing the two flywheels the same rotational speed. After the two flywheels have the same rotational speed, it means they have given existing speed, then apply rotational motion on the orbital motion frame, and then the rotation of such orbital motion frame forces the orbital motion on the axis of the two existing rotating flywheels. If ignoring the friction of the bearing and the friction with the air, the speed of existing rotation of the two flywheels remain constant whether the two flywheels are applied the orbital motion in any speed or in any way. This effect is due to the rotational inertia of the flywheels which helps the rotational speed of the flywheel be preserved when the flywheels is subjected to orbital motion. This effect is more pronounced when the speed of flywheel's existing rotation is faster; as the faster the rotational speed is, the greater the rotational inertia, and the greater the rotational inertia is, the more pronounced the existing speed preservation of the two flywheels in comparison with the reference frame outside the device is.
(In the following sections, the term "flywheel's motion" means the motion of the flywheel which has both rotational and orbital form in which the rotational axis of the flywheel is in parallel with the orbital motion axis of the flywheel as described in this paragraph).
• Inertial rotation effect of a rotating object occurs when the object with rotational motion is subjected to an accelerated motion or change in movement direction. "When impose an orbital motion on a flywheel having axial rotation, the object will rotate in a direction opposite to that of imposed orbital motion and will have the angle of rotation equal to the angle of the imposed orbital motion ".
Similarly, consider the flywheel that does not have an initial rotation compared to the ground, if ignoring the friction factor, when the lever arm imposes orbital motion on the flywheel, no matter if it moves in any direction and at any angular velocity then the state of no axial rotation, compared to the ground, of the flywheel will remain unchanged. (However, the rotational inertia of the object without initial rotational motion is small, combining with the friction of the bearing and the friction with the air, therefore the effect of the experiment using the object without rotational motion appears, but not as clear as the object with existing rotational motion at high speed).
This means that when the flywheel is imposed to an orbital motion then it will have additional axial rotation in the opposite direction to the orbital motion's direction, with an angle equal to that of the imposed orbital motion.
As a result, the angular velocity of the flywheel compared to the ground remains unchanged after the flywheel is subjected to orbital motion (if neglecting friction). The rotational speed of the flywheel will be the sum of the two following elements: 1- In the case where the direction of rotation of the flywheel is in the same direction as the that of its orbital motion (circular trajectory), the rotational velocity of the circular disk compared to the ground shall be equal to the sum of the angular velocity of the flywheel compared to the frame of orbital motion for the flywheel, and the angular velocity of the flywheel's orbital motion frame compared to the ground, 2- In the case the rotation of the flywheel is in the opposite direction to its orbital motion's direction, then the rotational speed of the flywheel compared to the ground will be equal to the difference between the angular velocity of the flywheel compared to the orbital motion frame for the flywheel and the angular velocity of the flywheel's orbital motion frame compared to ground.
So when an object having to axial rotation, its angular velocity of rotation compared to the frame of reference outside the object equals to the sum of the angular velocity of axial rotation of the object and the angular velocity of the object's orbital motion.
3- Type of an object with multi-level orbital motion:
The object, having both axial rotation and multi-level orbital motion, used in the energy storage device discussed in this invention is a flywheel which has both axial rotation and orbital motion thanks to the rotation of the lever arm mentioned above. Beside the first orbital motion generated by the flywheel's "first orbital motion frame", the axis of the "first orbital motion frame" has another orbital motion thanks to the fact that this axis is mounted on the outer edge of the "second orbital motion frame". In other words, the "second orbital motion frame" rotates around its own axis, and this rotation generates the orbital motion of the "first orbital motion frame". The same principle is applied so on to generate orbital motion for the second, third, or fourth orbital motion frame, etc.
4- Type of multi-level orbital motion:
The flywheel has both axial rotation and circular orbital motion of which orbital radius is small, and at the same time, the flywheel has another orbital motion with larger radius. Whenever there is an extra orbital motion level, the flywheel is called "higher level flywheel". The levels of motion of object, specifically, of the flywheel, are as follows:
• One -level orbital motion (this term is used to distinguish itself from two-level, three-level, or four-level orbital motion), or it can be called level 1 orbital motion, i.e., the orbital motion of the elements on the flywheel has only the rotation. In this case the length of the lifting lever arm, that is the level 1 arm and also the rotation axis of the flywheel.
• Two-level orbital motion or level 2 orbital motion is the motion of elements on the rotational flywheel and the flywheel has a circular orbital motion because the first orbital motion frame for the flywheel applied on the axis of the flywheel in a circular orbital motion. In this case, the first orbital motion frame for the flywheel, of which diameter should be double greater than that of the flywheel if the flywheels are mounted on the same side on the orbital motion frame of the flywheel.
• Three -level orbital motion or level 3 orbital motion is the motion of elements on the flywheel which has both rotation and level 2 orbital motion, and additional level 3 orbital motion. The axis of the level 2 orbital motion frame has additional orbital motion through the axes and bearings of the level 2 orbital motion frame mounted on the outer edge of the level 3 orbital motion frame and this frame has axial rotation.
