WAVE POWER PLANT Russian patent published in 1996 - IPC

FIELD: power engineering. SUBSTANCE: stand is fixed to the reservoir bottom. The float chamber is coupled with the stand for permitting reciprocation. The housing of an electric generator having cores of the stator and rotor is mounted on the chamber. The screw of a ball-screw converter is connected with the stand. The nut is coupled with the rotor core. The converter is provided with an additional nut coupled with the stator core mounted inside the housing with a spaced relation. The cores are rigidly interconnected via running-on clutches having nuts to permit rotation in opposite directions. EFFECT: enhanced efficiency. 1 dwg