公开(公告)号：US20190234371A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-01

申请号：US16333572

申请日：2017-09-25

Applicant: FORTITUDO MARIS LTD

Inventor： Zsolt Szarka

IPC: F03B13/20 ,  F03B13/14 ,  F03B13/18

CPC classification number: F03B13/20 ,  F03B13/148 ,  F03B13/188 ,  Y02E10/38

Abstract: Methods, system and devices 10 for capturing wave energy are disclosed. A submersible wave energy capture device 10 comprises a tube 12 and a plurality of one-way valves 21, 31, 41. The tube 12 has a seawater inlet 11 at an upstream end 10u of the tube 12. The downstream end 10d of the tube 12 is communicable with an energy utilisation means 2 powered by seawater flow from the tube 12. The one-way valves 21, 31, 41 divide the tube 12 into a series of chambers 20, 30, 40. The chambers comprises elastic walls 22, 32, 42. These are deformable so as to alter an effective internal volume of each respective chamber 20, 30, 40. The valves 21, 31, 41, open to permit water flow within the tube 12 in a downstream direction, and close to resist water flow within the tube 12 in an upstream direction.