And the same repeatedly, for orbital motion with 4, 5...and higher levels. 5- The path length of multi-level orbital motion can be described by the image of common compression springs (select helical springs with thin filaments for easy shaping). An original common helical spring, which is called primary helical spring herein, is coiled into a second-level helical spring of which diameter is larger than that of the primary helical spring. Then, the second-level helical spring is coiled into a third-level helical spring of which diameter is larger than that of the second-level spring. Then, the second-level spring will be again coiled into the third-level spring of which diameter is larger than that of the second-level spring. This process is repeated in this fashion up to higher levels. Finally, the coiled spring with the highest level is bent into one circle. This circle will be pressed between the two glass surfaces so that the spring filament can be located on a two-dimensional space. The shape that a multi-level coiled spring made when pressed between two glass surfaces is the orbit of a particle on the flywheel body that has both rotation and orbital motion in space. Through this illustration, it can be seen that the orbit in the space of a particle on the flywheel which has both rotation and multi-level orbital motion is very large when the main shaft of the energy storage device completes a rotational cycle with 360° angle.
6- The law of mechanical energy storage capacity of particles on moving objects:
The law of kinetic energy stored on a moving object: "The kinetic energy stored on a moving object is the total kinetic energy of the orbital motion of all particles on the object body, and the greater the path length the particles travel, the larger the mechanical energy storage capacity oj all the particles in the object body is. "
According to the above law, it can be seen that the length of the traveling path of an object increases with the type of the motion the object has, consequently, the kinetic energy storage capacity increases. The energy storage capacity of an object depends on the type of orbital motion of particles on the object body. The law of mechanical energy storage capacity of the moving object is given below.
7- The law of the ability to store mechanical energy in the form of kinetic energy of an object:
The law of mechanical energy storage capacity of a moving object depends on the type of the orbital motion of the particles on the object: "The length of the path, that an object travels in space, as well as the amount of mechanical storage energy of a particle on an object, which have both rotational and orbital motion, increases in the following order: displacement, axial rotation, rotation around a center ( of which rotational axis change its direction in a cyclical manner), motion involves both axial rotation and orbital motion, motion involves both rotation around a center and orbital motion, motion involves both axial rotation and orbital motion whose axis ' direction changes in cyclical manner, motion involves both rotation around a center and orbital motion whose axis ' direction changes in a cyclic orbital motion, multi-level orbital motion, motion involves both axial rotation and multi-level orbital motion, motion involves both axial rotation and multi-level orbital motion of which every level 's axes ' direction changes in a cyclical manner, motion involves both rotation around a center and multi-level orbital motion of which every level 's axes ' direction changes in a cyclical manner ".
Through the above types of motion, it is possible to quantify the energy storage capacity of each object with each form of movement. The more levels of which an orbital motion of an object has, the greater the density of the energy storage the object gets. The motion of subatomic particles or particles smaller than proton and electron is the final form of motion of the chain of the above mentioned forms of motion. This is the reason why matters accumulate energy with very high density. Upon releasing energy, the motion of the particles that make up the atomic nucleus will shift from multi-level orbital motion to fewer-level orbital motion; thus, the curvature of their orbital motion is larger. Therefore, if the energy storage device is designed with more multi-level orbital motion, the energy storage density increases rapidly as the orbital motion reaches higher level.
8 - Acceleration of an object with existing rotational motion or with existing orbital motion will be "heavier" than acceleration of an object with no rotation or orbital motion:
It is because of the inertial mass effect of an object which has both rotational and orbital motion: "An object with existing rotational direction will produce a large inertial mass when applying an accelerated orbital motion on this object.
Therefore, the total kinetic energy of the object with both rotation and orbital motion compared to the frame of external reference is as shown below.
Quantify the total kinetic energy stored in a flywheel with both rotation and level 1 orbital motion:
• If the flywheel has only rotational motion, then the total kinetic energy of the flywheel will be the kinetic energy of axial rotation of the flywheel.
• If the flywheel does not have rotation but orbital motion only, then the total kinetic energy of the flywheel (the system including lever arm and the flywheel, and if the kinetic energy of the lever arm is ignored) is equal to the kinetic energy of orbital motion of the flywheel.
• If the flywheel (circular flywheel) rotates at a constant speed compared to the lever arm when the lever arm is rotating (it is possible to spray water into the flywheel rim so that the rotation and orbital motion of the flywheel can be the same), then sum of kinetic energy of the flywheel compared to the device frame will include the rotational kinetic energy and kinetic energy of orbital motion of the flywheel; and the total kinetic energy compared to the device frame is as follows:
o The rest mass of the flywheel x square of {flywheel angular velocity compared to the lever arm + angular velocity of the lever arm compared to the lever arm holding frame} x square of flywheel radius, and plus rest mass of the flywheel x square of { angular velocity of the flywheel compared to the lever arm + angular velocity of the lever arm compared to the lever arm holding frame} x square of the orbital radius of flywheel's orbital motion.
