SOLAR-WINDMILL ELECTRIC GENERATING STATION Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: wind- and solar-power engineering; conversion of solar and wind energy into electricity for industry and utility purposes. SUBSTANCE: station has barrel with bearing and housing, solar panels, and windwheel; novelty is that thrust bearing is used, housing accommodates dispensing chamber with bottom communicating at the front through adapter with pipe connection and on the rear, through partitions with outlet pipe connections; windwheel is mounted in adapter and its horizontal shaft is coupled with adder located in center of dispensing chamber and joined through vertical shaft with rotor-type windmill mounted on top of housing; horizontal shafts are coupled with electric generator attached to housing on one side; housing also accommodates windwheels in its top part behind transverse partition which are coupled through horizontal shaft with electric generators arranged on sides of outlet pipe connections; adjusting shutter is mounted on shaft under partition; frames of solar panels are attached on one side to electric generators and on other one, to brackets fixed to outlets of pipe connections; frame of solar panel mounted on the rear along housing axis is secured by means of brackets to rear part of pipe connections and to their outlets. EFFECT: simplified design, enhanced operating efficiency and stability. 3 dwg