Prime-mover dynamo plants inventions 02/07

20070040382 - Self-supporting power generation station: A scalable micro-grid for providing power to areas remote from the existing power grid. At least two power pods linked in parallel. Each power pod has at least one, micro-turbine fueled by methane gas. As power needs increase, additional power pods are added to the system to meet the additional... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20070040383 - Electric engine start with two motors and single motor drive: An electrical starter-generator system includes a first starter-generator and a second starter-generator. A single drive controls both the first starter-generator and the second starter-generator such that their electrical current and power inputs are minimized and balanced.... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20070040384 - Wave power assembly with an electromagnetic dampning means: A wave power assembly comprising a hull and a linear electric generator. The rotor is connected to the hull and the stator is arranged to be anchored at a sea/lake bottom. The generator is provided with an electromagnetic damping means in order to keep the pulsations of the axial force... Agent: The Maxham Firm

20070040386 - Electric power generating apparatus for dispersed power supply: An electric power generating apparatus (2) for decentralized power supply, which comprises three types of windings and three types of reactors required for deriving the maximum output that meets a wind velocity or a flow velocity to obtain a DC output, has problems that many reactors are required and the... Agent: Abelman, Frayne & Schwab

20070040387 - Producing useful electricity from jetstreams: A device for producing electricity from jet streams made of a part, which is found at heights where I the jet streams flow. The device gets the wind's energy by sails or wings, and turns it to energy, which can be used on the face of the earth. A second... Agent: Dr. Mark Friedman Ltd. C/o Bill Polkinghorn

20070040385 - Wind power generation system, arrangement of permanent magnets, and electrical power-mechanical force converter: A wind power generation system 10 comprising a frame, an impeller 12 rotatably supported by the frame, plural permanent magnets 31 aligned at equal intervals from the rotation center, and coils 32 aligned annularly on the frame. The relative motion of the permanent magnets 31 and the coils 32 in... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070040389 - Adaptable flow-driven energy capture system: A scalable fluid-driven assembly that is uniquely configured to oscillate in the presence of fluid-flow. The assembly includes an adjustable electromechanically controlled fluidfoil. The fluidfoil is controlled to permit a consistently optimum angle of attack into the prevailing flow and to remain parallel with respect thereto.... Agent: Kenneth L. Stein

20070040388 - Wind turbine for use offshore: A procedure and a device in connection with the use of a wind turbine offshore, comprising a wind turbine (2) connected via a shaft (not shown) to a generator (3), which is rotationally mounted on a tower (4), and a foundation underneath in the form of a float (6) on... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20070035133 - Enhanced engine for improving output torque and power distribution system for providing power to the engine: An enhanced engine for improving output torque and a power distribution system for feeding power to the engine. In an embodiment, the engine comprises a central shaft, a plurality of armatures, and a plurality of motors. The central shaft is adapted to rotate about an axis. The armatures are coupled... Agent: Brian M. Berliner O'melveny & Myers LLP

20070035134 - System for generating electrical energy: A system for generating electrical energy utilizing one or more of electrical generators. A linking member is connected to the actuating shaft(s) of the generator(s) and a mobile member contacts the frictional surface of the linking member to rotate the same. In turn, the shaft(s) of the generator(s) are rotated... Agent: Theodore J. Bielen Jr.

20070035135 - Wind power generation evaluation system and predictive control service system for use with wind power generator: A wind power generation evaluation system includes: a laser aerovane that measures, with a laser, the direction and velocity of wind at a distance from a wind power generator' connected to an electric power system, to predict the direction and velocity of wind at the wind power generator; a second... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20070035136 - Wind turbine over-voltage exposure: The present invention relates to s wind turbine having a power generator for generating power for a first power line of a power grid; said wind turbine comprising a first transformer having a first primary coil connected to said power generator and a first secondary coil connected to said first... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20070035137 - Electric power generating device: There is provided an electric power generating device which includes a generator which is constituted by an interior permanent magnet (IPM) synchronous generator, and is connected to a steam turbine without interposition of a reduction gear, cooling means which flows a liquid coolant used to cool the generator, and a... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070035138 - Vacuum powered generators: A horizontal wind tunnel that has an inlet end and an outlet end and a conveying portion there between together with an exhaust means for causing air to move out at the outlet end, thereby creating a vacuum at the outlet end. The vacuum causing atmospheric wind to enter at... Agent: Sajid Ali Khan

