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Abstract

A device for preventing power interruptions to a DC bus includes a flywheel supported on bearings for rotation inside a chamber having a drag reducing atmosphere within a container. During charging, the flywheel is driven by an integral brushless permanent magnet excited motor/generator for storing energy, and during retrieval of the stored energy, the flywheel drives and is decelerated by the same motor generator. A closed loop operated synchronous inverter delivers synchronous electrical power to the armature coils of the motor/generator for accelerating the motor/generator. A rectifier connects the armature coils of the motor/generator to the DC bus. Upon an interruption of primary utility power, the motor/generator supplies unregulated voltage power to the DC bus through the rectifier, and the voltage of the unregulated voltage power to the DC bus falls as the flywheel slows during discharge of useable energy from the flywheel through the motor/generator to the DC bus. The amount of usable energy delivered to the DC bus during a utility power interruption is maximized by the combination of a low voltage drop in the armature coils and by the flywheel having sufficient inertia to reduce the rate of decay of the back emf of the motor/generator.

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