Kite control system
AssigneeOceanergy AG
InventorWolfram Johannes Bernd Reiners
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Abstract
A kite control system for controlling a kite which includes a plurality of rotators, a plurality of guiding elements locatable between each of the plurality of rotators and the kite, a plurality of adjustable deflectors, a plurality of deflector guides configured to adjust the operational length of the kite connecting line upon adjustment of the deflector, at least one invert correlator for, when in use, inversely correlate the adjustment of the operative length of the respective kite connecting lines, wherein the plurality of kite connecting lines includes the connection of at least one of the kite connecting lines at the kite biased towards the leading end region of the kite, and the connection of at least another kite connecting line biased towards the trailing end region of the kite.
Claims26
A system comprising:
- (I) a kite;
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- (II) a kite control subsystem for controlling the kite, the kite control subsystem including:
- (i) a plurality of rotators interconnectable to one or more of a plurality of kite connecting lines, which are connected to the kite, for adjusting the operative length of the one or more kite connecting lines upon rotation thereof, when in use;
- (ii) a plurality of guiding elements locatable between each of the plurality of rotators and the kite for guiding and defining a kite line path for each of the plurality of kite connecting lines from the rotators towards the kite;
- (iii) a plurality of adjustable deflectors, at least one of the plurality of adjustable deflectors being locatable inbetween at least one of the plurality of rotators and the kite;
- (iv) a plurality of deflector guides, each of which is operatively connected to at least one of the plurality of deflectors, and having at least one of the plurality of kite connecting lines extending therethrough, and further being configured to adjust the operative length of the at least one of the plurality of kite connecting lines, upon adjustment of the deflector so as to cause the deflector guide to angularly deflect a portion of the at least one of the plurality of kite connecting lines, when in use;
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- (v) at least one invert correlator, operatively interconnectable to at least two of the plurality of deflector guides for, when in use, inversely correlate the adjustment of the operative length of the respective kite connecting lines;
- wherein the connection of at least one of the plurality of kite connecting lines;
- the kite is biased towards the leading end region of the kite and the connection of at least one other kite connecting line is biased towards the trailing end region of the kite, said connections thereby allowing control of the angle of attack of the kite in the air by adjustment of at least one of the deflectors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.