Multiple Rotor Windmill and Method of Operation Thereof

• US 20090169388A1
• Filed: 12/23/2008
• Published: 07/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Oleg Vyacheslavovich Klimov, Vyacheslav Stepanovich Klimov
• Original Assignee: Oleg Vyacheslavovich Klimov, Vyacheslav Stepanovich Klimov
• Inventors: Klimov, Oleg Vyacheslavovich, Klimov, Vyacheslav Stepanovich
• Application Number:
  US12/342,333
• Publication Number:
  US 20090169388A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 416/20.R
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 1/0601 using the Magnus effect
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2200/23 Logarithm
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2250/15 spiral
• CPC Class Codes: F05B 2250/70 Shape
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/72 Wind turbines with rotation axis in wind direction
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/74 Wind turbines with rotation axis perpendicular to the wind direction

Abstract

The hub of the horizontal axis contains rotors rigidly attached in the radial direction by their own axes on the ground of logarithmic spiral-shaped load-bearing elements that rotate in response to the force of ram pressure and as it rotates in a wind flow around it generates lateral aerodynamic force arisen due to the Magnus effect; the total quantity thereof creates a rotary moment of the horizontal axis.

Claims

1. Multi-rotor horizontal axis windmill comprising a number of uniform radial rotors on the ground of logarithmic spiral-shaped load-bearing elements evenly distributed in the plane of a circle, wherein the axes of the rotors are rigidly fixed in the hub of the horizontal axis, characterized in that in order to allow steady interaction between a wind flow and a structure of radial rotors in the process of constant repositioning in the interspace when rotating around the horizontal axis, along both the face planes each radial rotor is equipped with identical symmetrical discharge jets.

2. Method of operation of the multi-rotor windmill according to claim 1, characterized in that the windmill is started by the force of ram pressure on the radial rotors and a rotary moment of the horizontal axis is created by a combined effect of lateral aerodynamic force arisen due to the Magnus effect when the radial rotors rotate in the wind flow around them.