| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 405075000 | Extracting power from moving fluid | 30 |
| 20090110485 | WASTE WATER ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATING SYSTEM WITH STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A method for selectively generating electrical power by using waste water gravity flow to generate electrical power includes attaching ends of a water flow diversion pipe to a waste water pipe. At least some of the waste water flowing by gravity through the waste water pipe is diverted into and through the diversion pipe and back into the waste water pipe. An electrical power generator is driven to generate electrical power in response to the waste water flowing through the diversion pipe. At least a portion of the electrical power generated by the at least one electrical power generator is stored and can be tapped later to supplement the output of the electrical power generator. | 04-30-2009 |
| 20100014920 | TURBINE STRUCTURE AND GATE STRUCTURE HAVING FLEXIBLE JOINT AND INSIDE STUFFING FOR TIDAL POWER PLANT - A turbine structure and a gate structure for tidal power plants of the present invention features that middle walls which can be installed as two units of one block are installed with an inside stuffing and a flexible joint so as to absorb and reduce the internal and external effects of the buoyancy and mechanical vibration of the turbine structures and the gate structures on the tidal power plants, save construction costs by shortened construction period and reduced concrete placing quantity, and prevent the cracks of concrete and the generation of hydration heat. The turbine structure having the flexible joint and the inside stuffing for tidal power plants comprises a base which bottom part is on the submarine rock so that a turbine structure between lake and sea which is connected with a gate structure by the medium of a connection structure can be installed as two units of one block; vertical middle walls which are formed on the base, the top of which is closed by a concrete structure wherein a draft tube and a discharge tube by which seawater can move inside; turbine generators which are arranged between the middle walls through the draft tubes; an inside stuffing space which is formed in the middle walls on one side installed in a predetermined distance on the base of the gate structure and filled with seawater; and a flexible joint of connecting the middle walls on the other side. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100040415 | WASTE WATER ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATING SYSTEM WITH STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A method for selectively generating electrical power uses waste water gravity flow to generate electrical power. An electrical power generator is driven to generate electrical power in response to the waste. A portion of the electrical power generated by the at least one electrical power generator can be stored and tapped later to supplement the output of the electrical power generator. A portion of the waste water flow can be stored and tapped later to supplement the waste water flow. | 02-18-2010 |
| 20110097154 | Pressure Release Apparatus Having A Hydraulic Generating Function - A pressure release apparatus includes a water tower, a plurality of water supply pipes, a plurality of pressure release units and a plurality of generating units. Each of the generating units includes a generator and a collector. Each of the pressure release units includes two propeller shafts each connected with the generator of the respective generating unit to drive the generator to generate an electric power, and two impellers each secured on the respective propeller shaft to rotate the respective propeller shaft. Thus, the pressure release units co-operate with the generating units to provide a water pressure release effect and an electric generating function simultaneously. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110158746 | TIDEWAY ANCHOR SYSTEM - A sea bed anchor of the plug-and-socket type, in which the depth of the socket ( | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110188936 | WASTE WATER ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATING SYSTEM WITH STORAGE SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR USE THEREWITH - A method for selectively generating electrical power uses waste water gravity flow to generate electrical power. An electrical power generator is driven to generate electrical power in response to the waste. A portion of the electrical power generated by the at least one electrical power generator can be stored and tapped later to supplement the output of the electrical power generator. A portion of the waste water flow can be stored and tapped later to supplement the waste water flow. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110305518 | SUBMERGED ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATING APPARATUS AND ACCESSORIES THEREFOR - A deployment device for deploying a buoyant underwater electricity generating apparatus to a submerged location in a body of water is disclosed. The deployment device comprises a winding apparatus ( | 12-15-2011 |