Note: The lever arm is a half of a frame enabling rotation for the flywheel or a half of a frame enabling rotation for the axis of the lower level orbital motion frame.
Because of the square factors of the two angular velocities, including total angular velocity of the flywheel compared to the lever arm and the angular velocity of the lever arm compared to the frame of the device, therefore, the increase in the level of orbital motion of the flywheel increases the amount of storage energy exponentially. It is clear to see that the more levels of orbital motion the flywheel has, the longer path the elements on the flywheel will travel in a rotational cycle of 360° of the main shaft. The long traveling path of the flywheel elements makes it easy to accelerate such elements to high speed; consequently, the flywheel is able to accumulate a great amount of energy while maintaining a small difference between the rotational velocity of the flywheel and the rotational velocity of lever arms.
9- Advantages of the flywheel with multiple levels of orbital motion:
• The amount of energy stored per unit of mass of the flywheel will increase exponentially with each level increment (as indicated in earlier section, which is section 8).
• Reducing the effect of centrifugal force on the material or rotary parts: as discussed above, the multi-level flywheel system reduces centrifugal effect on material's particles and rotary parts of the device which has both axial rotation and circular orbital motion with direction of axial rotation's axis being the same as the direction of orbital axis. This allows the device to be manufactured without using super-durable materials, which is essential to traditional flywheel to avoid damaging the materials or moving parts when they are rotated at high speeds.
• Reduction in rotational speed of rotary bearings will reduce the friction generated by the rotational motion of the rotary bearings, especially ball bearings or roller bearings which have limited rotational speeds (magnetic bearings can withstand high rotational speed). This would be useful for large-scale energy storage systems at power plants or electromechanic distribution stations in the future (there is currently no electromechanic distribution station for factories or neighborhoods). Speed of axial rotation of the energy storage device is divided to each bearing, therefore the rotational speed at each bearing only needs to be in the range from slow to medium or fast speed, but not necessarily need to be too fast or super-fast. The super-fast speed requires a high degree of precision in the manufacture of the energy storage devices' parts, and these devices need to be made with super-durable materials. These factors subsequently lead to very high cost for the current flywheels which operate under super-fast speed to accumulate mechanical energy.
10- The other advantages, beside energy storage, of the flywheel which has both axial rotation and orbital motion: • In addition to mechanical energy accumulation, the multi -level flywheel system is also highly effective, thanks to its small mass, for maintaining and controlling the movement direction in space by using a multi-level flywheel system as a gyroscope to maintain and control the movement direction of the system.
• Multi-level system flywheels used for transport vehicles have the flywheel shafts perpendicular to the ground so that when the transport vehicles moves in curve, they will be less influenced by moment of inertia. Alternatively, transport vehicles can employ flywheel systems consisting of several multi-level flywheel component assemblies which will be positioned on a circular arc which is in parallel with the ground, thus, axis of the flywheel is also parallel to the ground.
11- Geometric effect of the traveling path in space of elements on the object body which has rotational motion and concurrently subjected to orbital motion:
If the object only has axial rotation, the path traveled in space by an element on the rim of the flywheel is just a circle with a 360° arc of which radius is equal to that of the flywheel when the object completes a rotational cycle of a 360° angle.
But if the flywheel has rotational motion whose rotational speed is maintained by an external force to maintain constant rotational speed in relative with the lever arm, and the flywheel is simultaneously applied orbital motion in a circular trajectory (as the flywheel model which has both rotational motion and orbital motion using the lever arm as mentioned above), then an element on the rim of the flywheel will travel in space with a very long orbital path (the path is described as a steel helical spring pressed between two planar glass plates, and length of the path is the length of that spring). Especially, for flywheels that have multi-level orbital motion, the travel distance in the space of one element on the flywheel rim will increase exponentially after the flywheel has an extra level of orbital motion.
It can be seen that if the angular velocity of the flywheel in relative to the lever arm still equals the angular velocity of the flywheel which has only rotational motion, and the rotational velocity of the lever arm, belonging to higher orbital level, in relative to the lever arm belonging to lower orbital level, remains the same as the angular velocity of the flywheel having only rotational motion, then an element on the flywheel, which has multiple levels of orbital motion, can achieve a great increase in travelling distance in space after the flywheel goes through several orbital levels. Rotating parts such as the axes and bearings of the orbital motion frames still have the same relative velocities to each other, the same as relative velocity between the axis and flywheel bearing; this means that parts related to the factional rotation do not require high velocity resistance, because the final rotational speed of the flywheel in relative to the external reference system will be increased gradually by each level of the flywheel's orbital motion. Therefore, the traveling distance of an element on the flywheel with multi-level orbital motion helps the velocity of one element on the flywheel to easily and proportionally increases many times over. In other words, it will have the ability to store energy with a density which can be a thousand times more than that of a rotational flywheel with no orbital motion.
