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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120038170 | Wind Energy Generating and Storing System A wind energy system includes a vertical-axis turbine and a compressor driven by the turbine. The turbine includes blades supported on a central rotor by respective support arms having an airfoil shape so as to generate a load on the rotor in an axial direction so as to... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038168 | POWER GENERATOR AND WIND POWER GENERATION SYSTEM This power generator is so formed that a number q of slots per pole per phase obtained by dividing the number of slots by the number of poles of permanent magnets and the number of phases of voltages is a fraction satisfying 1<q≦ 3/2.... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038166 | ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE, WIND POWER GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE This rotating electric machine is so formed that the length from an end portion of a rotor core closer to a rotating shaft support portion to a portion first coming into contact with the rotating shaft support portion when a rotating shaft portion is inserted into the r... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038159 | WIND POWER GENERATING DEVICE FOR USE WITH A VEHICLE A wind power generating device for use with a vehicle is provided. The wind power generating device is disposed in a front side of an engine chamber of the vehicle and includes: at least one fan blade being driven to rotate by a current of external air introduced into t... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120031119 | ATMOSPHERIC LAPSE RATE COOLING SYSTEM A heat transfer fluid can be cooled using the atmospheric thermal lapse rate. The heat transfer fluid can be ascended to a predetermined altitude above ground level where a temperature of the atmosphere is less than a temperature at the ground level. The heat transfer f... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120032450 | Generator Arrangement for a Wind Power Plant A generator arrangement for a wind power plant includes a ring-shaped primary part, a ringshaped secondary part, and a planetary transmission arrangement disposed inside the primary part and the secondary part. The planetary transmission arrangement comprises an interna... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120025535 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DIRECT CURRENT POWER TRANSMISSION A direct current (DC) power transmission system is described. The DC power transmission system includes a first plurality of series connected power collection systems and at least one superconducting DC conductor coupled to the plurality of series connected power collec... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120025536 | Modular wind-solar energy converting assembly A modular wind and solar energy converting and structurally self-supporting assembly including a plurality of conjoined tubular wind turbine modules angularly extendable in different directions and solar panels attachable to said wind turbine modules for joint and seque... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120025541 | WIND TURBINE GENERATING APPARATUS A wind turbine generating apparatus includes a rotor head that rotates upon receiving outside wind on a wind turbine blade, a generator that generates electricity, and a nacelle interior air passage through which outside air flows isolatedly from an interior space of th... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120025533 | WIND POWER TURBINE ELECTRIC GENERATOR COOLING SYSTEM AND METHOD AND WIND POWER TURBINE COMPRISING SUCH A COOLING SYSTEM A cooling system for cooling an electric generator of a wind power turbine including, in one embodiment:
| 02/02/2012 |
| 20120025538 | UNITARY SUPPORT FRAME FOR USE IN WIND TURBINES AND METHODS FOR FABRICATING SAME A support frame for use in a wind turbine including a tower and a rotor that is rotatably coupled to a rotor shaft. The support frame includes an upper portion including an inner surface, an outer surface, and at least one bearing housing that is sized to receive the ro... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120025540 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENERGY GENERATION A method and device for using magnetostriction to generate electricity from fluid motion. The device includes a first structural component, an outer housing, and a strain structure. The outer housing substantially circumscribes the first structural component and at leas... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120025534 | ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINE, LINEAR MOTION ELECTRICAL MACHINE, AND WIND GENERATOR SYSTEM This disclosure discloses a rotating electrical machine comprising: a stator; and a rotor; one of said stator and said rotor having a coil, the other having a plurality of magnetic pole units each forming first and second magnetic poles configured to be aligned alternat... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120025537 | WIND TURBINE NACELLE WITH COOLER TOP The present invention relates to a wind turbine nacelle comprising a front end facing a wind flow and a rear end arranged downwind from the front end; a first face with a longitudinal extension between the front end and the rear end of the nacelle, the longitudinal exte... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120025539 | COOLING DEVICE FOR ELECTRICAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF COOLING AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE A cooling device for an electrical apparatus having an air gap. The cooling device includes a heat transfer element coupled to the core. The heat transfer element includes a first material to facilitate transferring heat out of the core. The cooling device further inclu... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120019007 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MINIMIZING HARMONIC CURRENTS IN A WIND TURBINE PARK A collector system (49) for supplying electrical energy to a grid (50). The collector system (49) comprises a plurality of voltage sources (46/48/66/68) each producing a fundamental frequency current and a plurality of harmonic frequency curr... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019006 | COAXIAL WIND TURBINE Disclosed is a gearbox with two driver gears that are phase shifted 180 degrees with respect to a driven gear so that counter-rotation of the driver gears combine to rotate the driven gear together. The gearbox can be used to couple a counter-rotating, coaxial wind turb... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019002 | VERTICAL AXIAL WIND POWER GENERATION DEVICE A vertical axis wind turbine power generation device includes a substantially n-shaped support frame having a first board and two second boards, and at least one reinforced plate installed at a position of connecting the first and second boards, a vane wheel axially dis... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019001 | WIND TURBINE, DRIVE TRAIN ASSEMBLY, WIND TURBINE NACELLE SYSTEM, METHODS FOR CONVERTING ROTATIONAL ENERGY AND METHODS FOR BUILDING A NACELLE AND FOR RE-EQUIPPING A WIND TURBINE A wind turbine with a drive train connecting a drive unit with a generator assembly is provided. The generator assembly includes a first generator with a first stator and a first rotor, the first rotor being directly connected to the drive train, and at least a second g... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013130 | ELECTRICAL GENERATOR An electrical generator is provided. The electrical generator includes a support, a magnetic material configured to be coupled to the support, and at least one flexible conductive member configured to include an electrical conductor associated with the magnetic material... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120007366 | VARIABLE AREA VERTICAL AXIS WIND TURBINE A vertical axis wind turbine according to embodiments of the present invention includes a hub, first and second rotor arms rigidly coupled to the hub, a first rotor blade pivotably coupled to the first rotor arm at a first hinge joint, a second rotor blade pivotably cou... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120007365 | Deployable wind power and battery unit A portable, selectively deployable power supply and storage arrangement includes a frame, a floor securable to the frame and having a longitudinally extending guide member provided thereon, a mast assembly having a first end pivotally connected to a tractor element slid... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120006052 | Windmill driven, ocean floating atmospheric CO2 removal system A multi-stage pumping system that can take liquid CO2, that has been extracted from the air by a new technology called “Tree”, chill and compress it into a torpedo shaped chamber to form a slug of dry ice. The slug is then ejected to be sequestered at the... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120001436 | POWER GENERATOR USING A WIND TURBINE, A HYDRODYNAMIC RETARDER AND AN ORGANIC RANKINE CYCLE DRIVE An electric power generating system is provided that uses a wind turbine to generate waste-heat that is utilized in an organic Rankine Cycle drive that converts heat energy into rotation of a generator rotor for generating electricity. A hydrodynamic retarder may be pro... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120001437 | WIND POWER GENERATOR Provided is a wind power generator that reduces the amount of heat input into a nacelle from the outside of the nacelle due to the solar radiation, and that improves the heat dissipation performance from the inside of the nacelle to the outside air. In a wind power gene... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120001438 | WIND POWER GENERATOR A wind power generator is provided in which a reduction in weight is achieved by reducing the wall thickness of a nacelle, and an increase in the amount of heat input to the interior of the nacelle from sunlight is suppressed. In a wind power generator in which driving/... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120001439 | SYSTEM FOR CONVERTING WIND POWER TO ELECTRICAL POWER WITH TRANSMISSION A system for converting wind power to electrical power comprising a transmission module with multiple power flows to an output and a first generator coupled to the output, wherein the first generator operates at substantially constant speed for the multiple power flows.... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20120001440 | WIND POWER GENERATOR A wind power generator, which minimizes vortexes formed on a disc, thus efficiently rotating the disc, and which has blade type cells capable of increasing wind power, and which reduces friction load of a rotating shaft induced by the weight of the rotating shaft having... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110316278 | Locking Device for the Rotor of Wind Turbines The invention relates to a wind turbine comprising a tower, a nacelle that is located on the tower and is provided with a machine support, a rotor shaft bearing and a generator, and comprising a rotor with a rotor shaft, a rotor hub and at least one rotor with at least ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110316286 | YAW BEARING SYSTEM A wind energy system is provided, with the wind energy system having a tower; a machine nacelle; a lower yaw bearing; and an upper yaw bearing; the lower yaw bearing and the upper yaw bearing being arranged to pivotably connect the machine nacelle to the tower of the wi... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110316279 | Wind Turbines with Diffusers for the Buildings or Structures One example of our system makes it easier to bring the wind turbines to the residential and densely populated areas. The systems can be cascaded together to supply a bigger population or area. Since most of the system is hidden, it looks better for appearance of the cit... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110318167 | CROSSFLOW WIND TURBINE Disclosed herein is a wind turbine that includes a cylindrical impeller having a plurality of blades located about a radius of the cylindrical impeller, the blades having a span that is less than or equal to 20 percent of the radius. The wind turbine further includes an... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110316287 | Generator, wind turbine, method of assembling a generator and use of a generator in a wind turbine A generator is provided comprising a rotor with a number of magnetic rotor pole shoes, a stator with a number of stator coils wound on the stator, and a generator-utility grid interface comprising a plurality of diode rectifiers, each diode rectifier is connected to a s... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110316284 | Power Density Enhancement Apparatus For Wind Turbines A wind deflector apparatus configured for increasing the velocity of an airstream flowing therethrough. The wind deflector apparatus comprises a hybrid conduit with one end comprising a first conduit having a distal end configured for receiving an airstream. The other e... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110316285 | WIND TURBINE PROVIDING REDUCED RADIO FREQUENCY INTERACTION AND RELATED METHODS A wind turbine electrical generator may include a monopole tower extending upwardly from ground level. The wind turbine electrical generator may also include an electrical power generator carried by an upper end of the monopole tower and may include a horizontally exten... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110309786 | GREEN ELECTRIC VEHICLE UTILIZING MULTIPLE SOURCES OF ENERGY An electrically powered, engineless, self-standing, green electric vehicle comprising at least one electric motor connected to a drive axel and a plurality of rechargeable batteries to provide stored electrical energy to said motor. The said motor is propelled and the s... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110311364 | Balanced Lift Wind Turbine A vertical axis wind turbine that utilizes a unique semi-circular, angled, scoop design and frame to fully harness wind energy. The shape of the scoops maximizes wind collection while minimizing wind resistance. The angle of the scoops allows the wind turbine to catch w... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110309626 | System and Method for Generating Electricity Within A Building Structure A system for generating electricity including a building structure and one or more subsystems structurally integrated with the building structure. Each subsystem includes a vertically oriented tower, a scoop mounted on the tower and including an air intake opening and a... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110309633 | Wind Auger The purpose of the Wind Auger is to harness wind energy in a new and efficient manner. The wind auger utilizes a unique fin design and orientation to the wind to achieve superior performance in low to medium wind velocity locations. In addition, the simple, rugged struc... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110309634 | LOOPED AIRFOIL WIND TURBINE Looped AirFoil Wind Turbine (LAWT) (10) is a novel wind turbine with a basic system of a triangular structure (14) utilizing both lift and drag aerodynamic forces produced by wind energy. The entire triangular structure (14) could either yaw to alwa... | 12/22/2011 |
