patentstorm.us 258 85 http://www.patentstorm.us/ http://www.patentstorm.us/images/logo.gif PatentStorm -> Applications -> Prime-mover dynamo plants http://www.patentstorm.us/rss/class/applications/rss-290.xml Recent patent applications filings in USPTO Class 290 Prime-mover dynamo plants. Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:01:17 patents@patentstorm.us en <![CDATA[METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR POWERING A COMPRESSOR VIA A DAM]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120039725/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120039725
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventor:  Carlos, Rene
    • A method, system and apparatus for powering a compressor are provided. Flowing water is supplied from a dam to a power generation mechanism via a compressor water channel. The flowing water is used to drive the power generation mechanism in order to generate power. One or more compressor stages of a heat engine are then driven using power generated by the power generation mechanism. The flowing water in the compressor water channel is driven at least in part by gravity due to head of the ...
    ]]>     20120039725     <![CDATA[WASTE HEAT AUXILIARY POWER UNIT]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038176/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038176
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventor:  Samuel, Woodson Wayne
    • The present invention relates to a waste heat auxiliary power unit. In one embodiment, the present invention is a heat exchange unit for an automobile including a core unit configured to be connected to a catalytic converter of the automobile, the core unit generating vapor, and a first energy generation module connected to the core unit, the first energy generation module receiving the vapor from the core unit and generating energy from the ...
    ]]>     20120038176     <![CDATA[GENERATING AND USING ELECTRICITY DERIVED FROM WASTE HEAT OF AN ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038175/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038175
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventors:  Chen, Yancy; Tang, William S.
    • A system 101A, 101B for deriving operating electricity for an electrical appliance 100A, 100B from wasted heat of the electrical appliance 100A, 100B comprises a heat generating component 110 of the electrical appliance 100A, 100B, a thermoelectric device 120 thermally coupled with the heat generating component 110, a charge storage device 140 electrically coupled with the thermoelectric device 120, and a ...
    ]]>     20120038175     <![CDATA[Storing Carbon Dioxide and Producing Methane and Geothermal Energy from Deep Saline Aquifers]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038174/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038174
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventors:  Pope, Gary A.; Bryant, Steven L.
    • A novel idea involving the coupling of CO2 geological storage with methane and/or heat production (geothermal energy) from geopressured-geothermal aquifers is described herein. The production of energy from the extracted brine offsets the cost of capture, pressurization, and injection and the subsequent injection of brine containing carbon dioxide back into the aquifer. Calculations described in the present invention indicate that this offset would reduce the cost of carbon capture ...
    ]]>     20120038174     <![CDATA[METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING WATER TO A HEAT ENGINE VIA A DAMMED WATER SOURCE]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038173/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038173
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventor:  Carlos, Rene
    • A method, system and apparatus are provided that provide water to a heat engine via a dammed water source. The water may be tapped for cooling of and/or injection into a heat engine. Further, steam from operation of the heat engine and/or directing exhaust gases of a heat engine into a water flow in an exit channel may be collected and harnessed for power generation in a steam-driven power generator, for industrial heating purposes and other industrial uses, and/or for cooling and subsequent ...
    ]]>     20120038173     <![CDATA[RENEWABLE POWER STORAGE UTILIZING LIQUID GAS]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038172/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038172
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventor:  GREENBERG, Ralph
    • Machinery and methods for converting inexpensive electricity to higher value electricity. A system includes means for compressing a gas such as air, means for condensing the gas to a liquid stream, means for storing liquefied gas, means for pumping the liquefied gas, means for evaporating and heating the liquefied gas or for heating the liquefied gas to form a supercritical fluid, and introducing this stream into a means for producing electricity. The means for compressing a gas may include ...
    ]]>     20120038172     <![CDATA[PORTABLE POWER SUPPLY HAVING BOTH INVERTER POWER SUPPLY AND TRADITIONAL POWER SUPPLY RECEPTACLES]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038171/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038171
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventors:  Stair, Kenny J.; Lim, Sie Teong
    • A generator for providing electric power. The generator includes an engine associated with an alternator. Rotation of the engine causes the alternator to generate an AC source voltage that is fed to at least one analog output receptacle. The generator further includes an inverter connected to receive the AC source voltage and generate a digital AC output voltage having a constant voltage value and a constant frequency. The inverter allows the engine to operate at less than full speed when an ...