The geometric effect for objects with rotational motion can be further understood as follows: "When an object with axial rotation is accelerated (consider a simple case where the rotation axis of the object is perpendicular to the object 's direction of motion), the total energy needed to accelerate the elements on both sides of the flywheel having axial rotation will be larger than the total energy to accelerate the elements on both sides of the flywheel without axial rotation. "
12- The effect of centripetal forces on elements of an object which have both rotation and circular orbital motions, with the direction of the object's axial rotation is in the same direction as that of the orbital motion of the object, and the rotation axis of the object is in parallel with the axis of the object's orbital motion:
The device employed herein still has flywheels of which axial rotational direction is the same direction of the orbital motion of the flywheels, the lever arm imposes a circular orbital motion on the flywheel, and the rotational axis of the flywheel is in parallel with the flywheel orbital motion axis of the flywheel as mentioned above.
When the flywheel has both rotational and circular orbital motion as mentioned above, the velocity of the elements on the flywheel ring near the axis of the orbital motion is different from the velocity of elements on the flywheel ring far away from the axis of orbital motion. The elements on the flywheel ring far away from the orbital motion's axis will have a smaller velocity than that of the lever arm as these elements move in the same direction with the lever arm. On the contrary, elements on flywheel ring near the orbital motion's axis will have a higher velocity than that of the lever arm because these elements travel in the opposite direction compared to that of the lever arm. The difference in velocities of the elements on different areas of the flywheel will give rise to centripetal force on the flywheel elements, this centripetal force's direction points toward to the flywheel shaft or toward the axis of the orbital motion frames. The centripetal effect is important in helping the flywheel elements to resist centrifugal forces, which can easily destroy the flywheel construction when the flywheel rotates at a high rotational speed.
In addition, based on the motion of the elements on the objects with both rotational and orbital motion, it can be seen that the law of geometric movement of the elements on these objects is as follows:
• The law of the velocity and the directional inertia of the elements on the object which has both rotational motion and orbital motion: "On an object which has both the rotational motion and orbital motion, the velocity of orbital motion of elements on the side where the rotational direction is in the same direction as that of orbital motion is always higher than velocity of orbital motion of elements on the side where rotational direction is in the opposite direction as that of the orbital motion. The inertia oj direction (in the form of centrifugal force but with a direction aiming toward orbital motion axis in the case that the rotational direction of the object is the same as the direction of the orbital motion of the object) arises on the elements on the object, direction of this inertia is directed from the elements with slower velocity and aims toward the elements with faster velocity on the body; in this case, the inertial force is directed from the axis of rotation toward the axis of orbital motion of the object. )
The above law would be useful for rotating parts, which are used in energy storage devices such as flywheels, flywheel bearings, frames or flywheel holding arms, since it explains that these rotating parts have external inertial forces aiming toward their rotation axes and toward the main spindle of the energy storage device. This inertial force helps to counteract the centrifugal force which does harm to the rotating parts of the energy storage device. Therefore, the energy storage device with a flywheel that has both rotation and orbital motion, especially with multi-level orbital motion, will not have to be made of super durable materials because the durability of these rotating parts remains stable during operation of energy storage device.
The above law shows that to accelerate an object having rotational motion, the energy required to accelerate the elements on such object is equal to the total energy required to accelerate the elements with varied translational velocities on the object. This acceleration energy differs significantly from the total energy required to accelerate the elements with similar translational velocities on the object without rotational motion. Acceleration of an object having rotational motion or orbital motion means acceleration of moving elements on the object, specifically these elements tend to move in the opposite direction with the direction of the acceleration. Therefore, acceleration of the object with existing rotational or orbital motion is much "heavier" than that of an object with no rotational or orbital motion, which means in spite of the same rest mass, the object with rotational or orbital motion will get energy density far greater than those of object with no rotational or orbital motion.
This law also helps to explain the origin of inertia, i.e. when the acceleration is positive, particles in the object are pulled backward, and when the acceleration is negative, then particles in the object are pushed forwards. This can be explained by investigating the acceleration of nuclei of atoms that make up an object. Nuclei have existing axial rotation whose axis' direction varies in repeated cycle, and the rotational velocity of the atomic nuclei is independent from the motion of the object composed of these atomic nuclei. In other words, the rotational velocity of atomic nuclei is always preserved when the object, which is composed of these atomic nuclei, is moving in an accelerated manner or with varied moving direction. Therefore, accelerating the atomic nucleus will lead to acceleration occurring on two sides of the nucleus and with varied acceleration force, in which the force required for positive acceleration on the side, which moves in the same direction as the direction of object's motion, is always greater than that of the opposite side; and vice versa, i.e. the force required for negative acceleration on the side, which moves in of the same direction as the direction of object's motion, is always smaller than the opposite side. Consequently, this causes the elements in the object to be pulled backwards when the object accelerates positively, and causes the elements in the object to be pushed forward when the object has negative acceleration.
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Fig. 1 : The front-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and one-level orbital motion.
Fig. 2: The rear-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and one-level orbital motion.
