SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OPPORTUNITY: The Hummingbird: A Distributed Propulsion Concept (LEW-TOPS-53)
- Notice Date
- 1/16/2020 8:13:13 AM
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 927110
— Space Research and Technology
- Contracting Office
- NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION US
- ZIP Code
- 00000
- Solicitation Number
- T2P-GRC-00050
- Response Due
- 1/15/2021 2:00:00 PM
- Archive Date
- 01/30/2021
- Point of Contact
- NASA Glenn�s Technology Transfer Office
- E-Mail Address
-
grc-techtransfer@mail.nasa.gov
(grc-techtransfer@mail.nasa.gov)
- Description
- NASA�s Technology Transfer Program solicits inquiries from companies interested in obtaining license rights to commercialize, manufacture and market the following technology.� License rights may be issued on an exclusive or nonexclusive basis and may include specific fields of use.��NASA provides no funding in conjunction with these potential licenses. THE TECHNOLOGY: A new engine concept from NASA's Glenn Research Center allows for truly distributed propulsion.� The concept enables airframe and system modularity by allowing parts to be swapped or repaired easily.� Design changes can be applied to individual components and not the entire propulsion system.� The NASA Glenn innovation eliminates heavy shafts and disks and allows for airplane modularity as well.� This design also enables subsonic to high supersonic flight with the same flowpath.� If parts are damaged during flight, only a small percentage of thrust is lost.� In addition, the blades can be retracted to enable ramjet or scramjet mode. The novel NASA Glenn design replaces a conventional jet engine with a linear array of flapping blades and diffusing vanes for compression, a combustor, and a linear array of expansion ducts.� These expansion ducts convert thermal energy to magnetic energy using reverse magnetic hyperthermia where the turbine ducts are lined with superparamagnetic composites that respond to thermal loads by generating alternating magnetic fields.� The magnetic energy can be used to drive the electromagnetic actuators required for flapping.� Kinetic energy is delivered to the air using rapid oscillations rather than by rotation.� This is converted to internal energy by the vanes. This is an early-stage technology requiring additional development. Glenn welcomes co-development opportunities. To express interest in this opportunity, please submit a license application through NASA�s Automated Technology Licensing Application System (ATLAS) by visiting https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/LEW-TOPS-53 If you have any questions, please contact NASA Glenn�s Technology Transfer Office at grc-techtransfer@mail.nasa.gov with the title of this Technology Transfer Opportunity as listed in this FBO notice and your preferred contact information.� For more information about licensing other NASA-developed technologies, please visit the NASA Technology Transfer Portal at https://technology.nasa.gov/ These responses are provided to members of NASA�s Technology Transfer Program for the purpose of promoting public awareness of NASA-developed technology products, and conducting preliminary market research to determine public interest in and potential for future licensing opportunities.��No follow-on procurement is expected to result from responses to this Notice.
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