Servo-controlled extender mechanism for extendable rotor blades for power generating wind and ocean current turbines
    1.
    发明授权
    Servo-controlled extender mechanism for extendable rotor blades for power generating wind and ocean current turbines 失效
    用于发电风力和洋流涡轮机的可扩展转子叶片的伺服控制扩展器机构

    公开(公告)号:US07581926B1

    公开(公告)日:2009-09-01

    申请号:US11084640

    申请日:2005-03-18

    IPC分类号: F03D7/04

    摘要: A power generating system wherein a turbine is mounted on top of a tower or tethered underwater. The turbine includes a rotor having a main blade connected to a rotor hub and an extender section. An adjusting device positions the extender blade between a retracted position within the main blade and to an extended position to expose more or less of the rotor to the fluid flow. The adjusting device includes a servo-controlled rack and pinion mechanism that converts rotation of the pinion by a servomotor into linear motion of the extender blade. A generator is connected to the turbine for generating electrical energy.

    摘要翻译: 一种发电系统,其中涡轮机安装在塔顶或水下系绳上。 涡轮机包括具有连接到转子毂和扩展器部分的主叶片的转子。 调节装置将扩展器叶片定位在主叶片内的缩回位置和延伸位置之间,以将更多或更少的转子暴露于流体流动。 调节装置包括伺服控制齿条和小齿轮机构,其通过伺服电动机将小齿轮的旋转转换成延伸器叶片的线性运动。 发电机连接到涡轮机以产生电能。

    Self-erecting tower and method for raising the tower
    2.
    发明授权
    Self-erecting tower and method for raising the tower 失效
    自立塔和提升塔的方法

    公开(公告)号:US06955025B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-10-18

    申请号:US10644419

    申请日:2003-08-19

    摘要: A tall tower is divided into an upper section with a tower top and a lower section with a tower bottom. The sections are hinged together. The lower section is hinged to a tower base. A telescoping crane is attached to a lift point on the lower section. The crane is extended to lift the sections to the vertical position with the lower section resting on the base and the tower top of the upper section near ground level. A heavy load is attached to the tower top end using a small ground crane while the tower top of the upper section is near ground level. The telescoping crane is attached to another lift point on the upper section to partially lift the upper section, which is supported in this position. The telescoping crane is relocated and reattached to the lift point on the upper section. The telescoping crane is fully extended to raise the upper section and load to vertical above the lower section.

    摘要翻译: 高塔被分为具有塔顶的上部和具有塔底的下部。 这些部分铰接在一起。 下部铰接到塔底。 伸缩起重机连接到下部的起升点。 起重机延伸以将部分提升到垂直位置,下部搁置在基座上,上部的塔顶靠近地面。 使用小型地面起重机将塔顶端重载,而上部塔顶接近地面。 伸缩起重机连接到上部的另一个提升点,以部分提升支撑在该位置的上部。 伸缩式起重机重新定位并重新连接到上部的起升点。 伸缩式起重机完全伸展,将上部分升高,并将其载荷垂直于下部。

    Submerged electricity generation plane with marine current-driven rotors
    3.
    发明授权
    Submerged electricity generation plane with marine current-driven rotors 失效
    淹没式发电机配有海洋电流驱动转子

    公开(公告)号:US08766466B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-07-01

    申请号:US13454059

    申请日:2012-04-23

    IPC分类号: F03B13/10

    摘要: An underwater apparatus for generating electric power from ocean currents and deep water tides. A submersible platform including two or more power pods, each having a rotor with fixed-pitch blades, with drivetrains housed in pressure vessels that are connected by a transverse structure providing buoyancy, which can be a wing depressor, hydrofoil, truss, or faired tube. The platform is connected to anchors on the seafloor by forward mooring lines and a vertical mooring line that restricts the depth of the device in the water column. The platform operates using passive, rather than active, depth control. The wing depressor, along with rotor drag loads, ensures the platform seeks the desired operational current velocity. The rotors are directly coupled to a hydraulic pump that drives at least one constant-speed hydraulic-motor generator set and enables hydraulic braking. A fluidic bearing decouples non-torque rotor loads to the main shaft driving the hydraulic pumps.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于从洋流和深水潮汐发电的水下装置。 包括两个或更多个动力舱的潜水平台,每个动力舱具有具有固定桨距叶片的转子,其中传动装置容纳在通过提供浮力的横向结构连接的压力容器中,所述横向结构可以是翼片压降器,水翼,桁架或流动管 。 该平台通过前进的系泊线和垂直的系泊线与海底上的锚连接,从而限制了水柱中装置的深度。 该平台使用被动而不是主动的深度控制。 翼减压器以及转子牵引载荷确保平台寻求所需的工作电流速度。 转子直接连接到液压泵,驱动至少一个恒速液压马达发电机组,并实现液压制动。 甲流体轴承解耦非转矩转子载荷到主轴驱动液压泵。

