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Prime-mover dynamo plants January recently filed with US Patent Office 01/13

20130026765 - Thermal shield for system for generating electric power: A thermal shield for a system for generating electric power may include a sheet of material configured to be operably associated with an engine of the system for generating electric power such that heat from the engine is deflected back toward the engine. The sheet of material may define a... Agent: Caterpillar Inc.

20130026766 - Harvesting energy from a drillstring: The subject disclosure relates to energy harvesting. More particularly, the subject disclosure relates to harvesting energy from the relative motion between a rotary stabilizer and the drill string. In further embodiments, the subject disclosure relates to harvesting energy from vibrations in the drill string.... Agent: Schlumberger Technology Corporation

20130026767 - Starter having engagement detection function: The invention relates to a starter (100), to a device for starting a starter motor, to a device for detecting an engaged state of a starter pinion, to a method for starting a starter motor, to a method for detecting an engaged state of a pinion (101) in a corresponding... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20130026759 - Dynamic inertia regulation: A wind energy installation having a wind rotor, a generator which is driven thereby and interacts with a converter in order to produce electrical power, rotation-speed regulation and converter control which interacts therewith, wherein the rotation-speed regulation outputs a nominal rotation speed signal (nref). Furthermore, additional regulation is provided, which... Agent: Repower Systems Se

20130026756 - Method and arrangement for operating a wind farm within voltage limit: A method for determining a limit value of a wind turbine reference operational variable is described The wind turbine being connected to a connection node to which a utility grid is connected. The method includes: obtaining a first input signal indicative of a connection node limit voltage; obtaining a second... Agent:

20130026758 - Method for controlling aerogenerators for producing electrical energy: A method for controlling an aerogenerator (1) for producing electrical energy of the type comprising an arrangement of aerodynamic elements (2) that rotate on a common shaft (3), sensors (4) for measuring at least the speed of the wind incident upon said elements (2), an alternator unit (5) associated with... Agent:

20130026757 - Wind energy plant having a blade heater: A wind energy plant comprising a rotor having blades and a generator driven by said rotor for generating electric energy. The pitch of the blades can be adjusted and a pitch system for adjusting the pitch angle of the blades is provided, which is supplied by a hub power source.... Agent: Repower Systems Se

20130026760 - Method for treating organic waste and method and apparatus for producing solid fuel/compost using zero discharge ace system: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for treating organic waste and producing solid fuel or compost from the treated organic waste.... Agent: New & Renewable Energy Co., Ltd.

20130026761 - Horizontal-axis hydrokinetic water turbine system: A hydrokinetic water turbine system includes a frame structure, first and second shafts rotatably supported by the frame structure, and first and second rotors secured to the first and second shafts respectively and each having a plurality of spaced-apart blades so that the flowing stream of water revolves the first... Agent:

20130026762 - Horizontal-axis hydrokinetic water turbine system: A hydrokinetic water turbine system includes two turbine assemblies each having a frame structure, a horizontally-disposed shaft supported by the frame structure, and a rotor secured to the shaft. The rotor has a plurality of spaced-apart blades so that the flowing stream of water revolves the rotor. The blades are... Agent:

20130026764 - Transformer for wind power generation and wind power generation system: A transformer for wind power generation is configured such that the transformer's main body, which contains an insulating refrigerant in a tank where an iron core and windings mounted to the iron core are contained, is disposed in a tower which configures a wind power generation system, and that water... Agent: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.

20130026763 - Wind power excitation synchronous generation system and control method thereof: A wind power excitation synchronous generation system and a control method thereof are disclosed. In this control method, dual input shafts and a single output shaft of a gear transmission mechanism are used, and two kinds of inputted energy, such as wind energy and servo motor control power, are integrated,... Agent: National Sun Yat-sen University

20130020808 - Underwater electricity generation module provided with a base: The invention relates to an underwater electricity generation module provided with a base. The electricity generation module is of the type that comprises an elongate cylindrical casing (12) incorporating an electricity generation unit (25a, 25b) comprising a nuclear boiler (28, 29) associated with electricity generation means (30, 31) connected to... Agent: Dcns

20130020810 - Device to replace nuclear and fossil-fuel steam supply power plants with zero co2 and safe efficient superheated steam: The invention provides processes and apparatuses for safely, rapidly, cost-effectively producing superheated steam. These processes and apparatuses involves producing clean low-cost electricity by the long rigid power arms generator thereby operating electric-arc furnaces side by side, melting steel repeatedly and tungsten steam pipes bedded in molten steel to produce superheated... Agent:

20130020809 - Pollution free electrical power generator: Small AC power plant device comprises of three long parallel rigid arms. Primary function the rigid power arms is, ratcheting and reciprocating uniformly to turn a gearbox continuously, reduce torque and maintain rpm. Longer the rigid power arms, less torque required to turn the generator. One end of each rigid... Agent:

20130020803 - Steady-state and transitory control for transmission between engine and electrical power generator: A system for transforming a variable output into an input having a desired speed value, including a transmission receiving the output having a first speed (Ve) and producing the input having a second speed (Vgen), first, second and third sensors producing data corresponding to the first speed (Ve), second speed... Agent: S.o.e. Technologies Inc.

