Prime-mover dynamo plants inventions 10/08

20080258470 - Energy generation system for housing, commercial, and industrial applications: Embodiments of a system for providing energy to a house or group of houses comprising an energy source coupled to a motor, generator, storage battery, and control/monitoring unit, are described. A plurality of different energy sources can be used in conjunction with a power control and generation system that comprises... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080258471 - Gravity based power generator: A system and method for a gravity-driven powered generator having at least one envelope filled with a buoyant gas is provided. The gas containing envelope has an escape valve allowing a portion of the buoyant gas within the container to escape. When a critical amount of gas has escaped from... Agent: Lampel & Associates, P.C.

20080258473 - Hybrid wind turbine system, apparatus and method: A wind turbine assembly and method capable of providing a total firm power output. There is a wind power section which delivers non-firm power from the wind turbine to a generator section. Then there is also an auxiliary power section which is capable of providing firm power to the same... Agent: Hughes Law Firm, PLLC

20080258472 - Method of controlling power supply to an electric starter: The invention relates to a method of controlling the power supply to an electric starter that drives heat engine of a vehicle, in which the starter power supply is stopped after each supply phase for a first pre-determined period TOFF. According to the invention, the starter power supply is inhibited... Agent: Novak Druce And Quigg LLP (volvo)

20080258474 - Engine starting control apparatus for hybrid vehicle: A control apparatus for a drive system of a hybrid vehicle including (a) an electrically controlled differential portion which has an engine, a first electric motor, and a differential mechanism operatively connected to the engine and the first electric motor and a differential state of which is controlled by controlling... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080258465 - Water current powered generating apparatus: The present invention relates to a power generating apparatus suitable for use in extracting energy from the movement of water, particularly tidal movement. The apparatus comprises an elongate, generally circular in cross section, buoyancy vessel (1), having depending from its underside on a mounting means, rotatable rotor blades (2). The... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP

20080258466 - Fluid powered energy generator: A power plant with one or more fluid operated generator unit(s) is provided to generate electrical energy. Each generator unit includes one or more rotational members responsive to fluid flow and in communication with one or more magnets and electrically conductive material. Similarly, each generator unit is in electrical communication... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20080258467 - Methods, systems, and devices for energy generation: The present invention seeks to improve upon existing energy-generation technologies by providing methods, systems, and devices for converting mechanical power into electrical power. More specifically, the present invention relates to fluid-powered generators and methods, systems, and devices for generating power by way of such fluid-powered generators. The present invention includes... Agent: Latimer, Mayberry & MatthewsIPLaw, LLP

20080258468 - Modular wind-driven electrical power generator and method of manufacture: A method of making a vane assembly for use in a modular wind-driven electrical power generator is disclosed. The method including the steps of: providing an axial shaft; securing a plurality of spaced-apart plates around the shaft, providing plural sheets of bendable material, each sheet for forming a vane; bending... Agent: Jansson Shupe & Munger Ltd.

20080258469 - Wind driven power generator with moveable cam: 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: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080258470 - Energy generation system for housing, commercial, and industrial applications: Embodiments of a system for providing energy to a house or group of houses comprising an energy source coupled to a motor, generator, storage battery, and control/monitoring unit, are described. A plurality of different energy sources can be used in conjunction with a power control and generation system that comprises... Agent: Courtney Staniford & Gregory LLP

20080258471 - Gravity based power generator: A system and method for a gravity-driven powered generator having at least one envelope filled with a buoyant gas is provided. The gas containing envelope has an escape valve allowing a portion of the buoyant gas within the container to escape. When a critical amount of gas has escaped from... Agent: Lampel & Associates, P.C.

20080258473 - Hybrid wind turbine system, apparatus and method: A wind turbine assembly and method capable of providing a total firm power output. There is a wind power section which delivers non-firm power from the wind turbine to a generator section. Then there is also an auxiliary power section which is capable of providing firm power to the same... Agent: Hughes Law Firm, PLLC

20080258472 - Method of controlling power supply to an electric starter: The invention relates to a method of controlling the power supply to an electric starter that drives heat engine of a vehicle, in which the starter power supply is stopped after each supply phase for a first pre-determined period TOFF. According to the invention, the starter power supply is inhibited... Agent: Novak Druce And Quigg LLP (volvo)

