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Prime-mover dynamo plants March listing by industry category 03/10

20100072757 - Portable energy generation systems: Portable energy generation systems are disclosed. More particularly, a high-output mobile electrical generator system comprising a radial engine power source providing a highly compact physical format.... Agent: Stoneman Volk Patent Group

20100072758 - On-road energy conversion and vibration absorber apparatus: An on-road energy conversion and vibration absorber apparatus receives the kinetic energy from moving vehicles and pedestrians when being weighed down, and converts the received kinetic energy into a static energy using a restorable elastic element compressing a fluid thereby storing the static energy in a pressure chamber, and then... Agent: Hdls Patent & Trademark Services

20100072759 - Piezoelectric vibrational energy harvesting systems incorporating parametric bending mode energy harvesting: Vibrational energy harvesting (VEH) structures that include resonant beams each having a fundamental resonance frequency and a parametric mode frequency and including at least one piezoelectric layer for generating electrical charge in response to each of fundamental-resonance excitation and parametric-mode excitation of that beam. Circuitry is provided for harvesting the... Agent: Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

20100072760 - Regenerative shock absorber system: A regenerative shock absorber that include a housing and a piston that moves at least partially through the housing when the shock is compressed or extended from a rest position. When the piston moves, hydraulic fluid is pressurized and drives a hydraulic motor. The hydraulic motor, in turn, drives an... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20100072751 - Variable speed wind turbine, a resonant control system, a method of operating a variable speed wind turbine, use of a resonant control system and use of a method in a variable speed wind turbine: A variable speed wind turbine connected to a utility grid includes a rotor, having at least one blade, a drive train connected to the rotor, the drive train includes a selection of at least one gear box, and at least one electrical generator, a measuring arrangement establishing at least one... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20100072752 - Power generation system using helical turbine: Disclosed is a helical turbine power generation system for generating electricity by using a helical turbine and an overload prevention generator, the system including: a helical turbine rotatably provided in a frame so as to continuously generate rotation force under unidirectional or multidirectional fluid flow; a step-up gear for increasing... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100072753 - Harvesting alternative energy/power by combining, adding, reshaping, modifying, rethinking and/or blending of all possible energy /power output devices within the same spatial area, thereby reducing our energy/power dependence on the world's natural resou: Adapting alternative energies in different and possibly new ways to reduce our dependence on natural fuels such as oil, gas, and coal; thereby possibly and probably reducing our carbon footprint, terrorism, long and expensive supply lines of oil tankers, pipelines, and updated electric lines; and all the while, still supplying... Agent: Edgar B. Bell

20100072754 - Water turbine with water circulation: A water turbine with water circulation has a water circulation channel full of water, a water wheel having a plurality of paddles radially disposed on a rotatable shaft and sequentially dipped into the water circulation channel for generating mechanical energy when it is rotated by the water of the water... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20100072755 - Conversion of permanent magnetic field into constant rotary motion: w

20100072756 - 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

20100066098 - Controlling propeller rotor overspeed: P

20100066097 - Method to estimate the output current of an automotive generator (alternator): A control system of a vehicle comprises a current estimation module, a current sensor, and a current diagnostic module. The current estimation module determines an estimated output current of a generator of the vehicle based on an engine speed when the generator is operating in a steady-state condition. The current... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20100066099 - Configuration to power electrical components in a vehicle: A vehicle includes a power supply, at least two auxiliary electrical components, and a load that is shared by the auxiliary electrical components. The two auxiliary electrical components are connected electrically to the power supply in a series configuration. One or more loads may be connected mechanically to the auxiliary... Agent: Holland & Hart LLP

20100066084 - A method and a wave-power aggregate to extract energy from wave motion in a fluid...: v

