Electrical generators for use in unmoored buoys and the like platforms with low-frequency and time-varying oscillatory motions
AssigneeOmnitek Partners LLC
InventorsJahangir S. Rastegar, Richard T. Murray
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Abstract
A buoy for generating electrical energy from an upward heave resulting from a passing wave is provided. The buoy including: a body; a first device associated with the body to which a motion of the heave is transferred; and a second device associated with the body to which the motion is intermittently transferred from the first device. A buoy is also provided for generating electrical energy from a pitch/roll resulting from the passing wave where the first device is associated with the body to which a motion of the pitch/roll is transferred and the second device is associated with the body to which the motion is intermittently transferred from the first device.
Claims6
A buoy for generating electrical energy from a pitch/roll resulting from a passing wave, the buoy comprising:
- a body;
- a first device associated with the body to which a motion of the pitch/roll is transferred;
- and
- a second device associated with the body to which the motion is intermittently transferred from the first device;
- wherein the first device comprises:
- a linkage assembly having two or more links rotatable with respect to the body;
- and
- a mass rotatably connected to each of the two or more links of the linkage assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.