Fig. 3: The side-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and one-level orbital motion.
Fig. 4: The front-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and two-level orbital motion.
Fig. 5: The rear-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and two-level orbital motion.
Fig. 6: The side-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and two-level orbital motion.
Fig. 7: The front-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and ono-level orbital motion with a transmission mechanism between the main spindle of the energy storage device and the flywheel shaft is the pulley and belt transmission mechanism.
Fig. 8: The rear-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and ono-level orbital motion with a transmission mechanism between the main spindle of the energy storage device and the flywheel shaft is the pulley and belt transmission mechanism.
Fig. 9: The side-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and ono-level orbital motion with a transmission mechanism between the main spindle of the energy storage device and the flywheel shaft is the pulley and belt transmission mechanism.
Fig. 10: The front-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and ono-level orbital motion with a transmission mechanism between the main spindle of the energy storage device and the flywheel shaft is the intermediate roller transmission mechanism.
Fig. 11 : The rear- view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and ono-level orbital motion with a transmission mechanism between the main spindle of the energy storage device and the flywheel shaft is the intermediate roller transmission mechanism. Fig. 12: The side-view image of energy storage device, of which flywheel has both rotation and ono-level orbital motion with a transmission mechanism between the main spindle of the energy storage device and the flywheel shaft is the intermediate roller transmission mechanism.
Fig. 13: The orbital motion in the space of partial flywheel body of which has both rotation and one level orbital motion and rotational direction of the flywheel in the same direction of the orbital motion of the flywheel.
Detailed description of the invention
1- A mechanical energy storage device in the form of kinetic energy of which flywheel has both rotation and one level orbital motion, and energy is loaded by water jet (the term "energy storage device" is used for short):
The energy storage device in this section is depicted with illustrations in Figures 1, 2 and 3.
The energy storage device of which frames 2 which is mounted on a concrete bottom 1 (or fitted with a frame of a machinery or a removable media 1) with bolts and nuts 3. The upper end of frame 2 has axle and bearing 4, one end of shaft 4 is pulley 11, which is used to drive rotational movement from inside of the energy storage device to the outside. The remaining end of shaft 4 has frame 5, which serves as a lever arm and its center is attached to a fixed shaft 4. The frame 5 is responsible for creating an orbital motion for the shaft of the flywheel 6. Two ends of the frame 5 have two shafts 6 of which one end is fixed with frame 5 and the remaining end has a bearing 6a, functioning as the bearing of flywheel 7. The outermost of flywheel 7 equipped with tap 8 to spray water jet 8 to create movement which is both rotational and orbital motion for the flywheel 7, in which the rotational direction of the flywheel 7 and the orbital motion of the flywheel shaft 6 is the same.
The device is operated by pulley 11, which transfer rotational movement outside of the energy storage device and the pulley of the external device is equipped with the switch that is in separation so that pulley 11 is capable of idle rotating. When the pulley 11 is at the position of rotating without load, then a high-velocity water injector 8 (or compressed air jet) is sprayed onto the surface of the rim of the two flywheels 7, which enable the flywheels to be subject to simultaneously rotation and one level orbital motion. The energy stored in the magnitude of the rotational velocity of two flywheels 7 and the one level orbital motion speed of two flywheels 7. Upon reaching the high velocity, the water injector will stop spraying and the stored energy are ready for use. When any external device need to use energy, the pulley switch of such device will be loaded to employ energy from the energy storage device from the pulley 11 transferred to ones of the external devices. 2- Mechanical energy storage device in the form of kinetic energy, of which flywheel has both rotation and two-level orbital motion, and energy is load by water jet:
The energy storage device in this section is depicted with illustrations in Figures 4, 5 and 6.
Parts from 1 to 5 of the energy storage device in this section are the same as those stated in 1 to 5 of the energy storage device in section 1, part 10a is the axis of the movement generating frame 7a, and parts 10a and 10b are the shaft and bearing of the flywheel 10.
The device operates in the same way as the energy storage device stated in section 1 , whereby the pulley 11 will transmit the rotational motion outward, through the pulley of the external device equipped with a switch, which will be in isolated state so that the pulley 11 is in state of idle rotation. When loading energy into the energy storage device, pulley 11 is in state of idle rotation then a high-velocity water injector 8 (or compressed air jet) is sprayed onto the surface of the rim of the two flywheels 10, which enable the flywheels 10 to be subject to simultaneously rotation and one level orbital motion, causing the frame 7 to rotate. And the orbital motion of shaft 10a of the frame 7a will consequently make the frame 5 rotate. This will accordingly cause the shaft 4 rotate. The energy stored in the magnitude of the rotational velocity of two flywheels 10 and the two level orbital motion speed of two flywheels 7. Upon reaching the high velocity, the water injector will stop spraying and the stored energy are ready for use. When any external device need to use energy, the pulley switch of such device will be loaded to employ energy from the energy storage device from the pulley 11 transferred to ones of the external devices. The kinetic energy of the flywheel 10 will include the axial rotational kinetic energy of the shaft 10a of the flywheel 10 and the kinetic energy of the two-level orbital motion generated by the rotation of the frame 5 and of the frame 7a.
