US 12,188,536 B2
Boron nitride nanotube vibration damping optimization
R. Roy Whitney, Newport News, VA (US); Thomas G. Dushatinski, Chesapeake, VA (US); Thomas W. Henneberg, Newport News, VA (US); Kevin C. Jordan, Newport News, VA (US); Jonathan C. Stevens, Williamsburg, VA (US); Michael W. Smith, Newport News, VA (US); Clay F. Huff, Newport News, VA (US); Lyndsey R. Scammell, Newport News, VA (US); and Alex I Wixtrom, Newport News, VA (US)
Assigned to BNNT, LLC, Newport News, VA (US)
Appl. No. 17/420,966
Filed by BNNT, LLC, Newport News, VA (US)
PCT Filed Jan. 7, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/012453
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 6, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/146298, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/789,257, filed on Jan. 7, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0099151 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. F16F 7/00 (2006.01); C01B 21/064 (2006.01); F16F 1/36 (2006.01)
CPC F16F 1/3605 (2013.01) [C01B 21/0648 (2013.01); C01P 2004/03 (2013.01); C01P 2004/04 (2013.01); F16F 2226/04 (2013.01); F16F 2228/007 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vibration damper comprising a plurality of compressed boron nitride nanotube (BNNT) buckypaper strips woven into a buckyweave.