20130020804 - Pitch drive device capable of emergency operation for a wind or water power plant: A pitch drive device capable of emergency operation by adjusting the rotor blade pitch of a wind or water power plant. The pitch drive device includes an inverter device and a three-phase current drive motor preferably a three-phase IPM synchronous motor. A direct current power storage device can be substantially... Agent: Moog Unna Gmbh

20130020805 - Pneumatic road generator: The invention is a game that allows true worldwide participation through the use of social media tools and devices. The object or mission of the game is to answer a set number of questions to generate a key that opens a vault unveiling a prize. The first team to successfully... Agent:

20130020806 - Fluid flow generator: A generator has a surface structure relative to a base structure and capable of being positioned within a field of flow. The surface structure also has an electrogenerative portion positioned relative to the surface structure and the base structure. The electrogenerative portion is preferably a piezoelectric or electromagnetic structure, although... Agent:

20130020807 - Direct drive wind turbine: Disclosed is a direct drive wind turbine including a plurality of blades connected to a hub, a generator including a stator and a rotor, the stator being fixed on a nacelle of the wind turbine and a rotation sensor having a static element and a moving element. The hub is... Agent: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

20130015667 - System and method for power generation system: A power generation system comprises a tube, a coil assembly, a magnetic assembly, and a direct detonation source. The coil assembly comprises at least one coil configured outside the tube. The magnetic assembly comprises at least one magnet inside the tube. The magnetic assembly is configured to move relative to... Agent: Correlated Magnetics Research, LLC

20130015668 - Electric power generator: An electric power generator device includes: a dynamic force source device for generating a dynamic force driving a rotor of a generator to perform a rotary motion via moment transmission mechanism; the generator for generating an electric power, the generator including the rotor; the moment transmission mechanism disposed between the... Agent:

20130015669 - Method and an apparatus for obtaining energy by expanding a gas at a wellhead: A method and an apparatus (100) for reducing the pressure of a natural gas (2) at a wellhead of a natural gas field. The method provides prearranging an energy recovery expansion device (20), which comprises a stator and a rotor mechanically connected with a power generator (29), and a gas... Agent: Sime Srl

20130015658 - Method and device for damping torsional oscillations: A method for damping torsional oscillations in a power production plant includes a drive train, a rotor fitted to a rotor-side end of the drive train, and a generator driven via the drive train and fitted to a generator-side end of the drive train. By using at least one angular... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20130015659 - Tidal turbine system: A tidal flow energy generation system has tidal turbine generators and a controls system for controlling operation of the one or more tidal turbine generators and a flow determination device for determining variations in the flow at a distance from a respective turbine generator. The control system operates using input... Agent:

20130015662 - Control device for a wind turbine: The invention relates to a control device for a wind power plant having an electrical system and a rotor including a plurality of rotor blades driven by wind, and outputting a mechanical rotor power to the electrical system. The system converts the mechanical rotor power at least partially into electrical... Agent: Ssb Wind Systems Gmbh & Co. Kg

20130015661 - Stay cable for structures: A mast is erected to support a load. At least one stay cable supports the mast. The stay cable has an end and an opposite end. The end of the stay cable attaches to an upper region of the mast. The opposite end of the stay cable anchors at earth.... Agent:

20130015660 - Wind power plant with optimal power output: Controlling a wind power plant comprising at least one wind turbine generator for producing power to an electrical grid where the amount of said power is based on a signal response in a voltage signal in said electrical grid due to a change in power output into said electrical grid.... Agent: Vestas Wind System

20130015663 - Systems and devices for controlling power generation: Systems and devices for controlling power generation are provided. For example, such a system may include an electrical generator controller. The controller may include a filter component, a frequency response schedule component, and a rate limiter component. The filter component may receive a power grid frequency signal and output the... Agent: General Electric Company

20130015664 - Wave activated power generator: The present invention relates to an improved wave activated power generator. The power generator includes a pile, a chain secured at opposite ends thereof to the pile and a floating body, respectively, a suction pipe communicating at one end thereof with an interior of the pile and secured at the... Agent: Body For Gyeongju Univ. Education & Industry Cooperation