    ]]>     20120038171     <![CDATA[Wind Energy Generating and Storing System]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038170/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038170
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventors:  Stuart, Alex J.; Phillips, Justin David
    • 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 affect the performance of the compressor. The compressor rotor and the turbine rotor can be integrally coupled with one another for rotation together about a common vertical axis to minimize drive transmission losses. A primary ...
    ]]>     20120038170     <![CDATA[ELECTRIC GENERATOR AND PROCESS FOR ASSEMBLING A WIND TURBINE EQUIPPED WITH SAID GENERATOR]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038169/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038169
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventors:  García Sayés, José Miguel; Núñez Polo, Miguel; AZANZA LADRÓN, EDUARDO; Arlabán Gabeiras, Teresa
    • Disclosed herein is a generator having a rotor which comprises rotor excitation element-carrying modules, for example magnets, radially movable in relation to the generator shaft in such a manner, when in their retracted position, as to significantly ease generator transport and assembly. The use of these movable magnet-carrying modules is particularly useful in direct drive-type generators which do not require a multiplier. Another object of the invention is an assembly process which comprises ...
    ]]>     20120038169     <![CDATA[POWER GENERATOR AND WIND POWER GENERATION SYSTEM]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038168/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038168
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventors:  MORISHITA, Daisuke; Miyamoto, Yasuhiro
    • 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≦ ...
    ]]>     20120038168     <![CDATA[RECONFIGURABLE POWER CONVERTER MODULE]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038167/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038167
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventors:  Kjaer, Philip Carne; Helle, Lars
    • The present invention relates to a reconfigurable power converter module for a wind turbine facility adapted to supply electric power to an associated power supply grid. The reconfigurable power converter module comprises a frequency converter operatively connected to filter means, wherein said frequency converter and said filter means are mutually reconfigurable so as to suppress internal and/or internal ...
    ]]>     20120038167     <![CDATA[ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE, WIND POWER GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038166/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038166
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventor:  TSUMAGARI, Hiroshi
    • 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 rotating shaft support portion is larger than the length from an end portion of the rotating shaft support portion closer to a stator to an end portion of a stator core opposite to the rotating shaft support ...
    ]]>     20120038166     <![CDATA[SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING POWER IN A DAM]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038165/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038165
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventor:  Carlos, Rene
    • A system and method for generating power in a dam are provided. Water passing through a water channel is directed into an exit channel. The water channel converges with the exit channel. Exhaust gases from a heat engine are expelled into the exit channel. The exhaust gases from the heat engine are then used to pull the water, decreasing a pressure of the exit channel. The decreased pressure causes the dam to act as though the head of dammed water were higher than the head mechanically ...
    ]]>     20120038165     <![CDATA[Wave power plant]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038164/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038164
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventor:  Borgesen, Are
    • A wave power plant is disclosed which has one or more foils that are pivotally movable about a body. The foil is set into an oscillating, pivotal motion about the body by the force of the waves. A power engine is mounted between the body and the foil and extract works as the foil pivots about the body. The foil and body are held submerged below the surface of the water to reduce the effects of extreme weather conditions on the structural ...
    ]]>     20120038164     <![CDATA[Wave energy turbine for oscillating water column systems]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038163/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038163
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventor:  Hanna, John Clark
    • The dual rotor turbine configuration efficiently harnesses oceanic wave energy within an oscillating water column system. The up and down movement of the waves creates a bi-directional pneumatic airflow which spins the twin turbine assemblies.

    The resulting rotary force is then utilized to drive two electrical generators simultaneously. Each turbine rotor set is composed of a radial array of identical asymmetrical airfoil blades (similar to NASA GA(W)-1). The two ...
    ]]> 20120038163 <![CDATA[AIRFLOW GENERATOR]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038162/description.html

  • Application Number:  20120038162
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventors:  Smith, JR., Edgar A.; Smith, Patrick S.
    • Converting an air flow into a source of electricity by an airflow generator includes disposing the airflow generator in an air flow path of a machine for receiving the air flow to rotate a turbine bladed portion of the airflow generator that causes a plurality of permanent magnets disposed along the circumference of the bladed portion to cyclically move in close proximity to a plurality of fixed position stator coils thereby generating electrical currents in the coils that can be ...
