Patent ReferencesInventorApplicationNo. 777846 filed on 02/07/2001US Classes:440/9, WAVE POWERED PROPELLING MEANS440/13OSCILLATING PROPELLING MEANSExaminersPrimary: Morano, S. JosephAssistant: Vasudeva, Ajay International ClassB63H 019/02AbstractTo access the inexhaustible energy source like seas and oceans we need to learn how to convert its wave motion to the customized power for our ships, for our existing littoral settlements and our future ocean settlements. Here is an attempt to develop method of the conversion the wave energy to power with floating means based on a gyroscope strong capability to resist against the outer force moment trying to tilt it to any side.The gyroscope is used as the fulcrum torque dynamic supporting instead traditional static base used in the issued devices. Alternate force moment created by the waves and transmitted to the gyroscope (via the floating body and the wave energy converter) inducts alternative gyro precession so as the gyroscope axis hesitates about mean position. This is important because it allows the gyroscope to keep dynamic fulcrum torque in unlimited time.The few gyroscope precession control devices and methods have been developed to compensate other reasons enforcing the mean gyro axis to drift from initial plumb.Also here are developed the new ship architecture with the separated floating gyro section. The wagging propulsor driven by the pitching and with strokes amplified by the fulcrum gyro section, the spring moment generator for the gyroscope drift compensation, non gyroscope floating power station able to derive, convert, accumulate and transmit wave energy to consumer also have been developed here.Field of SearchWAVE POWERED PROPELLING MEANSBy oscillating weight OSCILLATING PROPELLING MEANS Fishtail motion propelling means Flexible Rocking watercraft BALLASTING Shifting weights Fins and boards TIDE AND WAVE MOTORS FLUID-CURRENT MOTORS Working member actuated by the rise and fall of a surface of a body of fluid Having tide responsive working member positioning means Having means responsive to lateral impulse of fluid Having articulated buoyant members Motor is free floating unit Having fluid flow or wave controlling, confining or directing means In which the control means is variable Having flexible strand working member motion transmitting means Having relatively movable working members Working member pivotally supported Having one-way clutch power transmission means, e.g., ratchet, etc. OSCILLATORY REACTION MOTION With pendulum, counterbalance or inertial weight Flexible working member Relatively movable working member portions Compound motion (e.g., feathering, undulating, etc.) | |