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Technology Description This hybrid drivetrain combines the benefits of an electric motor and a gas engine to enable vertical takeoff and landing as well as extended flights times in both fixed wing and multi-rotor drone designs. The system has optimized components to allow the electric motor to function as motor and generator and also eliminates ex...

Published: 3/27/2019 | Inventor(s): Christopher Hagen, Sean Brown, Shyam Menon, Thomas Herron

Keywords(s): Unmanned Aerial Systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Category(s): Device, Engineering, Physical Science, Sustainability & Cleantechnologies

Hybrid Power and Cooling System

Technology Description The hybrid system incorporates novel heat activated cooling technologies to provide systems that operate with higher efficiencies and/or reduced fuel requirements. The system is capable of using both a power source and waste heat in order to generate power and cooling. In one application, the hybrid power/cooling arrangement ...

Published: 5/24/2016 | Inventor(s): Hailei Wang, Thomas Herron, Daniel Miller

Keywords(s): Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Inst. (ATAMI), Cooling, Energy Recovery, Heating & Cooling Systems

Category(s): Engineering, Sustainability & Cleantechnologies

Heat-activated Heat-pump System with Compressor and Regenerator

Technology Description This heat-activated heat-pump system comprises a power cycle coupled to a vapor-compression refrigeration cycle both utilizing the same working fluid. The power cycle uses a boiler, an expander receiving superheated vapor and producing work from the superheated vapor, a condenser, and a pump. A regenerator conducts a first st...

Published: 5/18/2016 | Inventor(s): Monte Kevin Drost, Thomas Herron, Richard Peterson

Keywords(s): Advanced Technology and Manufacturing Inst. (ATAMI), Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Areospace Engineering, Physics / Applied Engineering

Category(s): Nanoscience & Microtechnologies