    ]]>     20120038162     <![CDATA[INLINE TURBINE GENERATOR]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038161/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038161
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventors:  Outhred, Luceille; Soper, Kevin
    • A power generating apparatus for fluid flow conduits where the apparatus includes an impeller positioned in the path of the fluid flow. The impeller is either directly or magnetically coupled to an electric generator outside of the fluid flow conduit. As the fluid flows it causes the impeller to rotate thus causing the electrical generator to turn and thereby produce electricity. This can then be used to power various devices or to trickle charge batteries. The fluid flow conduits may be common ...
    ]]>     20120038161     <![CDATA[COMPOUND POWER GENERATING SYSTEM]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038160/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038160
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventor:  Chang, Lin Wen
    • A compound power generating system comprises a housing unit, a power unit, a rotation unit, at least one oxyhydrogen generating unit and a combustion unit. In the present invention, the collected solar energy is transformed into electric energy to drive the oxyhydrogen generating unit to generate fuel gas, and then the combustion unit burns the fuel gas to generate the updraft air to cause the fans to drive the kinetic generator to generate electrical energy. Therefore, the solar energy is ...
    ]]>     20120038160     <![CDATA[WIND POWER GENERATING DEVICE FOR USE WITH A VEHICLE]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038159/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038159
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventors:  CHEN, Tzeng-Yuan; Liao, Yi-Ting; Kuan, Yean-Der
    • 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 the engine chamber in a manner of natural feeding while the vehicle is moving; a power generator for operating in conjunction with the fan blades and generating electric power; a duct circumferentially disposed at an outermost ...
    ]]>     20120038159     <![CDATA[WIND POWER GENERATING MODULE FOR USE WITH ELECTRIC SCOOTER]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038158/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038158
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventors:  CHEN, Tzeng-Yuan; Liao, Yi-Ting
    • A wind power generating module for use with an electric scooter is disclosed. The wind power generating module is installed on an electric scooter and includes: at least one fan blade being driven to rotate by external air introduced into the wind power generating module while the electric scooter is moving; a disc type generator with a rotor configured to rotate in conjunction with the fan blades and generate electric power; a duct circumferentially disposed at an outermost portion of the fan ...
    ]]>     20120038158     <![CDATA[Synchronous Induced Wind Power Generation System]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038157/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038157
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventor:  Skala, James A.
    • A synchronous induced wind power generation system is provided, comprised of a horizontally rotatable turbine-generator section that wind vanes into the prevailing wind direction. The turbine-generator section has a horizontally disposed turbine shaft therein, and air induction shrouds at either end thereof, the anterior areas of the air induction shrouds having larger areas than the interior area of the turbine-generator section, so as to induce a larger differential air pressure across the ...
    ]]>     20120038157     <![CDATA[ELECTRICAL ENERGY GENERATING INSTALLATION DRIVEN AT VARIABLE ROTATIONAL SPEEDS, WITH A CONSTANT OUTPUT FREQUENCY, ESPECIALLY A WIND POWER INSTALLATION]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038156/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038156
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventor:  Hehenberger, Gerald
    • An energy generating installation, especially a wind power station, includes a drive shaft connected to a rotor (1), a generator (8) and a differential transmission (11 to 13) provided with three drives or outputs. A first drive is connected to the drive shaft, an output is connected to a generator (8), and a second drive is connected to an electrical differential drive (6, 14). The differential drive (6, 14) is connected to a network (10) ...
    ]]>     20120038156     <![CDATA[STEP UP CONVERTER FOR A WIND POWER PLANT]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038155/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038155
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventor:  Bjork, Mikael
    • The present invention relates to a back-up power system 200 for controlling a wind power plant in case of a power outage. The wind power plant includes one or more rotor blades. The back-up power system includes a plurality of electrical energy storage devices 204 connected in a series connection. The back-up power system also includes a DC-to-AC converter which converts DC from the plurality of electrical energy storage devices to AC and supplies the AC to an electrical motor ...
    ]]>     20120038155     <![CDATA[METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POWERING A WIND TURBINE]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120038154/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120038154
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-16
  • Inventor:  Lekerika Ugarte, Bittor Gurutz
    • The invention related to a method for powering a wind turbine following a grid voltage failures. After the presence of grid power has been once again detected, the Grid Connection Control System (GCCS) is then powered by an Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS). The GCCS closes the grid switch that had been powering the power protection equipment.

    The SAI used by this powering method has low operating autonomy, remains disconnected during the power grid failure and ...