| 20120020734 | Environmentally safe hydro-electric pipeline and water delivery system - “The Environmentally Safe Hydro-Electric Pipeline And Water Delivery System” will provide over one million gallons of fresh water per day to areas and communities in desperate need of clean fresh water. This will be accomplished with a very small environmental footprint. This pipeline will be self powered by use of gravity and siphon principals. There will be enough flow and water pressure left over to power many water turbine electric generators, which may be located anywhere along the pipeline, where the power can be sold. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20140193201 | River bottom siphon for hydro-electric generation and irrigation - The invention is David Stauffer's river bottom siphon and hydroelectricity generator for a pollution-free hydroelectric energy generator using a submerged river pipeline and gravity for the delivery of fresh river-water for agriculture and drinking through a fabricated ecosystem to ease the problems of global warming, rising ocean levels, flooding, drought, pollution, depletion of the ozone layer, the blockage of fish migration by dams, and loss of rain forests, grazing land, and agricultural land through a system of large river-bottom pipelines to transfer the abundant supply of fresh water on the bottoms of the Columbia and Mississippi Rivers and, eventually, the Nile, Tigris, Rhine, Yellow, and all other rivers throughout the world to lands in need of fresh water (no really, I'm not joking) invention. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20150110559 | HYDRAULIC STRUCTURE FOR WATER FLOW CONTROL - A hydraulic structure having walls ( | 04-23-2015 |
| 405076000 | Wave or tide | 18 |
| 20080267712 | WAVE POWER GENERATOR SYSTEMS - Systems are provided for obtaining electrical energy from sea waves using deflectable material, especially EAP (electro-active polymers) type SSM (stretchable synthetic material) that generates electricity when an electrostatic charge is applied to the polymer and it is stretched. In one system ( | 10-30-2008 |
| 20090162144 | Tidal Flow Power Generation - A structure for a tidal flow energy generation system is fabricated from tubular framework having tubular modules with mounts for respective tidal flow turbine nacelles. The node modules include tubular limbs extending in transverse directions and elongate tubes and provided to interconnect with the tube limbs of the node modules. The structure can be pre-fabricated and transported to a location for deployment. The structure can be deployed by means of hovering the assembled structure to the seabed, for example by means of flooding the structure. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20090202303 | Enhanced wave power generators - Systems are disclosed for generating electricity from sea waves, that include a float ( | 08-13-2009 |
| 20100034588 | WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER - A wave energy conversion apparatus is described. It comprises at least two devices, each comprising a surface float, at least one of the surface floats being rigidly attached to a submerged body. The movement of the two devices in response to a passing wave may be used to effect an energy transfer. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100111609 | WAVE POWER PLANT - An improved wave energy collecting apparatus comprising a frame ( | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100111610 | CONNECTOR SYSTEM FOR A WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER - A connector system is described which is useful in coupling two bodies of a wave energy converter. The system includes at least one cable that is coupled to each of the two bodies and on which are threaded a number of discs. The cable and disc combination provide a stack that allows for a flexing of the two bodies relative to one another yet maintains the two bodies substantially co-linear. | 05-06-2010 |
| 20110008106 | WAVE ENERGY RECOVERY DEVICE - A device for recovering the energy of sea waves, which comprises at least one floating structure intended to float on the surface of the water. Said floating structure carries at least one member ( | 01-13-2011 |
| 20120087732 | Simplified Wave Energy Device Without One-way Clutches - This invention is a greatly simplified device for transforming the energy of water waves into useable energy. The invention is a device for transforming the energy of water waves into useable energy comprising two or more buoys or buoys, and structural members connecting buoys, whereby motions of buoys relative to one another generates torque, and a means for transferring torque to one or more generators, and a means by which to enable all generator currents to flow in a single beneficial direction. Novel systems for interconnecting such devices are also described herein. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120141207 | ENERGY RELEASE BUOYANT ACTUATOR - A buoyant actuator ( | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120237298 | UNDER BOTTOM DAM WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER - Disclosed is a double wall dam with a reservoir between the walls with opening doors mounted on the front wall to allow oncoming waves to open the doors and fill the reservoir. A hole with a turbine and generator is mounted in the bottom of the front wall to allow the water in the reservoir to flow out and spin the turbine and generator to create electricity. The dam can collect the entire wave and stack the water in a column that can be higher than the wave. This dam can produce many times the power than other over the top wave energy converters. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120263537 | Systems, Methods And Assemblies For Supplying Power To An Offshore Facility - The present invention is directed to processes and systems that use wave energy to drive one or more air turbines associated with an offshore facility, wherein such turbines can generate electrical power for use on the offshore facility and/or adjacent facilities and equipment. The offshore facility can be an offshore platform or a floating vessel. The turbine can be housed within a structural member of the facility or a tubular member suspended from the facility. The turbine can also be housed within a tubular member connected to a structural member of the facility. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20130243527 | Tidal Flow Generation Structures - A tidal energy generation structure for sea bed mounting includes sea bed penetrating support foot structures pre-assembled with the structure and deployed with the structure when setting on the sea-bed. The sea bed penetrating support foot structures are assembled in fixed position relative to one another and on a rigid frame and including a respective a penetrating tip which is arranged to penetrate into the sea bed surface under the weight of the tidal energy generation structure, when deployed on the sea bed. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130287496 | Tidal Flow Power Generation - A structure for a tidal flow energy generation system is fabricated from tubular framework having tubular modules with mounts for respective tidal flow turbine nacelles. The node modules include tubular limbs extending in transverse directions and elongate tubes and provided to interconnect with the tube limbs of the node modules. The structure can be pre-fabricated and transported to a location for deployment. The structure can be deployed by means of hovering the assembled structure to the seabed, for example by means of flooding the structure. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20190145372 | FLOATING PLATFORM | 05-16-2019 |
| 405077000 | With flow restrictor or ramp | 4 |
| 20100034589 | SYSTEM FOR GENERATING ENERGY FROM SEA WAVES - A system for generating energy from sea or ocean waves flowing toward a shore, comprises a channel or a container and a slanting structure constructed above the surface of the sea. The slanting structure is located in the way of waves toward the channel or container so the waves are lifted along the slanting structure wherein the wave energy is transformed into a generally homogenous flow. The water flow enters the channel or container to fill it to a level higher than sea level. Preferably, the slanting structure is placed in a location where the horizontal distance between adjacent waves is twice the depth (vertical distance) between the adjacent waves. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100092242 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HARNESSING WAVE ENERGY - Systems and methods are disclosed for harnessing wave energy. In one embodiment, a wave energy conversion device comprises a buoyant component connected to a generator such that wave energy is transferable from the buoyant component to the generator. A restricting mechanism connected with the buoyant component, is configured to selectively restrict the buoyant component from rising strictly along with passing waves. The restricting mechanism may be selectively released at an optimal time during a passing wave. In some embodiments, a system may include an array of wave energy conversion devices and a communications network. The communications network may allow for each of the buoyant components in the array to be released at an optimal time in sequential fashion. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20110217122 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR HARNESSING HYDRAULIC HEAD IN LARGE BODIES OF WATER - The invention provides a floating device, system and method for channeling, elevating, conducting and retaining up to the sea shore the higher hydraulic head of the ocean surface waves, which comprises a pontoon-like lower body protected externally by vertical walls, a bottom slab and a top slab, the latter slab may be the bottom or floor of the device; an upper body with lateral walls mounted on both sides of the pontoon-like lower body constitutes a wave canal, where the floor or bottom of the device on its seaward end has an entrance ramp, which together with the vertical walls on the seaward end of the pontoon, bank and elevate the waves collected from the flotation level of the device ( | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110236135 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INSTALLING TIDAL BARRAGES - A method of and modifies for installing a barrage across a body of water for generating electricity from tidal or current flow, the barrage being formed from a series of modules ( | 09-29-2011 |
| 405078000 | Associated with dam | 2 |
| 20120282030 | Moveable Element and Power Generation System for Low Head Facilities - A low head power generating system is disclosed including a wall pivotably attachable to a structure for moving between a generally upright position and a generally flat position. In the upright position, the structure or wall impounds water, and has a power generating cell connected to the wall, which rotates by movement of water there-through and is operably connectable to a generator for generating power. A support braces the wall in the upright position. The support is adjustable with a first end connected to the wall and a second end extended against a structure, and can be an inflatable bladder, a pressurized piston or other mechanism to move the wall. The cell can be mounted on the surface of the wall or integrated within the wall. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20130266378 | Intelligent Hydroelectric Dam With Power Storage - Dams are a useful source of energy. An embodiment of a dam according to the present invention includes precast segments configured to be coupled together to form a dam optionally used to generate energy. An embodiment includes encasing an existing dam structure using interconnected precast segments. An underpinning system may penetrate the existing dam structure and be employed to assist in maintaining position of the dam or segmental components. A further embodiment includes encasing a main energy generation component using interconnected precast segments formed from a composite material including electrically conducting fibers, an electric circuit configured to measure and report the electrical resistance using a transmitter or transceiver to a dam stress/strain monitoring server. The electrical circuit may be powered directly or indirectly by available power supplied by the main energy generation component. | 10-10-2013 |
