Infinite Composites, Inc.
Infinite Composites Pressure Vessel
Enabling vehicles to travel further, faster, or carry more payload by reducing the weight and increasing capacity of pressurized fuel storage tanks.
Why it mattersInfinite Composites, Inc. (Infinite) provides the lightest weight storage option for compressed gasses used in vehicles and infrastructure through its Infinite Composites Pressure Vessels (ICPV) technology. The ICPV utilizes a linerless carbon fiber tank design for high-pressure gas storage and cryogenic fluids. This differs from traditional composite overwrap pressure vessels (COPVs) which use a metallic or plastic liner wrapped in carbon fiber. This additional liner adds unnecessary vehicle mass and reduces usable storage capacity. Infinite currently has active defense contracts for providing the fuel storage solution in various unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a torpedo program, and an active army contract for hydrogen storage development. In addition, to the defense industry, Infinite also provides products for space and aviation industry including lunar landers, launch vehicles, satellites, and hypersonic vehicles among others. Infinites technology allows for vehicles to travel further, faster, and carry more payload compared to traditional pressurized gas storage solutions.
About
Problem
Increasing the capabilities of vehicles (satellites, hypersonics, UAVS, missile systems) by reducing the pressurized fuel storage weight, while providing more usable fuel storage space in the same footprint (or reducing the tank size).
Solution
Infinite Composites pressure vessels eliminate the metallic or plastic liner in composites overwrapped pressure vessels.
Field Validation
Customers under NDA. Tanks have been delivered for launch vehicles, lunar landers, torpedoes, satellites, & UAVs. Flight heritage in the categories of satellites, hypersonic aircraft, & hydrogen aircraft. Technology Maturity: TRL 9- hypersonic flight, space flight propulsion TRL 7 - comfortable tanks TRL 6- cryogenic storage systems Strategic Advantage 1 or 3 US companies that make this type of vessel. It's patented. Critical parts, such as specific material formulations, are confidential.
Go-to-Market
Contracts with tier 1, or below prime contractors. Been awarded & completed SBIRs with the Army, NASA, & NSF. Been awarded by AFWERX & received signed MOUs from various labs & airwings.
Dual-Use Potential
Technology started in commercial natural gas vehicles & ground fueling storage. We've contracted with Formula1, BAJA racing, & Disney.
Team
Matt Villarreal & Michael Tate co-founded the company & have run it for 15 years. Jared Cuneo, Principal Engineer, former Chief of Structures at Firefly Space, & worked at Virgin Galactic. The team is heavy (50%) engineering. Two direct competitors & numerous indirect competitors. Legacy indirect competitors include Northup Grumman & Raytheon.
Primary User
DevCom, Air Mobility Command, 375th AMW, 27 SOMXO, AFSOC, NasPax
Problem
Enabling vehicles to travel further, faster, or carry more payload by reducing the weight and increasing capacity of pressurized fuel storage tanks.