3- Mechanical energy storage device in the form of kinetic energy, of which flywheel has both rotation and one -level orbital motion, and energy is load and retrieved from its main spindle and has a transmission mechanism of rotation from the main spindle to the flywheel shaft by the pulley and belt mechanism:
The energy storage device in this section is depicted with illustrations in Figures 7, 8 and 9.
Parts from 1 from 5 of the energy storage device in this section are the same as those from 1 to 5 of the device in section 1, and in the section 4, there are 2 pulleys 12a and 12b. In addition, the shaft 4 is also the shaft of the frame 5 and the pulley 12a fixes securely frame 5 so that the pulley and frame 5 have the same direction of rotation compared to that of shaft 4. The two outmost ends of frame 5 are the two shafts 6 which are also the axis of the two flywheel 7. And on the flywheel 7 there is the bearing 6c. On shaft 6 of the first flywheel, there is the pulley 12b and on the shaft 6 of the first flywheel 7, it is pulley 12c. The pulley 12b is pulled by the belt 13a from the pulley 12a of the shaft 4, and the pulley 12c is pulled by the belt 13b from pulley 12b of shaft 4. The energy storage device operates by charging external energy through the pulley 11 to receive rotary motion from this external device's rotating part. The rotation of pulley 11 gives rise to rotational motion to the shaft 4, and this consequently makes the frame 5 and pulley 12a rotate. Repeatedly, the rotation of pulley 12a will cause the belt 13a and 13b to move. The movement of pulley 13a causes pulleys 12b and 12c to rotate. In addition, all the pulleys rotate in the same direction, and movement of will force pulleys 12b and 12c to move, which make the two flywheels 7 move in the same direction. The two flywheels will accumulate mechanical energy which is equal to the total kinetic energy of the orbital motion of all the elements on the two flywheels. When the energy storage device operates, it will transfers energy from inside the energy storage device through pulley 11 in the opposite way that is, the kinetic energy of the two flywheels 7 will cause pulleys 12b and 12c to rotate. Accordingly, the rotation of 12b and 12c makes the belt 13a and 13b move. The movement of belt 13b will makes pulley 12a rotate, which forces the shaft 4 rotate and consequently so does the pulley 11. This will transfer the rotational movement outwards through the pulley and belt mechanism of the external device.
4- Mechanical energy storage device in the form of kinetic energy, of which flywheel has both rotation and one -level orbital motion, and energy is load and retrieved from its main spindle and has a transmission mechanism of rotation from the main spindle to the flywheel shaft by the roller mechanism (or similar to the gear mechanism):
The energy storage device in this section is depicted in illustration in Fig. 10, 11, and Fig. 12.
The parts from 1 to 5 of the energy storage device in this section are the same as those from 1 to 5 of the device in section 1. And on the shaft 4 there is a roller 14, on frame 5 there is a roller 16a with bearing 16c and 16a fixed with and perpendicular to the frame 5 (and the same with symmetrical rollers on the other end of frame 5), on frame 5, there is shaft 6 and flywheel bearing 7; on the shaft 6 of the flywheel 7, there is a roller 7a fixed to the shaft 6 of the flywheel 7.
The energy storage device operates by charging external energy through the pulley 11 to receive rotary motion from this external device's rotating part and belt. The rotation of pulley 11 gives rise to rotational motion to the shaft 4, and this consequently makes the frame 5 and roller 14 rotate. Repeatedly, the rotation of roller 14 will cause the roller 16a to rotate. The movement of roller 16a causes shaft 6 to rotate and consequently so does the flywheel 7. And the flywheel 7 therefore has both orbital motion of the flywheel, which is generated by the orbital motion of the shaft 6 of the flywheel 7 on frame 5, and frame 5 has rotational motion.
Thanks to the intermediate roller 16a, the rotational direction of the roller 14 is in the same direction as the rotation of the frame 5 and in the same direction as those of the flywheel. When needed to use energy, the flywheel 7 will transmit the rotational kinetic energy to the roller 16a, at the same time, flywheel 7's orbital motion will enable the roller 14 to have more rotational kinetic energy. The roller 14 rotates, forcing the shaft 4 to rotate and the shaft 4 rotates, enabling the pulley 11 to rotate. Finally, the pulley 11 causes the external device's belt of pulley to spin. 5- Mechanical energy storage device in the form of kinetic energy, of which flywheel has both rotation and two-level orbital motion and energy is loaded electric motor:
The energy storage device in this section is depicted with illustrations in Fig. 13.
