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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20060290140 | Horizontal axis wind turbine Disclosed is a horizontal axis wind turbine of an downwind type having a rotor disposed downwind of a tower, comprising: a rotor having a hub and a blade; a nacelle to support the rotor rotatably through a main shaft connected to the hub; a cylindrical tower supporting ... | 12/28/2006 |
| 20060273597 | Wind harnessing system A wind harnessing system comprises a substantially helical structure including at least a portion of a spiraling groove and at least one energy converter positioned at least partially within the portion of the spiraling groove. In other embodiments, wind grooves formed ... | 12/07/2006 |
| 20060267347 | Method of operating a wind power station When planning and setting up wind power installations, the visual detractions to be expected on the part of the wind power installation on the environment play an increasingly important part in approval and acceptance. The shadow casting caused by the wind power install... | 11/30/2006 |
| 20060267348 | Tower for a wind power station Disclosed is a tower for a wind power station comprising a machine pod disposed on the tower and a rotor mounted on the machine pod so as to be rotatable about an essentially horizontal axis. Said rotor is provided with at least one blade. The tower is composed of a tub... | 11/30/2006 |
| 20060232076 | Reduced friction wind turbine apparatus and method The present invention is a wind power apparatus for driving an electric generator. The wind power apparatus comprises a frame, a vertical axle mounted on the frame and a buoyant hull. The buoyant hull is rotational disposed on the axle. The buoyant hull has a curvilinea... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060220389 | Wind wheel for wind power generation Provided is a power generating wind turbine in which parts and compoments installed in or on a nacelle are made smaller and lighter and maintenance is facilitated. A main shaft 11, a gear-box speeding up rotation of the main shaft 11 and a generator 13 ... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060170222 | Building incorporating a wind turbine system Wind turbine system, and related method, is provided that exploits an aerodynamically enhanced wind zone of a structure by aligning a wind turbine generator, and preferably a plurality thereof, along a wall thereof. Each generator includes a structural support, a wind t... | 08/03/2006 |
| 20060152013 | Wind powered pendulating land sail electricity generation system An electricity generation system having the ability to generate clean electrical power by mechanically capturing the power of the wind. The system utilizes one or more modular wind collecting sail assemblies that are mounted on an upright oriented pole assembly. The bot... | 07/13/2006 |
| 20060152016 | Direct Drive Wind Turbine A wind turbine is provided that minimizes the size of the drive train and nacelle while maintaining the power electronics and transformer at the top of the tower. The turbine includes a direct drive generator having an integrated disk brake positioned radially inside th... | 07/13/2006 |
| 20060152015 | Direct Drive Wind Turbine A wind turbine is provided that minimizes the size of the drive train and nacelle while maintaining the power electronics and transformer at the top of the tower. The turbine includes a direct drive generator having an integrated disk brake positioned radially inside th... | 07/13/2006 |
| 20060152014 | Method and apparatus for wind turbine air gap control Methods and apparatus for assembling a wind turbine generator are provided. The wind turbine generator includes a core and a plurality of stator windings circumferentially spaced about a generator longitudinal axis, a rotor rotatable about the generator longitudinal axi... | 07/13/2006 |
| 20060152012 | TRAFFIC-DRIVEN WIND GENERATOR A wind-capturing electrical generator device comprising a plurality of generators is driven by wind created by traffic passing in close proximity at high speeds. The device preferably uses horizontally or vertically mounted Savonius-type or helical-turbine-type rotors a... | 07/13/2006 |
| 20060145484 | Wind power installation with separate primary and secondary cooling circuits A wind power installation includes a nacelle, and energy conversion system for converting wind power into electric energy. The energy conversion system includes a heat-generating source which is disposed in the nacelle and constructed to include a closed primary cooling... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20060142899 | Method of operating a wind park Wind power installations were initially always erected in the form of individual units and it is only in recent years that, caused also by administrative and building regulations, wind power installations are frequently installed in wind parks. In that respect a wind pa... | 06/29/2006 |
| 20060138782 | Multi-turbine airflow amplifying generator The wind generating device of the present invention employs modules each having two turbines. Each of the turbines employs two rotors, coaxially aligned and arranged one downstream from the other. The arrangement includes a proximal channel with a leading portion having... | 06/29/2006 |
| 20060138781 | Wind turbine generator A wind turbine generator including a nacelle having reduced size and weight is provided. The wind turbine generator includes a nacelle disposed on a tower. The nacelle includes a main shaft that is connected to a rotor head equipped with blades and that integrally rotat... | 06/29/2006 |
| 20060138780 | Modular wind turbine transmission A wind turbine gear unit has a low speed gear module and a plurality of high speed gear modules wherein the low speed gear module is operable simultaneously to transmit torque to each of the high speed gear modules. ... | 06/29/2006 |
| 20060125243 | Mechanism for rotating the rotor/s, stator/s, an electric power generator/s Normal existing system generate electrical power from mechanical rotational power produced by internal combustion engines the rotors of the wind, which rotates the rotor in one direction, the stator being static and fixed. The device described makes the rotor and the st... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060113804 | Passively cooled direct drive wind turbine A wind turbine is provided that passively cools an electrical generator. The wind turbine includes a plurality of fins arranged peripherally around a generator house. Each of the fins being oriented at an angle greater than zero degrees to allow parallel flow of air ove... | 06/01/2006 |
| 20060108809 | Protective wind energy conversion chamber A protective wind energy conversion chamber provides a protected multiple turbine mechanism axially aligned to convert kinetic energy of a moving fluid (e.g., wind) into rotational mechanical power by the reaction of the moving fluid with the turbine. The conversion cha... | 05/25/2006 |
