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20110121582 - Cooling system: A cooling system configured for converting thermal energy to mechanical energy includes a source of thermal energy provided by a temperature difference between a heat source having a first temperature and a coolant having a second temperature that is lower than the first temperature. The cooling system includes a cooling... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110121581 - Nuvolt power system \"nps\": Unlike current electric generators; the Nuvolt Power System “NPS” is an electric generator that, once started, will produce electrical power continuously, without the aid or use of external energy sources such as: mechanical, fuel, waves, wind, solar or electrical energy.... Agent: Mclean Technology

20110121583 - System for generating and transporting electric power from hydrothermal vents: An electric generator may utilize the thermoacoustic effect to extract usable energy from the natural thermal gradient present between hydrothermal fluid issuing from an undersea hydrothermal vent and ambient sea water by creating an acoustic pressure wave in a working fluid inside a thermoacoustic resonance chamber. The acoustic energy is... Agent:

20110121570 - System and method for controlling a tethered flying craft using tether attachment point manipulation: A tethered airborne electrical power generation system which may utilize a strutted frame structure with airfoils built into the frame to keep wind turbine driven generators which are within the structure airborne. The primary rotors utilize the prevailing wind to generate rotational velocity. Electrical power generated is returned to ground... Agent:

20110121571 - Torque transmitting mechanism of an internal combustion engine, a vehicle and a method of transmitting torque: A torque transmitting mechanism of an internal combustion engine includes, but is not limited to a starter-generator, a crankshaft side member that rotates in conjunction with a crankshaft, a first one-way clutch arranged to transmit torque from the starter to the crankshaft side member and a second one-way clutch arranged... Agent: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc.

20110121573 - Device for harnessing ocean wave energy for generation of electricity: There is disclosed a hydro-electric generating device comprising -a solid plate fixedly supporting two bearings, which bearings rotatably support a shaft, the plate has a cutout fillable with water subjected to wave motions; -a turbine fixed on the shaft. The turbine has a plurality of blades disposed in the cutout.... Agent:

20110121572 - Wave motion power generator: A power generation system is provided that can capture and convert kinetic energy from waves in open water into hydraulic or electrical energy. The system includes one or more platforms that include buoyant arms which extend outwardly from the platform for interaction with waves passing around and beneath the platform.... Agent:

20110121574 - Spiral type membrane element, and spiral type membrane filtering device having the same: Provided are a spiral type membrane element that can re-collect the electric power that is used in a good manner, and a spiral type membrane filtering device having the same. The spiral type membrane element comprises a power generating section that generates electric power by using a liquid, and an... Agent:

20110121579 - Brake system, generator and wind turbine: A brake system, especially for a generator, including a rotor assembly, a stator assembly and a rotation axis is disclosed. The rotor assembly includes an outer portion which is located radially outward of the stator assembly. The outer portion includes a brake disc, and the stator assembly comprises at least... Agent:

20110121577 - Method and device for energy generation: A method and device for using radial relative displacement between a magnet and coil to generate electricity from fluid motion. The device includes a support structural component, a moveable magnetic structure, a rotating structural component, and bearings. The moveable magnetic structure is coupled to the support structural component. The rotating... Agent: Oscilla Power Inc.

20110121576 - Multistage electric power generating and ventilating device: An electric generator include a plurality of magnet disks coupled to a rotating shaft at longitudinally spaced apart locations. The magnet discs are formed on each face of a substantially flat, cylindrical rotor from magnetic material and are polarized in a selected direction. A plurality of stators is disposed between... Agent:

20110121578 - Systems and methods for tethered wind turbines: According to some embodiments, a plurality of airborne bodies may each extend horizontally along an axis between a first point and a second point. Each body may be, for example, at least partially filled with a gas and two or more vanes may be provided airborne with each body such... Agent:

20110121575 - Systems, methods, and kits for power generation: According to the invention, a system for generation of electrical power is provided. The system may include a wind driven element, a primary generator, a clutch, and an assist motor. The wind driven element may be configured to be rotated by wind thereby creating rotational motion, and further to provide... Agent:

