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Hinetics, LLC is an American electric motor manufacturing start-up for electric aviation. The company was founded by Kiruba Haran in 2017 as a spin-off from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. It remains headquartered in Champaign, Illinois.

The company's name is inspired from its desire to advance high frequency and high field electro-magnetic machines.

Sustainable energy; clean energy

It operates in the areas of aviation and aerospace

Engineering and Technology, Electric Aircraft, Electric Motors, Power Electronics, and Propulsion Systems

History
Hinetics was founded at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2017 by Kiruba Haran, engineer and professor.

Haran also leads a research team, concentrating on advanced electro-mechanical energy conversion technologies. His work eventually led him to significant research conducted: a one-megawatt electric motor, an electric machine able to turn propellers, large engine fans, or generator to produce one million watts of power. It garnered attention from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as it aligns with their mission: reducing the world's dependency on fossil fuels via air transportation. The motor developed in electrifies aircraft propulsion will reduce jet fuel burn and associated emissions.

Studies by NASA and The Boeing, Co. have shown that machines that functioned as both motors and generators could reduce fuel burn for a wide range of aircraft sizes. To do so, they must be lightweight, highly efficient, and able to produce one to two megawatts of power.

In 2014, NASA’s Advanced Air Transport Technology Project funded UIUC to develop electric machine concepts that would function within electrified propulsion systems for large transport aircraft. Under a multi-year contract, UIUC built and tested individual machine components and then full prototypes.

UIUC’s machine exceeded both the efficiency and power density goals, producing 15 kilowatts per kilogram at over 96% efficiency.

“This motor is operating at a power level with a power density and efficiency better than any motor that we are aware of, even when considering those that are superconducting or cryogenically cooled,” said Provenza. “This is a major achievement and a significant step towards the realization of hybrid-electric propulsion for large transport aircraft.”

Hinetics LLC, a UIUC spin-off, has demonstrated full scale machines with additional NASA support, and is working to mature and commercialize the technology.

He received ($$$) in funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Advanced Air Transport Technologies Program (LINK) to commercialize the technology.

NASA SBIR Grant
It had a featured article in IEEE Magazine.

Grants/Contracts or Partnerships
Hinetics relied heavily on investing and funding to continue its research.