    Method and apparatus for converting ocean wave energy into electricity
    4.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for converting ocean wave energy into electricity 有权
    将海浪能量转化为电力的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US08912677B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-12-16

    申请号:US13135366

    申请日:2011-07-01

    IPC分类号: F03B13/18 F03B13/20 E02B9/08

    摘要: A power-generating device located in or on the surface of the ocean for generating power utilizing the energy in ocean wave motion. The device is moored to the bow and stern at ˜45° to incoming ocean waves, and with a yawing capability to adjust to change in wave direction. The device delivers power to a shore grid via a submarine cable from a generator. A rotational driving torque to the generator is produced by two long counter-rotating drive tubes, which are held by bearings in the bow hull and the stern hull of the device. As an alternative, hydraulics may be employed for energy capture and power smoothing and used to provide the rotational torque through a hydraulic motor to drive a generator. The main body is partially submerged and has multiple pod floats connected to the structure by rocker arms with bearings through which the drive tubes pass or double-acting hydraulic rams between the arms and the main body, which capture energy through pod displacement and store it in accumulators. Rotary torque of the drive tubes is produced when the pods move up and down according to motion of the waves and is transmitted to the generator to generate power. In the hydraulic case, energy is stored in accumulators as pressure due to the double-acting hydraulic pistons pumping when the pods move up and down according to the motion of the waves. Hydraulic pressure drives a pump, which provides torque to the generator.

    摘要翻译: 位于海洋表面或其表面上的发电装置,用于利用海浪运动中的能量发电。 该装置停泊在船尾和船尾处,对于进入的海浪~~45°,并具有偏航能力,以适应波浪方向的变化。 该设备通过来自发电机的海底电缆向岸上电网供电。 通过两个长的反向旋转驱动管产生到发电机的旋转驱动扭矩,其由弓形船体中的轴承和装置的船尾船体保持。 作为替代,液压可以用于能量捕获和功率平滑,并且用于通过液压马达提供旋转扭矩以驱动发电机。 主体部分淹没,并具有多个吊舱浮体,通过摇臂与驱动管通过的轴承连接到结构,双臂和主体之间的双作用液压柱塞,通过荚移动捕获能量并将其存储在 蓄电池 当吊舱根据波浪的运动上下移动时,产生驱动管的旋转扭矩,并将其传送到发电机发电。 在液压箱中,当荚根据波浪的运动而上下移动时,由于双作用液压活塞泵送,能量作为压力存储在蓄能器中。 液压驱动泵,为发电机提供扭矩。

    Bulk energy storage and frequency regulation of electrical power
    5.
    发明授权
    Bulk energy storage and frequency regulation of electrical power 失效
    大容量储能和电力频率调节

    公开(公告)号:US08742616B1

    公开(公告)日:2014-06-03

    申请号:US13481445

    申请日:2012-05-25

    IPC分类号: B61D43/00

    摘要: A bulk energy storage device for an energy source. The energy storage device includes a circular or conveyor, such as a rail track, which may be formed with slopes. An electrical conductor, such as a third rail or overhead electric cable, connects to an electric grid. Coupled masses, such as rail cars, which travel on the conveyor, have motor/generators that are electrically connected to the conductor. The coupled masses can be raised on a magnetic field and driven by a linear electric motor having a stator embedded in the track and a rotor attached to the undersurface of the masses. Power from the grid is drawn via the third rail to propel and store energy in the ring of masses. When the grid needs to draw power from storage, the linear motor acts as a generator, supplying power to the grid by converting mass momentum into electric power.

    摘要翻译: 用于能源的大容量储能装置。 能量存储装置包括可以形成有斜面的圆形或输送机,例如轨道。 诸如第三导轨或架空电缆的电导体连接到电网。 在输送机上行进的耦合质量块,例如轨道车辆,具有电连接到导体的电动机/发电机。 耦合的质量可以在磁场上升高并且由具有嵌入在轨道中的定子的线性电动机驱动,并且转子附接到质量的下表面。 来自电网的电力经由第三轨道被拉动,以将能量推进并储存在质量环中。 当电网需要从存储中抽取电力时,线性电动机用作发电机,通过将质量动量转换为电力来向电网供电。

    Multi-Megawatt Ocean Current Energy Extraction Device
    6.
    发明申请
    Multi-Megawatt Ocean Current Energy Extraction Device 失效
    多兆瓦海流能量提取装置