20080258474 - Engine starting control apparatus for hybrid vehicle: A control apparatus for a drive system of a hybrid vehicle including (a) an electrically controlled differential portion which has an engine, a first electric motor, and a differential mechanism operatively connected to the engine and the first electric motor and a differential state of which is controlled by controlling... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080258465 - Water current powered generating apparatus: The present invention relates to a power generating apparatus suitable for use in extracting energy from the movement of water, particularly tidal movement. The apparatus comprises an elongate, generally circular in cross section, buoyancy vessel (1), having depending from its underside on a mounting means, rotatable rotor blades (2). The... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery LLP

20080258466 - Fluid powered energy generator: A power plant with one or more fluid operated generator unit(s) is provided to generate electrical energy. Each generator unit includes one or more rotational members responsive to fluid flow and in communication with one or more magnets and electrically conductive material. Similarly, each generator unit is in electrical communication... Agent: Lieberman & Brandsdorfer, LLC

20080258467 - Methods, systems, and devices for energy generation: The present invention seeks to improve upon existing energy-generation technologies by providing methods, systems, and devices for converting mechanical power into electrical power. More specifically, the present invention relates to fluid-powered generators and methods, systems, and devices for generating power by way of such fluid-powered generators. The present invention includes... Agent: Latimer, Mayberry & MatthewsIPLaw, LLP

20080258468 - Modular wind-driven electrical power generator and method of manufacture: A method of making a vane assembly for use in a modular wind-driven electrical power generator is disclosed. The method including the steps of: providing an axial shaft; securing a plurality of spaced-apart plates around the shaft, providing plural sheets of bendable material, each sheet for forming a vane; bending... Agent: Jansson Shupe & Munger Ltd.

20080258469 - Wind driven power generator with moveable cam: 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: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20080252080 - Gasoline generator: The present invention relates to a gasoline generator, belongs to the technical field of motive power equipment. Wherein the gasoline engine set in an enclosed case, a permanent magnet generator is mounted on the engine housing, handle tray mounted on the fore end surface of cool air suction cover, suction... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20080252081 - Double alternator and electrical system for a vehicle: A double alternator for a vehicle and a vehicle electrical system employing the double alternator.... Agent: Adams Intellectual Property Law, P.A.

20080252076 - Wind power plant comprising a reactive power module for supporting a power supply system and corresponding method: The invention relates to a wind turbine with a rotor, a generator driven by it, which generates electrical power and delivers it to a power system, and a control unit which controls the operation of the plant and has a reactive-power control module. According to the invention, it is provided... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20080252077 - Generating energy from fluid expansion: Some embodiments of a fluid expansion system include a turbine generator apparatus in which the driven member is arranged on the outlet side of the turbine wheel. In such circumstances, the fluid output from the turbine wheel can flow towards the driven member, for example, to provide heat dissipation to... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080252078 - Recovering heat energy: Some embodiments of a generator system can be used with the working fluid in a Rankine cycle. For example, the generator system can be used in a Rankine cycle to recover heat from one of a number of commercial applications and to convert that heat energy into electrical energy. In... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080252079 - Generator device with both driving units: A generator device with both driving units is provided, in which there are a support bracket (10), a frame (a) mounted thereon, on which a generator (1), a control system, a direction-adjustable system, a direction-adjustable motor (6) and a protective system (5) are provided; transmission mechanism (c, c′, 4, 4′),... Agent: Kile Goekjian Reed & Mcmanus

20080246285 - Vehicular system capable of suitably controlling engine speed and gear ratio according to battery charge state: A vehicular system includes a battery, an engine, an electric generator that is driven by the engine to generate electric power and thereby charge the battery, a first control apparatus that controls the battery and electric generator, a drive shaft, a CVT that transmits rotation of the engine to the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080246280 - Generating system by using the sea power: A generating system includes an outer wall unit having an outlet conduit, an inner wall unit spaced from the outer wall unit, a receiving channel located between the outer wall unit and the inner wall unit to receive salt water of the sea to deliver the salt water to the... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20080246281 - Turboalternator with hydrodynamic bearings: This invention provides a small, high efficiency, oil-free turbine-driven alternator (i.e. turboalternator) suitable for conversion of stored energy in a process gas to electrical power, facilitating recapture of energy during operation that would otherwise be wasted. The turboalternator includes a turbine and a generating device operatively connected together by a... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20080246283 - Buoyancy vehicle apparatus to create electrical power: A buoyancy vehicle apparatus includes a water or liquid source, such as a water tank, and a buoyant mass in communication with an electrical generator. The buoyant mass is lifted from a lower level to a higher level to store energy. The mass is stored at the predetermined height and... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080246282 - System and method for generating residential hydropower: A system and method are disclosed for generating small-scale hydropower from a home water supply. As contemplated herein, a hydro-powered system battery charger may produce electric power from the flow of water from a domestic water service. Power is generated as water from a domestic water source passes through a... Agent: Andrew G. Dinovo Dinovo Price Ellwanger LLP

