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Prime-mover dynamo plants February patent applications/inventions, industry category 02/12

20120043765 - Dynamic combustion chamber: A system for converting potential energy into heat including a tower configured to contain a fluid and to permit the formation of a substantially nitrogen-free combustion chamber defined by the tower and the surface of the fluid in the tower and at a pressure less than ambient, a first tower... Agent:

20120043760 - Emergency power supply device: The invention relates to an emergency power supply device for a rotor blade adjustment system (10) of a wind turbine (1), comprising a plurality of electric power accumulators (16, 17, 18), an electric charging unit (20) and an electric circuit arrangement (19) by means of which the charging unit (20)... Agent: Ssb Wind Systems Gmbh & Co. Kg

20120043758 - Method of determining a phase value of a phase associated with an oscillatory tower movement of a tower of a wind turbine, device for determining a phase value of a phase associated with an oscillatory tower movement of a tower of a wind turbine, and meth: A method is provided of determining a phase value of a phase associated with an oscillatory tower movement of a tower of a wind turbine. The method includes measuring a quantity representative of the oscillatory tower movement, and determining the phase value based on the measured quantity. In an exemplary... Agent:

20120043759 - Multiple cabinets: An electric power generating device comprising a wind power plant 1 with a rotatably turbine shaft 2, a generator 3 connected to a power grid 5, means for rotating the turbine shaft within the generator thus generating AC electrical power, a plurality of frequency converters 4 for converting the frequency... Agent: Ge Wind Energy (norway) As

20120043761 - Apparatus and method to increase wind velocity in wind turbine energy generation: A wind turbine housing is provided for mounting to the roof of a building. The housing defines a Venturi pathway for collecting and accelerating wind to one or more rotors, which are coupled to one or more generators. The rotors are housed in the throat of the Venturi such that... Agent:

20120043763 - Offshore wind park: Wind farm comprising at least one buoyant structure having two corners provided with a wind turbine and a third corner comprising a mooring section, e.g., with a disconnectable mooring turret. The third corner does not carry one of the wind turbines. Shared facilities for the two wind turbines, such as... Agent: Xemc Darwind B.v.

20120043762 - Variable windmill wing wind power generator having power generation efficiency increasing means: The present invention relates to a variable windmill wing wind power generator having a power generation efficiency increasing means, which includes: an installation unit; a vertical rotating shaft; a bearing; ‘[’-shaped holders; a plurality of inner wing installation units; support rods; a plurality of outer wing installation units; support rings;... Agent:

20120043764 - Wind and water power generator ship: A wind and water power generator ship. A waterpower generation unit generates electricity using a difference between the ebb and the flow of the tides, and is provided with a buoyant body that produces buoyancy, which enables the waterpower generation unit to float on water. A center shaft is mounted... Agent: Inje Univ. Industry-academic Cooperation Foundation

20120038171 - Portable power supply having both inverter power supply and traditional power supply receptacles: A generator for providing electric power. The generator includes an engine associated with an alternator. Rotation of the engine causes the alternator to generate an AC source voltage that is fed to at least one analog output receptacle. The generator further includes an inverter connected to receive the AC source... Agent: Briggs & Stratton Corp.

20120038175 - Generating and using electricity derived from waste heat of an electrical appliance: A system 101A, 101B for deriving operating electricity for an electrical appliance 100A, 100B from wasted heat of the electrical appliance 100A, 100B comprises a heat generating component 110 of the electrical appliance 100A, 100B, a thermoelectric device 120 thermally coupled with the heat generating component 110, a charge storage... Agent:

20120038173 - Method, system and apparatus for providing water to a heat engine via a dammed water source: A method, system and apparatus are provided that provide water to a heat engine via a dammed water source. The water may be tapped for cooling of and/or injection into a heat engine. Further, steam from operation of the heat engine and/or directing exhaust gases of a heat engine into... Agent:

20120038172 - Renewable power storage utilizing liquid gas: Machinery and methods for converting inexpensive electricity to higher value electricity. A system includes means for compressing a gas such as air, means for condensing the gas to a liquid stream, means for storing liquefied gas, means for pumping the liquefied gas, means for evaporating and heating the liquefied gas... Agent:

20120038174 - Storing carbon dioxide and producing methane and geothermal energy from deep saline aquifers: A novel idea involving the coupling of CO2 geological storage with methane and/or heat production (geothermal energy) from geopressured-geothermal aquifers is described herein. The production of energy from the extracted brine offsets the cost of capture, pressurization, and injection and the subsequent injection of brine containing carbon dioxide back into... Agent: Board Of Regents, The University Of Texas System

20120038176 - Waste heat auxiliary power unit: The present invention relates to a waste heat auxiliary power unit. In one embodiment, the present invention is a heat exchange unit for an automobile including a core unit configured to be connected to a catalytic converter of the automobile, the core unit generating vapor, and a first energy generation... Agent: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.

20120038156 - Electrical energy generating installation driven at variable rotational speeds, with a constant output frequency, especially a wind power installation: An energy generating installation, especially a wind power station, includes a drive shaft connected to a rotor (1), a generator (8) and a differential transmission (11 to 13) provided with three drives or outputs. A first drive is connected to the drive shaft, an output is connected to a generator... Agent:

20120038154 - Method and apparatus for powering a wind turbine:

20120038155 - Step up converter for a wind power plant: The present invention relates to a back-up power system 200 for controlling a wind power plant in case of a power outage. The wind power plant includes one or more rotor blades. The back-up power system includes a plurality of electrical energy storage devices 204 connected in a series connection.... Agent:

20120038157 - Synchronous induced wind power generation system: A synchronous induced wind power generation system is provided, comprised of a horizontally rotatable turbine-generator section that wind vanes into the prevailing wind direction. The turbine-generator section has a horizontally disposed turbine shaft therein, and air induction shrouds at either end thereof, the anterior areas of the air induction shrouds... Agent:

20120038160 - Compound power generating system: A compound power generating system comprises a housing unit, a power unit, a rotation unit, at least one oxyhydrogen generating unit and a combustion unit. In the present invention, the collected solar energy is transformed into electric energy to drive the oxyhydrogen generating unit to generate fuel gas, and then... Agent:

20120038161 - Inline turbine generator: A power generating apparatus for fluid flow conduits where the apparatus includes an impeller positioned in the path of the fluid flow. The impeller is either directly or magnetically coupled to an electric generator outside of the fluid flow conduit. As the fluid flows it causes the impeller to rotate... Agent: Digislide Holdings Limited

20120038159 - Wind power generating device for use with a vehicle: A wind power generating device for use with a vehicle is provided. The wind power generating device is disposed in a front side of an engine chamber of the vehicle and includes: at least one fan blade being driven to rotate by a current of external air introduced into the... Agent:

20120038158 - Wind power generating module for use with electric scooter: A wind power generating module for use with an electric scooter is disclosed. The wind power generating module is installed on an electric scooter and includes: at least one fan blade being driven to rotate by external air introduced into the wind power generating module while the electric scooter is... Agent:

20120038162 - Airflow generator: Converting an air flow into a source of electricity by an airflow generator includes disposing the airflow generator in an air flow path of a machine for receiving the air flow to rotate a turbine bladed portion of the airflow generator that causes a plurality of permanent magnets disposed along... Agent: Us Green Energy Solutions, LLC

20120038163 - Wave energy turbine for oscillating water column systems: The resulting rotary force is then utilized to drive two electrical generators simultaneously. Each turbine rotor set is composed of a radial array of identical asymmetrical airfoil blades (similar to NASA GA(W)-1). The two rotor sets are assembled as back-to-back mirror images. Both rotor sets are locked to a common... Agent:

20120038164 - Wave power plant: A wave power plant is disclosed which has one or more foils that are pivotally movable about a body. The foil is set into an oscillating, pivotal motion about the body by the force of the waves. A power engine is mounted between the body and the foil and extract... Agent: Tidal Sails As

