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20090025382 | Method and Arrangement for Collecting Wave Energy - The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for recovering energy contained by waves. In the arrangement, a plurality of collecting devices ( | 01-29-2009 |
20090090104 | APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS TO GENERATE USEABLE ENERGY - The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and associated methods for generating energy by capturing and taking benefit of the energy generated by any quantity of air surfacing inside water. The apparatus includes a frame structure to which is rotatably mounted an upper drive wheel, a lower wheel, and a vertical fluid column container. An endless chain of gas capsule elements is mounted on the upper and lower wheels. This endless chain passes vertically up into and through the fluid column container through a seal port in the bottom of the container. As the endless chain of gas capsule elements passes vertically through the fluid in the container, fluid pressure on the elements due to the height of the column of fluid in the container produces a net buoyant force upward on the elements, causing them to rise, generating kinetic energy that turns the wheels. | 04-09-2009 |
20090217657 | Wave Energy Extraction Device - A wave energy extraction device comprises a plurality of generally vertically extending plate assemblies ( | 09-03-2009 |
20090235659 | Energy Source Device - The present invention relates to an energy source device, which includes a potential energy change device, an energy acquiring device and an object transfer device. The potential energy change device is prefilled with material having density greater than air to enable more than one object having a density smaller than the density of the material to gain potential energy from the density difference between the material and the objects. Furthermore, the objects are moved to the energy acquiring device using the object transfer device, and weight of each of the objects themselves and the principle of kinetic and potential energy transformation are used to acquire a predetermined potential energy difference, which is transformed into energy. Accordingly, basic principles of physics are used to acquire needed energy from the predictable energy produced by buoyancy and gravitational acceleration, thereby achieving environmental protection and meeting the objective of providing economic benefit. | 09-24-2009 |
20090293471 | Hydraulic motor using buoyant and gravitational forces to generate kinetic energy - A motor mounted on a structural support with a pivot at its center line which comprises a cylindrical vessel for holding a fluid in a closed system and in which a buoyant cylinder containing a lighter fluid is allowed to free float so that a cable attached to either end of the buoyant cylinder may be used to transfer energy to a energy storage unit, a crank or a generator. Two moment arms having a weight attached at the exterior end and inside attachably connected to the surface of two drive pistons that operate in pressure tanks which force a compressed gas against the pistons through pre-sequenced automatic activated valves to extend or retract the moment arms at the end of a cycle. The motor then becomes top heavy and rotates 180 degrees by gravity and relocks in place to repeat the cycle. | 12-03-2009 |
20100031651 | Cyclic productive motion device - A submersible buoyancy motor has a water filled UP leg | 02-11-2010 |
20100095666 | Buoyancy engine - FES was created to protect Earth's atmosphere by improving efficiency of electricity facilities and enabling non-electricity producing reservoirs contribution to electrical demands! FES is an efficient pneumatic torque/rpm drive joinable with Geothermal, Hydro, Solar, Wind or other electricity generation systems can potentially increase their efficiency. FES Alpha prototype was tested by Prof. Tennyson Phd. and Hatten M. E. (BSU) in 2008. Dr. R. Reiman (BSU) and Prof. R. Adrian (M.A./E @ ASU) were consulted regarding the fuel conversion efficiency data. The FES Alpha prototype buoyant air fuel input lb/sec. value was 3.639792 lb/sec. The FES system's output shaft @ 1.66 rp/sec. was opposed by 10.91 lb/sec. This is a 299% energy efficiency conversion. It's achieved by replenishing stored and recycled energy within the FES like the trickle charge to a battery. The FES was re-engineered for this patent eliminating inertial losses and could have input/output efficiency ratios as high as 1:6 or more. | 04-22-2010 |
20100107627 | BUOYANCY ENERGY STORAGE AND ENERGY GENERATION SYSTEM - An energy generation and storage system that uses a buoyant balloon suspended in a fluid and connected by a tether to a reel. The tether is taut and keeps the balloon from rising due to the buoyant force. A motor can do work to wind the reel in such a way that the balloon is pulled down against the buoyant force. Energy can be extracted from the system by allowing the balloon to rise, pulling on the tether and turning the reel that is connected to a generator. The generator and the motor can be the same unit, or they can be independent units which both connect to the reel. | 05-06-2010 |