20070029799 - Power supply device: In a power supply apparatus having an engine operated generator, the operation of the power supply apparatus is improved in the efficiency in a light load region. The generator 1 is driven by the engine. The output of the generator 1 is converted into alternating power of a particular frequency... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070029800 - Power generation control system and method: A control unit uses upper and lower limit guard values to limit a power generation quantity of a power generator and thereby to maintain the current combustion mode during power generation of the power generator. The control unit computes a remaining electric charge of a battery. When the remaining electric... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070029801 - Wind driven electric generator apparatus: A wind driven electric generator apparatus includes a pair of wind-driven, counter-rotating propeller units placed back to back with each other. A first power transmission system is connected to the pair of counter-rotating propeller units for converting wind energy into mechanical energy. A second power transmission system is connected to... Agent: S. Michael Bender

20070029802 - Wind turbine for producing electrical power and a method of operating the same: A wind turbine includes a turbine rotor with at least one blade and a generator with a rotor and a stator. The turbine rotor is mechanically coupled with the rotor of the generator. A diode rectifier is electrically coupled to the stator of the generator. A direct current link is... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070029804 - Electric power generation system using a permanent magnet dynamoelectric machine for starting a combustion turbine and for generating uninterruptible excitation power: An electric power generation system 10 with a combustion turbine 12 as a prime mover for a main generator 16 is provided. The power generation system includes a dynamoelectric machine 30 that may be used both as the starting motor and as a generator to provide a source of excitation... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070029803 - Machine for transferring power and producing electricity in a jet engine: A machine for transferring power and producing electricity in a jet engine. with a ring connecting the tips of the compressor and turbine blades containing embedded high energy magnets, a set of coils for each rotating stage of the engine in the outer engine case, a power transfer and distribution... Agent: Edward Randall

20070029805 - Device for deriving energy from moving fluids: A system for energy exploitation of fluvial currents, onto bridges (P) or onto special structures, and for the collection of altitude water to be used as potential energy, and for the application to bi-directional or multi-directional marine and wind currents comprising:—a plurality of floats (1) for the controlled immersion of... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070029806 - Floating electricity production unit: Electricity is produced by harvesting energy from flowing water, which does not harm the environment and which does not consume natural resources. A paddle wheel is stationarily positioned to penetrate the surface of a body of water. A plurality of paddle wheels may be deployed on a single floating platform... Agent: Hershkovitz & Associates

20070029807 - Methods and systems for generating wind energy: The present disclosure disclosures methods and systems for harnessing wind to create electricity. The present disclosure discloses a helical blade vertical axis wind generator. One or more blades are spun by the force of wind which in turn spins a generator and produces electricity.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070024058 - Methods and apparatus for advanced wind turbine design: A wind turbine system includes a variable blade assembly including adjustable sails and wing shaped masts expanding the wind velocity capture envelope. The blade assembly turns a hydraulic pump, which pressurizes fluid and stores the pressurized fluid in a chamber in the support tower. Pressurized fluid is directed via an... Agent: Straub & Pokotylo

20070024059 - System and method for power control in wind turbines: A system and method for power control in wind turbines are provided. The method includes switching a plurality of switching devices in a power conversion component of the wind turbine system in a normal switching mode to provide power flow through the power conversion component. The method further includes switching... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (22402)

20070024060 - Wind wheel and electricity generator using same: A wind-driven power source comprises a propeller-driven rotor structure and a stature structure carrying clusters of copper-wire wound ferromagnetic cores as voltage generators. The cores are arranged in pairs spaced apart by hard rubber rollers which engage the inside surface of a load ring forming part of the rotor structure.... Agent: Young & Basile, P.C.