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US 10,851,758 B2Granted
Hydrokinetic transport wheel mount
OwnerJose Ramon Santanainventor
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Abstract
An energy system including a turbine wheel totally submerge including a rotary element and a wheel mounting enclosure. The wheel mounting enclosure including a cavity where a rotary element rest on said mounting enclosure exposing the upper end to the flowing body of fluid it is submerged. The wheel mounting enclosure comprising several configurations such as a tapered base for increasing the incident flow velocity.
Claims8
A hydrokinetic transport wheel mount, comprising:
- a fully submerged turbine in the ocean;
- wherein said fully submerged turbine comprises a rotary element and said rotary element comprises a main horizontal axle drive;
- a plurality of multifaceted cells, wherein each multifaceted cell from said plurality of multifaceted cells comprises a concave structure;
- a fully submerged mount comprising a base, wherein said base comprises a front wall, a rear wall, a bottom wall and at least two tapered sidewalls;
- wherein said bottom wall is connected to the front wall, to the rear wall and to the at least two tapered sidewalls;
- wherein each tapered sidewall is connected to the front wall and to the rear wall;
- wherein said front wall, rear wall and the at least two tapered sidewalls extend vertically from the bottom wall creating a cavity in the fully submerged mount;
- wherein said rotary element is mounted on the fully submerged mount;
- wherein the cavity of said fully submerged mount completely encloses a first half of the rotary element inside said cavity when the rotary element rotates along its axis, thus shielding said first half from the pressure created by the flow of passing fluids and wherein a second half of the rotary element remains outside of said cavity completely exposed to the pressure created by the flow of passing fluids, as the rotary element rotates along its axis;
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- wherein the front wall and rear wall comprise bearings for allowing rotation of the horizontal axle drive on the fully submerged mount.
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