Power converting apparatus
AssigneeIngine, Inc.
InventorsYongjun Sung, Junghee Kim, Donggeon Lee
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Abstract
A power converting apparatus that may increase a generation efficiency by receiving a power from a power source, producing electricity by rotating an output shaft connected to a generator using a portion of the received power, accumulating a remaining portion of the received power in an energy storage device, and rotating the output shaft using the accumulated energy when a power is not transmitted from the power source, the power source that floats in the ocean, performs irregular motions in vertical and horizontal directions by waves within a predetermined range, and generates an intermittent linear power, is provided.
Claims11
A power converting apparatus comprising:
- a buoyant body (1) configured to float on a surface of, or in, an ocean that contains sea water, and generates linear motion in vertical and horizontal directions by a flux of the sea water;
- a plurality of first tensile force transmitting members (40) configured to transmit a tensile force generated in response to a linear motion of the buoyant body (1), each of the plurality of first tensile force transmitting members (40) connected to a different portion of the buoyant body (1);
- an input shaft (10) comprising a first power transmitting member (11) configured to be connected to the plurality of first tensile force transmitting members (40) and to rotate;
- an energy transmitting shaft (20) comprising a second power transmitting member (21) configured to be connected to the first power transmitting member (11) and perform a rotary motion;
- an energy storage unit configured to be connected to the second power transmitting member (21), store an elastic energy or a potential energy in response to a unidirectional rotation of the second power transmitting member (21), and rotate the energy transmitting shaft (20) using the stored elastic energy or the potential energy when a linear kinetic force generated by the linear power source dissipates or decreases;
- an output shaft (30) configured to rotate by receiving a torque alternately from the input shaft (10) and the energy transmitting shaft (20);
- a first input device configured to transmit a torque of the input shaft (10) to the output shaft (30);
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- a second input device configured to transmit a torque of the energy transmitting shaft (20) to the output shaft (30), and
- wherein each of the plurality of first tensile force transmitting members (40) that is connected to the buoyant body (1) is configured to connect the buoyant body (1) to the input shaft in different vectors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.