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Prime-mover dynamo plants October categorized by USPTO classification 10/09

20090256363 - Electricity generating device: This invention is about a step-on electric current generation device. When a weight such as a human body steps on the device, the weight forces movement of the device and mechanical linkages converts mechanical energy into electrical energy via an electrical generator.... Agent: Haruo Okamoto

20090256361 - Energy harvester: An energy harvesting system and method includes a rotatable member with an electrically conductive coil mounted to the rotatable member and adapted to move with the rotatable member such that the movement of the coil through a magnetic field induces a voltage in the coil. An energy storage device is... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20090256362 - Method and apparatus for storing and transporting energy using a pipeline: A method and apparatus for storing and transporting energy in the form of compressed air energy via a pipeline shown. The method preferably consists of using at least one power source to drive a compressor to compress air into storage, wherein the pipeline can be adapted to reduce the pressure... Agent: Patent Office Of J. John Shimazaki, PLLC

20090256360 - Wind turbine: Especially designed for use in urban settings, on roofs, flat roofs and similar locations, as an element that looks static and with minimum effect on the appearance of the building, it consists of a static turbine and a vertical shaft based on an interior housing (2) and an exterior housing... Agent: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP Koda/androlia

20090256359 - Wind turbine and wind power installation: A wind power installation module comprising wind turbines arranged on a support body, each of the wind turbines comprises a rotor with a certain number of blades, a stator supporting the rotor in such a way that the rotor may rotate on the turbine axis for generating electric energy and... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090250940 - Self sufficient electro/magnet engine unit: P

20090250941 - System and method of increasing the output energy of an electrical motor by transferring the output energy through a plurality of hydraulic networks to create a continuous electrical cycle:

20090250942 - Engine starter: An electromagnetic controller includes an exciting coil unit that is provided with a coil main body and an exciting piece that is positioned at a tip end side of the coil main body so as to be magnetized according to an excitation of the coil main body; and a plunger... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090250943 - Systems and methods involving operating variable speed generators: A method for operating an asynchronous generator comprising receiving an indication that a power grid frequency is reduced. Responsive to the receiving the indication, reducing a speed of the asynchronous generator from a first speed to a second speed for a first time period, wherein the reduction of the speed... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20090250931 - Method for operating a wind energy plant with a doubly-fed asynchronous machine and wind energy plant with a doubly-fed asynchronous machine: Method for operating a wind energy plant having a doubly-fed asynchronous machine, a grid-sided converter and a generator-sided converter both being controlled by a control means, the method comprising the following steps: in a regular operating mode the converters are controlled by the control means by means of command variables,... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20090250932 - Method of damping tower vibrations of a wind turbine and control system for wind turbines: A control system for a wind turbine is provided. A pitch-control unit establishes a pitch-reference signal representing a pitch to be set by the pitch-actuator system. A rotor-speed input receives a signal representing a speed of the rotor. A speed-reference input receives a speed-reference signal for the rotor speed. An... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090250933 - Turbo generator: A turbo generator having a turbine configured to be driven by exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine, and an electric generator having a rotor coupled to the turbine and a stator having an ironless coil arranged with the rotor to generate electric power when the rotor is rotated by... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090250934 - Plant for the production of electric power from the movement of waves: Plant for producing electric power from the movement of waves, characterized in that it comprises an offshore dam (17) for separating a section (20) of sea inside it, such as a port zone, from an open-sea section (22) and comprising towards this open-sea section (22) a submerged part which has,... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20090250937 - Relative wind vortex rotary turbine alternating current device (rwvt): The present invention is an RWVT for converting relative wind energy into electrical energy using a vortex that leads into an axial flow rotary turbine alternator which provides energy for operating a generator. The result is renewable energy that can be scaled for all energy requirements. Said axial flow rotary... Agent: Ronald J. Meetin, Attorney At Law

20090250935 - Rotor for wind turbine and assembling method thereof: Disclosed is a rotor for a wind turbine, which prevents permanent magnets from being separated from the rotor due to the melting of portions of the permanent magnets bonded to the rotor by a high temperature atmosphere without burying the permanent magnets in the rotor. The rotor includes a circular... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20090250936 - System and method for efficiently harnessing and converting aircraft exhaust to electrical power: A system for converting aircraft exhaust to electrical energy is provided. In one example the system includes a plurality of mobile, modular, configurable turbine units. The units may be arranged in clusters, which may have any of a number of configurations depending on, for instance, the terrain where the cluster... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20090250938 - Wind turbine incorporated in an electric transmission tower: An electric generation device such as a vertical axis wind turbine is installed in existing structures like electric transmission towers to provide a source of “green” energy, without significantly impeding power generation and without creating additional impact on the landscape or environment, and without significantly obstructing the public view. This... Agent: Robert C. Curfiss

20090250939 - Wind-driven generation of power: Among other things, for wind-driven generation of electricity, a main shaft is rotated by a wind-driven rotor. A wheel having a diameter of at least 5 meters is mounted to rotate with the main shaft. An electrical generator is driven by the wheel. A yaw ring defines a plane around... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20090243303 - Bag/pack power generation device: A bag/pack power generation device includes a power generation module, a generator, and a bag/pack. The power generation module includes first and second speed-up gear shafts and a rack. Each speed-up gear shaft includes a pinion and a gear mounted thereto. The pinion of the first speed-up gear shaft mates... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20090243304 - Systems and methods for capturing linear motion for conversion to energy: Systems and methods are provided for capturing linear motion and converting it to energy may augment existing power grids, and may be installed in existing infrastructure. In some examples, a system may be installed in a roadway to capture the linear motion of automobiles, so that it may be converted... Agent: Holland & Hart LLP

20090243305 - Gravity motor and method: A gravity motor wherein a beam is pivotally mounted intermediate its opposite ends for oscillation in a vertical plane about a pivot point on a support structure. A moveable weight is slidably connected to the beam for reciprocal movement between the opposite ends of the beam past the pivot point.... Agent: Floyd B. Carothers Carothers And Carothers

20090243293 - Conversion of ocean wave energy into electrical power: Devices and methods for capturing electrical energy from ocean and other waves at improved cost and efficiency are presented. The major innovations include capturing energy in two vectors simultaneously and connectedly, new applications of Bernoulli's principle, and an application of the breaker effect. The invention presents devices using related principles... Agent: Dr. Mark M. Friedman C/o Bill Polkinghorn - Discovery Dispatch

20090243294 - Main circuit of generator for distributed power supply: In an electric power generating apparatus for dispersed power supply using a permanent magnet type electric power generator having many kinds of windings in order to obtain the maximum output by force of wind without using PWM converter, there is a problem that gap magnetic flux of the permanent magnet... Agent: Chapman And Cutler

20090243297 - Speed reducer for use in yaw drive apparatus for wind power generation apparatus, and yaw drive method and apparatus for wind power generation apparatus using the speed reducer: A yaw drive method of a wind power generation apparatus, in which a second gear engaged with a first gear attached to one of tower or a wind power generation unit supported to the upper end of the tower so as to be capable of yawing and supported to a... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090243295 - System and method for reducing rotor loads in a wind turbine upon detection of blade-pitch failure and loss of counter-torque: A system and method for reducing rotor loads in a wind turbine that includes a brake and one or more rotor blades coupled to a rotor. Upon detection of a loss of counter torque and a blade-pitch failure in at least one rotor blade, a processor reduces a generator overspeed... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20090243296 - Wind energy installation with an autonomous energy supply for a blade adjustment device: Wind energy installation with a generator (13) which is driven by a rotor (2) with adjustable rotor blades (21), for producing electrical energy, wherein a pitch adjustment device (3) is provided for adjusting the blades, which pitch adjustment device comprises an emergency circuit (5) with an energy store (50) for... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090243298 - Minimal wave power generator: A system for generating electrical power from sea waves, includes a tube (12) with first and second opposite ends (14, 16), and a membrane assembly (32) that extends across the inside of the tube and that generates electricity when the membrane assembly is deflected. The tube is moored at a... Agent: Leon D. Rosen Freii Ich, Hornbaker & Rosen

20090243299 - Power unit: An improved power unit placed in a fluid stream, comprises a common stationary hollow axle, two coaxially mounted orthogonal turbines, having hollow shafts oppositely rotatable around the axle, inner and outer rings, adjustable blades attached to the rings, an electro-generator located between the turbines including two annular rotors formed on... Agent: Victor Lyatkher

20090243300 - Underwater ducted turbine: An apparatus is disclosed for a turbine for generating electrical power from water or air flow comprising at least one rotor disk having a plurality of hydrofoil blades, guide vanes, a cylindrical housing, and a generator means. A rim generator comprising a magnet race rotor rim and fixed stator coils... Agent: Schacht Law Office, Inc.

20090243302 - Optimized rotor for a wind power plant and wind power plant for mounting on a building: A rotor for a wind power plant for mounting on a building, especially with a vertical rotational axis, comprising a rotor hub and at least one rotor blade, with the rotor blade being arranged to cover the whole surface area and having a substantially rectangular shape, comprising a radially inwardly... Agent: Baker & Hostetler LLP

20090243301 - Wind turbine direct drive airgap control method and system: A deflection resistant wind turbine generator having a stator arranged about an axis and a rotor operably mounted with respect to the stator to generate electricity. The rotor is rotatably communicating with wind turbine blades rotating substantially about the axis and the rotor and the stator are configured to maintain... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick, LLC