Vibration damping and heat transfer using material phase changes
| dc.contributor.assignee | Rice University | en_US |
| dc.contributor.publisher | United States Patent and Trademark Office | en_US |
| dc.creator | Kloucek, Petr | en_US |
| dc.creator | Reynolds, Daniel R. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-05-04T19:05:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-05-04T19:05:49Z | |
| dc.date.filed | 2004-06-14 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-03-24 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | A method and apparatus wherein phase changes in a material can dampen vibrational energy, dampen noise and facilitate heat transfer. One embodiment includes a method for damping vibrational energy in a body. The method comprises attaching a material to the body, wherein the material comprises a substrate, a shape memory alloy layer, and a plurality of temperature change elements. The method further comprises sensing vibrations in the body. In addition, the method comprises indicating to at least a portion of the temperature change elements to provide a temperature change in the shape memory alloy layer, wherein the temperature change is sufficient to provide a phase change in at least a portion of the shape memory alloy layer, and further wherein the phase change consumes a sufficient amount of kinetic energy to dampen at least a portion of the vibrational energy in the body. In other embodiments, the shape memory alloy layer is a thin film. Additional embodiments include a sensor connected to the material. | en_US |
| dc.digitization.specifications | This patent information was downloaded from the US Patent and Trademark website (http://www.uspto.gov/) as image-PDFs. The PDFs were OCRed for access purposes. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 11 pp | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Kloucek, Petr and Reynolds, Daniel R., "Vibration damping and heat transfer using material phase changes." Patent US7506735B2. issued 2009-03-24. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1911/79985. | |
| dc.identifier.patentID | US7506735B2 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1911/79985 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.title | Vibration damping and heat transfer using material phase changes | en_US |
| dc.type | Utility patent | en_US |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | en_US |
| dc.type.genre | patents | en_US |
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