# US 12,110,875 B2 · Installation for the combined conversion of wave, wind and solar energies into electrical energy > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,110,875 B2 - Document ID: US12110875B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 18/085,729 - Filed: 2022-12-21 - Published: 2024-06-27 - Granted: 2024-10-08 - Earliest claimed: 2022-12-21 - Applicants: Nicolae Ghinda - Inventors: Nicolae Ghinda - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12110875B2 ## CPC - F03D 9/007: {the wind motor being combined with means for converting solar radiation into useful energy} - F03B 13/00: Adaptations of machines or engines for special use; Combinations of machines or engines with driving or driven apparatus (if the apparatus aspects are predominant, see the relevant subclasses for such apparatus, e.g. H02K7/18); Power stations or aggregates (incorporating only machines or engines of positive-displacement type F03C; hydraulic engineering aspects E02B; {combinations with wind energy converters F03D9/008}) - H02K 7/183: {wherein the turbine is a wind turbine (adaptation of a wind turbine to an electric generator F03D9/25)} - H02S 10/12: Hybrid wind-PV energy systems - H02S 10/40: Mobile PV generator systems - H02S 20/32: specially adapted for solar tracking - H02S 40/22: Light-reflecting or light-concentrating means (directly associated with the PV cell or integrated with the PV cell H10F77/42) - H02S 40/32: comprising DC/AC inverter means associated with the PV module itself, e.g. AC modules - F05B 2240/93: on a structure floating on a liquid surface - Y02E 10/30: Energy from the sea, e.g. using wave energy or salinity gradient - F03D: WIND MOTORS - F03B: MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS (positive-displacement engines for liquid F03C; machines for liquids and gases F01; positive-displacement machines for liquids F04, rotary fluid gearing of the hydrokinetic type F16H41/00) - H02K: DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES (dynamo-electric relays H01H53/00; conversion of DC or AC input power into surge output power {H03K3/53}) - H02S: GENERATION OF ELECTRIC POWER BY CONVERSION OF INFRARED RADIATION, VISIBLE LIGHT OR ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT, e.g. USING PHOTOVOLTAIC [PV] MODULES (obtaining electrical energy from radioactive sources G21H1/12; light sensitive inorganic semiconductor devices H10F; light sensitive organic semiconductor devices H10K30/00; thermoelectric devices H10N10/00; pyroelectric devices H10N15/00) - F05B: INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO WIND, SPRING, WEIGHT, INERTIA OR LIKE MOTORS, TO MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS COVERED BY SUBCLASSES F03B, F03D AND F03G - Y02E: REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION ## Abstract The invention refers to a combined power generator for near shore area wherein on a support frame are mounted, at the base a vertical wave turbine coupled by a ratchet coupling to a wind turbine coupled in its turn by a speed raising coupling to an electric generator and above a photovoltaic platform with solar tracking system, with bi-facial photovoltaic panels, with a system of mirrors for the reflection of light on the back of the bi-facial photovoltaic panels, a hybrid controller and an inverter for taking over the electricity from the electric generator and the photovoltaic panels respectively and the transformation to the corresponding parameters for sending into the electrical network. By placing the three convertors vertically the energy efficiency on the surface unit in near-shore areas increase. Other advantages of the installation are: constructive simplicity, low price of construction, maintenance and operation, wave breaker. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An installation for the combined conversion of wave, wind, and solar energy into electricity, the installation comprising: a support frame having mounted vertically and interconnected a wave turbine with a vertical axis wherein at the bottom end of the axis having a flywheel and at the upper end being coupled by means of a ratchet coupling to the bottom end of the axis of a wind turbine and at the upper end of the axis of the wind turbine being coupled by means of a speed raising coupling to an electric generator; a photovoltaic platform, supported above and by the support frame comprising: a solar tracking system, bifacial solar panels, a mirror system, a hybrid controller and an inverter for transmission of electrical energy at the parameters corresponding to an electrical network; on a side of the said frame support, a second system of mirrors for the reflection of sunlight on the back of the bifacial solar panels. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The installation of claim 1, wherein the two wind and wave turbines, being practically identical, are designed to work in both wind and wave regimes depending on the height of the waves wherein the respective turbines comprising three neck flanges mounted on the vertical axis and on which several groups of three arms are fixed radially and at an outer part of upper and lower arms being fixed with hinges, blades of aerodynamic shape and a middle arm having the role of support for the blades at high forces of the waves/wind. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The installation of claim 1, wherein the wave turbine with vertical axis being coupled with the wind turbine by means of the ratchet coupling wherein more precisely a neck flange fixed to the upper part of the axis of the wave turbine having teeth on the upper edge and a second neck flange with a smaller diameter fixed to the bottom of the axis of the wind turbine in which the upper end of the axis of the wave turbine is partially inserted and on which a locking lever is mounted resting on a support fixed to this flange allowing a relative movement of the wind and wave turbines in only one direction, for the coupling/decoupling of the wave turbine depending on the power of the waves in relation to that of the wind. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The installation of claim 1, wherein the said photovoltaic platform comprising: the solar-tracking system, the bifacial solar panels, the mirror system for the reflection of light on the back of the bifacial solar panels, the hybrid controller and the inverter, having as support base the said support frame containing: the wave turbine further coupled by means of the ratchet coupling to the wind turbine, the wind turbine being in turn coupled by means of the speed increaser coupling to the electric generator and wherein the said support frame being fixed either in the sea bed or mounted on a pontoon; the structure being thus adapted to the near shore areas. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The installation of claim 1, wherein rectangular metal frames are connected to the support frames in a diagonal manner and supported on concrete pillars, or connected to a neighboring installation in the case of a network of installations to increase stability on the seabed. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The installation of claim 1, wherein the said installation is mounted on a pontoon and fixed in the ground with a fixing anchor or fixing cables. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1, 6) The installation of claim 1 or 6, wherein the said installation mounted on a pontoon being laterally coupled by means of articulated arms to other neighboring installations for the realization of a network of floating installations. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The installation of claim 1, wherein the said photovoltaic platform comprising the bifacial solar panels has mounted the mirror system for reflecting the light on the back of the bifacial panels. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The installation of claim 1, wherein the mirror system is mounted of the sides of the support frame for reflecting the light on the back of the bifacial panels.