20130015666 - Horizontal-axis wind turbine: Improved wind turbine. The turbine includes a rotor supporting a plurality of blades for receiving wind, and means are provided for supporting magnets or high-permeability iron to rotate with the blades and located at the periphery of the blade tips. Stator stricture is located proximate to the blade tips to... Agent: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology

20130015665 - Wind turbine cooling arrangement: The disclosure describes a wind turbine cooling arrangement including a passive heat exchanger arranged to absorb heat from a cooling circuit of a wind turbine, the passive heat exchanger is arranged on the exterior of the canopy to extend above a canopy of the wind turbine. The wind turbine cooling... Agent:

20130009407 - Apparatus for generating electrical energy from rocking activated energy: An apparatus includes an unbalanced mass unit configured to be rockable between front and rear unbalanced positions by virtue of the moment of inertia, a coupling shaft which rotatably extends through an upper segment of the unbalanced mass unit and which is coupled with an electricity generator, and a releasably... Agent: China Green Energy Co., Ltd.

20130009408 - Storage of compressed air in wind turbine support structure: An energy storage and recovery system employs air compressed utilizing power from an operating wind turbine. This compressed air is stored within one or more chambers of a structure supporting the wind turbine above the ground. By functioning as both a physical support and as a vessel for storing compressed... Agent: Lightsail Energy Inc.

20130009397 - Wind power generation device: Provided is a wind power generation apparatus to which general purpose inverters are applicable. An inverter in a constant-voltage mode is used. While a wind power generator is generating electricity, switching circuits are turned on and off at a controlled duty cycles to intermittently short-circuit an armature winding, boosting the... Agent: Zephyr Corporation

20130009398 - Roadway energy harvesting: A system of efficiently and safely generating and storing energy from the weight and motion of a moving vehicle across a roadway. It is a object of the present invention to transform energy in the form of pressure, weight, or movement, for example, produced by moving vehicles into air pressure,... Agent:

20130009400 - Rotor and nozzle assembly for a radial turbine and method of operation: A rotor for a radial flow turbine has an impulse chamber (51) having an inlet defined in a circumferential surface of the rotor and a reaction chamber (62) having an outlet defined in the circumferential surface of the rotor. The impulse chamber is in fluid communication with the reaction chamber,... Agent: Cambridge Research And Development Limited

20130009399 - Waste heat recovery: A method and apparatus for a vacuum tube configured to produce heat during operation. A boiler is configured to hold a fluid used to cool at least a portion of the vacuum tube during operation, wherein the fluid, when used to cool at least the portion of the vacuum tube,... Agent:

20130009401 - Offshore hydro power station: A system and a method of electric power generation utilizing sea wave energy is disclosed. The invention consists of an underwater system where seawater flows through an underwater turbine which generates electric power. The waste water that passes through the turbine then flows into underwater tanks on the seabed. According... Agent:

20130009402 - Wave-energy converter: Wave-Energy-Conversion (WEC) systems harness the water motion internal to waves propagating on large bodies of water to produce more readily usable forms of power, such as electricity. The water motion internal to a wave is oscillatory, and power is extracted from it by submerging structures that oscillate with the water,... Agent:

20130009406 - Components for generators, their use and stator mounting: Disclosed herein are stator components designed to facilitate stator mounting as part of a generator. Also disclosed are generators suitable for use, for example, as part of a wind turbine, their components, as well as methods for their production.... Agent: Brienergy Solutions Limited

20130009404 - Wind energy transfer system: An energy transfer system comprising a central shaft, a set of vanes mounted to the central shaft, at least one pump, at least one pulley system, mounted between the central shaft and the pump and an electromagnetic generator located within the central shaft, whereby rotation of the set of vanes... Agent:

20130009403 - Wind powered electrical generator-hydraulic-natural gas power augmented: Natural gas (NG) fueled auxiliary power source, combined with a high-pressure hydraulic pump supplying hydraulic fluid to a secondary hydraulic propulsion unit mounted (hung) on the rear (aft) of the wind generator main shaft provides axial force (torque) to the mainshaft via a ring and pinion set and planetary gearbox,... Agent:

20130009405 - Wind turbine generator: A wind turbine generator having a large opening area for air intake and exhaust while maintaining tower strength and having a sufficient cooling performance is provided. In the wind turbine generator, a rotor head rotating when receiving wind power with wind turbine blades drives a generating machine provided inside a... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

20130001957 - External combustion steam engine electrical generator: A specific electrical generator powered by an external combustion steam engine that functions through the initial combustion of various potential fuel sources to consequently generate steam from an internal working fluid that drives an electric motor or alternator to generate electricity is provided. The steam is then condensed to return... Agent: Phoenix Power Group, LLC