    公开(公告)号:US20130106105A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-05-02

    申请号:US13454059

    申请日:2012-04-23

    IPC分类号: F03B15/00 F03B13/10

    摘要: An underwater apparatus for generating electric power from ocean currents and deep water tides. A submersible platform including two or more power pods, each having a rotor with fixed-pitch blades, with drivetrains housed in pressure vessels that are connected by a transverse structure providing buoyancy, which can be a wing depressor, hydrofoil, truss, or faired tube. The platform is connected to anchors on the seafloor by forward mooring lines and a vertical mooring line that restricts the depth of the device in the water column. The platform operates using passive, rather than active, depth control. The wing depressor, along with rotor drag loads, ensures the platform seeks the desired operational current velocity. The rotors are directly coupled to a hydraulic pump that drives at least one constant-speed hydraulic-motor generator set and enables hydraulic braking. A fluidic bearing decouples non-torque rotor loads to the main shaft driving the hydraulic pumps.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于从洋流和深水潮汐发电的水下装置。 包括两个或更多个动力舱的潜水平台,每个动力舱具有具有固定桨距叶片的转子,其中传动装置容纳在通过提供浮力的横向结构连接的压力容器中,所述横向结构可以是翼片压降器,水翼,桁架或流动管 。 该平台通过前进的系泊线和垂直的系泊线与海底上的锚连接,从而限制了水柱中装置的深度。 该平台使用被动而不是主动的深度控制。 翼减压器以及转子牵引载荷确保平台寻求所需的工作电流速度。 转子直接连接到液压泵,驱动至少一个恒速液压马达发电机组,并实现液压制动。 流体轴承将非扭矩转子负载分离到驱动液压泵的主轴上。

    RETRACTABLE ROTOR BLADE STRUCTURE
    7.
    发明申请
    RETRACTABLE ROTOR BLADE STRUCTURE 审中-公开
    可回缩的转子叶片结构

    公开(公告)号:US20090304507A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-12-10

    申请号:US12373222

    申请日:2007-07-12

    IPC分类号: F03B3/14 F03D11/00

    摘要: A power generating system includes a turbine which is mounted on top of a tower or tethered under water. The turbine includes a rotor having a main blade connected to a rotor hub and an extender blade module. An adjusting device positions the extender blade between a retracted position within the main blade and an extended position to expose more or less of the rotor to the fluid flow. An extendible rotor blade structure provides support for an air foil shell by extending a structural beam of a base blade portion of the rotor blade through a telescoping module of the blade. This occurs both when an extender blade portion of the rotor blade is retracted and when it is extended.

    摘要翻译: 发电系统包括安装在塔顶或系在水下的涡轮机。 涡轮机包括具有连接到转子轮毂的主刀片和扩展器刀片模块的转子。 调节装置将扩展器叶片定位在主叶片内的缩回位置和延伸位置之间,以将更多或更少的转子暴露于流体流动。 可延伸的转子叶片结构通过将转子叶片的基部叶片部分的结构梁延伸穿过叶片的伸缩模块来为空气箔壳提供支撑。 当转子叶片的延长叶片部分缩回并且延伸时,都会发生这种情况。

    Distributed powertrain for high torque, low electric power generator
    8.
    发明授权
    Distributed powertrain for high torque, low electric power generator 有权
    分布式动力总成用于高扭矩,低功率发电机

    公开(公告)号:US06304002B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-10-16

    申请号:US09552577

    申请日:2000-04-19

    IPC分类号: H02K2360

    摘要: Wind or water currents turn a power generator rotor. A torque-dividing gearbox is coupled to an input shaft driven by the rotor. The torque-dividing gearbox has a plurality of output shafts located around a perimeter of the input shaft. A number of torque-reducing gearboxes are each coupled to a respective one of the output shafts, each one of the torque-reducing gearboxes driving a generator. In one design the torque-reducing gearboxes and generators are held stationary and the torque-dividing gearbox includes a bull gear turned by the input shaft. Each one of the output shafts is connected to a gear that engages the bull gear teeth. Alternatively, the torque-reducing gearboxes and generators rotate with the input shaft. The torque-dividing gearbox includes a stationary ring gear having ring gear teeth around an inner circumference. Each of the output shafts is connected to a gear that engages the ring gear teeth.

    摘要翻译: 风或水流转动发电机转子。 转矩分配齿轮箱联接到由转子驱动的输入轴。 转矩分配齿轮箱具有位于输入轴的周边周围的多个输出轴。 多个减速齿轮箱各自联接到相应的一个输出轴,每个减速齿轮箱驱动发电机。 在一个设计中,减速齿轮箱和发电机保持静止,转矩分配齿轮箱包括由输入轴转动的大齿轮。 每个输出轴连接到与大齿轮齿啮合的齿轮上。 或者,减速齿轮箱和发电机与输入轴一起旋转。 转矩分配齿轮箱包括一个固定的环形齿轮,其环绕内圆周具有齿圈齿。 每个输出轴连接到与齿圈齿接合的齿轮。

    Reversing linear flow TPV process and apparatus
    9.
    发明授权
    Reversing linear flow TPV process and apparatus 失效
    逆流线性流程TPV工艺和设备

    公开(公告)号:US5092767A

    公开(公告)日:1992-03-03

    申请号:US667181

    申请日:1991-03-11

    IPC分类号: H01L31/04 H01L31/058

    CPC分类号: H02S40/44 H02S10/30 Y02E10/60

    摘要: A linear combustion emitter regenerator process capable of operating at high temperatures for sustained periods of time, that includes flowing reactants including fuel and air to a combustion zone; adding regenerated heat to at least one of the reactants flowing to the zone; combusting the reactants at the zone to produce combustion products at high temperature, to heat radiant emitter; operating the emitter to radiate energy from the zone passing selective wavelengths of said radiated energy spectrum through an optical filter and converting the radiation from the emitter into photovoltaic-produced electricity; mounting optical filter on water-cooled window to act as a heat shield to protect photovoltaic cells from overheating; reflecting back to the emitter portions of the spectral emission not able to activate the photovoltaic cells; extracting heat absorbed by liquid-cooled window by means of a heat exchanger to transfer heat to incoming combustion air; extracting heat from the combustion products for return to the at least one of the reactants as the recuperated heat; removing the products of combustion at reduced temperature, and; providing a porous bed at and to which the extracted heat is transferred; and periodically reversing the direction of flow of at least one of the reactants, and in heat transfer contact with the bed.

    摘要翻译: 一种能够在高温下持续运行的线性燃烧发生器再生器过程,其包括将包括燃料和空气的反应物流动到燃烧区; 向再循环的至少一个反应物中加入再生热; 在该区域燃烧反应物以在高温下产生燃烧产物,以加热辐射发射体; 操作发射器以通过光学滤波器从通过所述辐射能谱的选择波长的区域辐射能量,并将来自发射极的辐射转换成光伏发电; 将滤光器安装在水冷窗上,作为隔热罩,保护光伏电池免受过热; 反射回不能激活光伏电池的光谱发射器的发射极部分; 通过热交换器提取由液冷窗口吸收的热量以将热量传递到进入的燃烧空气; 从所述燃烧产物中提取热量以作为所述再生热返回至所述至少一个所述反应物; 在降温下除去燃烧产物; 在提取的热量传递的位置提供多孔床; 并且周期性地反转至少一种反应物的流动方向,并且与床的热传递接触。

    Rotating kinetic and potential energy frequency regulation device for fast response large scale electric power applications
    10.
    发明授权
    Rotating kinetic and potential energy frequency regulation device for fast response large scale electric power applications 有权
    旋转动能和势能调频装置,用于快速响应大型电力应用

    公开(公告)号:US08803487B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-08-12

    申请号:US13602103

    申请日:2012-09-01

    IPC分类号: H02K7/02

    CPC分类号: H02K7/025 Y02E60/16

    摘要: A rotating device for multi-megawatt, fast response frequency regulation for the electric grid. The device generally has a main shaft coupled to a motor-generator, a main spring concentric to the main shaft, and several radially-symmetric arms, each connected to the main spring via a four-bar mechanism. As the rotational speed of the device increases, centrifugal force acting on the arms causes them to rise, the four-bar mechanism compresses the main spring, and energy is stored in the device as a combination of kinetic rotational energy, elastic potential energy, and gravitational potential energy. The device can be configured with additional springs, which can be compression springs, tension springs, or a combination thereof, in order to increase the amount of energy produced. Symmetrically-spaced gliding masses can be arranged on the arms as well.

    摘要翻译: 用于多兆瓦的旋转装置,用于电网的快速响应频率调节。 该装置通常具有联接到电动发电机的主轴,与主轴同心的主弹簧以及几个径向对称的臂,每个臂经由四杆机构连接到主弹簧。 随着装置的转速增加,作用在臂上的离心力使它们上升,四杆机构压缩主弹簧,能量作为动能旋转能量,弹性势能和 重力势能。 该装置可以配置有可以是压缩弹簧,拉伸弹簧或其组合的附加弹簧,以便增加产生的能量的量。 也可以在臂上布置对称间隔的滑动块。