Wave energy converting device
OwnerLin-Tu Ciouinventor
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Abstract
A wave energy converting device has a driving unit, a gearing unit, an operating unit, a transmission unit and an energy converting device. The fluctuation potential generated by the ocean waves drives the floating member of the driving unit to move up and down, and then the fluctuation potential energy is converted into a rotational kinetic energy through the gearing unit, the operating unit and the transmission unit, which is then used for power generation and the unit is driven to change between the first and second operating gear with the increase and decrease of the potential energy of the waves, so that the transmitting shaft can generate energy through the rotation of the first transmitting gear and the second transmitting gear.
Claims6
A wave energy converting device comprising:
- a driving unit having a floating member with a driving column, two sides of the driving column respectively having a first toothed section and a second toothed section;
- a gearing unit having a first gear and a second gear, the first and second gear respectively engaging with the first and second toothed section of the driving column, the first gear assembled with a first one-way bearing, the second gear assembled with a second one-way bearing, the first and second one-way bearings configured to rotate in a same direction, the first and second gears being respectively connected to an end of a first linking shaft and a second linking shaft with the first and second one-way bearing, another end of the first linking shaft connected to a third gear, another end of the second linking shaft connected to a fourth gear;
- an operating unit having a first operating gear, a driving shaft, a second operating gear and an idler wheel, the first operating gear engaging with the third and fourth gears, the first operating gear coupled with a third one-way bearing and connected to an end of the driving shaft via the third one-way bearing, a middle section of the driving shaft engaging with the second operating gear, another end of the driving shaft connected to the idler wheel;
- a transmission unit having at least one first transmitting gear, a second transmitting gear, a third transmitting gear, a fourth transmitting gear, a fifth transmitting gear, a sixth transmitting gear, and a transmitting shaft;
- the first transmitting gear engaging with the first operating gear, the first transmitting gear coupled with a fourth one-way bearing, the fourth one-way bearing connected to a first shaft, another end of the first shaft connected to the second transmitting gear, the second transmitting gear engaging with the third transmitting gear, the third transmitting gear connected to the fourth transmitting gear via a second shaft;
- the fifth transmitting gear and the sixth transmitting gear respectively engaging with the fourth transmitting gear on opposite sides, the fifth transmitting gear engaging with the second operating gear, the transmitting shaft placed through the sixth transmitting gear;
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- an energy converting device having at least one generator connected to the transmitting shaft to generate electrical energy.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.