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US 12,398,692 B2Granted
Aquatic wind power generation system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTateru Fukagawa, Hayato Masuki, Kazutaka Kimura
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Abstract
An aquatic wind power generation system includes: a hull that navigates on water; a power generation system that includes a kite connected to the hull via a tether, and repeats between a power generation mode, in which wind power is generated by an unwinding operation of the tether due to flight of the kite, and retraction mode, in which the tether is retracted by a winding operation of the tether; and a controller that performs control to direct a bow of the hull in a leeward direction in the retraction mode.
Claims1
An aquatic wind power generation system comprising:
- a hull that navigates on water;
- a power generation system that includes a kite connected to the hull via a tether, and alternates between
- a power generation mode in which wind power is generated by an unwinding operation of the tether due to flight of the kite, and
- a retraction mode in which the tether is retracted by a winding operation of the tether;
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- a controller that performs control:
- (a) during retraction mode:
- (i) to direct a bow of the hull in a leeward direction in the retraction mode so that a vector direction of tension of the kite matches an advancing direction of the hull when viewed from above the hull, and a sail angle of a sail, which is an angle of attack between the sail and a vector of a composite velocity of a wind velocity of a natural wind and an advancing velocity of the hull, to be 90°, and
- (b) during power generation mode controls a direction of the bow so that a wind direction of natural wind and an advancing direction of the hull are orthogonal to each other when viewed from above the hull.
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