    ]]> 20120038154 <![CDATA[FREQUENCY CONTROL]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120035775/description.html

  • Application Number:  20120035775
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventor:  Garcia, Jorge Martinez
    • The present invention relates to a method for controlling a fundamental frequency of power supply grid being operatively connected to a power supply grid, the method comprising the steps of determining a steady-state and/or a dynamic-state related parameter of the associated power supply grid, and applying said determined parameter(s) in a frequency 5 controller of the wind turbine facility in order to improve frequency control of the fundamental frequency of the power supply ...
    ]]>     20120035775     <![CDATA[STARTER CONTROLLER]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120032453/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120032453
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventor:  NAKAMURA, Ryouta
    • A relay is provided in a power supply line from a battery to a motor of a starter in a vehicle. The relay is selectively switched between a contact side state where contacts short-circuit and a resistor side state where the contacts open and a resistor is inserted into the power supply line in series. When an engine is started, an ECU controlling the starter energizes the motor by driving the relay to the resistor side only for a first predetermined time in order to suppress inrush current and ...
    ]]>     20120032453     <![CDATA[Waste Material, Coal, Used Tires and Biomass Conversion to Alternative Energy and Synthetic Fuels Solutions System with Carbon Capture and Liquefaction]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120032452/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120032452
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventor:  Kuku, Lai O.
    • The system contained within this application for non-provisional patent protection provides the ability to convert municipal solid waste materials, used tires, various biomass including wood chips and other agricultural waste, and the addition of coal into synthesis gas (syngas), with oxygen as plasma gas. The system will accommodate the possibility for variation in feedstock co-gasification of the various materials with plasma torches that will be embedded in a plasma gasification unit. One ...
    ]]>     20120032452     <![CDATA[SEWER ENERGY MILL SYSTEM]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120032451/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120032451
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventors:  Heitmann, Erric; Lounsbery, James; Tabares, Carlos
    • A sewer energy mill system is provided for converting kinetic energy possessed by the wastewater flowing through a sewer line into electrical energy. The system may be installed within a conventional existing manhole infrastructure of the sewer system or within a customized structure specifically designed to accommodate the system and installed into the sewer ...
    ]]>     20120032451     <![CDATA[Generator Arrangement for a Wind Power Plant]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120032450/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120032450
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventors:  Paweletz, Anton; Tenberge, Heinz-Josef
    • 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 internal gear, a sun gear, and at least two planet gears. The sun gear is substantially ringshaped, having an inner wall, and outer wall, and a web connecting the inner wall and the outer wall. The internal gear is disposed between the ...
    ]]>     20120032450     <![CDATA[WIND TURBINE COMPRISING A GENERATOR COOLING SYSTEM]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120032449/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120032449
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventor:  Wobben, Aloys
    • A wind power installation is provided having a pylon, a pod mounted rotatably on the pylon, a generator arranged within the pod and having a rotor and a stator, and at least one fan in the region of the pod. The fan may be adapted to blow air out of a rear part of the pod, through an air gap between the stator and the rotor and into a front part of the pod. A seal structure may be positioned in the pod in such a way that an air flow that bypasses the air gap between the stator and the rotor is ...
    ]]>     20120032449     <![CDATA[WIND TURBINE GENERATOR]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120032448/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120032448
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventors:  SATO, Shinsuke; ISHIGURO, Tatsuo
    • The present invention provides a wind turbine generator, in which a rotor head that rotates by receiving external wind with turbine blades generates power by driving a generator installed inside a nacelle and in which the nacelle is installed at a top end of a tower, wherein an introducing vent that takes the external wind into an internal space in the wind turbine generator is provided at a portion of an outer circumference surface of the tower or the nacelle that receives positive pressure ...
    ]]>     20120032448     <![CDATA[COMBINED WING AND TURBINE DEVICE FOR IMPROVED UTILIZATION OF FLUID FLOW ENERGY]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120032447/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120032447
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventor:  Bang-Moeller, Soeren
    • There is provided a device for production of electrical, mechanical or hydraulic energy by using wind or other fluid currents. This is achieved by blocking a portion of the flow through an edge positioned wing (1) alone or in combination with a longitudinal wing (2). The invention includes an edge positioned wing (1), a rotor (5), a bottom profile (4), gable profiles/lamellas (3) and turbine lamellas (12) to focus the flow towards the rotor ...
    ]]>     20120032447     <![CDATA[Ocean wave energy converter with multiple capture modes]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120032446/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120032446
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventor:  Rohrer, John W.
