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Prime-mover dynamo plants October categorized by USPTO classification 10/11

20110260468 - Engine electrical generator cooling device and method: A rotor for an electrical generator is disclosed, including a rotor body having a circular portion and a cylindrical portion coaxial with the circular portion. A generally cylindrical recess is defined by the cylindrical portion and the first side of the circular portion for receiving a stator. At least one... Agent: Brp-powertrain Gmbh & Co. Kg

20110260466 - Permanent magnet type rotary electric machine: For providing a permanent magnet type rotary electric machine that can reduce magnetic fluxes concentrated to one side in rotating direction on a magnetic pole circumferential face that causes torque ripple as well as ensure the mechanical strength, in the present invention, an outer circumference of respective magnetic poles is... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.,

20110260467 - Ring generator: A ring generator of a wind power installation is provided comprising a stator having a peripherally extending stator ring for receiving stator windings and a rotor mounted rotatably about an axis of rotation relative to the stator, wherein the stator ring has cooling passages for cooling the stator by an... Agent:

20110260469 - Energy harvesting seating: Seating systems in which energy is harvested from the physical movement of the seat. The seating system includes a seating article, an electrical generator, a drive mechanism, and a battery. The generator, the drive mechanism, and the battery are supported on the seating article. The generator is powered by the... Agent: Access Business Group International LLC

20110260472 - Method for using vehicle movement for producing electric energy: The process of production is basically to implement in highways, roads, avenues and similar ones, large cylinders at the asphalt level—only a part of these cylinders will come into contact with the vehicle tires, and the other part will be inserted inside the passage location vehicle. Through the friction caused... Agent:

20110260471 - Systems and methods for storing and generating energy: A method for storing potential energy and generating electrical energy. The method has the steps of accumulating and storing potential energy, converting the potential energy to mechanical energy at the election of a user, and converting the mechanical energy to electrical energy. There are various embodiments of energy storage and... Agent: Alphawolf Consulting, Inc.

20110260470 - Tribrid electric transportation system: A tribrid electric transportation system including a dual generator wind turbine to produce wind energy, a solar panel mounted to the roof gathers a secondary source of solar energy, and a diesel fueled electric generator or fuel cell adds a third source of energy to an electric motor to propel... Agent:

20110260452 - Power supply source switching apparatus for hybrid engine generator: Usability is improved and noise and fuel consumption are lowered by preventing stopping of a generator output. A hybrid power generator 1 includes a battery 4, an alternator 3, a rectifier unit 51, a DC-DC converter 9 stepping up an output of the battery 4, and an inverter unit 53... Agent: Honda Motor Co., Ltd

20110260473 - Method for standby generator restart after fault shut-down: A standby generator that includes a control unit that allows the standby generator to be automatically restarted upon termination of the generator operation due to a fault condition. The control unit of the standby generator monitors various conditions of the standby generator and terminates operation of the standby generator upon... Agent: Briggs & Stratton Corporation

20110260453 - 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:

20110260454 - Device for controlling a double-fed asynchronous machine: The invention relates to a device and method for controlling a double-fed asynchronous machine (4), preferably for a power plant, in particular for a wind or water power plant. The device includes an indirect converter (6) which is connected on the rotor side to the double-fed asynchronous machine (4). The... Agent: Woodward Kempen Gmbh

20110260455 - Vertical axis wind turbine: A vertical axis wind turbine includes an upstanding support structure, a plurality of generators disposed on the support structure, a central shaft in rotatable communication with the generators and positioned along a central axis of the vertical-axis wind turbine, a plurality of struts extending from the central shaft, and a... Agent: Eastern Wind Power

20110260457 - Downhole axial flux generator: A downhole tool string component comprises a bore to receive a flow of drilling fluid comprising a central passage and at least one peripheral passage. A compliant member is disposed within the bore and forms an internal diameter of the central passage, and at least one opening. The at least... Agent:

20110260456 - Hydro unit retrofit and method of performing same: A turbine replacement unit for replacement of at least one double runner horizontal submersible installation for a hydroelectric plant including at least one submerged coupling and at least one submerged bearing supported by a submerged bearing pedestal in which each of the two runners discharge a flow into a common... Agent:

