HyPerComp granted exclusive licensing rights by NASA
By Staff | May 01, 2005
NASA has awarded an exclusive, open-ended license to HyPerComp Engineering Inc. (Brigham City, Utah) to commercialize a new generation of tougher and safer composite pressure vessels. The result of a collaboration between NASA and HyPerComp under a small business innovation research (SBIR) contract, the technology is designed for use in vessel applications as diverse as automotive hydrogen fuel storage, improved breathing apparatuses for personal divers and gun-fire survivable fuel storage tanks for military vehicles. The collaborators now jointly hold a patent on technology that promises to radically expand the safe operating envelope of high-performance composite pressure vessels.
Source: HyPerComp
HyPerComp has developed a "benign-failure-mode" capability, which reduces the likelihood of catastrophic pressure vessel failures that could result in injury or death. A HyPerComp composite pressure vessel can survive a 50-cal bullet impact at 4,500 psi and is 20 percent lighter than any other currently on the market, based on Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA) size data.
