Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Miniaturized turbogenerator for the direct electrical propulsion of automotive, urban air mobility, and small marine vehicles
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Application No.: US17688021Application Date: 2022-03-07
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Publication No.: US11939872B2Publication Date: 2024-03-26
- Inventor: William Q. Tingley , William Q. Tingley, III , Daniel R. Bradley
- Applicant: Triple Tango Power & Propulsion, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Grand Rapids
- Assignee: Tennine Corp.
- Current Assignee: Tennine Corp.
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Grand Rapids
- Agent Frank M. Scutch, III
- Main IPC: F01D15/08
- IPC: F01D15/08 ; B23B3/24 ; B23D5/00 ; B23D79/00 ; F01D15/02 ; F01D15/10 ; F02C6/14 ; F02C6/20

Abstract:
A miniaturized turbogenerator (200) to directly provide electrical propulsion (307 308, 309) to small land, air, and maritime vehicles without an intervening electricity storage battery (315). The invention comprises of a process of miniaturization (500) of a turbine engine core (100), in particular its compressors and turbines (400), by means of hyper-feed machining by linear force alone, i.e. without rotation of either the workpiece or the cutting tool (505), and a resulting apparatus of a miniaturized turbogenerator (200) that has sufficient power density to provide high-performance electrical propulsion (310) for commercially feasible automobiles, urban air mobility vehicles, and other small vehicles and vessels with greater performance than battery-electric vehicles (300).
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