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US 2026/0110286 A1Published application
Turbine for Cross-flow Kite Power System and Method of the same
AssigneeNational Tsing Hua University
InventorsChe-Chih Tsao, An-Hsuan Feng
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Abstract
This invention describes the concept of a new configuration of cross-flow kite power system and its operation method. An analytical model was developed as analysis and design method for the design of the system and, especially, to design the generator turbine to match the kite in order to obtain maximal power.
Claims7
A cross-flow kite power system for converting fluid kinetic energy in an open fluid flow comprising:
- a kite riding and moving across the open fluid flow;
- and,
- a generator turbine moving in synch with the kite, wherein the generator turbine comprising an operational feature of a velocity transit ratio over 0.7 and a ratio of swept area of rotor of the generator turbine to kite planform area between 0.2 and 0.8, the velocity transit ratio being the ratio of apparent flow velocity away from the turbine to apparent flow velocity toward the turbine.
A cross-flow kite power system for operation in a water flow comprising:
- a kite;
- a generator turbine;
- a control pod, the kite and the generator turbine being separate and being connected through a kite tether and a turbine tether to the control pod respectively;
- an anchoring point;
- a main tether connecting the control pod and the anchoring point;
- and,
- a payload platform attached onto the turbine tether and located between the control pod and the generator turbine.
4 more elements
A method of mooring and operating multiple cross-flow kite power systems on a common tether.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.