    • An ocean wave energy converter utilizes a substantially submerged elongated absorption barrier oriented parallel to oncoming wave fronts having one or more substantially submerged air or gas filled variable volume vessels located between a relatively fixed position rigid rearward surface and a moving rigid wave front facing surface. Said vessel(s) are compressed by oncoming overhead wave crests both by increased hydrostatic pressure and wave kinetic impact, thereby capturing both wave potential ...
    ]]>     20120032446     <![CDATA[Wave energy harnessing mechanism]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120032445/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120032445
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventor:  Savoie, Yves
    • A wave energy harnessing mechanism comprising a grid of piston members interconnected at respective ends thereof. Each of the piston member includes a hollow chamber with a driving shaft, a movable magnet, and a coil therein, wherein the driving shafts are adapted to move the magnets back and forth through the coils and thereby induce an electric current within the coils. A plurality of cables interconnecting the coils of the piston members that are adapted and used to transfer the electric ...
    ]]>     20120032445     <![CDATA[Wave Catcher]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120032444/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120032444
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventor:  Burton, John Alan
    • The wave catcher is a wave energy converter comprising three wave energy capture devices: a wave catcher wheel driven by wave particle motion, a wave pressure differential system driven by wave height differential, and a wave amplifier enclosure driven by wave surge; and three auxiliary energy capture devices: wind rotor, water current rotor, and photovoltaic cells all driving a common turbine to generate electricity. It extracts multi-frequency, variable amplitude ocean wave spectral energy ...
    ]]>     20120032444     <![CDATA[ENERGY GENERATING INSTALLATION, ESPECIALLY WIND POWER INSTALLATION]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120032443/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120032443
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventor:  Hehenberger, Gerald
    • An energy generating installation, especially a wind power station, includes a drive shaft connected to a rotor (1), a generator (8) and a differential transmission (11 to 13) provided with three drives or outputs. A first drive is connected to the drive shaft, an output is connected to a generator (8), and a second drive is connected to an electrical differential drive (6, 14). The differential drive (6, 14) is connected to a network (10) ...
    ]]>     20120032443     <![CDATA[BLADE ANGLE ADJUSTMENT DRIVE FOR A WIND POWER PLANT]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120032442/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120032442
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventor:  Wibben, Norbert
    • A blade angle adjustment drive for a wind power plant having an electrical converter, an electric motor electrically coupled to the converter, and a monitoring unit which monitors the operation of the converter and identifies a malfunction in the operation of the converter. The operation of the converter may be interrupted at least temporarily based on the malfunction. An interruption prevention unit is selectively operable to prevent an interruption in the operation of the converter by the ...
    ]]>     20120032442     <![CDATA[CRANK-WEB MOUNTED LINEARLY SEGMENTED STARTER GENERATOR SYSTEM]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120032441/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120032441
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventor:  Engineer, Nayan
    • Featured is a starter/generator to start a reciprocating engine or generate electrical energy using the engine. The starter/generator includes a plurality of magnetic elements that establish a magnetic flux, each magnetic element being attached to a surface of the crankshaft so the element moves in a prescribed path as the crankshaft rotates; a plurality of stator elements being arranged within the engine so as to be maintained in fixed relation to a corresponding magnetic element as it moves ...
    ]]>     20120032441     <![CDATA[Stationary Energy Generation Plant Having a Control Device and Method for Controlling the same]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120032440/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120032440
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventors:  Buchtala, Boris; Paweletz, Anton; Schnurr, Bernd; Schindele, Lothar; Vath, Andreas
    • A stationary energy generation plant includes a control device that serves to control current and energy flow. The energy generation plant includes at least one mechanically driven rotor and a generator mechanically coupled to the rotor. To this end, power electronics operationally connected to the generator enable variable energy flow from the rotor through the generator and the power electronics to a load. In order to compensate for vibrational loads on the generator side, at least one ...
    ]]>     20120032440     <![CDATA[ATMOSPHERIC LAPSE RATE COOLING SYSTEM]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120031119/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120031119
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-09
  • Inventors:  AHMAD, NADEEM; AHMAD, NAEEM
    • 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 fluid can be cooled to a predetermined temperature by heat exchange between the heat transfer fluid and the atmosphere. The heat transfer fluid can then be descended to ground level while inhibiting heat transfer with the ...