20100115939 | WAVE POWER PLANT - The invention relates to a wave power plant, comprising at least one float or pontoon ( | 05-13-2010 |
20100126164 | Float for wave energy converter (WEC) - A float structure for a WEC is designed to have a tapered underside to reduce the impact due to wave slam and bending moments while providing little reduction in the surface area responding to the wave surface in order to maintain the beneficial power generating capability of a “flat” float. The underside of the float presents an inverted wedge section to decrease loads associated with wave slamming. The float may have a generally toroidal or elliptical configuration at and about the “still” water line with the generally submerged underside of the float having a cross section shaped to have one or more inverted triangular sections extending between the outer perimeter of the float and its center to reduce impact loading due to wave slamming while maintaining power producing capability. | 05-27-2010 |
20100146961 | ENGINE USING BOUYANT ELEMENTS - An engine includes a liquid reservoir and a wheel mounted for rotation about a central shaft. Float members are supported symmetrically about the wheel for rotational movement and for movement toward or away from the central shaft. Each float member is coupled with a diametrically opposed float member on an opposite side of the wheel by a connecting rod. A camming surface urges passing float members toward the central shaft, and simultaneously urges a diametrically opposed float member away from the central shaft. The wheel rotates as a result of an imbalance in the buoyant forces created by the float members. Magnetic forces can supplement the camming surface for moving the float members toward and away from the central shaft. | 06-17-2010 |
20100154405 | BUOYANCY ENGINE USING A SEGMENTED CHAIN - In accordance with various aspects of the present invention, a method and system for a buoyancy engine is presented. In an exemplary embodiment, the buoyancy engine includes a divider to separate a liquid environment from a gas environment, and a reservoir aperture in the divider. A rotating element, approximately opposite the reservoir aperture, provides tension to, and helps rotate, a segmented chain. The segmented chain is configured to form a solid inner surface when transitioning between the liquid and gas environments, but separate during vertical travel. As the segmented chain travels between the liquid and gas environments, a rotary motion is created which can be captured as electrical or mechanical energy. | 06-24-2010 |
20100180587 | Power production employing buoyancy, gravity and kinetic energy - An apparatus for the production of energy includes a vertical pipe filled with a liquid. A second similar pipe is connected to the first pipe near its top end above the top of the liquid. Hollow spheres each fit within the first pipe and float. This second pipe allows downward passage of spheres lifted into the second pipe by a sphere-lifting mechanism. A platform close the bottom of the apparatus sits in a position to be impacted by the sphere. The platform moves in response to the impact and is brought to a stop and then returned by spring action. A rotatable flywheel turns with movement of the platform. A sphere injector then injects a sphere into the first pipe and it floats to the top by its buoyancy. | 07-22-2010 |
20100223922 | "Closed Loop" Economy of Motion Machine - A means and apparatus for fluid containment providing for closed loop operation of an apparatus within a column of liquid. The apparatus extracts power from a buoyant source within the contained column of liquid and is comprised of an endless chain of movable buoyant objects, a means to convert the movement of the chain into useful work and a tank filled with a constant volume column of liquid. The buoyant objects comprising the chain sequentially enter the bottom of the liquid column through an airlock seal of the current invention, move up through the column and emerge at the surface. The emerging buoyant objects leave the tank and are directed to the tank bottom where each buoyant object repeats the cycle. As the chain of buoyant objects cycles through the displaced column of liquid, the volume of liquid remains constant, with one buoyant object of the chain entering the bottom of the liquid column as one is exiting at the top surface. The invention provides for closed loop operation of the apparatus and increased control fluid flow rates within the apparatus to addresses liquid leakage due to mechanical wear at seals and to provide a controlled method for removal of friction generated heat within the apparatus. Chambered sections within the apparatus create fluid flow restriction zones where differential pressure can be controlled to further reduce the force requirement for injecting each buoyant object (a.k.a. displacing element) into the bottom of the contained column of liquid. | 09-09-2010 |
