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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4079264 | Wind or water operated power plant A fluid operated power generating system comprises a power producing unit or an array of such units adapted to be positioned in a flow of fluid. Each unit includes end walls configurated to cause fluid to flow therealong in a rectilinear path and has a pa... | 03/14/1978 |
| 4076190 | Apparatus for extracting energy from winds at significant height above the surface A buoyant sail or wing tethered to a line an appreciable distance above the surface where the winds are at higher speed than at ground level is provided with wind velocity gradient sensing members to guide movement of the buoyant sail to the elevation of ... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4075500 | Variable stator, diffuser augmented wind turbine electrical generation system A wind powered electrical generating system having a suitable shaped aerodynamic duct or shroud within which a wind turbine having a fixed pitch blade is mounted, as by means of a stator means at the inlet of the duct or shroud with the stator means inclu... | 02/21/1978 |
| 4075545 | Charging system for automobile batteries A pair of air driven impeller rotors mounted in the front end portion of a vehicle and operatively connected to one or more generators for charging drive motor energizing batteries responsive to forward movement of the vehicle. The impeller rotors are dis... | 02/21/1978 |
| 4073516 | Wind driven power plant A tethered wind-driven floating power plant which includes a support body carrying at least one rotor assembly, a current generator coupled to the rotor and alignment assembly for aligning the rotor to face into the wind, a ground anchor and at least one ... | 02/14/1978 |
| 4070131 | Tornado-type wind turbine Atmospheric wind is admitted tangentially into a vertically extending structure and directed against the interior curved surface of the structure to produce vortex flow. The structure is open ended and spaced from ground or connected to a ram-air subterra... | 01/24/1978 |
| 4068131 | Wind electric plant A multiblade, wind-driven, variable pitch propeller is used in a wind electric plant for the generation of electrical power from wind forces, and the propeller is rotatable in a plane at an angle to the tower axis, enabling larger propellers to be used wi... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4068132 | Wind powered electrical generating plant A multi-level support structure contains plural power driven turntables on each level and each turntable carries a plurality of wind powered electrical generator units which are pivotally secured to the turntable and electrically coupled in a power distri... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4066911 | Wind-driven prime mover A sail-type wind-driven prime mover is provided in which the area of the sails facing into the wind is adjustable. The prime mover comprises a drive shaft from which depend radially extending front and rear masts which support flexible sails. The area of ... | 01/03/1978 |
| 4061926 | Wind driven electrical generator An electric generating system in which oppositely rotating wind driven wheels are used, one to drive the rotor and one to drive the stator of an electric generator.... | 12/06/1977 |
| 4058979 | Energy storage and conversion technique and apparatus The kinetic energy of the wind is converted into compressed air which is stored, in a system which maintains a predetermined output pressure, for use in driving a turbine coupled to an electrical power generator. The gas storage system includes two pair o... | 11/22/1977 |
| 4057270 | Fluid turbine A turbine for generating electric power when exposed to a fluid source, such as a liquid or gaseous current. The turbine has two substantially annular rotor housings spaced in parallel, horizontal planes. Each housing is provided with a plurality of radia... | 11/08/1977 |
| 4055950 | Energy conversion system using windmill A system for recovering the energy from atmospheric wind wherein a windmill operates a compressor for compressing air which is stored in one or more tanks. The compressed air is used to drive a prime mover coupled by gear means to an electrical generator ... | 11/01/1977 |
| 4050246 | Wind driven power system A wind driven power plant has a vertical axis rotor which is rigidly connected to a center body in turn connected to a rotating base. The base is supported on a fixed pylon by means of a mechanical, or preferably fluidic bearing. The rotor blades are stro... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4048947 | Rotary device driven by a moving fluid A rotary device driven by a moving fluid, such as water or air, for generating a rotary movement comprises a cylindrical or frusto-conical rotor having a vertical axis, the rotor having a plurality of identical blades distributed around the periphery of t... | 09/20/1977 |
| 4047833 | Horizontal windmill A horizontal windmill includes a vertical tubular internal baffle member, a plurality of vanes responsive to the wind, mounted and positioned so that they revolve horizontally when the wind blows, partially rotating to resist the force of the wind in some... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4047834 | Horizontal multidirectional turbine windmill A horizontal multidirectional turbine windmill comprising a housing having apertures on all sides for ingress and egress of air and a rotor on a drive shaft within the housing, each aperture being the larger end of a funnel-shaped passage, the smaller end... | 09/13/1977 |
| 4039848 | Wind operated generator A wind operated generator employing counterrotating propellers with an alternating current generator positioned between the blades of the propellors and spacing the same. The propellors and generator parts are mounted on concentric shafts supported in a p... | 08/02/1977 |
| 4039849 | Wind powered generating systems An electric battery powered automobile has a wind driven rotor device driving a generator to furnish supplementary power to batteries of the electrical power system of the automobile. The rotor device includes a power rotor having a pair of curved blades ... | 08/02/1977 |
