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Prime-mover dynamo plants December patent applications/inventions, industry category 12/09

20090322097 - Engine generator: An engine generator having a high-rigidity rigid skeletal member. A bottom cover supports the engine/generator unit. A wall-shaped vertical frame is disposed transversely of the engine generator in a front section of the bottom cover and rising from the bottom cover front section. A T-shaped center frame extends between a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090322098 - Integrated combustion and electric hybrid engines and methods of making and use thereof: A new approach to achieving greater fuel efficiencies in the design and implementation of hybrid automotive vehicles. Efficiency and power benefits accrue from the integration of electric motor components into various components of combustion-fueled engines, thus obviating the need for much separate equipment, such as discrete electric motor(s) and gear... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090322096 - Thermal shield for system for generating electric power: A thermal shield for a system for generating electric power may include a sheet of material configured to be operably associated with an engine of the system for generating electric power such that heat from the engine is deflected back toward the engine. The sheet of material may define a... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20090322100 - Engine generator: An engine generator accommodating an engine and a generator inside a case. A first stationary handle that extends in the width direction is mounted in the rear section of the case. A second stationary handle is mounted on the upper front part of the case. A draw handle is provided... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20090322099 - Rotational generator method and rotational generator: A parasitic electric generator which captures and converts rotation mechanical energy of rotating wheels of a source of rotation (rotating wheeled aircraft, ships or machines and vehicles such as but not limited to autos, trucks, buses, tractors, rail trains) into electricity. This electricity is generated by magnets attached/embedded in/on the... Agent: Fred George Labankoff

20090322079 - Method for the operation and use of a converter: The converter is operated by a regulation device regulating the converter as an active audio frequency block. At least one audio frequency current of at least one specified audio frequency is detected. An AC current progression that is to be transmitted to the converter in the regulation device is determined,... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090322101 - Engine cranking system and method: A vehicle has an engine, a starter motor, an energy storage system (ESS) for powering an auxiliary system, and a supercapacitor module for powering the starter motor during engine cranking and starting. The supercapacitor module disconnects from the starter motor to recharge. A DC-DC booster converter increases the level of... Agent: Quinn Law Group, PLLC

20090322102 - System and method for power production using a hybrid helical detonation device: The system and method described herein uses a hybrid pulsed detonation engine (PDE) system to drive a turbine that powers an electric generator. The combustion chamber of the PDE is shaped in a helical form, so that the external length of the section is reduced, while maintaining the distance for... Agent: Chowdhury & Georgakis, P.c

20090322080 - Installation and method for harnessing wave energy: Installation for harnessing wave energy, comprising a floating structure (1) that comprises at least one gyroscopic device (5) with a flywheel (6) that can turn by the action of a motor (7) and a generator (10) configured so that when the gyroscopic device (5) is in use, said flywheel (6)... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090322086 - Drive circuit and method for inverters of wind energy installations: A converter for a wind energy installation and a method. The converter includes an inverter which drives a generator via a plurality of phases and an intermediate circuit having an intermediate-circuit voltage between an upper and a lower intermediate-circuit potential. The generator is driven with phase potentials at a variable... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090322084 - Energy systems, energy devices, energy utilization methods, and energy transfer methods: Energy systems, energy devices, energy utilization methods, and energy transfer methods are described. In one arrangement, energy utilization methods include providing first energy from a power grid to an induction generator at a first moment in time; using the induction generator and the first energy from the power grid, charging... Agent: Wells St. John P.s.

20090322085 - Method and apparatus for enhanced wind turbine design: An improved wind turbine system can have a generator or set of generators at the base of a tower and one or more sets of propeller hubs at the top of the tower. The sets of propeller hubs can be on opposite sides of the tower to account for the... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20090322083 - Optimizing converter protection for wind turbine generators: An integrated fault and personnel protection system and method for a multi-thread converter in a wind turbine power system is provided. The structure and method provide for system optimization, as well as, arc flash protection. Fault sensing with means of removing power applied to the converter minimizes the energy available... Agent: Ge Energy General Electric C/o Ernest G. Cusick

20090322087 - Wind turbine generator system: To shorten a startup interval to reach a synchronizing condition, a phase difference and an amplitude difference between the grid voltage and the stator voltage of one phase of a winding are obtained. The difference in amplitude is decreased prior to or in parallel to synchronizing the stator voltage with... Agent: Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

20090322081 - Wind turbine with parallel converters utilizing a plurality of isolated generator windings: A system and method are provided to isolate outputs of parallel converter threads of a power system converter on a generator side of a wind turbine generator by utilizing isolated power windings on the wind turbine generator. Such isolation eliminates the circulating common mode current between the parallel converters of... Agent: Ge Energy General Electric C/o Ernest G. Cusick

