Prime-mover dynamo plants – Electric control – Fluid-current motors
Reexamination Certificate
2007-11-06
2007-11-06
Gonzalez, Julio (Department: 2834)
Prime-mover dynamo plants
Electric control
Fluid-current motors
C290S053000, C290S054000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11416604
ABSTRACT:
A self-supporting, submersible generating plant for producing electricity from ocean currents, consisting of two counter-rotating, rear-facing turbines with a plurality of rotor blades extending radially outward from two separate horizontal axis that convey the kinetic energy from the two side-by-side, counter-rotating turbine rotors through separate gearboxes to separate generators that are housed in two watertight nacelles that are located sufficiently far apart to provide clearance for the turbine rotors. The two generators and their gearboxes serve as ballast and are located far below a streamlined buoyancy tank that extends fore and aft above and between them. A combination of a leverage system and a pressure-controlled system adjusts the hydrodynamic lifting forces to maintain constant depths. There are systems to purge the ballast water to facilitate the recovery of both individual submersible power plants and a group of many submersible power plants.
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Cuevas Pedro J.
Gonzalez Julio
Meroni & Meroni P.C.
Meroni, Jr. Charles F.
Scott Christopher J.
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