| 4035658 | High power wind turbine with kinetic accumulator A high power wind turbine with kinetic accumulator is disclosed. The invention includes a circular wall, a wall turbine movably mounted to the circular wall so that it can be moved to face the wind, a non-linear generator connected to the wind turbine to ... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4031173 | Efficiency and utilization of cooling towers The invention relates to cooling towers of the type currently in use for cooling water and/or condensing exhaust steam as for example in association with nuclear or fossil fuel type power plants. Typically towers are very large and very high. The inventio... | 06/21/1977 |
| 4031405 | Windmill with shroud adjusting means A windmill having a shroud rotatably mounted with respect to a horizontally rotatable vane assembly of the windmill and a directional vane mounted to the shroud to automatically position the shroud to expose half of the windmill vane assembly to the wind.... | 06/21/1977 |
| 4024409 | Aeolian windmill A system is disclosed which utilizes a member which oscillates in response to movement of a fluid past it and a means for utilizing the energy generated by the oscillation. In one embodiment the oscillating member is a cable utilizing wind or water as gen... | 05/17/1977 |
| 4021135 | Wind turbine A wind turbine including a reaction type turbine wheel instead of an impulse type turbine which is normally used for receiving the wind and more efficiently deriving power therefrom and an augmenter means for producing a vortex downstream of the turbine a... | 05/03/1977 |
| 4019828 | Wind driven apparatus Wind driven apparatus is disclosed in the form of a windmill, and in the form of an electric generating unit for a vehicle such as a boat or an airplane or the illustrated automobile. The apparatus includes a base mounted for rotation, preferably about a ... | 04/26/1977 |
| 4018543 | Whirlwind power system A structural housing has a generally toroidal part horizontally positioned and having an upwardly inclining lower base extending upward from a circumference to a first generally circular central area and an upwardly inclining upper base extending upward f... | 04/19/1977 |
| 4018051 | Omnidirectional air driven power generating system The omnidirectional air driven power generating system is a system of valves and chambers which translate the potential energy of an air pressure differential into kinetic energy in the form of a compact air current of accelerated velocity. The valves rel... | 04/19/1977 |
| 4012163 | Wind driven power generator A turbine type power generator includes a rotor having a vertical shaft to drive a load which may be an electric generator or mechanical gear train or other device for using or transmitting power. Generally vertically extending blades are secured at their... | 03/15/1977 |
| 4006925 | Wind power energy generating system A wind-driven power generating apparatus which includes a main support for securement to a fixed structure. A main drive shaft is retained by this main support and is connected at one of its outer ends to a support block having a plurality of angularly sp... | 02/08/1977 |
| 3995170 | Wind energy conversion device A wind energy conversion device for converting directional wind force to torque along on a vertical rotational axis. The device includes a plurality of flexible vanes mounted to a framework for rotation therewith about a vertical axis. The vanes are mount... | 11/30/1976 |
| 3987987 | Self-erecting windmill A device which lifts itself into the air and either itself carries a windmill for the extractions of power from the wind, or traverses a oscillatory path back and forth across the wind such that the action of the tethering lines for the device can be used... | 10/26/1976 |
| 3979597 | Solar power plant A solar energy powerplant has a group of tall, vertical towers open at both ends and containing a plurality of wind-powered impellers mounted in vertically spaced locations within each tower, such that thermal updrafts in the tower drives the impellers. V... | 09/07/1976 |
| 3974395 | Power generating apparatus A control system for obtaining maximum power output from electrical generating water pumping, flywheel storage and like systems comprising a wind-driven prime mover coupled to an electrical generator over an extended range of wind velocities is described.... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3974394 | Capturing hydro power, earth power and wind power with means and methods of storing same In areas where wind power, hydro power and earth heat power are all available and are to be developed, a common means and method of storing such power during off peak periods of power use are frequently required. Here power storage is accomplished by the ... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3956902 | Heating and cooling system A heating and cooling system for an enclosure utilizing electricity generated from wind energy. The system may include a windmill mechanically linked to a plurality of low voltage electrical generators. The electricity is supplied to a plurality of thermo... | 05/18/1976 |
| 3944839 | Multi-windmill wheel power generator A power generator driven by multiple windmill wheels rotatably supported for movement about a substantially vertical axis with all of the windmill wheels being drivingly connected to the generator. The windmill wheels are arranged in pairs on opposite sid... | 03/16/1976 |
| 3944840 | Wind power conversion system A wind-to-electric power conversion system is disclosed having ratio-variable entrance and exit openings. The ratio is set by sensing the velocity of the incoming wind, thereby effecting the velocity of the blade set driving an A.C. generator through a fl... | 03/16/1976 |
| 3942026 | Wind turbine with governor A wind driven turbine having a plurality of wind wheels mounted on a single drive shaft supported rotatably on a turntable at the upper end of a supporting framework with a plurality of wind wheels being mounted on opposite ends of the single horizontal s... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3942025 | Process for storing electricity for a fast advancing conveyance and device for storing such electricity A device for storing electricity for a fast advancing conveyance wherein a windmill is provided on the conveyance, said windmill being caused to rotate by the wind created by the fast advancing conveyance; a generator is connected directly or indirectly t... | 03/02/1976 |
| 3936652 | Power system A heat source heats air which rises in a duct having at least a one hundred meter vertical rise. Cold air enters the bottom of the duct through one or more horizontal passages containing vanes driven by moving air as a power source. The heat source may be... | 02/03/1976 |