Parts from 1 to 5 of the energy storage device in this section are the same as those stated from 1 to 5 of the energy storage device in section 1 and on the shaft 4 there is a motor 22, of which the stator and rotor located in the frame 4 and the electric motor 22. This motor used for generating the rotational motion for the frame 5 and powered by the pair of electric wires 19a from the frame 21a with shunt line which goes to the electric motor 22. On frame 21 there are pairs of elastic metal bars 17a which have a role to sweep onto the pair of metal rings 18a which is electrically insulated from the shaft 4. The pair of electric wires 19a, after goes through the pair of metal rings 18a, are guided along shaft 4 to frame 5 and drive to motor 23 with electric motor 23, which generates a rotary motion for frame 7a. And similarly, the electric wire pair 19 is branched to the frame 21b and to the elastic metal bar pair 19b which will sweep onto the metal ring 18b and goes straight to the shaft 7b and along the shaft 7b to frame 7a and go in frame 7a to the electric motor 24, which will generate rotary motion for the flywheel.
When charging energy, the current in the wire pair 19 will trigger the electric motor 22, forcing the shaft 4 to rotate. The rotation of shaft 4 causes frame 5 to rotate. Moreover, the frame 5 contains the pair of wires 19, which makes the electric motor 23 operate. The wire pair 19 branched to frame 21b and leads to a pair of elastic bars 17b which will sweep onto the metal ring 18b. (Pair of metal rings 18b insulated from shaft 7b, pair of wires 19c connected to ring pair 18b then travel along the shaft 7b to frame 7a and travels in frame 7a to motor 24 and triggers electric motor 24. The operation of the electric motor 24 enables flywheel 10 to rotate. The kinetic energy of the flywheel 10 has kinetic energy of the axial rotation of the flywheel 10a and the two levels of orbital motion including the orbital motion generated by the rotation of the frame 7a and the orbital motion generated by the rotation movement of frame 5.
When there is a need for supplying energy from the energy storage device, the electric motor 22 may act as a counter-generator to generate power by the kinetic energy of the energy storage device for the externally powered device.

Claims

Claims
1- The mechanical energy storage device in the form of kinetic energy (referred to as energy storage device) with flywheels which has an axial rotation and flywheel shaft has orbital motion, rotational direction of the flywheel is the same as the flywheel's orbital direction, including:
- at least two flywheels in spherical, rim-rounded or cylindrical shape, or in shape of symmetrical polygons, symmetrical arm or symmetrical block, and the flywheel has a rotation axis in its center of symmetry and this rotation axis is secured by the bearing of the flywheel shaft,
- at least one first frame produces the orbital motion for the flywheel shaft (also known as level 1 orbital motion frame), the first frame having the shaft and bearing at its center, direction of the rotational axis and the first frame's bearing are perpendicular to the first frame and, on the first frame there are parts securing the flywheel at each even space and in parallel with the first frame's rotation axis,
- at least one second frame with a bearing holder which can be attached to an external part so that the energy storage device has a secure support during operation, or the second frame has axis and bearing at its center, and this axis is perpendicular to the second frame, in order for the first framed to be mounted on the rim of the second frame so that the second frame can generate orbital motion for the axis of the first frame, and this process may be repeated in similar fashion with respect to the fact that any frame with higher ordinal number will generate orbital motion for the axis of any frame with the next smaller ordinal number, and finally the frame with highest ordinal number has its axis and bearing attached to an external part so that the energy storage device has a stand to operate,
- at least one actuator which may be of the form of gears, pulley, a roller, magnetic, or couplings, or turbine blades may be located on the axis of the frame with the highest ordinal number to transmit the external rotation to the axis of the frame with the highest ordinal number, or to transmit the rotational motion from the axis of the highest ordinal number frame to the outside, or at least one part generating rotation and orbital motion by applying force on the flywheel's body.
2- The energy storage device according to claim 1 wherein the frame generating the orbital motion with the next higher ordinal number has a diameter of at least two times larger than that of the frame with the preceding ordinal number, it is better that the frame with next higher ordinal number has a diameter at least three times larger than that of the frame with the preceding ordinal number.
3- The energy storage device according to any one of claims 1 or 2, in which the axis of the flywheel or axis of the orbital motion frame with the highest ordinal number has
its pulley transferring motion, by means of a belt, to the pulley of the axis of the orbital motion frame with the next smaller ordinal number, and continue in this manner from the axis of the orbital motion frame with the highest ordinal number to the axis of orbital motion frame with the smallest ordinal number so that all orbital motion frame and flywheel have the same direction of rotation. 4- The energy storage device according to any one of claims 1 or 2, in which the shaft of flywheel or of orbital motion frame with the highest ordinal number has its gears or its rollers to gear or roll in contact with idler gears or intermediate roller which transfer motion, by gearing or rolling in contact, to those of the orbital motion frame with the next smaller ordinal number, and continues in this manner from the axis of the orbital motion frame with the largest ordinal number to those with the smallest ordinal number so that all the orbital motion frames and the flywheel would have the same rotational direction.
