System for producing energy through the action of waves.

(54) Title: SYSTEM TO PRODUCE ENERGY THROUGH THE ACTION OF THE WAVES.

(54) Title: SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING ENERGY THROUGH THE ACTION OF WAVES.

(57) Summary

A helmet that is part of a system to produce energy through the action of waves, the shape, size and orientation of the helmet make the system less expensive and increase the energy provided by the system. The present invention are helmets that are part of systems to produce energy through the action of waves.

(57) Abstract

A hull that is part of a system for producing energy through the action of waves, the hull's shape, dimension and orientation make the system less costly and increase the energy provided by the system. The present invention is hulls that are part of systems for producing energy through the action of waves.

PATENT TITLE No. 359786

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Denomination: SYSTEM TO PRODUCE ENERGY THROUGH THE ACTION OF THE WAVES.

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<td>Inventors):</td><td>GLENNL. BEÁNE</td>

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a system for producing energy through the action of waves. More particularly, it refers to a ship hull that is part of, or contains a system for producing energy through the action of waves.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

There are numerous examples in the art of systems and methods for producing energy through the action of waves on ship hulls and other floating platforms (collectively, here the hulls). For example, United States Patent Publication Number US-20090160191-A1, which is incorporated herein by reference, describes a system for producing electricity through the action of waves on a hull. A second mobile mass is carried by and moves relative to the helmet, a first mobile, the second mobile mass creates kinetic energy as a result of the variation of its position relative to the helmet. A mechanism then converts the kinetic energy of the second mass moving relative to the first mass into electricity in

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a preferred modality. In this example, the helmet is an integral part of the system to produce energy.

In other examples of systems for producing energy through wave action, helmets simply carry, or contain, the system. Here, a helmet that is an integral part of a system for producing energy through wave action, or that simply carries or contains such a system, will be referred to as part of the system for producing energy through wave action. .

Many parts of these systems for producing energy through wave action are described in detail. However, little attention, if any, is paid to helmets that are part of these systems even though the shape, dimension and orientation of both the systems and the amount of helmets could significantly affect production costs of the energy provided by the systems.

An objective of the present invention is to produce helmets to reduce the production costs of the systems for the production of energy through the action of the waves and to increase the energy produced by the systems.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The present invention are helmets that are part of systems

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MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY wave action. The shapes, dimensions and orientations of the systems are less expensive and the hulls increase the energy produced by the systems.

These aspects of the invention are not intended to be exclusive, and other features, aspects, and advantages of the present invention will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art when read in conjunction with the following description, the appended claims, and the accompanying drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

These and other features and advantages of the present invention will be better understood by reading the following detailed description of the embodiments, taken together with the drawings where:

Figure 1 is a schematic view of wave periods;

Figure 2 is a table showing wavelengths and wave frequencies,

Figure 3 is a cross section of a helmet;

Figure 3A is a cross section 'of a helmet;

Figure 4 is a schematic view of a water plane;

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<td>of</td><td>a single helmet;</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td>

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<td>of</td><td colspan="2">multiple helmets</td><td colspan="2">connected</td><td colspan="4">by means of reinforcing braces;</td>

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of multiple hulls connected to a stationary mooring line and a winch line;

Figure 10 is a schematic view of the orientation of multiple hulls connected to a stationary mooring line and multiple winch lines;

Figure 11 is a schematic view of a multi-shell phase arrangement;

Figure 12 is a graph of the energy produced against time for a single helmet;

Figure 13 is a schematic view of a two hull phase arrangement;

Figure 14 is a graph of produced energy versus time for two helmets;

Figure 15 is a schematic view of one embodiment of a phase arrangement;

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<td>of</td><td>a phase arrangement;</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td>

<td></td><td>Figure 19 is a</td><td>view</td><td>schematic</td><td>of</td><td>other</td><td>modality</td>

<td>of</td><td>a phase arrangement;</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td>

<td></td><td>Figure 20 is a</td><td>view</td><td>schematic</td><td>of</td><td>other</td><td>modality</td>

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<td></td><td>Figure 21 is a</td><td>view</td><td>schematic</td><td>of</td><td>other</td><td>modality</td>

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<td></td><td>Figure 22 is a</td><td>view</td><td>schematic</td><td>of</td><td>other</td><td>modality</td>

of a phase arrangement;

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The present invention in a helmet that constitutes part of a system to produce energy through the action of the waves. The other parts of the system may be parts of the system described in United States Patent Publication .IIS¿y2009-0160191-Al or any other system for producing energy through the action of waves.

A preferred embodiment of the present invention is

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. , INDUSTRIAL designed to reduce manufacturing costs. Ocean waves can be divided into two groups based on their frequencies: one group contains waves with frequencies centered around 9 seconds (medium frequency) and one group contains waves with frequencies centered around 12 seconds (long frequency). As shown in Figure 1, a 9-second wave has a wavelength of one-half, the distance from a ridge to an adjacent valley of 207 feet (63.09 meters), and a 12-second wave has a wavelength one-half 368 feet (112.16 meters). The optimal length of a helmet is between one-fourth and three-fourths of a wavelength. Here, as shown in Figure 2, the optimal length of a hull to be used for 9 second and 12 second waves would be longer than a quarter of a 12 second wavelength or a long wave, 184 feet (56.08 meters), and shorter than three-quarters of a 9-second wavelength or medium wave, 311 feet (94.79 meters). A preferred modality has a hull length of between 200 and 280 feet (60.96 and 85.34 meters).

As shown in Figure 3, a cross section 345 of a hull in another preferred embodiment is an ellipse having a cross section with a long axis that is vertical 346 of 75 feet (22.86 meters) and a short axis

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INDUSTRIAL which is horizontal 349 of 53 feet (16.15 meters). The ellipse's curved walls cause it to be stronger than structures with straight wall sections. This in turn allows the use of thinner, less expensive walls.

In addition, this elliptical shape is optimized for displacement and the water plane will auto-tune to multiple wave frequencies ranging from 7 seconds to 15 seconds. Other cross-sectional geometries may also be used, such as a diamond shape, as shown in Figure 3A, which are similar to an ellipse by increasing or decreasing the water plane as the hull nods or rocks. The elliptical hull geometry is used to tune the hull phase to wavelengths through changes in the water plane, which is the plane formed by the crossing of the hull and the water line, as shown in Figure 4. As shown in figure

5, as the ellipse's water plane increases or decreases for a given moment of inertia, the hull becomes stiffer or softer by tuning into waves of higher or lower frequency. As the water plane increases and the hull becomes stiffer 571, it is tuned to higher frequency waves, and as the water plane decreases and the hull becomes softer 572, it is tuned to frequency waves bottom as it nods and rocks.

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The draft of the ellipse determines the static water level of the hull. As the draft increases, the water line slides higher on ellipse 572, which then has a smaller water plane, smoothing out the hull. As the draft decreases and the water line slides closer to the geometric horizontal centerline of ellipse 571, the water plane of the hull increases, stiffening the hull.

Furthermore, as the moment of inertia of a helmet increases, the helmet can be tuned to increasingly longer wave frequencies. By adding mass externally to the bow or stern of the hull, the moment of inertia of the hull increases without adding additional volume to the hull. Relocating the additional mass is much less expensive than adding volume to the hull to accommodate more mass needed to create a similar moment of inertia in case the mass were added within the hull.

The addition or subtraction of additional mass, located externally on the bow and stern of the hull, also increases or decreases the displacement of the hull which, in turn, increases or decreases the moment of inertia of the hull, without adding volume to the hull which , in turn, tunes the hull phase to longer or shorter wave periods,

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In another preferred embodiment, as illustrated in FIG. 5A, a hull 501 has an external ballast retention means 502 at its bow 503, which may also be at its stern (not shown). The ballast retention means may consist of a hook 502 for hanging modular ballast 504 such as concrete blocks or sheet metal or cages in which said ballast can be placed, or other retention means known to those skilled in the art . Modular ballast is added to, or subtracted from, the ballast retention medium. The adhesion or subtraction of said ballast increases or decreases the length of the hull, the displacement and the moment of inertia, respectively, to tune the phase of the hull so that it operates in phase with waves of higher frequency or lower frequency and increases the generation of Energy.

A typical hull 210, as shown in Figure 6, has a greater moment of inertia along line 211 from bow 212 to stern 213 than the moment of inertia along line 214 from port 215 to starboard 216. This will result in the hull being tuned so that line 211 from bow 212 to stern 213 is perpendicular to direction 217 of waves 218, causing the hull to rotate from port to starboard. It should be noted that, as used here, the

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In order to build a hull that will orient itself so that the line from bow to stern is parallel to the direction of the waves, the moment of inertia along the line from the port to starboard should be increased greater than the moment of inertia so that it is

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manufacturing and transportation are significant.

In a preferred embodiment, as shown in Figure 8, multiple helmets (here two but more than two can be used) 303, 304 are kept parallel to each other by simple reinforcing braces

305. The reinforcing braces keep the hulls apart so that the first hull is closer to the second hull between the starboard side of the first hull and the port side of the second hull. The distance between hulls 306 is chosen, in part, so that the moment of inertia along line 307 from the port side of the hull more to the

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FROM PROPERTY left to starboard side of hull plus to '^ a ^ cierecTiá' exceeds moment of inertia along line 30Ó from bow to stern of hull. This will result in multiple hull structures orienting themselves so that line 308 running from bow to stern is parallel to direction .310 of waves 311.