20110260459 - Method and apparatus for creating internal directional underwater falls and generating electrical energy therefrom: Creation of internal underwater falls and generation of electrical energy therefrom includes providing a hollow tank having a substantially vertical axis; locating a rotatable turbine in an interior of said tank and orienting said rotatable turbine so that its axis of rotation is an axis selected from consisting of a... Agent:

20110260458 - Tubular turbine generator unit: at least one floodable space is provided inside the tubular turbine housing, which is flooded with water in the region of the tubular turbine generator unit, wherein the generator gap between the generator rotor and the generator stator and the bearing gap of the bearing assembly are part of the... Agent: Voith Patent Gmbh

20110260460 - Method and apparatus for generating electrical energy from underwater falls: Electrical energy is generating by submerging a tank in a body of water so that its water inlet is located under a water surface and covered by water and water flows into an interior of the tank, evacuating water from the tank by an evacuating element through a water outlet... Agent:

20110260462 - Planform configuration for stability of a powered kite and a system and method for use of same: A system and method of power generation, wind based flight, and take off and landing using a tethered kite with a raised tail mounted rearward of the main wing or wings. The tail may be fully rotatable and may be adapted to rotate more than 90 degrees from its nominal... Agent:

20110260464 - Power increasing pole-like arrangement for air turbine: A pole-like arrangement includes an air turbine and a generator. An air conduit extends through the interior of the pole, the conduit having a mouth, and the air turbine is arranged at the top of the pole and in the air outflow from the mouth of the conduit. With such... Agent: Ostergotlands Fastighetsservice Samt El Och Larm I

20110260461 - Rotor turning device for wind turbine generator and rotor turning method: A rotor turning device for a wind turbine generator which can be used without having to modify the existing wind turbine generator, and a method for turning the rotor. A rotor turning device comprises, on the inner periphery, a first member acting as a fixing member for fixing to a... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

20110260463 - Vertical axis wind turbine: A vertical axis wind turbine includes an upstanding support structure, a plurality of generators disposed on the support structure, a central shaft in rotatable communication with the generators and positioned along a central axis of the vertical-axis wind turbine, a plurality of struts extending from the central shaft, and a... Agent: Eastern Wind Power

20110260465 - Wind turbine: According to the present invention is provided a wind turbine connected to a utility grid, said wind turbine comprising a nacelle, at least one transformer for feeding generated power to the utility grid, and a flexible suspension arrangement connected to a load carrying structure of the nacelle and suspending said... Agent: Vestas Wind Systems A/s

20110254284 - Electrical generation: Synchronous generators are driven by shafts to produce 3-phase AC power. The frequency and amplitude of power depends on the speed of the respective shaft. The outputs are rectified and connected in series to provide an output of varying voltage DC power to a load. Applications in aerospace and renewable... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20110254285 - Electromagnetic energy harvester and a door latch release mechanism as an energy source for the harvester: A system for electromagnetically harvesting waste kinetic energy. A wound electrical coil having a hollow bobbin abuts an opening in ring magnet. An actuator plunger extends through the opening. Fixed magnets are located at the opposite end of the bobbin. Floating magnets are disposed within the bobbin, arranged with their... Agent: Hanchett Entry Systems, Inc.

20110254269 - High efficiency cogeneration system and related method of use: The invention is directed to a high efficiency cogeneration system capable of creating electricity and usable heat. The invention includes a fuel source, which can be a reservoir filled with a fossil fuel. The fuel source feeds a modified combustion engine that can turn a shaft to power an alternator... Agent: Everlite Hybrid Industries, LLC

20110254271 - Tidal turbine system: A tidal flow turbine system has a rotor and turbine blades attached at a fixed attitude with respect to the rotor and extending outwardly from the rotor. The stagger angle of the blades, tip speed ratio, or other blade parameters is such that over the in-service operational speed range of... Agent:

20110254270 - Wave gear drive -wgd: The Wave Gear Drive, WGD system is a new method for directly converting sea wave energy to mechanical drive using wave undulations and a buoyant float directly acting on a spiral spring or rack and pinion or power pulley system to drive a rotary or reciprocating water pump that pumps... Agent:

20110254272 - Cycloid reduction gear for wind force generator: A cycloid reduction gear for a wind force generator is provided. The wind force generator having generation blades and horizontal and vertical axes includes: a horizontal-axis reduction gear provided in a direction perpendicular to the vertical axis to rotate the generation blades in a horizontal direction; and a horizontal-axis rotation... Agent: Haisung Industrial Systems Co., Ltd.