5- The energy storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, in which the shaft of the flywheel or of the orbital motion frame with the largest ordinal number, of which one segment is the rotor or electric motor stator, and the bearing of the orbital motion frame of which one segment is the stator or rotor of the electric motor, and on each shaft of the orbital motion frame, there are at least two circular rings, one of them is made of conductive material and the other one is made of insulating material to insulate from bearings of the orbital motion frame, and there are at least two collecting brushes coming in contact with two rings for conducting from outside of the orbital motion frame 's shaft with the highest ordinal number to the inside of the orbital motion frame's shaft with the highest ordinal number, and, in the orbital motion frame with the largest ordinal number there are at least 2 conducting wires to conduct electricity to the two collecting brushes of the orbital motion frame with the next smaller ordinal number, and continue in the similar manner to the shaft of the orbital motion frame with the smallest ordinal number in order to generate rotational motion for all shafts of the orbital motion frames with smaller ordinal numbers and generate rotational motion for the flywheel by electric power, in addition, the electric motor rotor and stator of the shafts of the energy storage device can be power generation rotor and stator to transform the kinetic energy of the flywheels and of the orbital motion frames into the electricity and deliver it outwards.
6- The energy storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, in which the shafts and bearings of the flywheel or of the orbital motion frames are equipped with power generation rotor and stator to transform the rotational motion of the flywheel or rotational motion of orbital motion frame into electricity.
7- The energy storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 6, in which the bearings of the flywheels or of the orbital motion frame is magnetic bearings to help reduce bearing friction.
8- The energy storage device according to any of claims 1 to 7, in which the device is placed in a vacuum chamber or low pressure chamber so that the moving parts of the device can avoid or reduce the friction with the air when the device is operating.
9- The energy storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 8, in which the flywheel's shape is cylindrical or regular polygon, or circular cylindrical or regular polygonal cylinder and the axis of the circular cylinder is either connected to the cylinder with flat panels or thin bars. 10- The energy storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 9, in which the flywheel's is cylindrical or regular polygon, or circular cylindrical or regular polygonal cylinder and the axis of the circular cylinder is either connected to the cylinder with flat panels or thin bars.
11- The energy storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 8, in which the energy storage device mounted in aircrafts travel in the Earth's atmosphere or in space with the direction of flywheel's shaft and of the shaft of orbital motion frame is parallel to the motion direction of the aircraft in the Earth's atmosphere or in space.
12- The energy storage device according to claim 11, in which the aircraft in the Earth's atmosphere or in space is fitted with at least two energy storage devices of the same size and mounted parallel to each other and the direction of their rotational motion and those of orbital motion on each device is opposite to each other.
13- The energy storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 11, in which the energy storage device is mounted on a transport aircraft in space, of which the direction of the flywheel's rotational motion and the direction of the orbital motion frame for the flywheel is opposite with the orbital direction of the transport aircraft as the transport aircraft orbits to move away from the gravitational celestial object, or the direction of the flywheel's rotational motion and the direction of orbital motion frame are the same as the orbital direction of the transport aircraft as the aircraft orbits to approach the gravitational celestial object.
14- The energy storage device according to claim 13, in which the direction of the flywheel or direction of the orbital motion frame is perpendicular to the direction of translational motion of the object and the flywheel or when orbital motion frame is passenger or luggage compartment.
15- The energy storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 10, in which the energy storage device is installed in a power generating plant such as a power plant, power station or power distribution station.
16- The energy storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 10, wherein the energy storage device is mounted to a mobile devices or transport vehicles to be used as a resource of power for operation of removable media or transportation vehicles.
17- The energy storage device according to claim 16, in which the energy storage device is fitted to transportation vehicles of which direction of flywheel shaft and the axis of the orbital motion frames for this flywheel is perpendicular to the floor of the transportation vehicles.
18- The energy storage device according to claim 17, in which the number of energy storage devices inserted in the transport vehicles is a multiple of 2 and the direction of rotation and of the orbit of the flywheel on each pair of devices are in the opposite direction.
19- The energy storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 10, in which the energy storage device is mounted to transport vehicles to recover energy when the transportation vehicles decelerate.
20- The energy storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 19, in which the flywheel of the energy storage device is made of magnetic material, and there is a consecutive series of circular magnetic coils, that are circular cylindrical or circular flat ring in shape, wraps closely around the external side of a circular cylindrical volume of space occupied by the orbital motion of the flywheel wheel, these coils generate magnetic field to bring about orbital motion or rotation for the flywheel.
21- The energy storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 20, in which on the flywheel there are electromagnetically induced coil windings of which power is transferred from the outside to the flywheel, power is supplied to these windings on the flywheel by an external conducting mechanism similar to the external conducting mechanism in the energy storage device at claim 5.
22- The energy storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 21, in which the flywheels have at least two levels of orbital motion, and the flywheel may have no rotation or is replaced by symmetric heavy blocks which have no rotational motion compared to their orbital motion frame.
23- The energy storage device according to any one of claims 1 to 22, in which the flywheel or symmetric blocks have 2 to 60 levels of orbital motion, it is preferable that there are 3 to 10 levels of orbital motion.
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