Prime-mover dynamo plants – Tide and wave motors
Reexamination Certificate
2011-04-15
2011-12-20
Ponomarenko, Nicholas (Department: 2839)
Prime-mover dynamo plants
Tide and wave motors
C290S052000, C060S507000
Reexamination Certificate
active
08080894
ABSTRACT:
A wave powered electrical generator includes: a floating unit that floats in water and accommodates a power generator therein. The floating unit has a wave power system that includes, a chamber containing fluid, a free-floating mass provided in the chamber that separates the chamber into first and second chambers defined at each side of the mass, a first valve that allows the fluid in the first chamber to be discharged from the first chamber as the free-floating mass moves toward the first chamber, and a second valve that allows the fluid in the second chamber to be discharged from the second chamber as the free-floating mass moves toward the second chamber. The fluid discharged through the first and second valves flows into a pipe that discharges the received fluid from an end thereof against a turbine attached to a power generator.
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Birch & Stewart Kolasch & Birch, LLP
Ponomarenko Nicholas
Rourke Gerald S.
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