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    Airborne Wind Turbine Tether Termination Systems
    1.
    发明申请
    Airborne Wind Turbine Tether Termination Systems 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号：US20180030960A1

    公开(公告)日：2018-02-01

    申请号：US15714128

    申请日：2017-09-25

    Applicant: X Development LLC

    Inventor： Bryan Christopher GilroySmith ,  Brian Hachtmann ,  Elias Wolfgang Patten

    IPC: F03D13/20 ,  F03D9/25

    CPC classification number: F03D13/20 ,  F03D1/02 ,  F03D9/255 ,  F03D80/70 ,  F05B2240/921 ,  Y02E10/725 ,  Y02E10/728

    Abstract: An Airborne Wind Turbine (“AWT”) may be used to facilitate conversion of kinetic energy to electrical energy. An AWT may include an aerial vehicle that flies in a path to convert kinetic wind energy to electrical energy. The aerial vehicle may be tethered to a ground station with a tether that terminates at a tether termination mount. In one aspect, the tether has a core and at least one electrical conductor. The tether core may be terminated at a first location in a tether termination mount along an axis of the termination mount, and the at least one electrical conductor may be terminated at a second location in the tether termination mount along the same axis that the core is terminated. This termination configuration may focus tensile stress on the tether to the tether core, and minimize such stress on the at least one electrical conductor during aerial vehicle flight.

    Offshore Wind Kite with Seafloor Mooring
    4.
    发明申请
    Offshore Wind Kite with Seafloor Mooring 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号：US20180170537A1

    公开(公告)日：2018-06-21

    申请号：US15387261

    申请日：2016-12-21

    Applicant: X Development LLC

    Inventor： Brian Hachtmann ,  Fort Felker ,  Charles Nordstrom

    IPC: B64C39/02 ,  B63B35/50 ,  B63B21/50 ,  G05D1/06 ,  F03D9/00 ,  F03D9/32

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for operating aerial vehicles in water-based locations. As an example, a system may include a plurality of landing stations. Each landing station of the plurality of landing stations is coupled to at least one of: another landing station or an underwater mooring point. The system also includes an aerial vehicle coupled to a tether mooring point by a tether. The aerial vehicle is configured to land on at least one landing station of the plurality of landing stations.

    Tether termination systems and methods
    6.
    发明授权
    Tether termination systems and methods 有权

    公开(公告)号：US09771925B2

    公开(公告)日：2017-09-26

    申请号：US14513119

    申请日：2014-10-13

    Applicant: X Development LLC

    Inventor： Bryan Christopher GilroySmith ,  Elias Wolfgang Patten ,  Brian Hachtmann

    IPC: F03D80/00 ,  F03D13/20 ,  F03D9/25

    CPC classification number: F03D13/20 ,  F03D1/02 ,  F03D9/255 ,  F03D80/70 ,  F05B2240/921 ,  Y02E10/728

    Abstract: An Airborne Wind Turbine (“AWT”) may be used to facilitate conversion of kinetic energy to electrical energy. An AWT may include an aerial vehicle that flies in a path to convert kinetic wind energy to electrical energy. The aerial vehicle may be tethered to a ground station with a tether that terminates at a tether termination mount. In one aspect, the tether has a core and at least one electrical conductor. The tether core may be terminated at a first location in a tether termination mount along an axis of the termination mount, and the at least one electrical conductor may be terminated at a second location in the tether termination mount along the same axis that the core is terminated. This termination configuration may focus tensile stress on the tether to the tether core, and minimize such stress on the at least one electrical conductor during aerial vehicle flight.

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