Prime-mover dynamo plants inventions 09/08

20080231052 - Air-wind power system for a vehicle: The present invention provides an air-wind power system for a vehicle having an electrically operable drive system. The system includes at least one battery which is mounted within an interior portion of such vehicle and which is connected to such drive system and at least one air-wind powered turbine which... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20080231053 - Apparatus for production of hydrogen gas using wind and wave action: A platform apparatus for producing hydrogen gas from water includes a buoyant base configured for floating in a body of water, such as on the ocean, a vertical support member extending upwardly from the base, a wind turbine rotatably coupled to the support member for transforming the kinetic energy of... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20080231051 - Midget gas turbine: wherein an external air taken in the hollow portion of the irregular-shaped hollow disk is compressed by the guiding vane, supplied to the combustion chambers, mixed with a fuel supplied from the fuel conduit to be burnt, and a combustion gas discharged from the combustion gas discharge nozzle is discharged... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080231055 - Portable sea-powered electrolysis generator: This portable sea-powered electrolysis generator is an apparatus that continually and conveniently harnesses the energy emanating from sea-wave motion in order to propagate hydrogen to be stored for use as a clean, practical and reusable energy source through the process of electrolysis. The motion of waves is used to power... Agent: Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

20080231054 - Wave energy plant for electricity generation: The invention herein proposed describes a plant operated by the movement of floaters (A) connected to horizontal arms (B). These arms (B) move hydraulic pumps (C), which inject water into the hyperbaric chamber (E). This chamber (E) supplies water through an outflow control valve, to set in motion a conventional... Agent: Fildes & Outland

20080231056 - Hydroelectric generator turbine flow guide structure: The present invention discloses a hydroelectric generator turbine flow guide structure. The turbine is arranged in a base, and the base includes an inlet port and an outlet port for allowing water to flow into and out of the base, and a flow guide passage for allowing the water to... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080231057 - System and method for harvesting electrical power from marine current using turbines: A water turbine powered electrical generation system is disclosed. The generation system includes a water-driven turbine completely submerged below a flowing water source. The flowing water source rotates the turbine, which is coupled to an electrical generator. The electrical generator generates electrical power for distribution away from the electrical generation... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080231058 - Kite power generator: The Kitepower Generator uses one or more kites that go through a oscillating cycle of motion creating varying forces on their tether lines. These varying forces are converted into rotation, using a crankshaft. The cycle of motion may be driven by the inherent kite design or through the action of... Agent: David A. Guerra International Patent Group, LLC

20080224476 - Portable power pack, fuel/air supply for the portable power pack, uniflow scavenging micro-engine for the portable power pack and operation method thereof: A small portable power pack includes a fuel/air supply for mixing fuel, which is supplied from outside, with outside air, thereby providing mixed gas; a uniflow scavenging micro-engine for receiving mixed gas from the fuel/air supply and igniting mixed gas to explode; a control panel for operating and controlling the... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20080224477 - System and method for electrical power generation utilizing vehicle traffic on roadways: An improved system and method for electrical power generation utilizing vehicle traffic on roadways is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a power generation system comprises one or more standard hydraulic cylinders, one or more electro-mechanical generators, and one or more hydraulic accumulators coupled to a hydraulic motor.... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080224478 - Control system for a hybrid electric vehicle to anticipate the need for a mode change: A parallel hybrid electric vehicle method and system including an internal combustion engine (ICE), an electric traction motor/generator, and a controller. A control strategy is provided to prevent unpredicted or undesired engine starts by anticipating the need for the vehicle engine, while avoiding “false starting” the engine or allowing an... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C./fgtl

20080224472 - System for producing electricity through the action of waves on floating platforms: A system and method for producing electricity through the action of waves on floating platforms. The hydraulic force of the water in the waves causes the platform to create a series of reverse incline planes. The system adjusts or tunes the frequency of various components in relation to the natural... Agent: Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A.

20080224473 - Roto-synchronous electric motor: An electric motor for an automobile is herein introduced as a power source which does not require gas or any other fuel of any kind; nor does it require solar power, batteries, nor fuel cells for its operation. The vehicle will be powered by the dynamics of the physical dynamics... Agent: Chester White

20080224474 - Fluid engine: The fluid engine has one or more wheels that are turned by water. There is a shaft that goes through the turbine(s). On one end of the shaft is a generator on the other is the torque output. A pump is located at the top of the turbine housing.... Agent: Justice Boisselle

20080224475 - Power generation: A generator is configured to generate electrical power from a natural fluid flow, such as wind. The generator has interacting devices for interacting with the fluid flow to generate relative rotation between a first mechanical member (301) and a coaxial second mechanical member (303). The first mechanical member has a... Agent: James C. Wray

20080217926 - Electrical energy generator: An electrical energy generator that converts kinetic energy harvested from voluntary motor activity of a human or animal to electrical energy. The electrical energy generator includes a housing, a coil of electrically conductive material, a reciprocally movable electromagnetically active mass, springs connecting the mass to either the housing or to... Agent: Curatolo Sidoti Co., Lpa