20100269498 | SYSTEMS FOR CONVERSION, STORAGE, AND DISTRIBUTION OF ENERGY FROM RENEWABLE AND NONRENEWABLE SOURCES - A system and method for converting, storing and distributing energy from renewable and non-renewable sources is provided, particularly a system to convert, store and distribute energy in the form of chemical energy in hydrogen (H | 10-28-2010 |
20100307148 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONVERTING KINETIC ENERGY CONTAINED IN HORIZONTAL FLOWS INTO USEFUL MECHANICAL ENERGY - In a method for converting kinetic energy contained in naturally occurring horizontal flows occuring in fluids accumulated above ground into useful mechanical energy, in which at least one circulating element guided in a closed cycle (U), arranged substantially horizontal above the ground is provided, to which at least one buoyancy body ( | 12-09-2010 |
20100319339 | Hydraulic motor using buoyant and gravitational forces to generate kinetic energy - A motor mounted on a structural support with a pivot at its center line which comprises a cylindrical vessel for holding a fluid in a closed system and in which a buoyant cylinder containing a lighter fluid is allowed to free float so that a continuous chain attached to each end of the buoyant cylinder may be used to transfer energy to a energy storage unit, a crank or a generator. A weighted piston that operates in a pressure tank which force a compressed gas against the piston through pre-sequenced automatic activated valves to force the piston to rise a re determined distance, causing the motor to become top heavy and rotate 180 degrees by gravity and relocks in place to repeat the cycle. | 12-23-2010 |
20110162356 | Rotational gravity/buoyancy power generator - The rotational gravity/buoyancy power generator relates to the generation of power by harnessing the gravitational and buoyant forces which act on an apparatus in a natural or man-made liquid medium and converting such forces into mechanical energy. More specifically, the rotational gravity/buoyancy power generator improves on operably different, fluid medium power generators by efficiently utilizing the gravitational force as efficiently as the buoyant force is harnessed. The rotational gravity/buoyancy power generator includes methods, systems and devices for a plurality of weighted containers with a movable closure means on one or both ends, attached to one or more chains, belts or conveyances with one or more rotating sprockets or pulleys on horizontally aligned shafts which form a continuous loop in primarily a vertical arrangement comprising ascending and descending phases upon such apparatus in a continuous and flowing movement (FIG. | 07-07-2011 |
20110179784 | Vertical gravity/buoyancy power generator - The vertical gravity/buoyancy power generator relates to the generation of power by harnessing the gravitational and buoyant forces which act on an apparatus in a natural or man-made liquid medium and convert such forces into mechanical energy. More specifically, the vertical gravity/buoyancy power generator improves on operably different, fluid medium power generators by efficiently utilizing the gravitational force as efficiently as the buoyant force is harnessed. The vertical gravity/buoyancy power generator includes methods, systems and devices for a plurality of weighted containers which ascend and descend in a primarily vertical plane and which drive one or more chains, belts or conveyances with rotating sprockets or pulleys on horizontally aligned shafts in primarily a vertical arrangement upon such apparatus. In the descent phase the containers are open on both ends (FIG. | 07-28-2011 |
20110289913 | WAVE ENERGY TRANSFER SYSTEM - A system and method of wave energy transfer including the generation and capture of waves in a tank filled with liquid is disclosed. The wave energy transfer system comprises wave generation apparatus including a displacement block for generating the waves in the tank, and wave capture apparatus including a buoyancy block for capturing the waves to convert the wave motion and provide fluid flow. The wave capture apparatus may also include an artificial pump head for stabilizing the fluid flow provided by the buoyancy block of the wave capture apparatus. Testing apparatus including a tank filled with liquid and wave generation devices is also disclosed. | 12-01-2011 |
