Device for conversion of wave energy into electrical energy and the process for its deployment at the exploitation location
First Claim
1. The device for conversion of wave energy into electrical energy wherein the device comprises a supporting construction, consisting of buoyancy elements, having a star shape, or cylindrical shape, with a supporting tube fixed to the top of the supporting construction, wherein the supporting tube comprises a joint gear;
- having a gliding connection on the inner circumference with the outside surface of the supporting tube, while a sphere is hinged or tightly fixed at its outside circumference to a floating body whereby the device has two gears, the first, flexible gear used for connecting the floating body to the second gear wherein the flexible gear comprises a flexible element in the form of a rope, a cable or the like, and at least two pulleys, whereby two pulleys are fixed to the supporting tube by means of their supports above the end point of the working stroke of the floating body so that they can rotate and a middle pulley is by means of its support fixed to the second gear that connects the flexible gear to the electric generator having additional mass connected with the lower tube of the supporting construction in the sliding manner, whereby the supporting construction is coupled to the anchor weight by ropes that can be positioned in the bearing in the anchor base characterized in that the flexible element of the flexible gear, e.g. a cable, is coupled to the floating body at one end, then passed over the pulley and over the pulley inside the tube and the pulley and by the other end again connected to the floating body or the flexible gear is composed of two identical flexible elements having one end attached to the floating body and one flexible element of the gear goes over pulley while the other flexible element of the gear goes over pulley and by the other end they are mutually connected by a lever pivotally attached to one end of the second rigid gear and the connecting points of the flexible gear and the floating body as well as two upper pulleys are mutually opposite and wherein at the end of the buoyancy element, at the upper tube side a casing is placed and the flexible ropes are at one end attached to the buoyancy element and to the floating body at the other end.
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Abstract
Device for conversion of wave energy into electrical energy and the process for its deployment at the exploitation location, wherein the device comprises a supporting construction composed of buoyancy elements and having a supporting tube attached on the upper side. The device comprises a joint gear on the inner circumference connected with the outside surface of the supporting tube in a sliding manner and a sphere to which is the floating body pivotally connected. The device has two gears, the first flexible gear for connecting the floating body to the second gear and the second gear for connecting the flexible gear to the generator. The flexible gear consists of pulleys and a flexible element, e.g. a rope or a steel cable and the second gear can be arranged in several suitable forms, e.g. rigid elements as a set of a gear and a rack positioned inside the lower supporting tube or a flexible element, e.g. a chain and a sprocket wheel set in the buoyancy element. The supporting construction is by ropes connected to the anchor weight that is made in a form of a sphere segment either directly or through the rolling elements placed in the spherical dent of the anchor base. The invention comprises the process for device deployment at the exploitation location which is particularly suitable due to stable transport with low draught.
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20 Claims
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1. The device for conversion of wave energy into electrical energy wherein the device comprises a supporting construction, consisting of buoyancy elements, having a star shape, or cylindrical shape, with a supporting tube fixed to the top of the supporting construction, wherein the supporting tube comprises a joint gear;
- having a gliding connection on the inner circumference with the outside surface of the supporting tube, while a sphere is hinged or tightly fixed at its outside circumference to a floating body whereby the device has two gears, the first, flexible gear used for connecting the floating body to the second gear wherein the flexible gear comprises a flexible element in the form of a rope, a cable or the like, and at least two pulleys, whereby two pulleys are fixed to the supporting tube by means of their supports above the end point of the working stroke of the floating body so that they can rotate and a middle pulley is by means of its support fixed to the second gear that connects the flexible gear to the electric generator having additional mass connected with the lower tube of the supporting construction in the sliding manner, whereby the supporting construction is coupled to the anchor weight by ropes that can be positioned in the bearing in the anchor base characterized in that the flexible element of the flexible gear, e.g. a cable, is coupled to the floating body at one end, then passed over the pulley and over the pulley inside the tube and the pulley and by the other end again connected to the floating body or the flexible gear is composed of two identical flexible elements having one end attached to the floating body and one flexible element of the gear goes over pulley while the other flexible element of the gear goes over pulley and by the other end they are mutually connected by a lever pivotally attached to one end of the second rigid gear and the connecting points of the flexible gear and the floating body as well as two upper pulleys are mutually opposite and wherein at the end of the buoyancy element, at the upper tube side a casing is placed and the flexible ropes are at one end attached to the buoyancy element and to the floating body at the other end.
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