A TWO BODY VARIABLE BALLAST WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER

    公开(公告)号:US20240287958A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-29

    申请号:US18657906

    申请日:2024-05-08

    发明人: Alan L. McCall

    IPC分类号: F03B13/16 F03B13/10

    CPC分类号: F03B13/16 F03B13/10

    摘要: A two-body wave energy converter utilizing a linear, universal modular absorber. A linear module, contains a direct drive linear machine for converting linear mechanical motion into electrical energy. The linear module is connected between two oscillating mechanical bodies, exploiting their relative motion. A wave activated floating body follows the wave motion, while a reaction body is tethered to a mass on the seabed providing a stable kinematic reference in operational waves. In large waves, the mass on the seabed lifts, providing heave compliance to the whole wave energy converter reducing ultimate loads in survival wave conditions.

    Renewable energy generation system

    公开(公告)号:US12049861B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-30

    申请号:US17978549

    申请日:2022-11-01

    IPC分类号: F03B13/16 F03B13/22

    摘要: A renewable energy generation system includes a renewable energy power generator including a capsule shape including a tumbling doll shape, floating on the sea, and producing electrical power by converting wave energy into electrical energy; a first hub connected to the renewable energy power generator and configured to store the electrical energy; and a cable configured to transmit the electrical energy produced by the renewable energy power generator to the first hub by connecting the renewable energy power generator to one or more of another renewable energy power generators and the first hub.

    SIMULTANEOUS OCEAN WAVE AND CURRENT ENERGY HARVESTING

    公开(公告)号:US20230032172A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-02

    申请号:US17784187

    申请日:2021-01-13

    IPC分类号: F03B13/16 F03B13/22

    摘要: Various examples of simultaneous ocean wave and current energy harvesting are described, using a hybrid ocean energy converter and a mechanical transfer system therefor. In one example, a hybrid ocean energy converter includes a two-body point absorber comprising a first body and a second body. The two-body point absorber can be configured to transfer a linear relative motion between the first body and the second body to bi-directional rotation of a first input shaft. A turbine can be configured rotate a second input shaft. The converter further includes a hybrid power takeoff including a mechanical transfer system configured to mechanically couple the first input shaft, the second input shaft, an output shaft, and an output shaft.

    Buoy with radiated wave reflector

    公开(公告)号:US11448179B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-20

    申请号:US17510849

    申请日:2021-10-26

    IPC分类号: F03B13/10 B63B35/44 F03B13/16

    摘要: Disclosed is buoyant wave energy capture device, adapted to float adjacent to an upper surface of a body of water over which waves pass, and adapted to capture a portion of the radiated waves created by its own rising and falling in response to incident and/or passing environmental waves. A power take off mechanism combined with the disclosed wave energy capture device may be tuned to a specific wave frequency, and thereby optimally extract energy from a motion of a single frequency, even the wave energy capture device may be excited and/or energized by waves of any of a relatively broad range of frequencies, thereby increasing the power-generation and cost efficiencies of such devices relative to wave energy conversion devices of the prior art.

    HYDROKINETIC ENERGY BASED POWER GENERATION SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20220213863A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-07-07

    申请号:US17568383

    申请日:2022-01-04

    发明人: Kshitij Chopra

    IPC分类号: F03B13/16 H02K7/18

    摘要: A hydrokinetic energy based power generation system is described, including several modules filled with fluid or vacuum and anchored to a stream bed of water body, multiple basic units associated with each module for converting hydrokinetic energy into electrical energy, wherein each basic unit includes two springs affixed with a top and bottom portion of the modules in such a way that the hydrokinetic energy induces vibrations within the springs, a cylindrical tube positioned between the springs, and contained with a ferromagnetic fluid, two fixed magnets and a movable magnet, wherein the movable magnet oscillates in between the fixed magnets due to the induced disturbances caused by waves/ocean and repulsive forces caused by the fixed magnets, an electric coil associated with the tube, for generating electric current by harnessing the relative motion of the movable magnet and electric coil due to electromagnetism phenomenon and in accordance with laws of electromagnetic induction.

    Wave power generation device
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10883470B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-05

    申请号:US16630626

    申请日:2018-07-18

    申请人: Yi Zhang

    摘要: A wave power generation device comprises a floating energy harvester (1), a plurality of energy conversion levers (2) and a plurality of energy transferring rods (3) suspended around the floating energy harvester (1); one end of the energy transferring rod (3) is connected to the floating energy harvester (1), and the other end is sleeved onto the lower end of the energy conversion lever (2); the energy transferring rod (3) transfers energy harvested from a horizontal movement of a wave by the floating energy harvester to the energy conversion lever (2), and follows the vertical motion of the energy conversion lever (2) as the surface of the sea rises and falls; an upper end of the energy conversion lever (2) is connected to a first working mechanism (102), and a lower end of the energy conversion lever (2) is submerged in seawater.

    Hinge system for an articulated wave energy conversion system

    公开(公告)号:US10508640B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-17

    申请号:US15692718

    申请日:2017-08-31

    申请人: Murtech, Inc.

    摘要: A hinge system and method for an Articulated Wave Energy Conversion System (AWECS) that provides for hinge and piston pump displacements due to multi-axis forces in allowing adjacent barges of the AWECS to pivot with respect to one another due to wave motion. The hinge system uses a plurality of parallel hinges, and axle segments, coupled between adjacent barges wherein the hinges are coupled to upright trusses positioned transversely along facing edges of each barge. Hinge bracing includes lower V-shaped struts that act as lower stops when the barges pitch up and also include upper struts that act as upper stops when the barges pitch down. The pumps are positioned in parallel. The pumps have special couplings such as ball joint couplings that permit motions other than longitudinal pump/ram motions due to multi-axis forces generated by the wave motion and thus provide omni-directional stress relief to the pumps.