20120085088 | Gravity buoyancy generator - An apparatus and method to generate perpetual energy from gravity or any other energy with the same effect by a rotary cylindrical system comprising of three subsystems (loads, middle and liquid) and depending on the effect of gravity on Weight and density of materials used. The system is mainly aiming to transform the gravity energy to buoyancy energy and making the effect of the buoyancy energy grater than the effect of gravity energy on the balance of the whole system. The system is depending on placing the center of the loads as a subsystem approximately or identical with the axes of the cylindrical system to reduce the gravity effect on the balance of the cylindrical system to zero or approximately zero when the loads are not on place to effect on the balance of the system by gravity and when the loads are on place to effect on the balance of the system by gravity energy it transfers the required magnitude of gravity energy directly from the center of the system (by little small load deviation from the cylinder axes and small effect on the balance of the system) to the middle subsystem which will interact with the liquid subsystem at the circumference of the system and produce buoyancy energy and according to the distance between the axes of the system and the circumference of the system the effect and torque of the buoyancy energy will be grater than the effect and torque of the loads subsystem deviation on the balance of the whole system and the overbalance energy produced will rotate the loose cylindrical system about its axes. | 04-12-2012 |
20120090312 | Low-Drag Hydro-Pneumatic Power Cylinder And System - A hydro-pneumatic cylinder for converting buoyancy energy of compressed gas into mechanical energy. The cylinder can include a pair of end plates disposed at opposite ends of the cylinder and a drive axle extending longitudinally through the cylinder and passing through the center of each end plate. The cylinder can also include a core support coupled to each end plate and centrally disposed in the cylinder and a plurality of vanes for promoting a low-drag flow. Each of the plurality of vanes is coupled to the core support and the pair of end plates. A bucket is defined by the core support, two of the plurality of vanes, and the pair of end plates. The cylinder further includes a vane support coupled to the plurality of vanes and the core support. The vane support defines a plurality of openings formed therein through which a gas can pass for equalizing pressure in the bucket. | 04-19-2012 |
20120117960 | ENERGY HARNESSING DEVICE - An energy harnessing device comprising a substantially helical conduit which in use is arranged to float in a body of water including regions of varying pressure, which may for example arise due to wave motion, tidal motion and/or current flow. The conduit defines a fluid flow path along its length and comprises a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet in fluid communication via said fluid flow path. The conduit is arranged to rotate about its longitudinal axis by the action of water of varying pressure contacting the helical conduit and driving fluid(s) along the fluid flow path. A method of harnessing energy from a body of water including regions of varying pressure is also described. | 05-17-2012 |
20120159941 | Jay gravi-buoyant balls - This is an energy or electricity generation process or system that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy comprised of a design using gas or air, liquid or water and solids in high, rectangular and sealed chambers where specially designed mainly solid, spherical, buoyant bodies, objects or devices circulate up and down using the full potential of gravity to drop down, activate a mechanism to initiate an alternator in one chamber and then employ the process and power of buoyancy in water in another chamber to lift back up to it's original point at the top to start all over again circulating continuously wherefore supplying energy continuously. | 06-28-2012 |
20120312008 | HYDRAULIC GENERATOR - The invention relates to a hydraulic generator formed by a set of different specific chains which are coordinated and complement one another such as to allow floats to enter a tank and to force said floats along a predetermined path, in order to make maximum use of the upward force thereof. A first chain neutralizes the internal hydraulic pressure on the front of the floats, allowing the floats to be introduced at the bottom of the tank. Once a float has entered the tank, the first chain transfers the float to the second chain which uses the upward force of the floats and converts said force into mechanical work, in accordance with Archimedes' principle. The second chain drives the entire system. A third chain removes each float that reaches the surface from the tank and introduces said float into an external channel that returns the float to the entrance, assisted by a fourth chain and a moderate-pressure system that forces the float back in. The operation is repeated automatically and indefinitely. The shaft of the second chain extends through the wall of the tank either directly or indirectly, thereby transmitting the vast majority of the work obtained (since part is consumed in driving the system) in order for the same to be converted externally. | 12-13-2012 |
20130104536 | Device for obtaining internal energy from liquid by utilizing buoyancy and method therefor | 05-02-2013 |
20130186081 | WATER DRIVEN MECHANICAL POWER PLANT - A water powered unit design produces clean electricity, moves and lifts water, generates compressed air and can be adapted to several types of mechanical systems to produce energy. The device uses gravitational potential energy and a unique rocking motion to achieve these functionalities. The water powered units can use a rocking motion to lift water above the entry point. The units can produce mechanical energy to generate clean electricity, can create compressed air, can create mechanical energy for other purposes, and can lift water, for example. The units can use flowing water and gravity to produce a completely environmentally safe energy. The units can be located near any gravity fed water source. Once the system is fully charged with water, the units use and reuse the water. Thus, the units use very little water to maintain themselves. | 07-25-2013 |
20130205767 | APPARATUS FOR CONSERVING WATER IN A HYDRO POWER PLANT - An apparatus for conserving water in a hydro-power plant comprising a plurality of inlet channels having a one-way inlet valve corresponding to respective turbine outlets, each inlet channel directly leading to a waste valve fitted on said channel and a respective bypass line disposed adjacent said waste valve having a one-way outlet valve, said bypass line leading to an outlet disposed substantially above the level of the turbine inlet. | 08-15-2013 |
20130205768 | ENGINE FOR ENERGY CONVERSION - An engine for converting thermal energy to kinetic energy is provided. The engine includes a first zone and a second zone and a movable loop, which extends between the first zone and the second zone. Containers are attached to the loop such that the loop and the containers are movable conjointly between the first zone and the second zone. Each of the containers is adapted to receive a varying amount of a working fluid therein and is adapted to be in a plurality of states, including a first state, in which it contains a first amount of the working fluid, and a second sate, in which it contains a second amount of the working fluid, the first amount being smaller than the second amount. Each of the containers is caused to be in its first state as it moves through the first zone and in its second state as it moves through the second zone so as to impart motion to the loop. | 08-15-2013 |
20130247555 | Gravity Vortex Continuous Pipe Engine - The present invention relates to a donut-shaped power recycling device that harnesses wasted energy especially from Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration systems (HVACR) to be used as again as electrical and (or) mechanical energy. The device utilizes the effect of buoyancy due to gravity to generate a vortex that can pick up from the Coriolis Effect. The device comprises a donut-shaped stator, a donut-shaped rotor divided into a plurality of curved-shaped compartments; each having a rectangular-shaped opening at the outer circumference of the rotor; and wherein each of such openings has a plurality of power pickups, a cold gas inlet, a hot liquid inlet, a hot gas outlet, and a cold liquid outlet. The device can also have a bypass encountering the right hand side of said stator, and can further contain steam jets directed in an inclined angle towards said rotor. | 09-26-2013 |
20130247556 | BUOYANCY ENGINE USING A SEGMENTED CHAIN - In various embodiments, a buoyancy engine can comprise a segmented chain comprising a plurality of linear segments. The segmented chain can rotate about a divider configured to separate a gas environment and a liquid environment, and can be configured to separate during linear vertical travel. Moreover, a trailing surface of a first segment of segmented chain can be configured to compress with a leading surface of a second segment to form a substantially solid surface in response to transitioning between the gas environment, and the liquid environment. As the segmented chain travels between the gas and liquid environments, a rotary motion is created which can be captured as electrical or mechanical energy. | 09-26-2013 |
20130255246 | TURBINE ROTOR ASSEMBLY - A turbine rotor assembly for extracting energy from an oscillating working fluid. The turbine rotor assembly includes a hub rotatable about a central axis. A plurality of blades is mounted to the hub about the central axis. Each blade has a leading edge and a trailing edge which are configured to be complementary in profile to each other such that the blades can be mounted in close fitting edge-to-edge proximity to each other. | 10-03-2013 |
20130291532 | Tidal Energy Seawater Desalination System, Power Generation System and Integral Energy Utilization System - A tidal energy seawater desalination system wherein a seawater evaporation tower is configured with a vacuum pump which connects with a tidal energy power device, and connects a seawater evaporation tower via pipelines, an output end of the pump connects a steam condensation tower via pipelines; alternatively the evaporation tower comprises a floating barrel and a stationary barrel, the floating barrel connects with the power device, the top of the stationary barrel connecting the steam condensation tower via pipelines; the pipeline introducing the steam into the condensation tower first connects a steam pressure tank, a steam turbine connects the tank via pipelines, the power output shaft of the turbine connects generator sets, and in turn, the turbine connecting the condensation tower via pipelines, such that the system is also a power generation system; on the offshore of which is provided with solar water heater and wind driven generator. | 11-07-2013 |