20080246284 - Easily adaptable and configurable wind-based power generation system with scaled turbine system: In one embodiment, a turbine for use in a wind-based power generation system includes a plurality of separate blade parts that contain locating and coupling structures to permit the separate parts to be coupled to one another in a stacked manner to form a shaped blade of the turbine.... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080238107 - Soundproof type engine generator: A soundproof type engine generator has an outer shell made by attaching at least a bottom panel to a three-dimensional frame and four wheels in the lower part thereof for transport. The soundproof type engine generator also has handles provided coaxially with opposing wheel shafts of the four wheels, which... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080238098 - Distributed architecture for a gas-turbine starter/generator: A gas-turbine starter/generator comprises: a generator module comprising a first casing, a generator housed in the first casing, and a first shaft constrained to rotate with the rotor of the generator, projecting from the first casing, and carrying a first mechanical coupling member; an exciter module, comprising a second casing,... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080238108 - Electronically controlled engine generator set: An electronically controlled electrical power generator comprises a generator (15) driven by a heat engine (11), operated by control means (19), and carrying an electrical load (22). Operation of the heat engine (11) is at wide open throttle. Control over engine operation and electrical output of the generator (15) is... Agent: Borealis Technical Limited

20080238099 - Water supply tunnel secondary purpose turbine electric power generator system: A water supply tunnel secondary purpose turbine electric power generator system includes: a.) a water supply subsystem with a water source at an elevation that is at least 300 feet above the mean altitude of a community, that includes a gravity fed underground water tunnel being located, at least in... Agent: Kenneth P. Glynn

20080238100 - Method for operating a wind energy system: The invention relates to a method for operating a wind energy system wherein when a first settable boundary value (G1) is reached by a first parameter (M1) a process is automatically started whose course is monitored by measuring a second parameter (M2). By comparing the measured values of the second... Agent: Marlana Titus

20080238101 - Gas production well secondary purpose turbine electric power generator system: A natural gas production well secondary purpose turbine electric power generator system includes: a.) a natural gas production well from an underground or underwater natural gas well production field that produces natural gas at the surface at an elevated pressure of at least 500 psi and at least 200 psi... Agent: Kenneth P. Glynn

20080238102 - Configurations and methods for wave energy extraction: A wave energy harvester (100A) includes an element (120A) that converts forward and/or backward of water in a wave (102A, B, C) passing the harvester (100A) into upward and/or downward movement to thereby increase the vertical amplitude of the harvester (100A) relative to the sea floor (104A, B, C). In... Agent: Rutan & Tucker, LLP.

20080238103 - Rigid structural array: The present invention is directed to a device for maintaining a plurality of ocean wave energy converters at a predetermined proximity. The device includes at least one deck having a plurality of openings, each adapted to receive a portion of an ocean wave energy converter.... Agent: Spencer, Fane, Britt & Browne

20080238105 - Fluid driven electric power generation system: A tubular housing includes at least one fixed helical vane formed onto the inner surfaces of the tubular housing in a spiral and adapted to direct fluid into a spiraled flow and focus fluid onto a fan blade assembly associated with an alternator system and located within the tubular housing... Agent: Luis M. Ortiz

20080238104 - Pressurized water powered engine: A pressurized water powered machine that generates electrical power and is capable of driving a load which includes a waterwheel located above a water reservoir, a water pump that pressurizes water collected from the water reservoir and conveys it to a storage tank where it is stored under pressure for... Agent: Thomas W. Dale

20080238106 - Wind-powered generator system for generating electric power over a wide range of wind conditions: Disclosed is a wind-powered turbine generation system configured to generate electric power over a wide range of wind conditions and particularly in high wind speed and wind gust conditions where current wind turbine technologies fail. A plurality of ducted turbines is provided in an enclosure rotatably mounted to a vertical... Agent: Raymond M. Galasso Galasso & Associates Lp