WAVE-POWERED GENERATOR Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: hydroelectric power engineering; conversion of wave energy into electricity. SUBSTANCE: wave-powered generator has mount, vertical barrel with cover and bottom provided with wave admission port, check valve, and wave energy converter in the form of vertical shaft rigidly coupled with carrel cover whose side wall has in its bottom part vertical, tangentially arranged slits. Novelty is that wave-powered generator has, in addition, second barrel, electric generator, and wave admission ports; second barrel is loosely couped with first barrel through vertical shaft rigidly fixed with second-barrel cover; shaft carries tightly fitted annular magnetic rotor of electric generator whose stator is rigidly fixed with first-barrel bottom which is coupled with mount; vertical, tangentially arranged slits of second barrel are oriented in opposite directions to those of first barrel. EFFECT: improved design. 5 dwg