20110254274 - Gas turbine engines: The generator uses a permanent magnet electrical machine providing three phase, unregulated DC voltage, from three windings feeding a rectifier circuit. A capacitor across the DC voltage acts as a buffer between the DC supply and the load. Regulation of the DC supply seen by the load is achieved by... Agent: Rolls-royce PLC

20110254273 - Turbine for a fluid stream: A turbine for a fluid stream has a support structure, a cage rotor, and a generator. The cage rotor is rotated about a first axis by motive fluids moving with a component perpendicular to the first axis. The cage rotor is pivotally mounted to the support structure about a second... Agent: 1444555 Alberta Ltd.

20110254275 - Portable wave-swash & coastal-wind energy harvester: In accordance with the present invention, a portable wave-swash & coastal-wind energy harvester, placed on a sea coast in swash zone captures energy contained in coastal waves and in coastal-wind through the utilization of wave turbines, wind turbines, and wave floats. Wave-float levers carrying wave floats and wave turbines, swing... Agent:

20110254276 - Tapered helical auger turbine to convert hydrokinetic energy into electrical energy: A helical multi-piece auger that is rotatable by a moving fluid for the generation of energy is provided. The helical multi-piece auger may include several interior pieces and two tapered end-pieces mounted on a central shaft. The pieces may include an outer spiral flange perpendicular, in both directions, to a... Agent:

20110254283 - wind turbine: The present invention relates to a wind turbine (2) comprising a tower (3), a nacelle (4) arranged on top of said tower (3) and a slip ring assembly (1) having at least one slip ring (11), wherein a first cable (6) is extending from the nacelle (4) to the tower... Agent: Vestas Wind Systems A/s

20110254278 - Wind power generator apparatus: The wind power generator apparatus includes a bellows (10) having a chamber (11), a wind generator set (20) in the chamber (11) and a wind collector (30) coupled to the wind generator set (20). The wind generator set (20) includes a base (21) fixed in the bellows (10), a generator... Agent: Jetpro Technology, Inc.

20110254279 - Wind turbine: A wind turbine is provided. The wind turbine includes a housing containing a main shaft a first generator with a stator and a rotor, and a second generator with a stator and a rotor. The first generator is mounted on a blade side of the main shaft whereas the second... Agent:

20110254280 - Wind turbine generator: To provide a wind turbine generator capable of creating an air flow which can efficiently circulate air between the interior of a cover and a nacelle so that the interior of the cover can be efficiently cooled down. A wind turbine generator (1) is provided with a rotor head (4)... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

20110254281 - Wind turbine generator: Size enlargement of a wind turbine generator is facilitated by eliminating various problems that occur with a bearing that joins a tower (2) and a nacelle. In a wind turbine generator that turnably supports a nacelle installed at the top portion of a tower (2) via a yawing sliding bearing... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

20110254277 - Wind turbine tower and wind turbine generator: A wind turbine tower in which a horizontal force received by an upper part of the tower is dispersed to a lower part of the tower or to a base so as to reduce the load acting on a tower shell and suppress deformation of the tower caused by an... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

20110254282 - Wind turbine tower monitoring device: A wind turbine installation monitoring device, for detecting relative movement between two adjacent components of a wind turbine installation is provided. The device comprises a deformable member together with securing means. The securing means is configured to enable the device to be connectable to a wind turbine installation, in use.... Agent: Vestas Wind Systems A/s

20110248511 - Generator set cooling control system: A system includes a genset having an engine, an AC generator, and a radiator thermally coupled to the engine. The system includes an electric variable speed fan having an outlet flow, where the outlet flow passes at least partially through the radiator. The system includes a controller structured to functionally... Agent:

20110248512 - Continuous wind power system with auxiliary blades: One embodiment of a continuous wind power system with auxiliary blades comprises of a general generator (150) and six sets of auxiliary blade sets (120) each propelled by a motor (130) of its own. Motors (130) are powered up by batteries, solar panels, or by a fraction of power generated... Agent:

20110248513 - Method for use of the synthesis gas that comes from a gasifier: A synthesis gas (H2+CO) that comes from a gasifier is supposed to be used in more efficient and optimal manner, particularly for generating electricity, whereby then, CO2 that occurs at the same time is supposed to be passed to storage. This is achieved in that—the synthesis gas (H2+CO) and oxygen... Agent: Uhde Gmbh

20110248498 - Generating electrical power utilizing surface-level hot air as the heat source, high atmosphere as the heat sink and a microwave beam to initiate and control air updraft: The invention describes a method of generating electrical power utilizing hot surface air as the heat source, high atmosphere as the heat sink and a microwave beam aimed upward providing updraft to initiate and control the large-scale air circulation. The frequency of the microwave beam is centered at approximately 60... Agent:

20110248500 - Control of a wind turbine generator: A method for controlling a wind turbine generator is disclosed. The method comprises comparing an output power reference value and an actual output power value in a first control block with a first controller having a first control dynamics, comparing the output from the first control block with an actual... Agent: Vestas Wind Systems A/s

20110248501 - Wind power plant: A method for moving a double-bladed rotor of a wind power plant into a parking position characterized by the orientation of the rotor blades in a horizontal plane and braking the rotor.... Agent: Aerodyn Engineering Gmbh

20110248499 - Wind turbine comprising insulation monitoring system: The present invention concerns a wind turbine comprising a generator, a controller and a measurement equipment connected to the generator, the measurement equipment being adapted to measuring at least one quality parameter indicating the quality of generator insulation of the generator, and the measurement equipment being adapted to transmitting the... Agent: Vestas Wind Systems A/s

20110248502 - Waste water electrical power generating system: An electrical power generating system is connected to a sewer for conveying waste water to a sanitary treatment station. Waste water is propelled through the sewer line by pumping equipment which simultaneously pulverizes most large objects carried by the waste water. The waste water drives one or more water-operated turbines.... Agent: Criptonic Energy Solutions, Inc.

20110248504 - Tidal current power generator having an impeller-type rotating blade: A tidal current power generator according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a generator column; an impeller-type rotating blade provided on the upper portion of the generator column; and a first sealed chamber having a bottom portion formed with a lower inlet into which a rotating shaft of... Agent:

20110248503 - Wave driven pump and power generation system: A piston pump is anchored to the ocean floor with the piston rod connected to a float that rides on the surface waves. The pump connects to a sparge line that discharges a spray of water through the float to indicate proper pump function. The float is formed with a... Agent:

20110248505 - Energy generating unit and method for maintaining an energy generating unit: An energy generating unit especially for installation on a bed of a stream of water or floating in the water, composed of a plurality of components, such as an inlet housing, a turbine housing, a drive unit arranged in the turbine housing, and a downstream draft tube, in which at... Agent: Ksb Aktiengesellschaft

20110248506 - Assembly of components inside a large wind turbine: Assembly of components inside a large wind turbine, positioned between the upper section (3) of the tower (1) and under the nacelle. The components, which are transported pre-assembled to the site, are horizontal, circular platforms (6a and 6b), a vertical ladder (5) that goes through both platforms (6a and 6b)... Agent: Gamesa Innovation & Technology, S.i.

20110248508 - Electrical machine and permanent-magnet: An electrical machine including a permanent magnet and a coil is provided. The coil is arranged to interact with the permanent magnet via an air gap, which located between the two. Electrical power is generated in the coil when the permanent magnet or the coil is moved in their relative... Agent:

20110248509 - Generator with ferromagnetic teeth: A stator assembly for use in a superconducting generator operated at frequencies up to 10 Hz is disclosed. The stator assembly includes a ferromagnetic stator winding support having a plurality of teeth defining slots, the slots configured to receive and support stator windings. The stator winding support is formed so... Agent: American Superconductor Corporation

20110248507 - Stator-arrangement: A stator-arrangement for a generator is disclosed. The stator arrangement includes a plurality of stator segments. Each of the plurality of stator segments includes at least one stator winding and is adapted to build a ring-shaped stator when assembled. At least one cooling means is provided with each of the... Agent:

20110248510 - Vertical axis wind turbine: A vertical axis wind turbine including: a vertical axis wind mill having a vertical shaft and a generator having a generator rotor shaft, wherein the vertical shaft of the wind mill share the same shaft with the generator rotor shaft. This arrangement simplifies the structure and increases the stability, reliability,... Agent:

20110241351 - Power generating system employing a radial air cooled aircraft engine: P