    ]]>     20120031119     <![CDATA[Linear Hydraulic and Generator Coupling Apparatus and Method of Use Thereof]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120025543/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120025543
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-02
  • Inventor:  Gilbert, JR., Ed
    • A linear hydraulic and generator coupling apparatus for transferring and manipulating power. The apparatus has an electrical system, a hydraulic system and a gear system. In operation, the electrical system directs the hydraulic system to force the rack of the gear system into horizontal motion. The gear system transfers the linear kinetic energy into angular momentum, and from there into electrical energy via selectively engaging alternating gears. The gear system preferably has two sets of ...
    ]]>     20120025543     <![CDATA[Fluid Movement Systems Including a Continuously Variable Transmission]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120025542/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120025542
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-02
  • Inventors:  Bujold, Michael P.; Schaaf, Stuart A.; Kliewer, Joseph D.
    • A system has a pump with a power input, a power source and a continuously variable transmission (CVT) coupled to the power source and to the power input of the pump. The CVT transmits power from the power source to the pump. The CVT comprises a plurality of planetary members in rolling contact with an inner race and an outer race. A radial distance between the planetary members and a drive-transmitting member corresponds to a transmission ratio of the ...
    ]]>     20120025542     <![CDATA[WIND TURBINE GENERATING APPARATUS]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120025541/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120025541
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-02
  • Inventors:  SATO, Shinsuke; HIRAI, Shigeto; ISHIGURO, Tatsuo
    • 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 the ...
    ]]>     20120025541     <![CDATA[METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ENERGY GENERATION]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120025540/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120025540
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-02
  • Inventors:  Nachlas, Jesse Alan; Guruswamy, Sivaraman; Nair, Balakrishnan
    • 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 least partially defines an annular space between the first structural component and the outer housing. The strain structure is coupled within the annular space between the first structural component and the outer housing. The strain ...
    ]]>     20120025540     <![CDATA[COOLING DEVICE FOR ELECTRICAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF COOLING AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120025539/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120025539
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-02
  • Inventors:  Wagoner, Robert Gregory; Kuhn, Harald
    • 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 includes an electrical insulator coupled to the heat transfer element. The insulator includes a second material to facilitate flow of magnetic flux across the air ...
    ]]>     20120025539     <![CDATA[UNITARY SUPPORT FRAME FOR USE IN WIND TURBINES AND METHODS FOR FABRICATING SAME]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120025538/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120025538
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-02
  • Inventors:  Luneau, Michael James; Davis, John Paul; Blackwell, Scott William; Rao, Raja Narasinga
    • 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 rotor shaft therethrough. A lower portion is integrally formed with the upper portion and extends from the upper portion. The lower portion includes a support flange that is configured to be coupled to the tower to support the ...
    ]]>     20120025538     <![CDATA[WIND TURBINE NACELLE WITH COOLER TOP]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120025537/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120025537
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-02
  • Inventors:  Bahuguni, Anand; Kandasamy, Ravi; Grevsen, John K.; Nyvad, Jesper; Sivalingam, Krishnamoorthi; Narasimalu, Srikanth; Tietze, Paul T.
    • 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 extension of the nacelle having a total length; a velocity boundary layer, which is created by the wind flow along the first face from the front end to the rear end, the velocity boundary layer increasing in thickness along the first ...
    ]]>     20120025537     <![CDATA[Modular wind-solar energy converting assembly]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120025536/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120025536
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-02
  • Inventor:  Kimberg, Serge
    • 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 sequential energy collection and conversion into electric ...
    ]]>     20120025536     <![CDATA[METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DIRECT CURRENT POWER TRANSMISSION]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120025535/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120025535
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-02
  • Inventors:  Bose, Sumit; Roesner, Robert; Haran, Kiruba Sivasubramaniam; Sihler, Christof Martin
    • 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 collection systems and configured to transmit power generated by the plurality of power collection systems to a remote ...
    ]]>     20120025535     <![CDATA[ROTATING ELECTRICAL MACHINE, LINEAR MOTION ELECTRICAL MACHINE, AND WIND GENERATOR SYSTEM]]> http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120025534/description.html
  • Application Number:  20120025534
  • Publication Date:  2012-02-02
  • Inventors:  TSUMAGARI, Hiroshi; MIYAMOTO, Yasuhiro; MORISHITA, Daisuke
    • 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 alternately and to have mutually opposite polarities at a side of the one of said stator and said rotor, each of said magnetic pole units comprising: a unit core that a projecting part configured to protrude toward the side of the one of ...
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