Prime-mover dynamo plants inventions 02/08

20080048456 - Modular microturbine system: An electrical power generation system for providing electrical power to a load is provided. The system includes a plurality of microturbine units, each microturbine unit having a combustion microturbine engine coupled to an electrical generator. The electrical generator includes a means for converting the rotational movement of the turbine engine... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP - Proton

20080048457 - Hydraulic energy conversion system: An energy conversion device includes batteries and a DC motor. A rotary member is driven by a hydraulic pump, which acts through pistons engaging a eccentric U-shaped rod to impart torque to the rotary member. Bevel gears transfer the torque to the rotary member, which can be connected to a... Agent: Robert W Pitts

20080048453 - Tethered wind turbine: The tethered wind turbine uses an aerodynamic, flow-concentrating shape and lighter-than-air construction utilizing a lifting gas and an electrically conductive tether fixed to ground to reap energy from the wind at low or high altitude. The design has no need for the large, expensive, bulky and unsightly tower structures, pivoting... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080048454 - Starter having connecting member electrically connecting magnetic switch and motor: A starter includes a magnetic switch, a motor, and a terminal. The terminal fixed to both the magnetic switch and the motor and has two end portions in the longitudinal direction of the terminal. An end portion of the terminal confronts a movable contact within the magnetic switch. The other... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080048455 - Energy capture in flowing fluids: A system according to the exemplary embodiment of this invention includes a bluff body coupled to a gyroscopic electrical generator. The bluff body interacts with the fluid stream and generates a series of oscillating pressure gradients trailing along the leeward side, known as the von Karman Vortex Street. Motion is... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080048451 - Turbine installation having a connectable auxiliary group: A turbine installation includes a main group and an auxiliary group, wherein the main group has at least one first turbine and a generator connected for drive purposes to the first turbine. The auxiliary group includes at least one second turbine and is connectable to the main group via a... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080048452 - Regenerative energy system: The invention relates to a regenerative energy system comprising a first energy producer and a second energy producer. The object of the invention is to improve the environmental compatibility of electrical island networks. There is disclosed a regenerative energy system comprising a first energy producer whose energy production is dependent... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20080042441 - method for the operation of a wind turbine generator system: A method for the operation of a wind turbine generator plant with a rotor blade angle control and a torque control, wherein in a full-load operation, starting from a predetermined speed (nAbsenkung), a preset torque is lowered by the torque control in such a way that a predetermined value for... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20080042440 - Method for operation of a wind energy installation: A method for operation of a wind energy installation having a rotor (18) which can be driven by wind and has at least one rotor blade (22), a generator for conversion of the mechanical energy of the rotor (18) to electrical energy, a tower (14) on which the rotor (18)... Agent: Powell Goldstein LLP 14th Floor

20080042442 - Method for the operation of wind power plants: Method for the operation of a wind power plant with controllable effective power, wherein an idle power interval defined by a minimum idle power and a maximum idle power is assigned to each value of the effective power and the actual idle power can be controlled within this interval, characterized... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20080042443 - Portable hydro-generator: A portable hydro-generator (100), for the generation of power, including a tower (10) filled with a driving fluid (110), a semi-sealed curved tubular housing (80) with a drive portion (81) and a return portion (82) primed with a fluid (70), said drive portion (81) having a larger diameter than the... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20080042445 - Wind driven power generator: A wind driven generator includes a rotor disposed in a cylindrical duct and supported by a frame for rotation in response to wind flowing through the duct. The rotor includes plural circumferentially spaced paralleled rotor blades supported for rotation about a generally horizontal axis. Each blade is supported for pivotal... Agent: Ip Section Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP

20080042444 - Carriage wheel ocean turbine: A turbine wheel on a horizontal axis is constructed on a network of cables radially and circumferentially connected and supported centrifugally by a ring with a friction-reduction method to permit turning within said ring. The ring structure is composed of buoyancy-controlled modules to allow construction of extremely large systems deployable... Agent: Timothy R. Johnson

20080042446 - Wind powered devices: Devices for converting wind energy into other usable forms of energy are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a wind device having at least one but more preferably two vertically directed cylindrical windmills are disposed on the ends of a “V” shaped structure so that half of each windmill... Agent: Curtis D. Kinghorn Sirius Strategic, LLC

20080036216 - Automatic rotating mechanism: An automatic rotating mechanism is described. The automatic rotating mechanism includes a main wheel, a first auxiliary wheel, a second auxiliary wheel, a movable heavy wheel, a gravitational rotating metal belt and an arrestor. The first auxiliary wheel is disposed above the main wheel, and the second auxiliary wheel and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080036214 - Wind energy using a sail and a spring: A wind energy system utilizing a sail. The sail is mounted on top of a lever which is placed vertically. At the bottom of the lever is a spring so as wind strikes the sail at uneven pressure the spring is made to alternately be pressed and released. As the... Agent: Edwin Newman

20080036211 - Cogeneration system: A cogeneration system includes at least one generating device which generates electric power and produces heat, and a power supply mechanism which supplies electric power generated by the at least one generating device to an air-conditioning system and a general power source. A cogeneration system may also include at least... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080036212 - Turbine-generator equipment and installation method thereof: Installation method of turbine-generator equipment controlling a turbine-generator is described. The method includes manufacturing a thyristor excitation equipment as a package including a circuit breaker, an excitation transformer, a power rectifier coupled with the excitation transformer, and an excitation control panel controlling a thyristor ignition angle of the power rectifier.... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080036213 - Wave power generating plant: A wave power generating plant comprising an arrangement (20) of interconnected floating units (22). The arrangement (20) is anchored to the seabed via mooring buoys (26). Each floating unit comprises a floating pontoon (40), a stabiliser unit (44) and connecting means (48) for the interconnection of the floating units (22).... Agent: Christian D. Abel

20080036215 - Slow-speed direct-drive generator: The present invention is a slow-speed, large-scale generator and assembly procedure for that generator. The magnet is partitioned and assembled piece-by-piece after the rotor and stator have been attached. Guides are used to arrange the magnets so as to give skew to the overall magnet assembly. The shoes of the... Agent: Thomas Moga Butzel Long

20080030027 - Systems, methods and apparatuses for a wind turbine controller: The disclosure describes implementations of methods, systems and apparatuses that are configured to facilitate normal operating characteristics for a wind turbine during normal operation, as well as during voltage irregularities. In an implementation, a turbine controller coordinates operating primary turbine systems and ancillary turbine systems during normal operation and during... Agent: Chadbourne & Parke LLP