Kurt M Schaubel

8109353, Feb 7, 2012

Apr 2, 2009

12/417164

Husam Gurol - Carlsbad CA, US
Philip L. Jeter - San Diego CA, US
Kurt M. Schaubel - Encinitas CA, US

General Atomics - San Diego CA

B60K 1/00

180 651

A system and method are provided for moving a vehicle along a roadway. The system includes at least one power segment that incorporates a multiple-phase winding. Structurally, the winding is embedded into the roadway for interaction with a magnet system mounted on the vehicle. With this interaction, a Linear Synchronous Motor (LSM) is established between the roadway and the vehicle to drive movement of the vehicle along the roadway. Also, the vehicle includes a mechanism for initially synchronizing a waveform speed of the multiple-phase winding with the speed of the vehicle. Further, the vehicle is able to selectively establish the LSM for use when desired.

8113310, Feb 14, 2012

Feb 12, 2009

12/370172

Husam Gurol - Carlsbad CA, US
Philip L. Jeter - San Diego CA, US
Kurt M. Schaubel - Encinitas CA, US

General Atomics - San Diego CA

B60K 1/00

180 6531, 104283

An all-electric, wheeled vehicle has a magnet array that can be selectively moved between a retracted position and a deployed position, to respectively operate in a motor mode or a generator mode. When in the motor mode, with its magnet array retracted, wheel rotation to move the vehicle is powered by an onboard battery. Alternately, in the generator mode with the magnet array deployed, the vehicle is powered by a Linear Synchronous Motor (LSM). Specifically, the deployed magnet array interacts with a multiple-phase winding (i. e. LSM) embedded into the roadway on which the vehicle travels. Further, rotation of the wheel during vehicle movement in the generator mode recharges the battery.

52003914, Apr 6, 1993

Sep 24, 1990

7/587230

Michael V. Fisher - San Diego CA
Kurt M. Schaubel - Cardiff CA
Lawrence D. Woolf - Carlsbad CA
Robert A. Olstad - San Diego CA
William A. Raggio - Del Mar CA

General Atomics - San Diego CA

H01B 1200

505 1

A process for joining ceramic superconductor fibers with a channel to fabricate a superconductor wire includes concertedly drawing the fibers and the channel together to feed the fibers into the channel. A flowable solder paste is continuously dispensed into the channel over the fibers. The combination of channel, fibers and solder paste is then subjected to a rapid rise in temperature which melts the solder. The molten solder is then frozen to encase the fibers in the solder and attach the solder to the channel to create a superconductor wire.

51140870, May 19, 1992

Sep 21, 1990

7/586270

Michael V. Fisher - San Diego CA
Kurt M. Schaubel - Cardiff CA
William A. Raggio - Del Mar CA

General Atomics - San Diego CA

B65H 5400
B65H 5900
B65H 7700
H01B 1200

242 42

A device for aligning superconductor filaments to form a filament layer includes a backboard and a number of motor-driven supply spools. Each of the supply spools is rotatably mounted on the backboard, and each of the supply spools holds one end of an individual superconductor filament. The opposite ends of the filaments are attached to a single rotatable wire take-up spool. Accordingly, the wire take-up spool can be rotated to transfer the filaments from the respective supply spools to the take-up spool. A combiner board is mounted on the backboard normal to the backboard between the supply spools and the wire take-up spool. The combiner board receives each of the superconductor filaments as the filaments are transferred from the respective supply spools to the take-up spool to guide the filaments into a layer of aligned superconductor filaments. Additionally, each supply spool has a tension controller individually associated with the respective supply spool. Each of the tension controllers engages the superconductor filament that is associated with the respective supply spool and establishes a speed of rotation for the associated supply spool motor such that it matches the speed of the take-up spool.