20100066086 - Apparatus and system for pitch angle control of wind turbine: A pitch control apparatus for controlling the pitch value for a wind power generation system includes a generator comparing unit that calculates an error signal based on a difference between a generator measurement signal corresponding with an operation of the power generation system and a generator reference signal, and a... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20100066085 - Non-grid-connected wind turbine generator system with high power, high efficiency and low cost: Disclosed is a non-grid-connected wind turbine generator system with high power, low cost and high efficiency. The wind turbine generator system includes a wind rotor, a generator and a tower. The wind rotor is a fixed-pitch variable-rotation-speed wind rotor, the wind rotor shaft directly drives a rotor of the generator,... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20100066088 - Wind turbine generator: A wind turbine generator is provided in which the efficiency of heating the interior of a nacelle can be improved at a low outside air temperature in a cold region. The wind turbine generator includes a nacelle that accommodates a driving and generating mechanism connected to a rotor head fitted... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20100066087 - Wind turbine generator, wind turbine generator system, and power generation control method of wind turbine generator: To provide a wind turbine generator, a wind turbine generator system, and a power-generation control method of a wind turbine generator that are capable of improving the power-generation capability and reducing the fatigue load on the windmill. A data accumulation unit 25 sequentially accumulates data sets of a generated output... Agent: Kanesaka Berner And Partners LLP

20100066089 - Subsea turbine with a peripheral drive: A ducted water turbine is configured to be installed in a subsea environment to generate hydroelectric power and broadly includes a turbine housing, a turbine rotor, and a generator. The turbine rotor includes a peripheral rim and a plurality of rotor blades mounted to and extending radially inwardly from the... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20100066090 - Free renewable energy designs: These Free Renewable Energy Designs capture the Earth's tidal energy forces. These systems of interconnected modules are capable of capturing and releasing massive amounts of sea water through water control gate(s) located on the barges. Type A design modules are permanently suspended between high tide and low tide levels and... Agent: Fred Michael Newcomer

20100066091 - Power generation system using helical turbine: Disclosed is a helical turbine power generation system for generating electricity by using a helical turbine and a synchronous generator, the system including: a helical turbine rotatably provided in a frame so as to continuously generate rotation force under unidirectional or multidirectional fluid flow; a step-up gear for increasing a... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20100066092 - Hydroelectric power generator: A hydroelectric power generator system having a plurality of water wheels affixed to a support structure in a stair step formation. At the top of the support structure is a upper water reservoir with a plurality of spouts each having a shut off valve. At the bottom of the support... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20100066093 - Airborne stabilized wind turbines system: An airborne system for producing electricity from wind energy includes a shaft, wind turbines rotatably mounted to the shaft and arranged to rotate independently in opposite directions when subjected to the same wind, and generators arranged to convert rotation of the turbines into electricity. A lifting section includes combination of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20100066095 - Airborne stabilized wind turbines system: An airborne system for producing electricity from wind energy includes a shaft, wind turbines rotatably mounted to the shaft and arranged to rotate independently in opposite directions when subjected to the same wind, and generators arranged to convert rotation of the turbines into electricity. A lifting section includes combination of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20100066096 - Stator arrangement, generator and wind turbine: A stator arrangement of an electric machine, generator, and wind turbine includes a plurality of stator segments forming substantially the stator of the electric machine in a cylindric form around a radially centered shaft. The stator arrangement is radially surrounded by a rotatably mounted rotor arrangement. The stator segments are... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20100066094 - Wind-power unit with vertical axis: The invention relates to a wind-power unit with a wind turbine, a generator with vertical axis (8, 9, 10). A supporting pillar (2) supports the wind turbine and a foundation (3) is arranged for the supporting pillar (2). According to the invention, the stator (8, 9) of the generator (8,... Agent: Dykema Gossett PLLC

20100060014 - Device for energy recovery for a large diesel engine: A device for energy recovery for a large diesel engine includes a current generator for converting mechanical rotational energy into electric energy. The current generator includes input shaft for applying rotational energy; a steam turbine a first shaft for transmitting the rotational energy of the steam turbine to the input... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20100060016 - Network of energy generating modules for transfer of energy outputs: A network of energy generating modules includes a plurality of energy generating modules positioned over a geographic area and a network monitoring station. The energy generating modules may include enclosures and energy-transfer receptacles. The enclosures are configured to maintain an energy generating device capable of generating an energy output, and... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20100060015 - Portable generator having a detachable panel: A portable generator is provided with a remote power source connection, and optionally also provided with remote control and/or monitoring features. The portable generator's control panel is partially or entirely removable from the portable generator. A short pigtail with a weatherproof multi-pin connection connects to the generator's wiring harness. The... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20100060017 - Protection and control system: A system for protecting, controlling, and monitoring substation devices of a power system, includes a spare protection and control unit that, when there is a failure in a protection and control unit from among protection and control units that perform a protection and control operation for the substation devices, downloads... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20100059999 - Sea floor pump tailrace hydraulic generation system: In operation, the plant bring in the sea floor water to generate electricity on large scale. The electricity is transmitted to land by the sea floor cable, while the tailrace firstly drops to the tailrace pond and continually flows thru the tailrace pipes to the turbine pump farm, at last,... Agent: Sinorica, LLC

20100060003 - Momentum-conserving wind-driven electrical generator: Wind-driven electrical generators will slow and lose kinetic energy when the wind slows or stops. When the wind slows or stops, kinetic energy in the rotating turbine and other rotating components that would otherwise be lost, is conserved by supplying a supplemental mechanical energy to the rotating components using a... Agent: Docket Clerk

20100060002 - Wind turbine direct current control system and methods: A wind turbine control system converts AC power generated by the wind turbine to DC power for use in a load. The control system may include a plurality of modules that convert the AC power to DC power. The control system may include a turbine module that converts the AC... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20100060000 - Wind turbine having a main power converter and an auxiliary power converter and a method for the control thereof: A wind turbine comprising a main generator, a main power converter connected to the main generator and adapted to convert the electrical output power of the main generator to an electrical power to be fed into the utility grid up to a first rated converter output power and an auxiliary... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20100060001 - Wind turbine safety system and methods: A wind turbine for extracting energy from the wind and providing electrical energy to a load. The wind turbine may include a rotor arranged to drive a generator, and an electronic controller for connecting the generator to an electrical load. The electronic controller operates to reduce the tip speed ratio... Agent: Holland & Hart, LLP

20100060004 - Frictionless generator: New design of generator and or generators, which creates electricity. Using a sphere shape design compared to the traditional generator designs already in use today. Using a sphere shape design for the placements of the magnets and coil, triangular shape of the magnets, and a glass sphere filled with a... Agent: Young Ho Ro

20100060006 - Generator: The generator has a driving section provided with an impeller received in a casing, which is formed so as to allow the fluid at high-temperature and under high-pressure to flow in an inlet and to allow the fluid to flow out of an outlet, and adapted to rotate the impeller... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20100060005 - Power generation system using low grade solar energy: Disclosed is a system providing practical power generation from heat energy input from a low grade source, such as solar energy. In a modified Rankine cycle, increased energy is extracted via the turbine by letting the working fluid drop to a lower pressure. Phase change of the low pressure working... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20100060007 - Harness the energy of the oceans and lakes to produce electricity: s

20100060008 - Wind and water turbine: A power generation system that provides means for a wind or water powered wheel having pairs of radially positioned arms each having a shaft with a pair of fins pivotally attached thereto and where the independently rotating fins or paddles allow for increased power generation and reduced drag.... Agent: Herbert L. Allen Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20100060011 - Automotive wind powered generator: The Wind Powered Generator System is a combination of many common automotive parts. Automotive wind power is a new area and incorporates a roof carrier system that have generators mounted on the crossbar or the roof system. The air velocity or wind turns the fan blade when either vehicle is... Agent: Robert C. Kain, Jr.

20100060010 - Ecology friendly compound energy unit: The ecology friendly compound energy unit for generating electric power from wind, convection (stack effect) and solar energy includes a warm/hot air/gas vertical pipe and a cyclone mounted on the top of the warm/hot air/gas vertical pipe, and constituted by a group of trumped—shaped bodies situated a round a vertical... Agent: Iosif Gaportsin

20100060009 - Power-generating device for electro-magnetic engine: A power-generating device, comprising a housing assembly comprising at least one elongated body having an inlet, an outlet, and a base. The base is mounted onto a vehicle. The inlet is located on an upper end of the at least one elongated body, and the base is located on a... Agent: Albert Bordas, P.A.