20130333370 | Method and Apparatus for Energy Generation - A system for the generation of energy from the flow of water in a body of water is provided, the system comprising a support assembly extending across at least a portion of the body of water; a generator assembly mounted in the support assembly, the generator assembly comprising a first rotor assembly and a second rotor assembly, each rotor assembly comprising a vertical hub rotatable about a vertical axis and a plurality of vertical blades extending radially from the hub, the first and second rotor assemblies being arranged such that the volume swept by the blades of the first rotor assembly overlaps the volume swept by the blades of the second rotor assembly. The system may be used to generate energy, for example electricity. In addition, the system may be used to control the level of water on the upstream side of the installation, for example in the cases of flooding. | 12-19-2013 |
20130333371 | POWER GENERATING EQUIPMENT - Power generating equipment comprises a support structure adapted to be disposed on the bed of a body of water, a buoyant power generating apparatus having a centre of buoyancy, a winching device releasably engageable with the power generating apparatus, and operable to pay out and to retract a flexible winch tether. The flexible winch tether has first and second portions releasably connectable to one another, the first portion being connectable at one end thereof to the support structure and at a second end thereof to the second portion, and the second portion being attached at one end thereof to the winching device, and being connectable at a second end thereof to the first portion. | 12-19-2013 |
20140033700 | HYDRAULIC ENERGY STORE - The present invention relates to a hydraulic energy store ( | 02-06-2014 |
20140123641 | WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER COMPRISING VORTEX TRAIL-GUIDING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONVERTING WAVE ENERGY - A wave energy converter includes at least one rotor which is configured to convert a wave motion of an agitated body of water into a rotational motion of the at least one rotor. The at least one rotor has at least two elongate lift profiles which are each connected by one end to a rotor base. The lift profiles are each connected in pairs to one another via at least one vortex trail-guiding device in a region of their free ends, not connected to the rotor base, of the lift profiles. | 05-08-2014 |
20140196450 | ELECTRIC GENERATOR POWERED BY BUCKET CONVEYOR DRIVEN BY MASSIVE BUOYANT OBJECTS - An electric generation system includes a plurality of connected water filled chambers, each having a pivoting door that sequentially covers and exposes an access port through which buoyant objects travel to an ascending water filled tube leading to a bucket conveyor that drives a generator. The pivoting doors are synchronized so that one is opened while the other is closed. The doors are opened and closed by hemispherical cams driven by a motor. The pivoting doors propel buoyant objects towards the tube. | 07-17-2014 |
20140202146 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER - A method for operating a wave energy converter for converting energy from a wave motion of a fluid into a different form of energy includes at least one rotor and at least one energy converter that is coupled to the at least one rotor. A first torque that acts on the at least one rotor is generated by the wave motion, and a second torque (M1) that acts on the at least one rotor is generated by the at least one energy converter. The second torque (M1) is specified during a control of the energy converter. | 07-24-2014 |
20140216025 | WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER AND METHOD FOR OPERATING A WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER - A wave energy converter for converting energy from a wave motion of a fluid into a different form of energy includes at least one rotor that is coupled to at least one energy converter. The rotor has a rotor base that has two sides with respect to the rotational plane of the rotor. At least one coupling body is attached to each side of the rotor base. | 08-07-2014 |
20140250879 | Water Gravity Loop Power Plant (WGLPP) - The WGLPP is a non-fluvial/dam, complete micro Hydroelectric Power Plant that can be an attached/integrated installation, a non-attached installation, or a portable installation (vehicle) that will continuously (24/7) power any residential, commercial, or military building. The WGLPP is driven by a water gravity energy loop (potential energy to kinetic energy to potential energy. . . ), which is clean (zero emissions and zero environmental impact) and renewable energy. | 09-11-2014 |
20140298793 | WASTE WATER ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATING SYSTEM - An electrical power generating system is connected to a sewer for conveying waste water to a sanitary treatment station. Waste water is propelled through the sewer line by pumping equipment which simultaneously pulverizes most large objects carried by the waste water. The waste water drives one or more water-operated turbines. The turbines are operatively connected to electrical power generators for producing electrical power and dispersing the power through an electrical power transmission system. | 10-09-2014 |
20140352292 | MOTION MACHINE - A machine comprises a tank defining a liquid chamber for holding a liquid. A rotor is located in the liquid chamber and is mounted such that the rotor is able to rotate relative to the tank. The rotor comprises a plurality of positively buoyant first elements and a plurality of negatively buoyant second elements. The liquid chamber is able to hold the liquid so that the rotor is immersed in the liquid and the first and second elements are arranged so that the positive buoyancy of the first elements and the negative buoyancy of the second elements are able to cause the rotor to rotate. | 12-04-2014 |
20150020518 | Gravity-Buoyancy Object Turbine - A Gravity-Buoyancy Object Turbine (GBOT) is provided to generate kinetic energy using gravitational force and buoyancy force exist in the nature. The turbine of the invention has a gravity (air) chamber and a buoyancy (liquid) chamber, arranged side-by-side in such a way that both gravity and buoyancy exerts force directly and continuously on the shaft/drum/belt to cause the rotation of the turbine. The turbine blades (objects) forms the shape of a wheel, which enables leak-proof and resistance-free transfer between air and liquid chambers. The objects could be cylindrical and rotating by its own. The material, size and shape of key components and related control mechanisms of GBOT are optimized to deliver maximum performance. Electro-mechanical control system also could be employed to manage the leak-proof and resistance-free transfer of objects between air and liquid chambers | 01-22-2015 |
20150107238 | Apparatuses, Systems, and Methods for Extraction and/or Storage of Energy From Moving Fluids - This disclosure includes various embodiments of apparatuses for encapsulating and stopping a flowing mass of fluid (e.g., liquid such as water, or gas such as air) to extract the kinetic energy from the mass, and for exhausting the mass once stopped (spent mass, from which kinetic energy has been extracted). This disclosure also includes various embodiments of systems comprising a plurality of the present apparatuses coupled together and/or one or more of the present apparatuses in combination with one or more flow resistance modifiers (FRMs). This disclosure also includes various embodiments of methods of extracting kinetic energy from a flowing mass of fluid (e.g., liquid such as water, or gas such as air) by stopping the mass, and for exhausting the mass once stopped (spent mass, from which kinetic energy has been extracted). This disclosure also includes embodiments of mechanical energy-storage or accumulation devices. | 04-23-2015 |
20150143805 | POWER GENERATION/TRANSMISSION DEVICE - Provided is a power generation/transmission device capable of obtaining stable power by utilizing rising and falling motion of rods and rolling motion of a spherical body. The power generation/transmission device includes: drive rods F | 05-28-2015 |
20150316022 | FLOATING BUOY TURNOVER HYDRAULIC POWER OUTPUT DEVICE - A floating buoy turnover hydraulic power output device, comprising a buoy ( | 11-05-2015 |
20160084236 | Gravity Field Energy Storage and Recovery System - Invention defines a method and apparatus for storing energy where a power source is used to reposition a mass in a gravitational field to a position of higher potential energy where the stored potential energy may be recovered with extremely low loss regardless of the state of charge of the system, where the force of gravity may be allowed to accelerates the mass, where the resulting kinetic energy is converted to shaft horsepower. Said shaft horsepower may be converted to pneumatic, electrical, or hydraulic power. A variation defines a method where a power source is used to submerge a buoyant object in a fluid, where the submerged object represents a potential energy, where the force of gravity via the fluid, displaces the submerged buoyant object, where the kinetic energy resulting from the displacement is converted to shaft horsepower. Said shaft horsepower may be similarly converted to pneumatic, electrical, or hydraulic power. Invention defines a process where available energy can be used to do work to raise a massive object against a planetary gravitational field, to a position of high potential energy which can be maintained indefinitely. On demand the mass can be accelerated by the gravitational field and converted to kinetic energy, which is harnessed and converted to shaft horsepower, allowing the desired energy recovery from the energy storage system. | 03-24-2016 |