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US 6,747,363 B2Granted
Floating platform harvesting sea wave energy for electric power generation
OwnerGines Sanchez Gomezinventor
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Abstract
A floating platform harvesting sea wave energy comprising a helix or a turbine arranged at the bottom of a containment tube on a horizontal plane and devices to maintain the platform on the valley of the waves when the tide raises the sea level.
Claims2
A floating platform harvesting sea wave energy comprising,
- a helix or a turbine arranged for rotation in a horizontal plane and being submerged beneath the valley of waves,
- a containment tube having a lower end comprising said turbine or helix, wherein the height of the tube defines the high operating wave height, said tube being concentric with the helix or the turbine and completely surrounding said helix or turbine,
- draining valves located above the helix or turbine, wherein said valves drain the high tide water entering the lower end of the tube after passing the helix or the turbine causing the helix or turbine to rotate,
- an oscillatory shaft with an anchorage cable rolled on said oscillatory shaft,
- a pawl and a spring device blocking the oscillatory shaft to prevent the anchorage cable to unroll during the set operating level, and
- a control buoy located above the top of the containment tube unlocking the pawl when the wave height exceeds the containment tube height.
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