20130001956 - Sea water electrical generator: A mechanical/electrical generator system may include a piston ball with an anode and a cathode in the piston ball. A source of DC power may be connected to the anode and cathode. An AC generator may be configured to be rotated through alternating flotation and sinking of the piston ball... Agent:

20130001959 - Linear power generator: Provided is a linear power generator in which a piston in a cylinder is continuously and stably moved at a constant stroke by a high-pressure gas. The linear power generator has a gas pressure cylinder structure which causes reciprocating motion of a piston (6) in an axial direction by supplying... Agent:

20130001958 - Storage of compressed air in wind turbine support structure: An energy storage and recovery system employs air compressed utilizing power from an operating wind turbine. This compressed air is stored within one or more chambers of a structure supporting the wind turbine above the ground. By functioning as both a physical support and as a vessel for storing compressed... Agent: Lightsail Energy Inc.

20130001944 - Starting method/apparatus for series electric drive: An improved system and method for starting an engine of an electric drive machine is disclosed. The method includes supplying electric current from a first energy storage device to inductive windings of a propulsion motor. The method also includes accumulating energy in the inductive windings of the propulsion motor based... Agent:

20130001946 - Method and controller for controlling an electric power production unit, in particular a wind turbine: A method for controlling an electric power production unit, in particular a wind turbine, connected to a utility grid, includes obtaining information regarding an event at a point in time, wherein the event relates to at least one of electric power delivered to the utility grid and electric power extracted... Agent:

20130001945 - Method for the identification of the drive train main frequency in a wind turbine: Method for the identification in operation of the drive train main vibration frequency of a wind turbine, comprising online steps of: a) obtaining a input signal (r) of the generator speed (Ω); b) filtering the generator speed input signal (r) for obtaining a generator speed signal (r1) in a suitable... Agent: Gamesa Innovation & Technology, S.l.

20130001947 - Wind turbine generator, active damping method thereof, and windmill tower: A wind turbine generator, an active damping method thereof, and a windmill tower in which vibrations of the wind turbine generator itself or the windmill tower can be reduced at low cost are provided. The acceleration due to vibrations of a nacelle is detected with an accelerometer attached to the... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

20130001948 - Power generation system and power generation method: A power generation system includes a compression unit which compresses a gas, a storage which stores the compressed gas output from the compression unit, a first expansion unit which generates first power and outputs a first exhaust gas, a heating unit which heats at least the stored gas output from... Agent: Samsung Techwin Co., Ltd.

20130001949 - Kinetic energy generation device: A kinetic energy generation device includes a rotation mechanism, a speed increaser coupled to the rotation mechanism, and a power generation element coupled to the speed increaser. The rotation mechanism includes a central shaft and an outer circumferential zone surrounding the central shaft. The outer circumferential zone receives therein partition... Agent:

20130001952 - Generator assembly for a wind power plant: A generator assembly for a wind power plant includes an annular stator, an annular rotor, and a spur gear transmission assembly. The generator assembly includes a basic carrier component on which all the bearings of the generator assembly are arranged.... Agent: Robert Bosch Gmbh

20130001953 - Switching device and related power distribution system: Exemplary embodiments are directed to a switching device for an electric circuit including at least one contact movable between a closed position in which it is coupled to a corresponding fixed contact and an open position in which it is spaced away from said corresponding fixed contact. The switching device... Agent: Abb S.p.a.

20130001951 - Tube-type wind power generator: A tube-type wind power generator includes an intake tube, an exhaust tube and a wind power generation device. The intake tube has a first end, a second end and an intake air channel, wherein the first end has a plurality of air inlets. A narrow portion is formed between the... Agent:

20130001955 - Variable-speed power generator and method of controlling the same: A variable-speed power generator includes a prime mover that generates motive power by using natural energy; a wound-rotor induction generator that includes a stator having a primary winding and a rotor having a secondary winding, which are connected to a power grid, the generator generating electric power based on the... Agent: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

20130001950 - Wind turbine: A wind turbine includes a turbine housing, a turbine wheel system housed in the turbine housing, and a wind power converting system for converting kinetic energy generated by the turbine wheel system into electrical energy. The turbine wheel system includes a turbine rotor being driven to rotate circumferentially around an... Agent: Sp Power Farm Group Ltd.

20130001954 - Wind turbine assembling method and wind turbine assembled according to said method: The method allows higher speed in assembling a wind turbine a tower, a nacelle and a rotor, the tower comprising at least two stackable annular sections made of concrete, the method comprising the steps of a) stacking the annular sections by using lifting and positioning means; b) stacking the nacelle... Agent: