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Prime-mover dynamo plants February patent applications/inventions, industry category 02/09

20090051169 - Energy converter: A rotor rotates about a spindle and has one or more sliders which are movable between two stop points. An actuator is activated by pressurized fluid and causes the slider or sliders to move back and forth between the stop points. The back and forth movement causes the spindle to... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090051167 - Combustion turbine cooling media supply method: A land based gas turbine apparatus includes an integral compressor; a turbine component having a combustor to which air from the integral compressor and fuel are supplied; and a generator operatively connected to the turbine for generating electricity; wherein hot gas path component parts in the turbine component are cooled... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.

20090051168 - Gravity wave power generation apparatus: A power generation apparatus that will not exhaust carbon dioxide is provided where a strong rotating motion is created by the combination of solar heat energy, gravitational energy, and ocean current or tidal current energy. In the sea area having stream current such as ocean current and tidal current, the... Agent: Muramatsu & Associates

20090045635 - Backup generators: A backup power generator unit for use with electronic equipment housed in an equipment cabinet, the cabinet having a top and a bottom, the bottom comprising attachment structure to attach the equipment cabinet to a base, the backup generator being housed in a backup generator cabinet having a top and... Agent: Lewis, Brisbois, Bisgaard & Smith LLP

20090045625 - Cogeneration system: In a cogeneration system having a generation unit comprising a generator connectable to an AC power feed line between a commercial power network and an electrical load, and an internal combustion engine for driving the generator and having a coolant circulation passage through which a coolant circulates, there are provided... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090045626 - Cogeneration system: In a cogeneration system having at least with a generation unit comprising a generator connectable to an AC power feed line between a commercial power network and an electrical load, an internal combustion engine for driving the generator, and a battery, the cogeneration system producing hot air/water through exchange heat... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090045628 - Thermal management system for wind turbine: A wind turbine includes a wind turbine tower and a power electronic control system located within the wind turbine tower. The power electronic control system includes heat generating components. The heat generating components are directly mounted to the inner surface of the wind turbine tower dissipating the heat generated by... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20090045627 - Wind turbine assemblies and slip ring assemblies for wind blade pitch control motors: Slip ring assemblies for controlling pitch of a wind driven blade such as those utilized in wind turbines can include a series of grooves disposed about an outer perimeter of a rotating portion, each one of the grooves comprising a first planar surface intersecting with a second planar surface at... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090045630 - Exhaust gas electric generation apparatus and method: An apparatus for generating electricity from a relatively low velocity exhaust produced by a piece of machinery. The apparatus includes a fan assembly located inside a frame mounted adjacent to the exhaust vent found on the piece of machinery. The fan assembly includes a plurality of fixed vanes that extend... Agent: Dean A. Craine

20090045629 - Turbo-generator control with variable valve actuation: An internal combustion engine incorporating a turbo-generator and one or more variably activated exhaust valves. The exhaust valves are adapted to variably release exhaust gases from a combustion cylinder during a combustion cycle to an exhaust system. The turbo-generator is adapted to receive exhaust gases from the exhaust system and... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20090045631 - Deployment apparatus for submerged power plant: Power generating equipment comprising a buoyant power generating apparatus and a support structure for the power generating apparatus, which support structure, in use, is disposed on the bed of a body of water, the power generating apparatus comprising a motor-driven winching device having a tether which is connectable at its... Agent: Husch Blackwell Sanders, LLP Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP Welsh & Katz

20090045632 - Flow energy installation: w

20090045633 - Do-it-yourself wind power generation wall: A do-it-yourself wind power generation wall includes a plurality of wind power generation modules, each having a bushing, a wind power generation unit and a connecting rod. The exterior of the bushing forms a plurality of insert portions, and the wind power generation unit includes an electric generator connected to... Agent: Hdsl

20090045634 - Linear wind-powered electric generator: A linear wind powered electric generator (LWPEG), which is particularly adapted for installation at geographical sites subject to lower wind intensities. More specifically, there are provided design concepts for an LWPEG, possessing reasonable economic parameters for utilization at the lower-intensity wind sites. Moreover, the linear wind powered electric generator is... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090039655 - Resonant stator balancing of free piston machine coupled to linear motor or alternator: and the natural frequency of oscillation of the piston, ∩p, is maintained essentially equal to the operating frequency, ωo of the coupled Stirling machine and alternator or motor. For applications in which variations of the average temperature and/or the average pressure of the working gas cause more than insubstantial variations... Agent: Kremblas, Foster, Phillips & Pollick

20090039656 - Energy recovery system: d

20090039650 - Event monitoring via combination of signals: A method for event monitoring for a wind turbine is described. The method includes measuring a first signal pattern representing a characteristic selected from a characteristic group, the characteristic group consisting of: a mechanical characteristic of a wind turbine, emitted noise of a wind turbine, emitted noise of a part... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20090039651 - Method for wind turbine yaw control: A method for yaw control for a wind turbine comprising a rotor with a rotor blade, the rotor defining a rotor axis and a rotor plane to which the rotor axis is perpendicular, in which the rotor axis is turned to minimise the yaw angle between the ambient wind direction... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090039652 - Electrical machine: Embedding electrical machines in gas turbine engines has particular advantages by avoiding the need to provide mechanical connections. However, electrical machines such as switched reluctance electrical machines require relatively large electrical capacitors to accommodate and filter voltage variations in the phases of the electrical machine. Generally, the electrical machine will... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20090039653 - Turbojet comprising a current generator mounted in the fan and a method of mounting said generator in the fan: The invention relates to a twin-spool gas turbine turbojet comprising a high-pressure rotor (1) and a low-pressure rotor, the low-pressure rotor shaft (2) being connected, at its upstream end, to a fan (10) housed in a fan casing (14), which turbojet comprises, upstream of the fan (10), a fixed cowl... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090039654 - Marine wave energy conversion system: An energy conversion system includes a first mechanical system for converting reciprocating motion to rotary motion, a second system formed of belts and pulleys connected to said first system and driven by said rotary motion to lift a weight in response to said rotary motion from a first position to... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090033100 - Hand squeeze generator: A hand squeeze generator includes a carrying body, a lever, an elastic member to return the crank to its original position, a gear transmission unit, and a generation motor driven by the gear transmission unit. The lever drives the gear transmission unit and the gear transmission unit drives the generation... Agent: Hdsl

20090033101 - Method for the generation of electrical energy, method for operation of an electrically-driven motor vehicle and device for generation of electrical energy and electric vehicle: h

20090033095 - Regenerating an engine exhaust gas particulate filter in a hybrid electric vehicle: In a powertrain that includes an engine having a filter for removing particulate matter from engine exhaust gas, and an electric machine driveably connected to the engine, a method for controlling temperature of the filter including operating the engine to produce a magnitude of positive crankshaft power for driving the... Agent: Macmillan, Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20090033102 - Method and apparatus for using wind turbines to generate and supply uninterrupted power to locations remote from the power grid: The present invention relates to a wind energy generating and storing system comprising methods and apparatuses for providing energy dedicated for immediate use and energy storage, to provide electrical power on an uninterrupted and continuous basis, to locations remote from an electrical power grid. In a large application, the invention... Agent: Patent Office Of J. John Shimazaki, PLLC

20090033096 - Method for the determination of a control reserve and wind energy plant with a control unit for the determination of the control reserve: A method for the determination of a control reserve of one or plural wind energy plants, for the operation of which a desired value for at least one electric variable is preset, and for which a control unit is provided which has a power curve, which contains a maximum value... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20090033097 - Wind park with a plurality of wind energy plants and method for the operation of the wind park: A method for the operation of a wind park with a plurality of wind energy plants, which each one have one control unit at a time, which can control and/or adjust the wind energy plant in response to a received desired value for an electric variable, the method having the... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20090033098 - Controlling power extraction for wind power generation: A power generation system is disclosed. The power generation system comprises a kite connected to a line. The line is alternatively let out during a traction phase and recovered during a recovery phase. A power extractor connected to the line to extract power during the traction phase. And, a power... Agent: Van Pelt, Yi & James LLP

20090033099 - Device for supplying electricity: A device for supplying electricity to electrical equipment on a first element drivable for rotating operation with a predetermined rotation rate. A source of electricity includes a stator and a rotor that are rotatable in relation to each other. One of the rotor and stator is attached to the first... Agent: Venable LLP