20110121580 - Wind-driven electricity generation device with segmented rotor: A vertical wind-driven electricity generation device is described, which utilizes a unique segmented Savonius rotor and which is easily handled, transported, assembled and maintained, even by a single person. The blades of the rotor are segmented into a plurality of modest size blade pair segments, each of which comprises two... Agent:

20110115235 - Variable speed high efficiency cooling system: The present invention includes an engine mechanically coupled to a generator to provide mechanical power thereto and a housing assembly defining an interior space to at least partially enclose the engine and the generator. The housing has a first airflow path structured to provide cooling into the radiator and a... Agent:

20110115236 - Electrical generator: An electrical generator powered by the rotation of a central shaft. A gear train rotates with respect to the central shaft and is in operable connection to a generator for producing electrical energy. The shaft can be rotated by falling weights connected to longitudinal arms. Alternatively, a motor can be... Agent:

20110115237 - Thermoelectric generator: A thermoelectric generator including a membrane maintained by lateral ends and capable of taking a first shape when its temperature reaches a first threshold and a second shape when its temperature reaches a second threshold greater than the first threshold; at least one electrically conductive element attached to with the... Agent: Stmicroelectronics (crolles 2) Sas

20110115223 - Compressed air energy storage system utilizing two-phase flow to facilitate heat exchange: A compressed-air energy storage system according to embodiments of the present invention comprises a reversible mechanism to compress and expand air, one or more compressed air storage tanks, a control system, one or more heat exchangers, and, in certain embodiments of the invention, a motor-generator. The reversible air compressor-expander uses... Agent: Lightsail Energy Inc.

20110115222 - Vibration energy harvester for converting mechanical vibrational energy into electrical energy: A vibration energy harvester for converting mechanical vibrational energy into electrical energy, the vibration energy harvester comprising a device for generating electrical energy when subjected to mechanical vibration, and a current control circuit electrically connected to the device for providing a substantially constant output current at an electrical output of... Agent: Perpetuum Ltd

20110115238 - Starter for an internal combustion engine: The invention relates to a starter (10) for an internal combustion engine, comprising a starter motor (12) which can be coupled to the internal combustion engine by means of a pinion (22), and a device for engaging the pinion (22) in a gear rim (26) of the internal combustion engine... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20110115224 - Method for controlling at least one adjustment mechanism of a wind turbine, a wind turbine and a wind park: Method for controlling at least one adjustment mechanism of a wind turbine, said method comprising the steps of: establishing at least one load or operational value of the wind turbine, choosing a combination of at least two control strategies from a set of different control strategies based on the established... Agent: Vestas Wind Systems A/s

20110115225 - Starter-generator: A starter-generator is provided for a motor vehicle that has a drive train (1) with a drive machine (4), a torque-transmission device (8) and a transmission. The starter-generator (20) has an external rotor (22) and a stator (21). To simplify the manufacture of the motor vehicle, the starter-generator has a... Agent: Dr. Ing. H.c.f. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft

20110115228 - Flow enhancement for underwater turbine generator: A flow enhancement improvement for an underwater turbine generator (10) is disclosed wherein a longitudinal hole (240) is disposed in the central area (26), typically a hub (20) of the generator (10), and a second, augmentor duct (41), preferably rigid, is disposed about the outer duct (40) or housing of... Agent: Clean Current Limited Partnership

20110115226 - Systems and apparatus relating to solar-thermal power generation: The present application thus describes a solar-thermal power generation plant that includes one or more towers; a plurality of heliostats disposed around each of the one or more towers; a direct solar evaporator mounted at an elevated position on each of the one or more towers, the heliostats being configured... Agent: General Electric Company

20110115227 - Turbogenerator with cooling system: A turbogenerator having a gas turbine engine powering generator and a cooling system and an annular heat exchanger powered by a fan disposed across an outer fan duct of the engine. Fan variable inlet and outlet guide vanes may be used to vary power between the fan and the generator... Agent:

20110115229 - Wave powered electrical generator: A wave powered electrical generator includes: a floating unit that floats in water and accommodates a power generator therein. The floating unit has a wave power system that includes, a chamber containing fluid, a free-floating mass provided in the chamber that separates the chamber into first and second chambers defined... Agent:

20110115231 - Hydrokinetic energy conversion system: A hydrokinetic energy conversion system (HKECS) is provided, comprising design configurations suitable for efficient production of tidal or river in-stream kinetic energy into useful mechanical energy for tasks such as generating electricity or water pumping. The apparatus includes a set of blades with an airfoil cross sectional contour moving on... Agent: Nostrum Energy Pte. Ltd.

20110115230 - Power generator: A power generator assembly (10a) for using kinetic energy from a flowing fluid (12) to generate power. The power generator assembly (10a) includes a blade assembly (14) and a generator (30). The blade assembly (14) has a head end (16) for facing oncoming flowing fluid (12), a tail end (18)... Agent:

20110115232 - Vertical axis wind turbine with flat electric generator: A wind turbine with an electric generator, having a vertical axis of rotation, the wind turbine having: a cantilevered spindle having an upper end and a lower base for securing to a support structure, the spindle having an electric generator stator disposed about the spindle in communication with electrical conductors;... Agent: Two-west Wind And Solar Inc.

20110115233 - Wind power plant and method for operating the same: The invention is directed to a high-power wind energy installation, wherein the rotor blades, to minimize the static and/or dynamic structural load and/or to damp vibrations, for example by generating counterforces to compensate for interference forces and moments, can be adjusted even when a constant wind velocity v∞ does not... Agent:

20110115234 - Wind turbine: A wind turbine is disclosed. The wind turbine includes a direct drive generator, which includes an inner stator arrangement and an outer rotor arrangement, a stationary outer shaft and a rotatable inner shaft having a centre axis. At least two main bearings support the rotatable inner shaft inside the stationary... Agent:

20110109100 - Wind turbine: The invention concerns a wind turbine comprising a tower (23), on top of the tower a nacelle (29) supported by a vertical drum (24) enclosing an upper room (52), a rotor rotating with a more or less horizontal shaft (32) supported in bearings (17, 31) mounted in the nacelle with... Agent:

20110109101 - Insta power: An emergency power source generator, alternator, inverter and gearbox which provides DC power that is then inverted to 110-120V AC power wherein the alternator produces electrical power to charge three 12V batteries set up in tandem via an inverter which is configured to invert the 12V batteries into AC power... Agent:

20110109102 - Meta-material vibration energy harvester: A meta-material vibration energy harvester includes a housing element encapsulating a multiplicity of oscillators capable of harvesting a significant percentage of the total mechanical energy diffusely distributed throughout the vibrating structure, the harvester design resulting in a rapid transfer of mechanical energy entering it via the housing element from the... Agent:

20110109085 - Power oscillation damping employing a full or partial conversion wind turbine: A wind turbine (8) for controlling power oscillations on a grid of a power system (28). The wind turbine (8) comprises rotor blades (12) for turning by the wind, an electric generator (20) rotatably coupled to the rotor blades (12), a power converter (24) responsive to electricity generated by the... Agent:

20110109086 - Wind energy installation and method of controlling the output power from a wind energy installation: A wind energy installation and a method of controlling the output power from a wind energy installation to an electrical grid with a specified nominal grid frequency are provided, in which the output power is controlled as a function of the time derivative of the grid frequency.... Agent:

20110109087 - Geothermal power plant: Geothermal power plant, comprising units that are modularized and adapted in order to fit into one or more container, as a geothermal container unit, the geothermal container unit is dimensioned in order to be adapted to extract geothermal energy from one drillbore, and each geothermal container unit has means for... Agent:

20110109088 - Windsock horizontal axes turbine: The windsock horizontal axes windmill is much like a conventional horizontal axes windmill with two unique differences. The propeller is replaced with a cone shaped turbine that runs slower with less noise very much like a squirrel cage type vertical axes windmill. The cone shaped turbine can also be seen... Agent:

20110109091 - Counter rotation subsurface current generator: An invention for capturing and converting the hydro kinetic energy in ocean and tidal currents into mechanical energy for generating electricity. An internal turbine enclosed in a external turbine cylinder rotates opposite of internal turbine. Current is compressed into high pressure within internal turbine, the high pressure is vented into... Agent:

20110109090 - Fin-ring propeller for a water current power generation system: A water current power generation system is provided, including a plurality of flotation tubes joined by a body structure; a plurality of ballast chambers joined by a body structure; a plurality of induction type power generation units disposed within housings associated with one or more of the flotation chambers, ballast... Agent:

20110109089 - Free-flow hydro-powered turbine system: The enablement is a submerged hydro-powered electrical generating plant powered by the raw power of ocean currents by using the natural motive forces of nature, when submerged within a moving ocean current. A turbine driven electrical generator (preferably a Pelton wheel impulse turbine), with a transformer are all located in... Agent:

20110109095 - Arrangement for cooling of an electrical generator: The arrangement directed to a generator, which contains a rotor and a stator us disclosed. The stator contains at least two stator segments. At least one of the stator segments contains a number of stacked laminate plates. The stacked laminate plates contain a number of slots at a first side,... Agent:

20110109096 - Fixed pitch wind (or water) turbine with centrifugal weight control (cwc): e

20110109097 - Systems and methods for tethered wind turbines: According to some embodiments, an airborne body extends horizontally along an axis between a first point and a second point. The body may be, for example, at least partially filled with a gas. Two or more vanes may be provided airborne with the body such that the vanes, when acted... Agent:

20110109093 - Tool having integrated electricity generator with external stator and power conditioner: A tool includes a nonmagnetic tool housing, a cylindrical rotor inside the tool housing and rotatable in response to a flow of pressurized fluid through the tool housing and magnets mounted in the rotor. A stator is positioned on the exterior of the tool housing, and is dimensioned to cooperate... Agent:

20110109098 - Wind generator with folding mast: Wind generator comprising a folding mast pivotally mounted about an articulation positioned at a location some way between the lower and upper ends of the mast. The mast is actuated by a ram which is connected to the lower end of the mast.... Agent: Alizeo

20110109094 - Wind to electric energy conversion with hydraulic storage: A system for reversible storage of energy, the system comprising: means for generating energy; first conversion means for converting the energy into stored energy by means of low ratio (3.2:1 or less) high pressure (200 bar minimum) compression of gas; and second conversion means for converting the stored energy by... Agent:

20110109099 - Wind turbine: A wind turbine which includes a direct drive generator is disclosed. The direct drive generator includes an inner stator arrangement and an outer rotor arrangement and a stationary shaft with a centre axis. The stator arrangement is arranged on the outside of the stationary shaft, the rotor arrangement is substantially... Agent:

20110109092 - Windmill electric generator for hydroelectric power system: A windmill electric generator includes a support base, an inline generator assembly, a large generator, a variable blade pitch housing and a plurality of blades. The support base includes a pedestal support and a rotating support. The inline generator assembly includes a generator support structure, a plurality of inline generators... Agent:

20110101701 - Transient absorber for power generation system: A vehicle energy harvester including a subunit having an upper surface forming a roadway surface; a vehicle activated treadle on the subunit, the vehicle activated treadle moveable between a first position in which an upper surface of the treadle is at an angle with respect to the upper surface of... Agent:

20110101702 - Spring generator: A spring operated generator includes a pair of torsion spring banks and a pair of elongate shafts extending through respective spring banks and operatively connected to respective generators. A starter motor is connected to each respective spring bank for initially winding each spring bank. When actuated, the primed spring bank... Agent:

20110101703 - Multiphase material generator vehicle: Systems and methods are disclosed relating to a vehicle driven by an air driven generator that employs multiphase materials and compressed air.... Agent: Causwave, Inc.