| 20060091678 | Hovering Wind Turbine A hovering wind turbine (1) whose blades (2) lie on the surface of an imaginary horizontal cylinder and have their pitch angle changing as a function of the rotational angle, allowing them to gather wind energy mainly in the upwind and downwind sectors of ... | 05/04/2006 |
| 20060082160 | Wind powered generator platform A wind powered generation platform in accordance with the present invention provides for remote placement of wind generation systems in a body of water. A platform for such use includes a base portion, a control portion, a stabilizing portion, a power generation portion... | 04/20/2006 |
| 20060076782 | Wind-guidance enhancing apparatus for a fluid power generator A wind-guidance enhancing apparatus for a wind power generator includes a support stage; an impeller stage including at least one blade, and a wind-guidance unit for guiding wind to the impeller stage. The wind-guidance unit includes a plurality of wind-guidance plates ... | 04/13/2006 |
| 20060071568 | Permanent magnet type electric rotating machine and wind turbine electric power generation system A permanent magnet type electric rotating machine comprises a stator having a distributed winding and a permanent magnet rotor, wherein the permanent magnet rotor is provided with a wind passage in an axial direction thereof. ... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060071575 | Electrical machine with double-sided stator Machines useful for wind turbine and ship propulsion purposes include a wind turbine generator or a ship propulsion motor with two concentric air gaps. In one embodiment, the machine includes a rotor with an inner rotor core and an outer rotor core; and a double-sided s... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060012182 | Wind energy conversion system A wind energy conversion system includes upper and lower wind turbines having counter-rotating blade assemblies supported for rotation about a vertical rotation axis, with each blade assembly carrying a rotor for rotation past a stator to produce an electrical output. T... | 01/19/2006 |
| 20060006658 | Wind energy conversion system A wind energy conversion system includes upper and lower wind turbines having counter-rotating blade assemblies supported for rotation about a vertical rotation axis, with each blade assembly carrying a rotor for rotation past a stator to produce an electrical output. T... | 01/12/2006 |
| 20050280264 | Multistage wind-powered generator with shafts and a coupling system A wind-powered generator can be used with high efficiency, not only in large wind-powered systems but also in smaller versions. Two or more generators are arranged, either one behind the other or side by side, after a mechanical device which uses wind power. The two or ... | 12/22/2005 |
| 20050242591 | System and method for converting wind into mechanical energy A system for converting an airflow into mechanical energy includes a drawtube and an airflow turbine capable of converting an airflow through the drawtube into rotational mechanical energy. The drawtube includes a tubular member with first and second open ends and a sub... | 11/03/2005 |
| 20050225092 | MECHANISM FOR CONVERTING MECHANICAL ENERGY FOR WIND POWERED ENERGY SYSTEMS An improved drive mechanism for a windmill has: (a) a drive chain driven into movement by a wind wheel shaft driven into rotation by wind movement against a wind wheel; (b) a drive chain sprocket driven by the drive chain and coupled to a force chain sprocket to corresp... | 10/13/2005 |
| 20050218657 | MOBILE RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATOR A method and apparatus for a portable renewable energy generator includes; a movable platform adapted for one of towing and transport to a remote area, a redundant renewable energy source generator including a wind energy extraction device configured for transport on th... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050218656 | Wind energy turbine The invention relates to a wind turbine and to the installation of such a wind turbine, particularly offshore. When wind turbines are installed in the previously known manner, a tower of the wind turbine is firstly manufactured, said tower being a steel tower, a concret... | 10/06/2005 |
| 20050212300 | Vertical axis windmill A vertical shaft windmill is provided in which: a casing (7) extends further upward than a lowest arm (5L); a radial bearing (BI) is fixed to the outer part of the casing (7); and the arm (5L) is mounted for rotation to the casing (7) ... | 09/29/2005 |
| 20050206168 | Float type base structure for wind power generationon the ocean The present invention relates to a floating-type foundation structure that supports a power generation system upon the ocean in the upright position. The foundation structure comprises: a main floating body consisting of a cylinder that is longer in the axial direction ... | 09/22/2005 |
| 20050200133 | Separate network and method for operating a separate network The present invention relates to an isolated network with at least one power generator, which uses renewable energy sources, wherein the power generator is preferably a wind-power station with a first synchronous generator, with a dc voltage intermediate circuit with at... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050200337 | Power converter circuit and associated triggering method for generators with dynamically variable power output A power converter circuit and associated triggering method for connecting a three-phase generator to an electrical network. The circuit includes a first direct connection of the generator to the network and a second connection of the generator to the network, through a ... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050200135 | Wind turbine provided with a controller for adjusting active annular plane area and the operating method thereof A wind turbine which varies an active annular plane area by composing such that blades are attached to a cylindrical rotor movable in the radial direction of the rotor, the blades being reciprocated in the radial direction by means of a blade shifting mechanism connecte... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050200134 | Wind turbine provided with a controller for adjusting active annular plane area and the operating method thereof A wind turbine which varies an active annular plane area by composing such that blades are attached to a cylindrical rotor movable in the radial direction of the rotor, the blades being reciprocated in the radial direction by means of a blade shifting mechanism connecte... | 09/15/2005 |
| 20050173929 | Fire protection The present invention concerns a wind power installation comprising a pylon and a pod arranged at the tip of the pylon. The invention further concerns a method of controlling such a wind power installation._In order to prevent a fire from occurring or at least to be abl... | 08/11/2005 |
| 20050167989 | Wind power installation with separate primary and secondary cooling circuits A wind power installation includes a nacelle for housing a generator, and a turbine having at least one rotor blade. At least the generator includes a closed primary cooing system, and the nacelle is provided with a cooling system for cooling the primary cooling system ... | 08/04/2005 |
