Abstract:
The present invention describes a system for taking the necessary energy for operating the electronic circuit for monitoring a bearing (A) directly from the rotation movement, namely from the kinetic energy of the bearingi.e by energy harvesting or scarvenging. All information read on board the bearing (A) by the sensors (4a, 4b) are sent through radio with a wireless communication system to an external data collecting and processing unit (6), that is able to evaluate and communicate the status of the bearing (A) being analysed. The preferred system embodiment provides that the generator (1) bases its operation on the gyroscope (or Coriolis force) effect a circuit (7) for accumulating the necessary energy for turning the system on.
Abstract:
A system (1) is described for generating electric energy by exploiting wind at a height, comprising at least one ultra-light component of the kite type composed of two or more retractable wing profiles (11, 12) which can be extended or retracted through means placed inside a central housing (13), thereby obtaining both the chance of more easily rising and descending the kite, and the chance of regulating/controlling the working surface of the wing profiles (11, 12) depending on a wind intensity.
Abstract:
A power transmitting system (P) is described, comprising at least three first pulleys (1, 5, 9') having a first diameter, having a first rotation axis mutually identical and adapted to operatively cooperate with at least two second pulleys (3, 7'), having a second diameter and having a second rotation axis mutually identical and different from the first rotation axis, the first diameter being greater than the second diameter, and a rope (2) adapted to pass in succession around the pulleys (1, 3, 5, 7', 9') in order to follow a path adapted to provide an extended friction surface for the rope (2).
Abstract:
A device (1) is described for generating energy, composed of at least two ultralight airfoils (3, 5) rotating along their own axis, which functionally reproduce the characteristics of a propeller. The ultralight airfoils (3, 5) which characterise such aerodynamic configuration use pulling means (9, 14, 20) to keep their shape when operating. An important weight reduction of the structure is thereby obtained, which allows different applications in the aeolian generation field.
Abstract:
An accelerometer system with automatic calibration is described, composed of: an electronic conditioning and digitizing circuit (5), a vibrating device (4) driven by the electronic circuit (5), and a set of groups of accelerometer transducers (1, 2, 3) wherein: each group is assembled along the direction of each of the measuring axes of the accelerometer system; each group is composed of at least two accelerometer transducers capable of reading different frequency bands which are partially overlapped; and each group is composed of a first transducer which has a band starting from zero frequency or which is capable of autonomously guaranteeing the validity and the calibration of the performed reading.
Abstract:
A wide-band, single-axis or multiple-axis accelerometer or acceleration-measuring sensor (1), self-recognising its calibration is described, comprising at least one accelerometric detecting unit, such group being composed of at least two accelerometric transducers adapted to read, in a parallel way, different frequency bands, at least one electronic circuit (9) for conditioning and digitising signals (S I ) coming from the accelerometric detecting unit and at least one microprocessor (11) adapted to read the signals (SI) through the conditioning and digitising electronic circuit (9) and to recombine them for every measuring axis into at least one global output signal (S O ).