20120038165 - System and method for generating power in a dam: A system and method for generating power in a dam are provided. Water passing through a water channel is directed into an exit channel. The water channel converges with the exit channel. Exhaust gases from a heat engine are expelled into the exit channel. The exhaust gases from the heat... Agent:

20120038169 - Electric generator and process for assembling a wind turbine equipped with said generator: Disclosed herein is a generator having a rotor which comprises rotor excitation element-carrying modules, for example magnets, radially movable in relation to the generator shaft in such a manner, when in their retracted position, as to significantly ease generator transport and assembly. The use of these movable magnet-carrying modules is... Agent: Acciona Windpower, S.a.

20120038168 - Power generator and wind power generation system: This power generator is so formed that a number q of slots per pole per phase obtained by dividing the number of slots by the number of poles of permanent magnets and the number of phases of voltages is a fraction satisfying 1<q≦ 3/2.... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki

20120038167 - Reconfigurable power converter module: The present invention relates to a reconfigurable power converter module for a wind turbine facility adapted to supply electric power to an associated power supply grid. The reconfigurable power converter module comprises a frequency converter operatively connected to filter means, wherein said frequency converter and said filter means are mutually... Agent:

20120038166 - Rotating electric machine, wind power generation system and method of manufacturing rotating electric machine: This rotating electric machine is so formed that the length from an end portion of a rotor core closer to a rotating shaft support portion to a portion first coming into contact with the rotating shaft support portion when a rotating shaft portion is inserted into the rotating shaft support... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki

20120038170 - Wind energy generating and storing system: A wind energy system includes a vertical-axis turbine and a compressor driven by the turbine. The turbine includes blades supported on a central rotor by respective support arms having an airfoil shape so as to generate a load on the rotor in an axial direction so as to affect the... Agent:

20120032449 - Wind turbine comprising a generator cooling system: A wind power installation is provided having a pylon, a pod mounted rotatably on the pylon, a generator arranged within the pod and having a rotor and a stator, and at least one fan in the region of the pod. The fan may be adapted to blow air out of... Agent:

20120032448 - Wind turbine generator: The present invention provides a wind turbine generator, in which a rotor head that rotates by receiving external wind with turbine blades generates power by driving a generator installed inside a nacelle and in which the nacelle is installed at a top end of a tower, wherein an introducing vent... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

20120032450 - Generator arrangement for a wind power plant: A generator arrangement for a wind power plant includes a ring-shaped primary part, a ringshaped secondary part, and a planetary transmission arrangement disposed inside the primary part and the secondary part. The planetary transmission arrangement comprises an internal gear, a sun gear, and at least two planet gears. The sun... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20120032451 - Sewer energy mill system: A sewer energy mill system is provided for converting kinetic energy possessed by the wastewater flowing through a sewer line into electrical energy. The system may be installed within a conventional existing manhole infrastructure of the sewer system or within a customized structure specifically designed to accommodate the system and... Agent:

20120032452 - Waste material, coal, used tires and biomass conversion to alternative energy and synthetic fuels solutions system with carbon capture and liquefaction: The system contained within this application for non-provisional patent protection provides the ability to convert municipal solid waste materials, used tires, various biomass including wood chips and other agricultural waste, and the addition of coal into synthesis gas (syngas), with oxygen as plasma gas. The system will accommodate the possibility... Agent:

20120032440 - Stationary energy generation plant having a control device and method for controlling the same: A stationary energy generation plant includes a control device that serves to control current and energy flow. The energy generation plant includes at least one mechanically driven rotor and a generator mechanically coupled to the rotor. To this end, power electronics operationally connected to the generator enable variable energy flow... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20120032441 - Crank-web mounted linearly segmented starter generator system: Featured is a starter/generator to start a reciprocating engine or generate electrical energy using the engine. The starter/generator includes a plurality of magnetic elements that establish a magnetic flux, each magnetic element being attached to a surface of the crankshaft so the element moves in a prescribed path as the... Agent: Kia Motors Corporation