20110101704 - Starter: A starter comprises: an electric motor with an enclosure; a gear train mounted to one end of the motor; and a switch module for controlling operation of the motor. The switch module has an enclosure. The enclosure of the switch module and the enclosure of the motor are integrally formed... Agent: Johnson Electric S.a.

20110101692 - Airborne wind powered generator: A wind powered generator is described that may take advantage of the strong wind present at higher altitudes above terrain than can feasibly be reached by traditional tower mounted wind generators. It makes use of a combination of lift sources. The generator comprises an envelope filled with a lifting gas... Agent:

20110101689 - Method and apparatus for generating power in a wind turbine: A power converter for a wind turbine including an array of switching devices and a control module having a current damping device. The control module is configured to control a switching behavior of the array of switching devices and to receive a current having a first frequency component from the... Agent:

20110101688 - Multi purpose variable speed wind powered generator: A Multi Purpose Variable Speed Wind Powered Generator is configured to generate electrical power to all types of transportation and equipment in any wind condition. The wind speed monitor gives the variable pitch rotor the precise angle of attack to keep rotor RPM relative and stable at all wind speeds.... Agent:

20110101690 - Wind farm and method for operation of a wind farm: A wind farm in which electrical power produced in the wind farm is transported via a wind-farm-internal network to a substation. Upon being transferred to an external network, the electrical power is transformed to a voltage which is higher by a selectable step-up ratio than the voltage in the wind-farm-internal... Agent: Repower Systems Ag

20110101691 - Wind turbine generator and method of estimating wind direction in wind turbine generator: Yaw control is performed such that a nacelle faces into an actual main wind direction. The actual wind direction is estimated by detecting the main wind direction with an anemoscope (wind direction detecting means), assuming the actual wind direction by assuming a wind direction offset value, which is a deviation... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

20110101693 - Aircraft starter generator: A starter generator has an electric rotating machine having a rotating shaft and designed to carry two reverse operations—motor and generator. A first clutch is connected between the rotating machine and the first rotating shaft for transmitting rotations of the rotating machine to the first rotating shaft. A second clutch... Agent: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

20110101695 - Fluid turbine: A fluid turbine includes stator fitted with fluid inlet and outlet, and a rolling rotor installed inside the confusor part of the stator at one end of a shaft, with the other end fixed in a clamp of a clamping mechanism on the stator. The shaft of the rolling rotor... Agent: Czech Technical University In Prague, Faculty Of Civil Engineering

20110101694 - Self orienting vertical axis wind turbine: A vertical axis wind turbine includes a propeller assembly formed from a hub with downwardly and outwardly depending blades. The propeller assembly has a polygonal base with the blades forming the bases of a triangular surface meeting at a common vertex. The hub is mounted on a spindle which is... Agent:

20110101696 - Wave power plant and method for operating the same: v

20110101697 - Systems and methods for supporting underwater energy conversion devices: A system for energy conversion may comprise at least one floating support structure configured to float on a body of water, at least one anchoring device configured to anchor the at least one floating support structure in a substantially stationary position on the body of water, and at least one... Agent: Oceana Energy Company

20110101700 - Arrangement for cooling of an electrical machine: An arrangement for cooling of an electrical machine is disclosed. The electrical machine includes a stator-arrangement and a rotor-arrangement. The stator-arrangement is mounted on an outer surface of a support-structure. At least one cooling channel is arranged between the stator-arrangement and the support-structure in a way that the cooling-channel is... Agent:

20110101699 - Configuration of a wind turbine nacelle: A wind turbine nacelle configuration includes a frame structure configured for mounting atop a wind turbine tower. The frame structure includes a base, side support members, and top support members. A shell is attached to the frame structure to enclose the nacelle. A drive train may be housed within the... Agent:

20110101698 - Wind powered vehicle: The present invention provides a wind-powered vehicle having turbine blades mounted on the vehicle at a location to receive wind to rotate the blades when the vehicle is being driven. A generator is connected to the turbine blades so that when the turbine blades rotate the generator produces electricity. One... Agent: