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4189648 Wind turbine generator acceleration control  
A power generating system includes a wind turbine driven generator, the wind turbine having a wind turbine driven rotor with a variable pitch angle blade. Stresses on the system during startup and...
4186312 AC Electrical power systems with alternate sources of power  
AC electrical power system comprising an electrical alternator and a primary power source which is alternatively and automatically utilizable with an emergency power source when the primary power...
4186313 Wind generator  
A wind operated generator is disclosed herein having a stationary frame or base rotatably supporting at least four sets of pivotal blades intended to be driven by impinging wind currents. Each set...
4186314 High efficiency wind power machine  
A high efficiency wind power machine is disclosed which is particularly well suited for large-scale, commercial conversion of wind power into electrical energy. The wind power machine of the...
4184084 Wind driven gas generator  
This invention provides a means to convert wind energy into electrical energy which through electrolysis forms gases to be stored under pressure, giving a form of stored energy for use at some...
4171491 Plant for generating and accumulating electric energy with the aid of wind power or solar energy  
Electric solar or windpowerplant with flywheel battery in which the electric generator is in the form of a d.c. generator, electrically connected to brushless d.c. motors switched in parallel which...
4168439 Wind turbine  
The following specification discloses an improvement in vertical axis wind machines having upstanding blades. The blades are attached to a rotatable ring which support the blades at an angle of...
4166596 Airship power turbine  
Power is mechanically transmitted from a tethered airship carrying wind turbines to electrical generators on the ground at the anchor point of the tether, by the use of endless power-transmission...
4164382 Wind driven power apparatus  
A wind driven power apparatus for converting wind to mechanical energy is disclosed which includes a fixed axis turbine supported centrally of a fixed air guide defining a plurality of horizontal...
4161658 Wind turbine generator having integrator tracking  
A power generating system includes a wind turbine driven generator, the wind turbine having a wind driven rotor with a plurality of variable pitch angle blades. The blade angle is scheduled during...
4160170 Wind turbine generator pitch control system  
Wind energy is used to drive a wind turbine, which is in turn connected to an electrical generator to produce electrical power. The pitch angle of the wind turbine blades is controlled in a closed...
4159426 Energy conversion system  
In a venturi-shaped wind tunnel, a wind is generated by a wind generating device in the larger end of wind tunnel. Wind thus generated is caused to speed up by the venturi and drives a rotatable...
4150300 Electrical and thermal energy supply system for buildings  
An electrical and thermal energy supply system for buildings is disclosed wherein electricity is generated by an engine driving a generator either inside or in close proximity to the building. Heat...
4150301 Wind turbine  
An improved fluid driven turbine blade system is provided, which is self-governing at relatively high fluid velocities. This is achieved by a combination of two sets of turbine blades, one having a...
4149092 System for converting the randomly variable energy of a natural fluid  
Emitters and rotary hydraulic displacement pumps are associated with one or a number of propeller-type transducers and connected to receivers each having a rotary hydraulic displacement motor...
4146800 Apparatus and method of generating electricity from wind energy  
The invention relates to apparatus for and method of generating electricity from wind energy. The apparatus comprises means such as a foraminous condenser plate and a condenser surface, e.g., the...
4146264 Load control for wind-driven electric generators  
In a wind-driven generator system, the generator load curve is matched to the wind-driven rotor characteristic by an electronic field current control which is responsive to the rotor speed. A...
4129787 Double wind turbine with four function blade set  
A free standing, vertical axis rotor employs both fixed and pivoted airfoil blades assembled on a triangular rotor frame. The angle of attack of the pivoted blades is controlled with reference to...
4114046 Electrical generator employing natural energy to power same  
This invention concerns an improved turbo-electrical generator powered by the conversion of natural energy into mechanical energy in order to propel ferromagnetic blocks about an irregularly,...
4112311 Windmill plant for generating energy  
Windmill or solar plant for generating electric energy having a transmission in the form of an epicyclic gear transmission with sun wheel and planet wheels, the sun wheel of which is connected to...
4095120 Load control for wind-driven electric generators  
A generator load curve is precisely matched to a wind-driven motor characteristic by means of a rotor speed-responsive tachometer effecting stepwise control of field current in the generator....
4093035 Fluid mill powered vehicle  
A fluid mill having a tandem set of vanes is mounted within a vehicle and subject to the air stream during forward motion of the vehicle. Rotation of the sets of vanes in response to the force of...
4079264 Wind or water operated power plant  
A fluid operated power generating system comprises a power producing unit or an array of such units adapted to be positioned in a flow of fluid. Each unit includes end walls configurated to cause...
4075545 Charging system for automobile batteries  
A pair of air driven impeller rotors mounted in the front end portion of a vehicle and operatively connected to one or more generators for charging drive motor energizing batteries responsive to...
4070131 Tornado-type wind turbine  
Atmospheric wind is admitted tangentially into a vertically extending structure and directed against the interior curved surface of the structure to produce vortex flow. The structure is open ended...
4068132 Wind powered electrical generating plant  
A multi-level support structure contains plural power driven turntables on each level and each turntable carries a plurality of wind powered electrical generator units which are pivotally secured...
4066911 Wind-driven prime mover  
A sail-type wind-driven prime mover is provided in which the area of the sails facing into the wind is adjustable. The prime mover comprises a drive shaft from which depend radially extending front...
4039849 Wind powered generating systems  
An electric battery powered automobile has a wind driven rotor device driving a generator to furnish supplementary power to batteries of the electrical power system of the automobile. The rotor...
4035658 High power wind turbine with kinetic accumulator  
A high power wind turbine with kinetic accumulator is disclosed. The invention includes a circular wall, a wall turbine movably mounted to the circular wall so that it can be moved to face the...
4031405 Windmill with shroud adjusting means  
A windmill having a shroud rotatably mounted with respect to a horizontally rotatable vane assembly of the windmill and a directional vane mounted to the shroud to automatically position the shroud...
4012163 Wind driven power generator  
A turbine type power generator includes a rotor having a vertical shaft to drive a load which may be an electric generator or mechanical gear train or other device for using or transmitting power....
4006925 Wind power energy generating system  
A wind-driven power generating apparatus which includes a main support for securement to a fixed structure. A main drive shaft is retained by this main support and is connected at one of its outer...
4002218 Electrical vehicle  
An electrically operated vehicle provides a series of rotary members specially mounted to be partially exposed to external direct fluid currents and deflected fluid currents from a deflecting...
3995170 Wind energy conversion device  
A wind energy conversion device for converting directional wind force to torque along on a vertical rotational axis. The device includes a plurality of flexible vanes mounted to a framework for...
3987987 Self-erecting windmill  
A device which lifts itself into the air and either itself carries a windmill for the extractions of power from the wind, or traverses a oscillatory path back and forth across the wind such that...
3974394 Capturing hydro power, earth power and wind power with means and methods of storing same  
In areas where wind power, hydro power and earth heat power are all available and are to be developed, a common means and method of storing such power during off peak periods of power use are...
3974395 Power generating apparatus  
A control system for obtaining maximum power output from electrical generating water pumping, flywheel storage and like systems comprising a wind-driven prime mover coupled to an electrical...
3942025 Process for storing electricity for a fast advancing conveyance and device for storing such electricity  
A device for storing electricity for a fast advancing conveyance wherein a windmill is provided on the conveyance, said windmill being caused to rotate by the wind created by the fast advancing...
3902072 Wind turbine  
A wind power generator having a horizontally rotatable platform with a plurality of vertical blades mounted around its periphery, all of the blades rotating coaxially around a central axis and each...
3895236 Energy conversion apparatus  
An energy conversion apparatus for converting forces occuring in nature to electrical energy. Natural forces such as wind, gravity, etc. are converted to reciprocating linear motion which is then...
3883750 Method and apparatus for generating power from wind currents  
A wind-powered energy producing device comprising a Venturi-shaped chamber mounted for rotation on a support, a rudder adapted to be acted upon by the wind to orient the openings of the chamber...
3878913 Generating system for an electric vehicle  
The vehicle, typically for on-land locomotion, is driven electrically by a plurality of batteries which are substantially continuously re-charged in all phases of road travel through direct current...
3806733 WIND OPERATED POWER GENERATING APPARATUS  
A wind operated electric power generating apparatus providing a pressurized supply of air to inflate air cells carried by an endless belt, said air cells rising in a tank of fluid to drive said...
3793530 WIND TURBINE GENERATOR  
An electric energy generator driven by a wind actuated turbine rotor rotatably supported on a vertically disposed sleeve telescoped over and journaled on a rigid upright supporting post. The rotor...
3743848 WIND DRIVEN POWER PRODUCING APPARATUS  
A device for generating electric current by the force of the wind. This device consists primarily of a turntable with arm and vane means for transferring the force of the wind to rotate a generator.
3740565 AIR DRIVEN MODULAR TANDEM ELECTRICAL GENERATOR  
Herein described is an air driven generator for providing electrical energy for charging storage batteries. A plurality of rotors including a round rim, a hub and connecting vanes are alternately...
3721290 TOWER WITH ROTATED COOLING ASSEMBLY  
The invention involves a cooling tower with tower column having a hollow, rotatably mounted turret thereon, from the substantial periphery of which a plurality of equally, angularly spaced apart...
3720840 WIND TURBINE GENERATOR WITH EXHAUST GAS HEATER  
A gas turbine driven electric generator system is provided which makes it possible to utilize wind as the motive force and to reduce or eliminate pollution.
3713503 VEHICLE GENERATOR SYSTEM  
An electrically powered vehicle having fan-driven generators or alternators selectively individually engageable by the driver such that as the speed of the vehicle increases and the air reaching...
3697765 FLUID DRIVEN ELECTRICAL POWER APPARATUS  
A fluid driven electrical power producing apparatus in which a field assembly is rotated in one direction by first fluid drive device and the armature assembly is driven in the opposite direction...