Prime-mover dynamo plants – Fluid-current motors – Wind
Patent
1980-03-31
1981-12-01
Truhe, J. V.
Prime-mover dynamo plants
Fluid-current motors
Wind
290 44, 416 17, 416119, F01D 700, F03D 706
Patent
active
043038352
ABSTRACT:
A wind powered generator rotatable about a vertical axis. A plurality of vertically disposed airfoils are provided, the airfoils being rotatable about a vertical axis parallel to the axis of the generator. The airfoils are selectively latched to be disposed perpendicularly of the wind direction during one phase of their revolution about the generator axis and are selectively unlatched to be permitted to rotate into a position generally parallel to the wind direction during other phases of their revolution. The latching and unlatching of the airfoils is determined by the wind direction and is effected by electronic means which determine the point of latching and unlatching as a function of the wind direction measured by a wind vane. The airfoils may comprise sails composed of a flexible material stretched into a predetermined shape on a frame.
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Truhe J. V.
Wade Shelley
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