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US 2023/0400006 A1Published application
Wave turbine
OwnerSalvatore Deianainventor
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Abstract
An electrical generating apparatus has a structure with a weighted base with a first and a second vertical tube enclosure spaced apart, a turbine having an axis, a length and a plurality of buckets facing in a direction substantially tangent to an outer edge of the circular shape, and generators in the vertical tube enclosures driven by shafts of the turbine through walls of the tube enclosures, wherein, with the apparatus stationary on a seafloor on the weighted base, both wave action and tidal currents turn the turbine that drives the generators.
Claims12
An electrical generating apparatus, comprising:
- a vertically-oriented structure having a weighted base with a first and a second vertical tube enclosure spaced apart on the weighted base;
- a turbine having an axis, a length and a circular shape orthogonal to the axis, with curved panels proceeding from the axis, spaced around the axis, forming a plurality of buckets facing in a direction substantially tangent to an outer edge of the circular shape, the turbine having a first shaft extending in a direction of the axis from a first end and a second shaft extending in the direction of the axis from a second end of the turbine;
- a first generator in the first vertical tube enclosure with a first drive shaft coupled to the first shaft of the turbine passing through a wall of the first vertical tube enclosure such that motion of the turbine turns the generator;
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- a second generator in the second vertical tube enclosure with a second drive shaft coupled to the second shaft of the turbine passing through a wall of the second vertical tube enclosure such that motion of the turbine turns the generator,
- wherein, with the apparatus stationary on a seafloor on the weighted base, both wave action and tidal currents turn the turbine that drives the generators.
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An electrical generating apparatus, comprising:
- a vertically-oriented structure having a weighted base with a first and a second vertical tube enclosure spaced apart on the weighted base;
- a turbine having an axis, a length and a circular shape orthogonal to the axis, with curved panels proceeding from the axis, spaced around the axis, forming a plurality of buckets facing in a direction substantially tangent to an outer edge of the circular shape, the turbine having a first shaft extending in a direction of the axis from a first end and a second shaft extending in the direction of the axis from a second end of the turbine;
- a first generator in the first vertical tube enclosure with a first drive shaft coupled to the first shaft of the turbine passing through a wall of the first vertical tube enclosure such that motion of the turbine turns the generator;
- a second generator in the second vertical tube enclosure with a second drive shaft coupled to the second shaft of the turbine passing through a wall of the second vertical tube enclosure such that motion of the turbine turns the generator, and
- a protective structure completely surrounding the vertical tube enclosures and the turbine implemented between the vertical tube enclosures, the protective structure open above and below;
- wherein, with the apparatus stationary on a seafloor on the weighted base, only wave action turns the that drive the generators, the protective structure shielding the apparatus from wave action.
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A method for driving a generator to produce electricity, comprising:
- implementing a vertically-oriented structure having a weighted base with a first and a second vertical tube enclosure spaced apart on the weighted base, a turbine having an axis, a length and a circular shape orthogonal to the axis, with curved panels proceeding from the axis, spaced around the axis, forming a plurality of buckets facing in a direction substantially tangent to an outer edge of the circular shape, the turbine having a first shaft extending in a direction of the axis from a first end and a second shaft extending in the direction of the axis from a second end of the turbine, and a first generator in the first vertical tube enclosure with a first drive shaft coupled to the first shaft of the turbine passing through a wall of the first vertical tube enclosure such that motion of the turbine turns the first generator, and a second generator in the second vertical tube enclosure with a second drive shaft coupled to the second shaft of the turbine passing through a wall of the second vertical tube enclosure such that motion of the turbine turns the second generator, and
- placing the structure stationary on a seafloor on the weighted base, such that both wave action and tidal currents turn the turbine that drives the generators.
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