20100060013 - Procedure and equipment for water/wind generators' performance improvement with the addition of a pneumatic system: Performance and equipment for the improvement of performance of (15) wind and/or water machines, with an (5) additional pneumatic system, with utilization of kinetic energy arisen by (16) wind and/or water, with use of (8) the produced and compressed air stored in the (9) supporting column and/or in (11,13) external... Agent: Scott Caridi

20100060012 - Wind power installation, generator for generation of electrical power from ambient air, and method for generation of electrical power from ambient air in motiion: The present invention relates to a wind power installation (1) for generation of electrical power by means of ambient air, having a flow channel (3) through which the ambient air is passed by an air flow being formed, with the flow channel (3) having an outer casing (6) delimiting it,... Agent: Jansson Shupe & Munger

20100052332 - Environment friendly remote control: A remote control is suggested, which comprises an electric signal transmitter being supplied with energy from an electrical energy storage device. The remote control comprises a generator for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy to be stored in the electrical energy storage device. The remote control is provided with a... Agent: Robert D. Shedd, Patent Operations Thomson Licensing LLC

20100052331 - System for starting power systems with multiple generator units: A control system and strategy for starting power systems having a plurality of power modules. For example, a multi-engine generator set switcher locomotive has three power modules each of which have an engine associated therewith. Upon receiving a command from the locomotive indicating to the engine control module to start... Agent: Caterpillar Inc. Intellectual Property Dept.

20100052333 - Wast water energy system and method: A waste water energy system and method for producing electric power using waste water. Waste water from a waste water source is provided to one or more electric power generating devices that utilize waste water in and for the production of electric power.... Agent: Nash & Titus, LLC

20100052321 - method for the operation of a wind energy plant having a wind velocity measurement device: A method for the operation of a wind energy plant, which features a wind velocity measurement device and a device for the detection of a mechanical load, with the following steps: measuring a wind velocity with the wind velocity measurement device, detecting a mechanical load with the device for the... Agent: Vidas, Arrett & Steinkraus, P.A.

20100052323 - Magnetically geared generator: The present invention provides a magnetically geared generator including an inner winding unit having a first number of pole pairs, an outer winding unit arranged coaxially around the inner winding unit and having a second number of pole pairs, and a rotatable magnetic flux modulator arranged coaxially between the inner... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20100052320 - Method and apparatus for load measurement in a wind turbine: The present invention provides a connecting device adapted for connecting a hub and a main shaft of a wind turbine. The connecting device comprises at least one sensor bolt connecting the hub and the main shaft, wherein a stress detection element is mounted inside the sensor bolt. The stress detection... Agent: General Electric Company Ge Global Patent Operation

20100052322 - Wind energy installation with negative sequence system regulation and operating method: A wind energy installation can include a generator which is driven by a rotor and generates electrical power in a multiphase manner for feeding into a network, a converter which is connected to the generator and to the network, and a control system which interacts with the converter and includes... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20100052324 - Piezoelectric windmill apparatus: A piezoelectric windmill configured to handle small scale wind flow. One embodiment the piezoelectric windmill solves problems associated with harvesting energy and generating electric energy or power using piezoelectric materials having significant advantages over previously available materials.... Agent: Rosenbaum & Associates, P.C.

20100052325 - Energy generation plant driven by wind or water currents: Power generation plant for obtaining electrical power from a water or air flow includes a turbine; an electrical generator, having a coaxial configuration of a rotor and a stator. The rotor is an external rotor and part of an annular support structure for the turbine. The stator is housed in... Agent: Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, LLP

20100052326 - Geothermal energy system: A method and system for generating electrical energy is provided. The method and the system comprises a geothermal underground dry space with a hot ambient temperature, a water intake at the bottom of the sea or ocean, a passageway leading from said water intake to said geothermal underground dry space,... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20100052327 - Tide operated energy system: m

20100052329 - Air flow dynamo-selfbooster:

20100052328 - Hybrid wind turbine - combustion engine electrical power generator: A hybrid power generator is characterized by the combination of a wind turbine and a combustion engine to drive a generator. The wind turbine and combustion engine are each connected with the generator via a drive train. Each drive train preferably includes a gearbox and a clutch, with the clutches... Agent: Laubscher & Laubscher, P.C.

20100052330 - Use of oriented grain rolling in a wind turbine generator: The present invention relates to a wind turbine for generating electric power. The wind turbine includes a generator (105) and a wind turbine rotor (101) for driving the generator (105). The generator includes a generator stator (201) having at least two stator poles (203), and a generator rotor (210) comprising... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP