Power converting apparatus
AssigneeIngine, Inc.
InventorsYongjun Sung, Junghee Kim, Donggeon Lee
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Abstract
A power converting apparatus that may increase a generation efficiency by receiving a power from a power source, producing electricity by rotating an output shaft connected to a generator using a portion of the received power, accumulating a remaining portion of the received power in an energy storage device, and rotating the output shaft using the accumulated energy when a power is not transmitted from the power source, the power source that floats in the ocean, performs irregular motions in vertical and horizontal directions by waves within a predetermined range, and generates an intermittent linear power, is provided.
Claims11
A power converting apparatus comprising:
- a first tensile force transmitting member 40 configured to transmit a tensile force generated in response to a linear motion of a linear power source;
- an input shaft 10 comprising a first power transmitting member 11 configured to be connected to the first tensile force transmitting member 40 and rotate;
- an energy transmitting shaft 20 comprising a second power transmitting member 21 configured to be connected to the first power transmitting member 11 and perform a rotary motion;
- an energy storage unit configured to be connected to the second power transmitting member 21, store an elastic energy or a potential energy in response to a unidirectional rotation of the second power transmitting member 21, and rotate the energy transmitting shaft 20 using the stored elastic energy or the potential energy when a linear kinetic force generated by the linear power source dissipates or decreases;
- an output shaft 30 configured to rotate by receiving a torque alternately from the input shaft 10 and the energy transmitting shaft 20;
- a first input device configured to transmit a torque of the input shaft 10 to the output shaft 30;
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- a second input device configured to transmit a torque of the energy transmitting shaft 20 to the output shaft 30.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.