WIND-POWER UNIT WITH WIND TURBINE ORIENTATION AND POWER LIMITATION SYSTEM Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC F03D1/00 

FIELD: power industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to wind industry and can be used for electric power supply to domestic and industrial energy consumers. A wind-power unit with a wind turbine orientation and power limitation system, which has a support with a pin gear and a vertical axle with a wind-power unit head put on it, a device responding to wind direction, which is put on a hollow vertical axle in the head of the wind-power unit so that it can be turned at least through 90°, rigidly attached to a side shovel, a vertical shaft passing through the hollow vertical axle in the head of the wind-power unit and having a drive gear installed on the lower end and kinematically connected to the pin gear, as well as a power-assisted counteracting mechanisms with force application points between the head of the wind-power unit and the side shovel; with that, as a device reacting to wind direction there used is a screen located in wind direction in front of an impeller put on the upper end of the vertical shaft.

EFFECT: invention is aimed at improvement of serviceability and reliability of a wind-power unit.

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