In another preferred embodiment, as shown in Figure 9, multiple hulls 320-329 are attached to a stationary mooring, which may be any one of a mooring line 330 with ends attached to buoys 331 and 332 or individual stationary moorings for each helmet (not shown). Multiple hulls 320-329 are also attached to a winch line 333 with ends attached to winches 334 and 335 on buoys 331, 332. As the direction of the waves changes, winches 334 and 335, moving the winch line from one winch to the other, actively orient the hulls in the direction of the waves so that line 336 leading from the stern 338 to the bow 337 of a hull, or the direction in which the hull is guided, is parallel to the direction 339 of a wave 340. A chain tie, excluding the active winch line, can also be used to tie hulls with reinforcing tie rods, as described above, which are self-oriented. In another embodiment, as shown in the figure

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10, multiple 520-529 hulls are attached to a stationary mooring, which can be either a 530 mooring line with ends attached to 531-532 buoys or an individual stationary mooring for each hull (not shown). A winch 540-549 can be attached to each individual hull 520-529 with winch lines 560 having one end attached to the winch and one end attached to the stationary mooring. Each 540-549 hull winch, by moving an individual 550-568 winch line, can actively orient each 520-529 individual hull so that the line from the stern to the bow of the hull, or the direction in which is guided the hull, is parallel to the direction of a wave.

In another preferred embodiment, multiple helmets that are part of a system to produce electricity through wave action are accommodated in a phase arrangement as shown in Figure 11. The purpose of the phase arrangement is to correct the problem of the intermittent nature or granularity, as described below, of the electricity produced by one or more independent helmets.

With a helmet, electricity is produced while a wave is acting on the helmet. However, no electricity is produced during the period from one wave stops acting on the hull until the next

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wave begins to act on the helmet.

The electricity produced is granular, as shown in Figure 12, for waves with crests that are 10 seconds apart. Such granular electricity cannot be transmitted directly to commercial electrical grids but must be stored in batteries or other expensive storage devices, adding to the cost of producing the electricity.

The solution is to orient multiple hulls so that the crest of a first wave in a series of waves is acting in one second when the crest of a second wave is not acting in the first hull. For example, if two hulls 401, 402 are moored by mooring lines 403, 404 in a phase arrangement 400, as shown in Figure 13, the crest of a wave in a series of waves moving in the direction 405 with ridges 10 seconds apart acts on helmet 401 first and 5 seconds later on helmet 402. In this phase arrangement, as shown in Figure 14, the granularity of the electricity 406 produced, which is a combination of the electricity produced by the hulls 401 and the electricity produced by the hull 402, begins to smooth out. With a larger number of helmets appropriately accommodated, the total aggregate of electricity produced by all

MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF PROPERTY helmets loses its granularity and the need to ^{, N}Expensive storage devices fade away.

In another preferred embodiment, shown in Figure 11, multiple hulls 410-419 are attached to mooring lines 420, 421, the ends of which form a right angle of arrangement 422 to form phase arrangement 424. The phase arrangement allows Helmets 410-419 are moved so that waves of different frequencies or waves coming from different directions, in this +/- 20 ° mode, will continue to produce electricity from helmets 410-419 that is no longer granular. For example, if the time between wave crests increases, the distance 423 from the bow of a hull 410 to the bow of another hull 412 can be increased by separating the hulls at mooring line 420. Also, the angle of Arrangement 402, in effect increasing the distance from the bow of one hull to the bow of another hull.

Other mooring line configurations in other phase arrangements are shown in Figures 15 through 22. In Figure 15, the ends of the mooring lines 601, 602 form an angle of 90 °, which can be increased or decreased to change the distance between the bow of a hull on one of the mooring lines to the bow of another helmet of this type. In Figure 16, the mooring lines 601, 602 do not cross so that they can move perpendicular to the

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wind direction to account for changes in wind direction. In Figure 17, the mooring lines 601, 602 do not cross so that one or both of them can move parallel to the general direction of the wind.

In Figure 18, the mooring lines 601, 602 form a different angle with a line parallel to the general wind direction. Each of these angles can be increased or decreased. In Figure 19, tie lines 601, 602 are of different length. The lengths of each of the mooring lines can be increased or decreased. In Figure 20, hulls along a mooring line 601 can be separated, or the entire mooring line can be moved.

In Figure 21 there are multiple phase arrangements. Each consists of two tie lines 601, 602 with ends that meet at an angle of 90 °. Phase arrays can be zoomed in or out in the direction perpendicular to the general wind direction. In Figure 22, there are multiple phase arrangements. Again, each consists of two tie lines 601, 602 with ends at an angle of 90 °. Phase arrays can be moved closer to each other or can be separated in a direction parallel to the general direction of the wind.

Although the principles of the

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This description is made by way of example only and not as a limitation as to the scope of the invention. Other embodiments are contemplated within the scope of the present invention in addition to the exemplary embodiments shown and described herein. Modifications and substitutions by one skilled in the art are considered within the scope of the present invention.