20110241352 - Filtering of debris in wind turbines: A wind turbine is disclosed, the wind turbine comprising a nacelle including at least one of a debris-generating device, an inlet for air or an outlet for air. Following this invention, the wind turbine further comprises at least one electro-static filter arranged to filter at least one of the debris... Agent: Vestas Wind Systems A/s

20110241353 - Wind turbine generator: A wind turbine generator according to the present invention includes: a rotor head equipped with wind turbine blades to constitute a wind turbine rotor blade; a nacelle that bears a rotation shaft of the rotor head and houses a generator that generates electricity by a rotation of the rotor head;... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

20110241354 - Multi-segment weight in wellbore energy storage and retrieval: A system for storing and retrieving energy may include a cable and a multi-segment weight connected to the cable. The multi-segment weight may include a chain of weight segments. The chain of weight segments may be flexible so as to permit each weight segment to rotate with respect to each... Agent: University Of Southern California

20110241355 - Assembly for the use of alternative energy: In a novel assembly for the use of alternative energy, an even number of weights (5) is suspended symmetrically and outside of the center thereof on the outer circumference of a drive wheel (3); with respect to the direction of rotation (F) of the drive wheel (3), a support (12)... Agent:

20110241357 - Method for producing energy using an alkalai metal: A method is disclosed for producing energy from the controlled reaction of an alkali metal with water. The method comprises forcing a liquefied alkali metal through a filter that separates the liquid alkali metal into alkali metal droplets. The alkali metal droplets comprise small enough particles that the alkali metal... Agent:

20110241356 - Spaced-apart cable modules in wellbore energy storage and retrieval: A system for storing and retrieving energy may include a cable and a weight connected to the cable. A plurality of cable modules may be attached at spaced-apart locations to the cable above the weight. Each cable module may prevent the cable above and below the cable module from coming... Agent: University Of Southern California

20110241343 - Speed setting system and method for a stall-controlled wind turbine: A speed setting system that generates a speed control command for controlling the rotational speed of a stall-controlled wind turbine of a wind-powered machine. The speed setting system generates the speed command as a function of performance variation of the wind turbine due to environmental and/or other factors. The speed... Agent: Northern Power Systems, Inc.

20110241345 - Expandable multi-set circulation hydroelectric power generation method and system: An expandable multi-set circulation hydroelectric power generation method and system. The system includes a power station control area (A), a transformer substation area (B), a circulation cistern (C) provided with a plurality of small cisterns (CA1 to CA20). Gates (E1 to E20) and protection screenings are installed in the small... Agent:

20110241344 - Turbomachinery device for both compression and expansion: A turbomachinery device operable in either a compressor mode or a turbine mode. The device includes an impeller that rotates in the same direction in both modes, and the general flow direction remains the same in both modes. An inlet flow-guiding device may be included to direct fluid into the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20110241346 - Apparatus for capturing wave energy: The present invention relates to a platform for capturing wave energy suitable for deep and ultra-deep bodies of water, comprising a cover (1) supported on a submerged hull (2) by means of hydrodynamic pillars (3) uniformly distributed along its sides. Its plan view is V-shaped and it is self-orienting such... Agent:

20110241347 - Removable offshore wind turbines with pre-installed mooring system: A floating energy generating device includes at least two wind turbines mounted on a floating open structure, the floating open structure being moored to the seabed with a mooring system, each wind turbine featuring in operation mode a blade and rotor part mounted at the top of a tower and... Agent: Single Buoy Moorings Inc.

20110241348 - Magnetically balanced electric generator: A magnetically balanced electric generator is provided, which includes a rotor rotating, a fixing structure having a fixing axis, a rotating magnet body movably coupled with the fixing axis, and engaged with the rotor, a power-generating block vertically separated from the rotating magnet body, a first magnet mounted along the... Agent:

20110241350 - Permanent magnetic rotating electric machine and wind power generating system: wherein after the cooling air has been circulated by the fan in the machine for cooling, the cooling air is led to the ventilation paths to perform heat exchange between the cooling air flowing in the ventilation paths and the water-cooling unit, after which the cooling air is circulated again... Agent: Hitachi, Ltd.

20110241349 - Windmill generator: A windmill generator includes a windmill hub; at least one windmill blade carried by the windmill hub; a rotor carried by at least one of the windmill hub and the windmill blade and having a plurality of rotor magnets with dominant north poles and dominant south poles, respectively; and a... Agent: