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US 2026/0028958 A1Published application
Reservoir-regulating digital load control
AssigneeLone Gull Holdings, Ltd.
InventorsIVAR LEE THORSON, GARTH ALEXANDER SHELDON-COULSON, BRIAN LEE MOFFAT, DANIEL WILLIAM PLACE
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Abstract
Disclosed is an apparatus that adapts the rate of its computational work to match the availability of energy harvested from a stochastic energy source; and, with respect to some types of energy harvesting, regulates the rate of energy capture, the rate of energy conversion, and the rate of consumption of stored potential energy, through its alteration, regulation, and/or adjustment, of that same computational work load.
Claims13
A vessel having a wave-powered computational system, comprising:
- a buoyant structure configured to bob on a body of water;
- a fluid reservoir disposed on the buoyant structure above the body of water;
- an open, vertically disposed venturi tube fluidly connecting the fluid reservoir with the body of water;
- an effluent pipe extending downwardly from the fluid reservoir;
- a water turbine disposed within the effluent pipe and including a turbine shaft;
- a generator coupled to the turbine shaft;
- a power conditioner configured to receive electrical power from the generator;
- an electrical load having a power requirement met from power conditioned by said power conditioner;
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- a load manager from establishing a magnitude of the power requirement;
- wherein the load manager dynamically changes the power requirement of the electrical load based on a water level in the fluid reservoir.
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