20080217919 - Renewable energy wave air pump: In addition to generating power at cost of 0.66 per KWH from a renewable energy source, with minimum pollution and minimum land use, the REWAP system provides four novelties; The First novelty is the REWAP flared bottom to maximize wave energy extraction, and transferring it to ((a)) compressed air, the... Agent: Shamil Sami Ayntrazi

20080217920 - Turbine with tube arrangement and method of preventing detachment of a fluid flow: Turbine system including a turbine and a tubular arrangement having an exit opening. The tubular arrangement is arranged on a downstream side of the turbine. At least one flow controlling device at least partially prevents a fluid flow through the tubular arrangement from becoming detached from the tubular arrangement. The... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, Pc

20080217921 - Wave energy harnessing device: A system for converting fluid surface wave energy into electrical energy. The system includes an electrical generating device, positioned in a waterproof housing, for producing electrical energy. A float, deployed on the fluid surface, is attached to the generating device when the housing is submerged within the fluid. Vertical motion... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP

20080217922 - Hybrid wind generator process: The present invention includes a process to generate electricity for vehicles by means of harnessing the wind power created with the motion of the vehicle. The motion of the air is transferred to the bottom of the vehicle by an exterior aperture with slanted sides directing the air to a... Agent: Kevin Chiu

20080217923 - Hydraulic powered electric generator device: A hydraulic powered electric generator device includes a tubular member having a housing, a partition and a receptacle secured to the housing, a paddle wheel rotatably disposed in the housing for being rotated by the water flowing through the tubular member, an electric generator disposed in the receptacle for generating... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esquire

20080217924 - Gravity-flap, savonius-type wind turbine device: A wind turbine devices comprises a vertically rotating shaft; and a plurality of horizontally disposed, box-shaped wind catchment vanes connected about the shaft, each vane having an open front face to catch wind flow and a lightweight flap on their rear face that closes when acted upon by wind force... Agent: Gary P. Topolosky

20080217925 - Vertical axis wind turbine with angled braces: An improved wind turbine comprises: (i) a turbine rotor with a support platform; (ii) a rotatable vertical shaft extending from or through that platform; (iii) at least one bearing for the shaft; (iv) a plurality of horizontally disposed, box-shaped wind catchment vanes connected about the shaft; and (v) a plurality... Agent: Gary P. Topolosky

20080211230 - Hybrid power generation and energy storage system: An integrated and hybrid energy provider and storage device system for enhancing the energy efficiency and minimizing greenhouse gas emissions particularly for systems that utilize energy in a discrete and discontinuous manner, such as plug-in hybrid vehicles is provided. The system provides automated means to generate power, distribute the preferably... Agent: Rosenbaum & Associates, P.C.

20080211236 - Contra rotating generator: Disclosed herein is an apparatus of a contra rotating generator. The contra rotating generator comprises a cylindrical armature supported on an inner shaft. The inner shaft rotates in a first direction. A cylindrical magnetic field rotor is supported on an outer shaft. The outer shaft is oriented coaxially to the... Agent: Ashok Tankha

20080211235 - Device for controlling a heat engine starter, such as that of a motor vehicle, and starter comprising one such device: The invention relates to a device for controlling a starter for a heat engine that is equipped with an electric motor having a field coil with several windings and an armature winding, both of which are mounted in series, comprising a power contact which is equipped with terminals, one of... Agent: Berenato, White & Stavish, LLC

20080211237 - Electrical power supply for an aircraft: A main generator delivers an AC voltage to an electricity network on board an aircraft via a main line having at least one line contactor mounted therein, the voltage being regulated by a regulator. An engine electricity network delivers electricity to various loads situated in the zone of an engine... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080211231 - ocean wave energy converter (owec): A device consisting of a container which is partially submerged in the sea which may be buoyant and connected to the seabed with cables or mounted on a platform and whose interior is connected to its exterior via pipes where in response to the passing of waves is filled and... Agent: David A. Guerra International Patent Group, LLC

20080211232 - Water current powered motor: A water powered motor for extracting raw energy from a water current and converting it to kinetic energy. The water powered motor is generally rectangular in shape with a generally round water wheel consisting of foldable vanes. The vanes receive raw energy produced by water current transforming that raw energy... Agent: Jim Helfrich

20080211233 - Water turbine in tethered asymmetric nozzle: The object of description is an energy generating device for harnessing submarine currents composed of an asymmetric nozzle capable of directing the water flow towards one or more turbines placed (5) before the said nozzle's outlet (4). The nozzle's inlet is asymmetric in shape; one surface of the aforementioned inlet... Agent: David A. Guerra International Patent Group, LLC

20080211234 - Power towers/innovative method of power extraction using static airfoils: An airfoil shaped tower the size of a skyscraper for the production of electrical power using turbines. The turbines are located at the base of the tower and are fed by ambient air. Power to turn the turbines comes from the pressure drop generated by the wind moving over a... Agent: Frank Grassi