20120032453 - Starter controller: A relay is provided in a power supply line from a battery to a motor of a starter in a vehicle. The relay is selectively switched between a contact side state where contacts short-circuit and a resistor side state where the contacts open and a resistor is inserted into the... Agent: Denso Corporation

20120032442 - Blade angle adjustment drive for a wind power plant: A blade angle adjustment drive for a wind power plant having an electrical converter, an electric motor electrically coupled to the converter, and a monitoring unit which monitors the operation of the converter and identifies a malfunction in the operation of the converter. The operation of the converter may be... Agent: Ssb Wind Systems Gmbh & Co. Kg

20120032443 - Energy generating installation, especially wind power installation: An energy generating installation, especially a wind power station, includes a drive shaft connected to a rotor (1), a generator (8) and a differential transmission (11 to 13) provided with three drives or outputs. A first drive is connected to the drive shaft, an output is connected to a generator... Agent:

20120032446 - Ocean wave energy converter with multiple capture modes: An ocean wave energy converter utilizes a substantially submerged elongated absorption barrier oriented parallel to oncoming wave fronts having one or more substantially submerged air or gas filled variable volume vessels located between a relatively fixed position rigid rearward surface and a moving rigid wave front facing surface. Said vessel(s)... Agent: Rohrer Technologies, Inc.

20120032444 - Wave catcher: The wave catcher is a wave energy converter comprising three wave energy capture devices: a wave catcher wheel driven by wave particle motion, a wave pressure differential system driven by wave height differential, and a wave amplifier enclosure driven by wave surge; and three auxiliary energy capture devices: wind rotor,... Agent:

20120032445 - Wave energy harnessing mechanism: A wave energy harnessing mechanism comprising a grid of piston members interconnected at respective ends thereof. Each of the piston member includes a hollow chamber with a driving shaft, a movable magnet, and a coil therein, wherein the driving shafts are adapted to move the magnets back and forth through... Agent:

20120032447 - Combined wing and turbine device for improved utilization of fluid flow energy: There is provided a device for production of electrical, mechanical or hydraulic energy by using wind or other fluid currents. This is achieved by blocking a portion of the flow through an edge positioned wing (1) alone or in combination with a longitudinal wing (2). The invention includes an edge... Agent:

20120025542 - Fluid movement systems including a continuously variable transmission: A system has a pump with a power input, a power source and a continuously variable transmission (CVT) coupled to the power source and to the power input of the pump. The CVT transmits power from the power source to the pump. The CVT comprises a plurality of planetary members... Agent: Orbital Traction, Ltd.

20120025543 - Linear hydraulic and generator coupling apparatus and method of use thereof: A linear hydraulic and generator coupling apparatus for transferring and manipulating power. The apparatus has an electrical system, a hydraulic system and a gear system. In operation, the electrical system directs the hydraulic system to force the rack of the gear system into horizontal motion. The gear system transfers the... Agent:

20120025528 - Magnetostrictive sensor system and method: A magnetostriction-based sensor system for sensing force on a wind turbine rotor shaft having multiple localized magnetized domains sensitive to magnetostriction. The sensor system includes at least two sets of first and second magnetometers. The signals from the at least two sets of first and second magnetometers can be utilized... Agent: General Electric Company

20120025525 - Pitch drive apparatus of wind generator and wind generator: The present invention provides a pitch drive apparatus of a wind generator and the wind generator constituted not to affect a main shaft or a gear box, and capable of preventing reliability from being deteriorated. The pitch drive apparatus includes a wind turbine blade (6) having a base portion (21)... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Inc.

20120025526 - System and method for monitoring wind turbine gearbox health and performance: A system and method are provided to monitor the health and performance of a wind turbine gearbox. A plurality of sensors coupled to the wind turbine gearbox provide input to a controller. The controller generates output information that includes performance and health information of the wind turbine gearbox based on... Agent: General Electric Company

20120025527 - System and method to provide constant speed mechanical output in a machine: A system to provide constant speed mechanical output in a wind turbine is provided. The system includes at least one electrical machine configured to convert a rotary mechanical power received from a main gear to a machine electrical power. The system further includes one or more electrical converters electrically coupled... Agent: General Electric Company

20120025530 - System and methods for controlling the amplitude modulation of noise generated by wind turbines: In one aspect, a method for controlling the amplitude modulation of the noise generated by wind turbines is disclosed. The method may include determining a rotor position of a first wind turbine, determining a rotor position of a second wind turbine, determining if the first and second wind turbines are... Agent: General Electric Company

20120025529 - System and methods for monitoring oil conditions of a wind turbine gearbox: A method for monitoring the condition of oil contained within a gearbox of a wind turbine is disclosed. The method generally includes receiving a signal corresponding to a measurement of an oil parameter of the gearbox, comparing the measurement to a predetermined limit for the oil parameter, assigning a severity... Agent: General Electric Company

20120025531 - Energy generation using intermediary buffering: The present invention is a device for converting rotational energy into useable power by buffering the created rotational energy from the rotational energy used to create the output power. Thus, in one embodiment, a pendulum within a buoy is used to create rotational energy from ocean wave movement and the... Agent:

20120025532 - Wave power generator: A wave power generator includes a frame unit mounted on the shore, an electric generator unit generating electricity by means of a rotating motion of a rotor, a drive unit having a plurality of wave-power receiving bodies receiving the energy of a reciprocating horizontal motion of wave power and reciprocating... Agent:

20120025539 - Cooling device for electrical device and method of cooling an electrical device: A cooling device for an electrical apparatus having an air gap. The cooling device includes a heat transfer element coupled to the core. The heat transfer element includes a first material to facilitate transferring heat out of the core. The cooling device further includes an electrical insulator coupled to the... Agent:

20120025540 - Method and device for energy generation: A method and device for using magnetostriction to generate electricity from fluid motion. The device includes a first structural component, an outer housing, and a strain structure. The outer housing substantially circumscribes the first structural component and at least partially defines an annular space between the first structural component and... Agent:

20120025535 - Methods and systems for direct current power transmission: A direct current (DC) power transmission system is described. The DC power transmission system includes a first plurality of series connected power collection systems and at least one superconducting DC conductor coupled to the plurality of series connected power collection systems and configured to transmit power generated by the plurality... Agent:

20120025536 - Modular wind-solar energy converting assembly: A modular wind and solar energy converting and structurally self-supporting assembly including a plurality of conjoined tubular wind turbine modules angularly extendable in different directions and solar panels attachable to said wind turbine modules for joint and sequential energy collection and conversion into electric power.... Agent:

20120025534 - Rotating electrical machine, linear motion electrical machine, and wind generator system: This disclosure discloses a rotating electrical machine comprising: a stator; and a rotor; one of said stator and said rotor having a coil, the other having a plurality of magnetic pole units each forming first and second magnetic poles configured to be aligned alternately and to have mutually opposite polarities... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki

20120025538 - Unitary support frame for use in wind turbines and methods for fabricating same: A support frame for use in a wind turbine including a tower and a rotor that is rotatably coupled to a rotor shaft. The support frame includes an upper portion including an inner surface, an outer surface, and at least one bearing housing that is sized to receive the rotor... Agent:

20120025533 - Wind power turbine electric generator cooling system and method and wind power turbine comprising such a cooling system: s

20120025541 - Wind turbine generating apparatus: A wind turbine generating apparatus includes a rotor head that rotates upon receiving outside wind on a wind turbine blade, a generator that generates electricity, and a nacelle interior air passage through which outside air flows isolatedly from an interior space of the nacelle.... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

20120025537 - Wind turbine nacelle with cooler top: The present invention relates to a wind turbine nacelle comprising a front end facing a wind flow and a rear end arranged downwind from the front end; a first face with a longitudinal extension between the front end and the rear end of the nacelle, the longitudinal extension of the... Agent: Vestas Wind Systems A/s