20090322082 - Wind turbine with parallel converters utilizing a plurality of isolated transformer windings: A system and method are provided to isolate outputs of parallel converter threads of a power system converter of a wind turbine generator by utilizing isolated power windings on the output transformer from the converter. Such isolation eliminates the circulating common mode current between the parallel converters of the wind... Agent: Ge Energy General Electric C/o Ernest G. Cusick

20090322088 - Torque transmission for an aircraft engine: The torque transmission system for an aircraft engine permits a starter-generator to drive the engine on starting at a speed reducing ratio. Once the engine is running, the engine then drives the starter-generator also at a speed reducing ratio.... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP (pwc)

20090322090 - Energy storage system and method for storing and supplying energy: An energy storage system is provided which includes an electrolyser a hydrogen gas storage and a power plant. The electrolyser is connected to the hydrogen gas storage and the hydrogen gas storage is connected to the power plant. Furthermore, a method for storing and supplying energy is provided which includes... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090322089 - Integrated solar energy receiver-storage unit: Receivers for use in solar energy collector systems and solar-powered electrical energy generating plants are provided. The receivers comprise a solar radiation absorbing core that converts absorbed solar radiation to thermal energy. The core comprises a refractory material to allow the receivers to operate continuously at high temperatures reached by... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20090322091 - Tidal power apparatus: A tidal power apparatus comprises a moored pontoon (1) having a duct (2) therethrough opening at opposed ends of the pontoon. The duct has a vertical axis rotor (3) therein driving an electrical generator (6). A deflector vane (8) is located in the duct at each end thereof, each deflector... Agent: Jackson Walker, L.L.P.

20090322092 - Wave action electric generating system: A wave action electric generating system comprises a platform floating on water, the platform being subject to rocking from side to side from wave action; an electric generator disposed on the platform; a pulley engagable with the generator in a first direction to power the generator, and free-wheeling with the... Agent: Shlesinger, Arkwright & Garvey LLP

20090322093 - Paddle wheel electric generator: A minimal maintenance paddle wheel electric generation device for producing no cost electricity includes an A-frame base disposed in a fast flowing stream with a paddle wheel mounted between A-frame supports, with the supports resting on the base, and the paddle wheel including radially arranged dip blades with the rotation... Agent: The Inventors Network, Inc.

20090322094 - Turbine energy generating system: A power generating turbine includes a rotary shaft having an axis of rotation, a magnet supported by and spaced outwardly from the rotary shaft and a conductive coil. The coil located outwardly from the magnet and surrounds the magnet and the shaft, but is sufficiently close to the magnet such... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn & Burkhart, LLP

20090322095 - Wind turbine: A wind turbine having one or more sets of opposing magnets to create an opposing force between a turbine support and a turbine rotor great enough to form a space between them thereby reducing friction between the turbine support and the turbine rotor. The reduction of friction between the turbine... Agent: D'ambrosio & Associates, P.l.l.c.

20090315333 - Production of electricity from low-temperature energy sources: The invention relates to a system for producing energy from a coolant (4) that comprises an electricity generator (13) combined with a turbine (2) that is supplied by an air flow (30) that is admitted into the base of a tower. The tower is equipped with various blade stages (40)... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090315334 - Vehicular movement electricity converter embedded within a road bumb: A system for converting vehicular movement into electricity while serving as a road hump at the same time. The linear motion of the vehicles is transformed by the device into rotational motion and finally converted into electric power. The system comprises a semi-flexible cover strip lying across the path of... Agent: The Law Office Of Michael E. Kondoudis

20090315335 - Energy harvesting by means of thermo-mechanical device utilizing bistable ferromagnets: An inventive energy harvesting apparatus may include a ferromagnetic material and/or a shape memory alloys to convert thermal energy to mechanical energy to electrical energy. The apparatus is subjected to a thermal gradient to cause beams to bend thus creating stress/strain in a piezoelectric material, or creating magnetic flux in... Agent: Venable LLP

20090315337 - Method and apparatus for direct energy conversion: A method and apparatus for direct energy conversion employs modulated static magnetic flux emanating from the pole of a permanent magnet. Photon Cooper pair breaking is used to force a quantum state in Type II superconductor thin films by modulating a vortex channel made up of a bundle of vortex... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20090315338 - Mobile energy systems and methods: Mobile energy systems including a frame, an axle supported by the frame, a wheel mounted to the axle and in contact with the ground, the wheel being configured rotate about the axle when the frame translates relative to the ground, an energy storage device supported by the frame, and an... Agent: Mohr Intellectual Property Law Solutions, P.C.

20090315336 - Renewable energy generation system: A plurality of exercise machines each have a generator with a rotating element for creating a current flow. A primary electrical cable is between the input and output ends. A plurality of feed lines couple an associated generator with the primary electrical cable. A diode is in each of the... Agent: Michael J. Colitz, Jr.

20090315328 - System and method for locomotive engine cranking: In a method of operating a starting system coupled to a crankshaft of a vehicle engine, during engine starting, torque supplied by the starting system to the engine is continuously adjusted to provide more than two levels based on operating conditions of the vehicle or engine.... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20090315329 - Variable speed synchronous generator: An input shaft rotates at variable rotation rates and is driven by a variable speed source of energy or power such as by the propeller of a wind-driven electrical generator. The input shaft is connected to a first rotor which electromagnetically interacts with a second rotor to create a torque... Agent: Holme Roberts & Owen, LLP

20090315330 - Facility for refueling of clean air vehicles/marine craft and generation and storage of power: A facility for the generation of electrical power and products for the refueling of clean air vehicles (CAV's) and marine craft and for use by the facility and/or general market. A host of electrical power generation devices including solar panels, solar collectors, wave action generators, reverse osmosis water purification apparatus,... Agent: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts

20090315331 - Hydroelectric device for the production of electricity, particularly from tidal currents: A hydroelectric device, for the production of electricity in an aquatic environment with currents, includes a frame supporting a rotating member having a number of bearing surfaces that cooperate with the currents to generate a rotation of the rotating member. An electromechanical device produces an electrical current from the rotation.... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20090315332 - Wind energy system with wind speed accelerator and wind catcher: The present invention is related generally to power generation, and more particularly, to an apparatus for generating power from wind energy by accelerating winds captured by a wind catcher module. According to a first aspect, a wind energy system comprises a wind turbine and a wind catch opening, in which... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090309372 - Magnaforce generator: The MagnaForce Generator is an energy producing device using magnetic force in a way that allows continuous movement to produce energy. The device described above where one or more of the magnets are attached to a device which moves the magnet(s) to maximize the free flow of the movement created... Agent: Garrett S. Sayre

20090309373 - Mechanical output work generating apparatus incorporating buoyancy inducing components: A mechanical output generating assembly including housing having a fluid filled interior and defining a passageway through which travels a buoyant article. A reload mechanism is secured to the housing for successively introducing a plurality of buoyant article into a bottom feed location associated with the housing. The buoyant articles... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090309370 - Method and system for generating electricity: A method for generating electricity along a roadway is provided. The method includes actuating an energy transfer assembly coupled to the roadway, wherein the energy transfer assembly is actuated by a force acting upon the roadway. The method also includes generating electricity at a generator coupled to the energy transfer... Agent: Armstrong Teasdale LLP (12729 +2000) John S. Beulick

20090309371 - System and method of power production: A system and method for efficient power production through the use of compressed air. The system and method provide for a self-contained system and method for providing power such that power may be supplied at remote locations without the requirement of coupling to an existing power supply. The power producing... Agent: Jay M. Schloff

20090309362 - Generator utilizing fluid-induced oscillations: An electrical generator including a magnetic field generator and at least one energy converter for converting energy present in fluid flows into vibrations or oscillations. The converter includes a flexible membrane having at least two fixed ends. The membrane vibrates when subject to a fluid flow. One of the electrical... Agent: Schox PLC

20090309361 - Method for controlling a wind energy park: c) in case that a failure of a first control unit of the wind energy park takes place, a second control unit of the wind energy park takes over the control tasks of the defective control unit, wherein the second control unit is selected depending on the priority assigned thereto... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20090309360 - Method for controlling a wind energy plant: c) in case that there is a failure of a first control unit of the wind energy plant, a second control unit of the wind energy plant takes over the control tasks of the defective control unit, wherein the second control unit is selected depending on the priority assigned thereto... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20090309359 - Wind turbine sensor assembly and method of assembling the same: A sensor assembly for use with a wind turbine rotor blade is provided. The sensor assembly includes an air data probe including a base shaft, a tip, and a rod portion extending therebetween, wherein the rod portion is fabricated from a composite material. The sensor assembly includes a receptacle configured... Agent: Patrick W. Rasche (22402) Armstrong Teasdale LLP

20090309363 - Electric wheel: An electrical generating system. A wheel that is eight feet in diameter is turned with a motor that is powered by battery. The battery is charged by a battery charger that supplies power to the battery twenty four hours a day. The size motor needed to turn the wheel will... Agent: Salvatore R. Uglietto

20090309364 - Power generation system for an aircraft using a fuel cell: A fuel cell (10) has a compressed air inlet fed by a compressor (20) and a fuel inlet, and it produces direct current electricity. A turbine (30) receives a flow of gas under pressure from the fuel cell and is mechanically coupled to the first compressor in order to drive... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090309365 - Submersible turbine-generator unit for ocean and tidal currents: A submersible turbine-generator unit includes two or more turbines mounted on a common shaft with a generator therebetween. Each such turbine is capable of providing relatively low-speed, unidirectional rotation under a reversible ultra low head pressure and/or low velocity fluid flow. The turbines comprise a working wheel with a plurality... Agent: Kevin M. Farrell Pierce Atwood

20090309366 - Wave energy converter: A wave energy converting apparatus 44 and its associated tension mooring system 50 is described. The wave energy converting apparatus 44 comprises an elongate support structure 45 designed to extend above a mean water level in the ocean. The support structure 45 has a submerged member 46 provided in connection... Agent: Hamre, Schumann, Mueller & Larson, P.C.

20090309367 - Rotatable energy generation unit for generating electric energy from a water flow: a hinged joint between the support body and the nacelle body with a device which transmits a rotational movement of the nacelle body about the first axis associated with the support body into a rotational movement of the nacelle body about the second axis associated with the same in such... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP 111 E. Wayne Street

20090309368 - Water wheel impeller blade type power generator: To surely erect impeller blades at the forward movement side thereof by a rotor and, further, to surely push down these impeller blades at the backward movement side thereof by a rotor. By providing a fluid passage frame body 21 above a rotor 10 to form a fluid passage 20,... Agent: Apex Juris, PLLC

20090309369 - Wind turbine: The invention relates to a wind turbine comprising a rotor shaft (11), a multiplier (3) with at least one planetary-type stage and a generator inside a frame (1). The inventive turbine also comprises a first tubular casing (13) which is solidly connected to the frame (1) and which houses the... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090302615 - Hidroflot: Constant rotation is obtained by the floaters attached to the ends of the extended mechanical arms (three arms are permanently attached to the extended arms, five are attached to the folded arms and while one arm is displaced from the water it is replaced by another that enters with the... Agent: Pedro Antonio Padilla Correa

20090302616 - Electric power generation system controlled to reduce perception of operational changes: An electric power system includes an engine, a generator driven by the engine, an electrical energy storage device, power control circuitry coupling the generator and storage device together, and a processor coupled to the circuitry. The generator provides variable AC power and the storage device provides variable DC power to... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20090302607 - Double fed synchronous generator motor: A double fed synchronous generator motor which is coupled to a reversible pump-turbine and operated while switched to a power generating operation mode or a pumping operation mode, is equipped with a controller for controlling the double fed synchronous generator motor so that power output from the double fed synchronous... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090302609 - Power train for a wind power plant: A power train for a wind power plant includes a rotor (1) for driving a gear (4), wherein the rotor blades (2) of the rotor are pivotally arranged around the longitudinal axis thereof on the hub of the rotor (1). A three-phase generator (5) is connected to the gear (4)... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao LLP

20090302608 - Wind power installation and method of modifying the blade pitch in a wind power installation: The wind power installation comprises a rotor with at least one rotor blade, a generator, and a pitch control system for controlling the pitch of the rotor blades, said pitch control system comprising at least one AC motor (100) arranged to be fed by a converter (101). The pitch control... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090302610 - Multipurpose engine: A multipurpose engine having an improved wiring structure between the generator (46) and electrical components is disclosed. A connector box (104) is provided to the dead space formed between the engine main body (27) and the fuel tank (37). A plurality of electrical wirings (151 to 156) is interconnected inside... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090302611 - Turbine: The present invention relates to a marine turbine and variety of aspects relative thereto. Renewal energy systems have recently been understood to be a necessary energy source, and tidal power is a particularly useful source as it is generally not visible and has a limited ecological impact. The present invention... Agent: Waddey & Patterson, P.C.

20090302612 - Oscillating energy capture mechanism: Multiple pivots are mounted vertically or horizontally within a rotary or stationary support structure or platform. The pivots are interconnected via members, and between these pivots, a flexible sheet of material is suspended. The mechanism operates via oscillation of a flexible sheet that captures the energy in a fluid flow,... Agent: Matthew Gartner

20090302613 - Power generation methods and systems: Methods and Systems are provided for generating electric power. One method includes the steps of: (a) submerging a housing into a body of water, the housing defining a chamber therein; (b) maintaining the chamber at a pressure lower than the pressure exerted by the body of water on the housing;... Agent: Foley Hoag, LLP Patent Group, World Trade Center West

20090302614 - Wind and updraft turbine: The invention relates to the field of electrical generation and more specifically to the use of a wind turbine for generating electricity. A vertical axis wind turbine is mounted on the upper portion of a chimney. Rotor blades are disposed on the outside of the chimney and the mechanical energy... Agent: Fulbright & Jaworski L.l.p

20090295170 - Ejector device: An ejector device effective to generate a negative pressure by element of compressed air fed to an ejector of the device via a compressed-air duct includes an air suction duct, a pressure sensor and an electrically activatable valve member arranged in the compressed-air duct for regulating the flow of compressed... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090295169 - Starter system for portable internal combustion engine electric generators using a portable universal battery pack: A portable power driven system has a manually movable frame. In one example, an internal combustion engine and a generator device that generates AC power are supported on the frame. The internal combustion engine drives the generator device. An electrically powered starting device is coupled to the internal combustion engine.... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090295171 - Portable electricity generator: An apparatus for producing electricity includes an elongated body and an electricity generating device operatively connected to the elongated body. A drive shaft is positioned along the elongated body, the drive shaft having an input and an output. A driven shaft is positioned along the elongated body and spaced apart... Agent: Mckee, Voorhees & Sease, P.L.C

20090295157 - Cogeneration system: In a cogeneration system having three generation units each equipped with a generator and an internal combustion engine, a single hot water tank is prepared for the three generation units to contain hot water heated by exhaust heat of the engine. The temperature of the hot water contained in the... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090295158 - Cogeneration system: In a cogeneration system having a generation unit equipped with a generator and an internal combustion engine, there is installed with a hot water unit including a first flow channel connecting a water supply source with a thermal load, a heat exchanger exchanging heat between water flowing the first flow... Agent: Carrier Blackman And Associates

20090295159 - Adaptive pitch control for variable speed wind turbines: An adaptive for adjusting blade (312) pitch angle angle, and controllers (350) implementing such method, for achieving higher power coefficients. Average power coefficients are determined for first and second periods of operation for the wind turbine (310). When the average power coefficient for the second time period is larger than... Agent: Paul J White, Patent Counsel National Renewable Energy Laboratory (nrel)

20090295160 - Method for increasing energy capture in a wind turbine: A method for operating a wind turbine. The method includes providing a wind turbine having a variable speed control system, the control system having an initial rotational speed set point. At least two operational parameters are obtained from one or more sensors. An adjusted rotational speed set point greater than... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick, LLC

20090295161 - Method for operating a wind energy installation and a wind energy installation: The invention relates to a method for operating a wind energy installation (10), in which the wind energy installation (10) has a rotor (12, 13, 22), at least one rotor blade (14) with an adjustable angle, a mechanical brake device (19) for braking the rotor (14), an operational control device... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20090295162 - Wind power generation system of a type provided with power storage system: A wind power generation system having a group of wind turbine generators includes a superior controller having a generation power recording memory to record a sum of a generation power of the group of wind turbine generators and a charge and discharge power of a power storage system, a charge... Agent: Mattingly & Malur, P.C.

20090295163 - Energy converters utilizing fluid-induced oscillations: An energy converter for inducing membrane vibrations when subject to a fluid flow and converting the kinetic energy embedded in the fluid flow into another form of energy, such as electricity. The energy converter includes a supporting structure and multiple generator units. Each generator unit includes at least one flexible... Agent: Schox PLC

20090295168 - Electrical machinery incorporating double helix coil designs for superconducting and resistive windings: An alternating current machine which generates a magnetic field or induces a voltage. In one the machine includes a stator and a rotor positioned about an axis. The stator includes three sets of coils, each set including at least a first pair of coil rows wired in series, with first... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20090295165 - Method for wind turbine placement in a wind power plant: A method for determining wind turbine location within a wind power plant based on at least one design criteria. A wind turbine layout including at least one wind turbine location is prepared and site conditions at each wind turbine location are determined. One or more plant design metrics are evaluated... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick, LLC

20090295166 - Output power control of a wind power generator through bendable tail wing and tail rod: The invention is related to a wind power generator with controllable power output, which comprises an elastic tail rod and a tail wing. One end of the elastic tail rod connects with the wind power generator; the other end of the elastic tail rod connects with the tail wing. The... Agent: Michael Lin

20090295167 - Water-based data center: A system includes a cooling water intake conduit having a water intake in a submerged area of an open natural body of water, a first water-to-water heat exchanger having a first side in fluid communication with the cooling water intake conduit, and a closed water loop in fluid communication with... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090295164 - Wind turbine with flow surfaces: s