Hydroelectric turbine
OwnerHerbert Williamsinventor
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Abstract
A hydroelectric turbine anchored in a body of water which produces electricity directly from its housing. The turbine is in and of itself a generator whose housing is its stator and whose blade it its rotor.
Claims25
A hydroelectric turbine whose only moving part is its rotor blade.
A hydroelectric turbine whose blade is not mechanically connected to it.
A hydroelectric turbine which utilizes both magnets and a water lubricated bearing to maintain alignment of its rotor.
A hydroelectric turbine which has no central shaft and whose blade is its rotor and whose housing is its stator.
A method of using magnets to align a rotor blade of a hydroelectric turbine on its horizontal axis.
A method of maintaining the clearance between the stator and rotor of a hydroelectric turbine by the use of magnets and a water lubricated non-magnetic bearing material.
A hydroelectric turbine which uses three distinctly separate groups of magnets:
- one group of magnets arranged to produce the magnetic field necessary to produce electricity;
- one group of magnets arranged similar poles facing each other to maintain alignment of the rotor;
- and, one group of magnets arranged similar poles facing each other to prevent the rotor from being forced downstream by the force of the water against the rotor.
A method of producing electricity from the stator housing of a hydroelectric turbine.
A method of displacing saltwater thru the use of a non-magnetic bearing material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.