US 6,981,671 B1
Airframe structure-integrated capacitor
William Baron, Enon, Ohio (US); Maxwell Blair, Miamisburg, Ohio (US); and Sandra Fries-Carr, Beavercreek, Ohio (US)
Assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force, Washington, D.C. (US)
Filed on Mar. 28, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/109,396.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/279532, filed on Mar. 28, 2001.
Int. Cl. B64D 45/02 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 244—1A 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. The weight conserving and space conserving method of capacitively storing electrical energy within the enclosure of an aircraft airframe, said method comprising the steps of:
fabricating substantial portions of said airframe from structural materials comprised of intimately spaced electrically isolated and electrical capacitance-comprising first and second electrical conductors disposed in a woven fabric;
connecting a plurality of said first electrical conductors to a first common electrical node;
joining a plurality of said second electrical conductors to a second common electrical node;
disposing an electrical capacitance charging electrical potential between said first and second electrical nodes at a capacitor charging rate.